In this episode we talk with Bjarke Calvin about his new service, TimerKid and why screentime and communication is so important.

Bjarke Calvin comes from a media background, and has spend a lot of time on projects that battle the negative effects of social media. That led to a deep interest in how we can generally use our digital devices and internet content in a more healthy way. His current project is called TimerKid, and we help families balance their screen activity in an easy way. Before that he founded duckling.co which is an alternative social media, without advertising, algorithms and spam. He started his career as a journalist, and from 2004 to 2009, was executive editor with the worlds leading photo agency, Magnum Photos in New York City. He helped build a new million-dollar business area before becoming an entrepreneur with a focus on media technology. He has also worked as an advisor for media corporations like PBS, TIME and NY Times. Bjarke is an alumni fellow with MIT Open Doclab, and a  frequent speaker at conferences and universities worldwide, such as MIT, Harvard TEDx, and SXSW. He currently lives in Copenhagen Denmark, with his wife and two kids, ages eight and six.

• Interactive documentary - the thing we now know as stories on Instagram.
• Independent publishing and social media.
• Was looking forward to the braintrust that social media owould be, but instead we have people sharing fail and dance videos.
• The Rabbit Hole Podcast
• Mastodon Social Network
• The right model vs the sexiness of it.
• TimerKid is about managing screentime for kids in an easy way.
• Parenting Paradigm in Scandinavia based on trust and collaboration.
• Real focus on humanity and ethics in Nordic regions.
• You sit down with your kids, and talk together to decide things.

Thanks to our mission partner:

Buoyancy Digital is proud to be the inaugural Mission Partner for the Cybertraps Podcast series. A digital advertising consultancy with an ethos, Buoyancy was founded by Scott Rabinowitz, who has been in digital media since 1997 and has overseen $300 million in youth safety compliant ad buys across all digital platforms. For IAB, Google and Bing accredited brand and audience safe advertising sales solutions, media buying and organizational training for media publishers, let’s chat.

Check out this episode!

Jim Knight has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. He is a founding senior partner of the Instructional Coaching Group and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. His book Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2007) popularized the idea of instructional coaching. Knight’s other books include Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction (Corwin, 2014) and Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected. The Impact Cycle, released in 2017.
* Just survival is a big deal, so don’t overlook that.
* Don’t lose sight of getting through it.
* Express compassion and support and let people know we are there for them.
* Coaches can have three things they can do
* Mentor: giving people resources
* Trainer: helping people learn things
* Coaching: Goal you’re trying to hit.
* You can’t cut coaching and still have coaching. It becomes a question of priority.
* Here’s why people should keep coaching going.
* Once I set a goal that really matters to me as a teacher…
* Grounded in real life application.
* Practice won’t happen by chance.
* Video peer coaching
* Principals can take a coaching approach, but the really deep implementation of learning is hard to do without a coach
* outcome is what is going to have the greatest impact on children’s outcome.
* Identify a change they made that really made a difference.
* Unless I care about the goal, compliance is the best you’ll get.
* Without the follow up you won’t get the desired outcome.
* It’s ok for people in the organization to have different goals.
* If what you’re doing is working, keep doing it.
* Transparent and honest conversation about what’s happening. You need to face reality.
* What will be different, and how will we measure it?
* I don’t see myself as trying to get teachers to do something.
* Put systems in place so teachers can excel.
* If they don’t have a say, they’re not going to be committed to it.
* It’s messy. It’s not as simple as I describe it.
* Dealing with people is a really complex thing.
* We sometimes grab on to a quick solution.
* The book whisperer.
* The issue is power.
* How to be a transformative principal? Thank you! Work on listening. Video record yourself listening. It’s not enough to hear the words.

Sponsors

InControl SEL for Middle School

In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.

The videos are 5-6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.

They’ve thought of everything-- because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.

Take it from me, it’s time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that’s been keeping you up at night--and it’s time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way.

If you go to www.InControlSEL.com/jethro you can check out some of the videos and even receive 20% off if you pre-order for next school year

John Catt

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: - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov

• The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles

• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley

• 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott

• Let’s Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner

• A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain

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

Keith Zamudio began his career as an educator in 1979 in Somerton, Arizona where he met his wife, best friend, and partner, Kathy, of 36 years. He has been an educator for nearly forty years, thirty-three in Alaska. Keith began exploring the use of instructional technologies as a learning tool in 1984. In 1988, he began to teach fourth graders to keyboard, and learn basic file management skills on Apple IIe’s.

In this episode we talk with Keith Zamudio about raising his kids with technology, his 33 year career in Alaska, and how to trust kids with technology. 

Thanks to our mission partner:

Buoyancy Digital is proud to be the inaugural Mission Partner for the Cybertraps Podcast series. A digital advertising consultancy with an ethos, Buoyancy was founded by Scott Rabinowitz, who has been in digital media since 1997 and has overseen $300 million in youth safety compliant ad buys across all digital platforms. For IAB, Google and Bing accredited brand and audience safe advertising sales solutions, media buying and organizational training for media publishers, let’s chat.

Check out this episode!

Jay Posick is principal of Merton Intermediate school in Merton Wisconsin.  He has been an educator since 1987, teaching 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.  In his 31st year as a middle school educator, the first twelve as a classroom teacher and the last 19 as an administrator.  I’m fortunate to be connected with many educators across the country, especially #principalsinaction friends and my middle school voxer friends.  Mark French, Ryan Sheehy, and Jay wrote the book #principalsinaction which was published in 2019.

• Open since September 1st.
• Found different schools in the building.
• Moving people around for big spaces.
• Removal of teacher furniture.
• Cohorts of kids who stay together.
• Livestream classes
• Implementing voice and choice.
• Heavy academic classes in the past, more SEL focused classes now.
• Instructional strategies in pandemic.
• Making connections with kids during pandemic.
• Kids not being able to participate in band, choir, drama, athletics, etc., has been really hard.
• How to be a transformative principal? Connect with kids. Pictures of kids with checkmarks by them.

Sponsors

InControl SEL for Middle School

In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.

The videos are 5-6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.

They’ve thought of everything-- because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.

Take it from me, it’s time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that’s been keeping you up at night--and it’s time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way.

If you go to www.InControlSEL.com/jethro you can check out some of the videos and even receive 20% off if you pre-order for next school year

John Catt

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: - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov

• The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles

• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley

• 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott

• Let’s Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner

• A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain

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

Facebook opened to people over 13 on September 2006

• Laws and Regulations
  • Child Online Protection Act (COPA) (unconstitutional)
  • Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
  • The child safety problem on platforms is worse than we knew
• Company Policies
  • Overview of age limits on various social media
• Possible Risks
  • Cyberbullying and Cyberharassment
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Just Plain Envy / Dissatisfaction
  • Sexual Harassment, Grooming, Assault
• Parenting Kids on Social Media
  • Be a Good Role Model
  • Mentors not Friends or influencers
  • Follow Your Kids
  • Supervision is Not Surveillance
  • Communication!!!!
  • Social media benefits and risks: children and teenagers
  • What’s the average age when kids get a social media account?

Thanks to our mission partner:

Buoyancy Digital is proud to be the inaugural Mission Partner for the Cybertraps Podcast series. A digital advertising consultancy with an ethos, Buoyancy was founded by Scott Rabinowitz, who has been in digital media since 1997 and has overseen $300 million in youth safety compliant ad buys across all digital platforms. For IAB, Google and Bing accredited brand and audience safe advertising sales solutions, media buying and organizational training for media publishers, let’s chat.

Check out this episode!

Meghan Raftery Twitter is a freelance educator and mom of two boys, ages 5 and 8. A former second and fourth grade teacher and central office administrator, Meghan left public education to pursue her professional passions on her own terms in 2018. Since that time, she has developed curriculum for school districts, nonprofits, private companies and families and led professional development in more than 30 states with a focus on innovation and authentic learning.

• What is a freelance educator?
• Join us in Edjacent!
• What are the challenges?
• I used to have 600 tasks, now I have 50, so it’s actually less than when I was a teacher.
• You’re constantly asked to do more work if you do good work.
• In my career, I felt like I was less doing something
• It helps me to define my values.
• I can decide how to balance depth and breadth in projects.
• What do I do best? Every teacher has something that makes them amazing!
• Other innovations develop in parallel to another innovation.
• Self-advocacy in a small way that leads to bigger change.
• Hippocratic oath for educators.
• You’re allowed to have your own oath.
• Authentic self, growth is important.
• Schools learn from their best people.
• What is the cost of rebellion?
• Definition of professionalism = compliance.
• Edjacent is a collective, not one person’s idea.

Sponsors

InControl SEL for Middle School

In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.

The videos are 5-6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.

They’ve thought of everything-- because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.

Take it from me, it’s time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that’s been keeping you up at night--and it’s time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way.

If you go to www.InControlSEL.com/jethro you can check out some of the videos and even receive 20% off if you pre-order for next school year

John Catt

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: - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov

• The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles

• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley

• 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott

• Let’s Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner

• A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain

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

Lita Schmitt is a retired corporate intranet, training, and documentation professional, getting her start when PCs replaced terminals at work and hard drives were optional. In this episode we interview Lita and her daughter Katie about how they learned about technology in their home.

• What tech was like when Lita started teaching it to her kids.
• Babysitting devices & gaming systems.
• How Lita introduced tech to her kids.
• Katie got her first laptop at 3. Used it for Freddie Fish, PuttPutt Saves the Zoo. Disk install. Stand-alone use – no connectivity.
• Katie’s friends’ thoughts on her not having a phone: Are your parents strict? Mom is a prude. (Mom always said to blame her.) Not “cool” kid. Lots of shit for not having it.
• How KATIE viewed the Internet: A blank space. Ask a question and answers come back. You had a purpose. A homework assignment to get info or music. No awareness of Search History, and later what the “cloud” was and what would be stored there.
• When friends started having home systems crash with viruses from their kids using their systems. Internet was disabled on the kids’ systems.
• What was happening in friends’ homes?
• How to help when kids cross the line
• What they would do differently.

Thanks to our mission partner:

Buoyancy Digital is proud to be the inaugural Mission Partner for the Cybertraps Podcast series. A digital advertising consultancy with an ethos, Buoyancy was founded by Scott Rabinowitz, who has been in digital media since 1997 and has overseen $300 million in youth safety compliant ad buys across all digital platforms. For IAB, Google and Bing accredited brand and audience safe advertising sales solutions, media buying and organizational training for media publishers, let’s chat.

Check out this episode!

Michael Lubelfeld, Ed.D., currently serves as the superintendent of schools in the North Shore School District 112 in Highland Park, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Mike earned his doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Loyola University of Chicago, where his published dissertation was on effective instruction in middle school social studies. He is also on the adjunct faculty at National Louis University and Loyola University Chicago in the Department of Educational Leadership. Mike earned an IASA School of Advanced Leadership Fellowship and he also graduated from the AASA National Superintendent Certification Program. He was the 2017 Lake County Superintendent of the Year. He can be found on Twitter (@mikelubelfeld) and is the co-moderator of #suptchat— the superintendent educational chat on Twitter. He and Nick Polyak co-authored the 2017 Rowman & Littlefield book, The Unlearning Leader: Leading for Tomorrow’s Schools Today and he, Nick, and PJ coauthored the 2018 Rowman & Littlefield book, Student Voice: From Invisible to Invaluable and the 2021 book The Unfinished Leader: A School Leadership Framework for Growth & Development. Mike and his wife Stephanie have two children and they live in suburban Chicago. 

Nick Polyak, Ed.D., is the proud superintendent of the award-winning Leyden Community High School District 212. He earned his undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois; his master’s degree from Governors State University; and his Ed.D. from Loyola University Chicago. Nick has been a classroom teacher and coach, a building- and district-level administrator, a School Board member, and a superintendent for the past twelve years in both central Illinois and suburban Chicago. Nick earned an IASA School of Advanced Leadership Fellowship and graduated from the AASA National Superintendent Certification Program. He can be found on Twitter (@npolyak) and he is the co-moderator of #suptchat—the superintendent educational chat on Twitter.Nick has been married to  his wife Kate for twenty-one years, and they have four children.

PJ Caposey, Ed.D., is an award-winning educator leading his small rural school to multiple national recognitions both as a principal and as a superintendent. PJ is an active member of the greater educational community, voicing opinions and providing training and consultation on many topics. He is the author of eight books and is a sought-after speaker and consultant specializing in school culture, principal coaching, effective evaluation practices, and student-centered instruction. PJ has been named a NSPRA Superintendent to Watch and is a 40 Leaders Under 40 honoree and Eastern Illinois University’s Distinguished Educator Award winner. PJ currently serves as the superintendent of schools for Meridian CUSD 223 in Northwest Illinois. He and his wife Jacquie have four children. PJ can be reached via Twitter (@MCUSDSupe).

• We’re not done growing and learning.
• When working with leaders see them for greater than they currently are is really important.
• The job does you, instead of you doing the job.
• The answer is already within the person I’m serving.
• There’s only the next version of yourself.
• The Chinese symbol for listen.
• The pressure is on all of us.
• The very first day I ever taught, and I had this moment of where I realized I was in charge of all of this.
• Insubordinate or incompetent.
• Ignorant or insubordinate.
• What got you here won’t get you there.
• Empathy, equity, adapt, develop, communicate, unfinished.
• Not a comprehensive, you must do all these things to be successful.
• The Unfinished Leader Available NOW
• How to be a transformative Principal? Make sure voices are heard. Don’t take yourself too seriously, we’re all in these jobs temporarily. Take time to look inward.

Sponsors

InControl SEL for Middle School

In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.

The videos are 5-6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.

They’ve thought of everything-- because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.

Take it from me, it’s time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that’s been keeping you up at night--and it’s time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way.

If you go to www.InControlSEL.com/jethro you can check out some of the videos and even receive 20% off if you pre-order for next school year

John Catt

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: - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov

• The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles

• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley

• 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott

• Let’s Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner

• A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain

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

Thanks to our mission partner:

Buoyancy Digital is proud to be the inaugural Mission Partner for the Cybertraps Podcast series. A digital advertising consultancy with an ethos, Buoyancy was founded by Scott Rabinowitz, who has been in digital media since 1997 and has overseen $300 million in youth safety compliant ad buys across all digital platforms. For IAB, Google and Bing accredited brand and audience safe advertising sales solutions, media buying and organizational training for media publishers, let’s chat.

Check out this episode!

Own It with Deidre Roemer, Deontay Torres, and Dayzia Marek Transformative Principal

Deidre Roemer is Leverage Points, @deidre_roemer, is the Director of Leadership and Learning in West Allis-West Milwaukee School District. We also talk to two students, Dayzia and Deontay about their experiences as students.

Dottke Project-based Learning School
* I was searching for something different.
* I’m allowed to be creative
* Aquaponics lab,
* able to create and learn
* Need one-on-one and personalization.
* Quarter is 3 months and designed my own t-shirts.
* Designed own t-shirt with a dripping heart.
* Slow down and learn a process.
* The speed of learning is exactly what I need.
* I wasn’t challenging myself.
* It may seem like a longer process.
* Time is never stagnant and it keeps going. The world is changing, and we need to work towards that.
* Challenge them to do something themselves first.
* Don’t start with aquaponics. Start with something smaller.
* Aquaponics took a lot of time before.
* “Your comfort zone will kill you”
* Most of the things worth doing are not comfortable.
* There’s no way that I’m going to feel better if I keep doing that thing.
* You don’t need a lot of funding.
* Treating the students like the young adults they are.
* The students will take care of the ideas for you.
* Students have high levels of personal responsibility!
* Staying true to yourself.
* Being able to speak about their work.
* Deeper Learning Competencies
* Academic Mindset - how to create a sense of belonging in every school community.
* School sites - what it looks like at each school.
* Strategic plan
* Collaborative Leadership Model
* Must allow for the personalities of the students and the passions of the adults to make it all work.
* Our teachers are still the experts in their content.
* Connecting our learners to outside experts.
* How to be a transformative principal? Know the learners you’re serving.
*

sdl #frameworks/sdl

Equity-driven student empowerment.

Went out of maintenance mode and started working on what our kids can really do.

Replicate what “they” did… not a good idea.

Setting their goals around what they want to do.

School needs to be different for two different populations.

Creating more equity. Framework driven model. Deeper learning competencies.

Teachers can use #UDL if it works for them.

District structure change.

District is the place that you come for support and resources.

Learner panels - PBL high school - credit recovery.

PD has become teacher showcases.

The Hub and the Nest -

The teen’s perspective - The Hope Squad.

Sponsors

InControl SEL for Middle School

In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.

The videos are 5-6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.

They’ve thought of everything-- because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.

Take it from me, it’s time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that’s been keeping you up at night--and it’s time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way.

If you go to www.InControlSEL.com/jethro you can check out some of the videos and even receive 20% off if you pre-order for next school year

John Catt

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: - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov

• The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles

• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley

• 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott

• Let’s Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner

• A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain

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

Check out this episode!

Ayisha Robinson is the principal West Caldwell Tech in Essex New Jersey. 
 
 * Mastermind group - inspiration group called that because of Ayisha
 * Why Ayisha joined the mastermind. 
 * Safe place, honest conversations, Middle management and you're alone. 
 * Focus on what matters most. 
 * Teachers see how I react to the challenges that I experience. 
 * Lots of reading. 
 * As a principal, you cannot be a hypocrite! 
 * If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change something, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
 * Implementing PLCs and supporting teachers that way. 
 * Mindset - "I don't believe in this brand!"
 * How can you sell something that you don't believe in? 
 * I always believed in the students, but knowing we have a home made a difference!
 * Developing relationships
 * How to be a Transformative Principal? Find healthy ways to balance yourself. 

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

In this episode, Fred and Jethro discuss two listener questions: 

• How do I talk to my son when he is afraid I'll take away his phone? 
• Should we jam cellular signals or boost them

Contribute your questions at https://link.cybertraps.com/QuestionsandFeedback

Check out this episode!

Dr. Roy Pope has served as a teacher, coach, college professor, and school administrator in the United States and the United Arab Emirates for more than two decades.  When he and his wife moved to the UAE 8 years ago, they saw a global need for an efficient, effective, multilingual professional development platform for educators.  As a result, they created EdGuru. 

• Being a school leader at an international school.
• Visiting schools while on vacation.
• Produce productive high performing students.
• Advocate connecting learning to research.
• Teachers should be able to access it multiple time for success.
• Relevancy
• Make sure the people behind the platform have been in the trenches.
• Multilingual.
• How to be a transformative principal? Pull teachers together and listen to their ideas.

Sponsors

InControl SEL for Middle School

In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.

The videos are 5-6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.

They’ve thought of everything-- because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.

Take it from me, it’s time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that’s been keeping you up at night--and it’s time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way.

If you go to www.InControlSEL.com/jethro you can check out some of the videos and even receive 20% off if you pre-order for next school year

John Catt

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: - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov

• The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles

• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley

• 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott

• Let’s Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner

• A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain

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

Jeanne Collins is the Superintendent of Rutland Northeast supervisory union in Vermont. We talk about how she handled technology for students during the pandemic. 

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An expert on digital literacy, Graber writes, presents, and is interviewed about  technology’s impact upon human behavior. Her no-nonsense approach comes from being an educator, media producer, academic, and most of all, a mom.
She is the co-founder of CyberWise, and she developed (and still teaches) Cyber Civics, the popular middle school digital literacy program currently being taught in schools in 47 US states and internationally.
She’s served as Adjunct Faculty, teaching Media Psychology to graduate students.
Her paper, New Media Literacies: A Developmental Approach, was published in the Journal of Media Literacy Education (JMLE).
In 2019, she published “Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology”

Frank Herbert: “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

Links

• NY Times Headline A/B Testing
• “Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology”

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In this episode Richard Lucero of Transparentsee talks about his goal to improve communication among teachers, students, and parents by establishing effective three way communication.

Richard Lucero is a lifelong educator with over 25 years of experience as a classroom teacher, coach and administrator. I have worked at all levels from elementary, middle and high school and college and university arenas. I have worked in rural and urban settings as well as both economically challenged and affluent communities.Richard has a diverse collection of experiences and has been fortunate to have worked in Texas, Florida, Indiana and New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University and graduate degree from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.

Thanks to our mission partner:

Buoyancy Digital is proud to be the inaugural Mission Partner for the Cybertraps Podcast series. A digital advertising consultancy with an ethos, Buoyancy was founded by Scott Rabinowitz, who has been in digital media since 1997 and has overseen $300 million in youth safety compliant ad buys across all digital platforms. For IAB, Google and Bing accredited brand and audience safe advertising sales solutions, media buying and organizational training for media publishers, let’s chat.

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Dr. Eric Stephens helps people transition from education to industry. Go to https://www.changehighered.org

During a pandemic we have an ethical obligation to help other people find work.

• Education does have a bottom line.
• There is a lack of communication between academia and industry.
• Industry: recognize this has never happened before.
• Job seeker: Just because I have a degree and experience, doesn’t mean that I am the best candidate.
• How to translate what we do to be valuable.
• People in education value different things than those in industry.
• Every educator is self-employed!
• Educators need to understand their value and describe their work in their jargon.
• Articulating those skills in a way to make your opportunity make sense.
• Not everybody that can teach can learn.
• How to get people to want to listen to you?
• Connect with Eric on LinkedIn.

 

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal