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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

 

Rachael and John George Both principals in Oregon share their experiences of turning around schools.

• PreK involvement
• Trauma-informed practices
• Stronger voice for advocacy
• Building strong relationships.
• Can’t personalize learning unless you know about the kids!
• Different levels for leaders learning at their own pace.
• There needs to be customization because different people need different things.
• Culturally responsive teaching and Trauma
• How do people get involved?
• Contact someone and say you want to be involved.
• How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms and support teachers.

Schedule a call with Jethro

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

 

Rachael and John George Both principals in Oregon share their experiences of turning around schools.

• The Three Amigos
• Sandy Green Elementary School - lowest 10% of the schools. Working with a well-known publisher on reading and writing, and it wasn’t going as well as they thought!
• Year 1 from 10%ile to 50%ile. Year 4 82%ile. With highest Free and Reduced lunch rate in the district.
• Honed in on systems and structures
• Full staff turnover in those four years.
• 3-4 year plan
  1. First thing you need to do is establish relationships.
  1. You’ve got to be the examiner of systems and structures.
• Identify holes in intervention and enrichment.
• Each building has its own issues.
• Three changes in the first year: 1. Slow 2. Integrated with content, but lost on the students 3. No engagement
• Students were passively sitting there, while the teacher was doing all the heavy lifting.
• Level of community involvement.
• Need to do different because we are teaching different students.
• How do we do different different?
• It’s supposed to be hard.
  1. Be the filter: teach to cause a positive result.
• Modified Danielson Rubric for evaluation. I can’t evaluate you in Domain 1 unless I see your lesson plans.
• You can’t be good with what you do without a game plan.
• Look at the standards and make them meaningful.
• New teachers out perform due to effective lesson plans.
• Need guidance and coaching and mentoring around lesson plans. Provides the opportunity for reflection in lesson plans and it makes them better as teachers.
• Lesson plans provide feedback on Professional Development - if we can’t see it reflected in lesson plans.
• Keeping your lesson plans to reflect on later.
• Planning formative assessment.
• CoTeach model - special education & ELL population
  1. Be in classrooms a lot.

 

Schedule a call with Jethro

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Invitation Only Parent Teacher Conferences with Jay Posick Transformative Principal 254

Social Media: If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it!

Jay Posick is principal of Merton Intermediate school in Merton Wisconsin

• How our culture came to be here in Merton.
• Weekly nuts and bolts emails “Good Morning Merton Family“
• Take care of kids…
• Connect with people face to face.
• There aren’t silver bullets.
• Get out of your office.
• If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it!
• 3 all-staff meetings each year that I’m in charge of.
• First agenda item on grade level meetings is kids.
• There are times as educators where we focus more on the negative than on the positive
• Recognize kids that are going above and beyond.
• Be kind, be safe, do your job.
• Good news call of the day. #mertonproud
• Finding ways to recognize kids.
• Find a way for teachers to share more with others.
• Mark French came up with the idea.
• Have a positive phone call at the end of the week.
• Ordinary to you, amazing to everyone else.
• Invitation only conferences
• Pat on the back or a kick in the butt!
• Building Leadership Team.
• More on invitation only conferences.
• Great things, challenges, great things.
• How to be a transformative principal? Get out of your office!

Schedule a call with Jethro

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

Buy Communication Cards

Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com

Download Paperless Principal.  

Take Control of your email

Web Site

Transformative Principal on Stitcher

Refer A Principal

Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey

 

 

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal