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Jimmy Casas Twitter is in his 22nd year of administrative leadership.  He received his BA in Spanish and Master’s in Teaching from the University of Iowa and his Master’s in Administrative Leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee.  Jimmy is currently working on his ED.S and serves as an adjunct professor for Drake University, teaching a graduate course on Educational Leadership.  Jimmy has served as principal at Bettendorf High School in Bettendorf, Iowa for the last 14 years.   Jimmy’s core purpose lies in serving others. He was named the 2012 Iowa Secondary Principal of the Year and was selected as one of three finalists for NASSP 2013 National Secondary Principal of the Year.  In 2014, Jimmy was invited to the White House to speak on the Future Ready Schools pledge.  In 2015, he was named the Bammy National Principal of the Year.  Jimmy is the Co-Founder of EdCampIowa and also the Co-Founder of #IAedchat, a popular online chat that takes place every Sunday evening at 8:00 p.m. CST.  Finally, Jimmy is the co-author of a book with Todd Whitaker and Jeff Zoul entitled, “What Connected Educators Do Differently.”

• What Great Educators Do Differently conference
• Leadership is lonely, but doesn’t have to be as lonely.
• Why it is meaningful to bring experts in to help us learn.
• How to create a network of excellence.
• How to create a mindset of excellence.
• How vulnerability impacts school leaders.
• People who take their jobs seriously want good things to happen for others.
• Surround yourself with excellence.
• Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
• How pride can be a benefit and a detriment
• How to define a problem clearly.
• When you surround yourself with a team, others will be there to protect and support you.
• Why it is important to make those who lead you look good.
• People who do good things, good things come back to them.
• Never blame someone above you for a decision made.
• Take on the hard issues privately.
• Your personal excellence starts over today. Your personal excellence starts over today with Jimmy Casas Transformative Principal special
• How to be a transformative principal? Spend time with kids, relationships matter, know peoples’ story.

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James Sturtevant (Twitter @jamessturtevant Website) is an obscure social studies teacher from Central Ohio who is in his 32nd year.

 

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Michael Fenton is the Lead Instructional Designer at Desmos. Check out learn.desmos.com.

• Bundles vs. one-off activities.

• Progression of units for teacher use.

• View of assessments.

• Using Desmos for testing

• Interview with Carl Hooker

• Challenges with using Desmos.

• Nature of assessments and challenging the status quo.

• How can teachers get started right now?

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Michael Fenton is the Lead Instructional Designer at Desmos. Check out learn.desmos.com.

• Activity Builder

• How Michael got connected with Desmos.

• How Desmos is different from a typical math site.

• Arguments are more fun when there are people in the room.

• Desmos Guide to Building Great (Digital) Math Activities (Dan Meyer’s Blog)

• It’s about generating interesting discussions in class.

• How long should activities in class be?

• What makes a good activity? Desmos Blog.

• WOSS (What Other Students Said), Pausing, & Anonymizing names to allow kids to focus on

• How to get the conversation out of the machine and into the room.

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Ginger Lewman is a keynoter and consultant in Kansas. Purchase her book about life-practice learning here.

• Launch - how to set up PBL to be engaging.

• How to deal with having learning goals posted when

• The essential question to ask when starting Project Based Learning activities.

• Culture of schools - we unintentionally group kids to create bullies.

• Three ways to think about grouping.

• Ability, interest, readiness

• Good group-workers and bad group-workers

• 3 people in a group is optimal.

• How to deal with friends in groups.

• How to be a transformative principal? Know why you want to do it.

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Ginger Lewman is a keynoter and consultant in Kansas.

• The power of connecting with others

• Campaign Trail Collaboration

• These are the projects that we can do.

• Lessons for Life Practice Learning <-Amazon link ESSDACK Link

• What are the important elements of project-based learning?

• Questions to ask as you start doing PBL.

• Optimal Ambiguity - how to create an environment where kids want to make sense of their situation.

• Be OK with every kid not being exactly the same.

• Launch

• Groupings

• High expectations

• Presentation

• Preparing for PBL

• Launch - how to set up PBL to be engaging.

• How to deal with having learning goals posted when

• The essential question to ask when starting Project Based Learning activities.

• Culture of schools - we unintentionally group kids to create bullies.

• Three ways to think about grouping.

• Ability, interest, readiness

• Good group-workers and bad group-workers

• 3 people in a group is optimal.

• How to deal with friends in groups.

• How to be a transformative principal? Know why you want to do it.

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Randy Sprick is an educational consultant and trainer in Eugene Oregon. He helps teachers, principals, and other staff set up schools that encourage student responsibility and motivation, and help students learn to behave in appropriate ways. He wrote the book CHAMPS and has lead numerous workshops, trainings, conferences, and much more.

• Safe and Civil Schools background

• CHAMPS

• Attendance ideas

• Top 3 musts for creating a safe school environment.

• Systematic and planful supervision of the entire school.

• If we don’t have enough adults in the halls, bullying is taking place.

• Why you want all staff present and interacting with kids.

• Presence of people in authority assists people in obeying the rules.

• Adults who are actively creating a positive school climate.

• The climate of the school is the daily behavior of the adults in the school.

• 5–10 adults who say hello to kids on the way to classroom.

• High expectations that are clearly communicated to kids and overtly taught and consistently enforced.

• Any infraction “please honor our school’s policy on ______”.

• Communication Cards

• Attributes of safe and unsafe school

• How to deal with toxic teachers?

• Messaging needs to come not just from administrators, but also teachers.

• The Checklist Manifesto - the book from which Randy’s reminders about doctor’s washing hands come.

• It is not the peer’s responsibility to call out their peers.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

• The Diffusion of Innovations

• Link for meeting peoples’ basic needs webinar

• Communication Cards

• What can a principal do to be a transformative principal? Be more visible.

• Safeandcivilschools.com

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