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Karen Gross is an author and educator, as well as an advisor and consultant to nonprofit schools, organizations, and governments; instructor of continuing education at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work; visiting professor at Bennington College; former president of Southern Vermont College; former senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Education; and author of the sidequel, Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students and the trauma-sensitive children’s book series, Lady Lucy’s Quest. Visit Karen’s website at www.karengrosseducation.com.

• Name it - start by recognizing that it exists. What is traumatic for one may not be traumatic for another.
• Tame it - Strategies to deal with those. Invisible and it never goes away.
• Fight, flight, freeze, faint, fawn.
• activities that activate the senses allows the brain to reset.
• Example of strategies - stand on one leg.
• All of the senses have activities that are tied to them.
• Frame it
• Gotta do something to activate the brain.
• Triphasic - disregulated, isolated, over regulated.
• long term strategies.
• Instead of blaming, seek to find what caused the behavior?
• Processing in place.
• Kimochis - https://www.kimochis.com
• Fidget boxes
• Play table.
• how to be a transformative principal? Assuming schools haven’t reopened - reach out to everyone and provide support.

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Dr. Bryan Brockett is a principal of the Lancers in Carlsbad, CA.

• Principal experience in middle and high school.
• Are high school kids completely indifferent or focused or somewhere in between?
• You see transformation take place.
• Expecting conversation
• The more we treat students like they’re equally human like us, the more they’re going to join us.
• Campus supervisors really know the kids.
• A comprehensive high school should feel like an exciting place for learning.
• Model the approach, be explicit, look for opportunities.
• Honor the feedback of your students.
• Instead of a dress code, we established a dress culture.
• The more we cultivate that environment, the more we share it back with students.
• Soliciting input from students and teachers.
• Starting around what your vision is for your school!
• Some schools were well positioned to do that, others, not so much.
• Building a positive and supportive environment.
• Honor the work our teachers do to live out our vision.
• Instructional rounds formula - never found an effective way to get that process going.
• District mission, school vision, and culture committee (including students), Profile of a Lancer,
• Look for evidence of “Profile of a Lancer” in classroom observations.
• Feedback to teachers is vital.
• George Couros - make the positive so loud you can’t hear the negative.
• Be explicit about what you’re after, and reinforcing when you see it.
• So important to have students as part of the conversation.
• Gaps that students recognized.
• “I Matter”
• How to be a transformative principal? Be present!

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Tamara Fyke is the founder of Love in a Big World, which provides SEL support for families all over the world.

• SEL is related to their emotional, mental, and physical health.
• Kids may have experienced more trauma at home during closures than they ever have.
• Maslow before Blooms.
• The need that kids have is for connect.
• The pace of learning is different at home.
• We have to acknowledge what is most important.
• The system we’ve been using isn’t actually working.
• The learning council it’s time to let go of control
• Being a compass instead of a sage
• Self-awareness is knowing our strengths and weaknesses.
• What’s it like to have a deliverable that’s due at a certain time?
• How to be a transformative principal? Take a cue from youth culture - tiktok, instagram, YouTube, twitch, etc. What do we need to change to show that kids aren’t really lazy!

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Miguel Gonzalez is the founder of Embark education, a micro school embedded in two small businesses (pinwheel coffee and framework cycles)

Brian Sense is the Executive Director Great Work, Inc

Samara is a student at the Embark school.

• Microschools vs. traditional schools
• Blended grade levels.
• 16 students enrolled with 7th and 8th grade.
• Embark education is an independent school, which allows us to work with kids tuition free!
• Founding businesses and profit from businesses would fund the educational experience.
• Grants and fundraising.
• Kids can make business decisions that may not be in the best interest of the businesses.
• Price changes involved in the coffee shop.
• How do we pose it to our students,
• Samara’s interest in the espresso machine.
• Coffee machine does produce 85% of our drinks.
• Learning is a strong point for me.
• We don’t just focus on educational needs, but also on social emotional needs.
• What school is like?
• What structures do we want to have?
• Miguel’s job is supporting embark and the teachers.
• Making the impact on students is just as valuable as getting a bike back to a customer.
• When we break down the walls of school…
• Every role has a focus, but they also are involved in the other programs.
• We also include students in the interview process.
• Middle school students know who they want to work around.
• Middle schoolers is an important age to focus on the joy of learning.
• It’s never about the bikes or the coffee, it’s about student learning.
• Middle school is an overlooked time of development.
• Kids don’t drop out in high school, they drop out in middle school. They just sign the paperwork and leave in high School.
• Knowing where I want to center my learning.
• 6th grade interviews for new teacher.
• There’s very little that you learn in middle school that you don’t already have.
• How to be a transformative principal?
• Treat them as adults and support them in their youth.
• Give many people the ability to realize their self-worth and lead others.
• Listen humbly.

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Lyn is a valued member of the mastermind. Tune in to hear her experiences for the last two years as a member. 

Join today at jethrojones.com/mastermind

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Dr. Kulvarn Atwal has been a head teacher for 8 years, educator for 20. He is the Author of The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community

• Great variation in teachers who had good attitudes and wanted to improve.
• Interested in finding out how to help every teacher be excited to learn.
• Focusing our energies on teacher professional learning.
• The way you impact learning is by hiring amazing teachers.
• Implementing dynamic learning communities.
• Maximizing informal learning.
• What is informal learning.
• More learning takes place socially in an institution than formally.
• Every person is trained as a coach.
• Average teacher stops improving after their third year of teaching.
• Communities of Practice
• Getting better has to be part of the culture of the school.
• Expansive professional learning
• I’m not going to participate in any judgment or lesson observations.
• Engage in collaborative action research projects.
• Done this in three different schools.
• If their traditional role was to judge and now they need to coach, it’s very difficult to adjust.
• How to be a transformative principal? Empowerment of practitioners.

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal