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Crystal Xu and Purvi Patel recently wrote a paper on how to Redesign School Level Systems For Equity.

• How systems work together.
• Started with redesign systems work.
• We actually have a lot more autonomy than we think.
• Expand our self-confidence around the structures we can control.
• How we define engagement in school.
• How do we deal with criticism that we face when we try to implement equitable practices.
• It comes with the self work.
• Power Struggle within a classroom.
• You’re good about making a decision when you know it is true to who you are.
• Privilege is not about good or bad.
• Fellowship learning experiences.
• How do we create more opportunities for Fellowship learning experiences.
• Making sure people have opportunities that didn’t usually have it before.
• Ceding power vs. Distributed leadership - Giving more ownership to others.
• All of those decisions can come with biases and other barriers.
• How to support people who may have an idea of what they want, but they don’t really have ideas of what they need.
• How do we really change school so we are serving our families, not so they are serving us?
• A sense of false choice.
• Take off the choices that are not possible for most marginalized families.
• How to be a transformative principal? Listen deeply and “Ring the bells that still can ring” quote. Identify a crack and see it as a light.

Today’s Sponsors

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

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

Matthew is a principal in Nashville, He was recently selected by FranklinCovey Education as a Leader in Me Community Champion in recognition of his outstanding work Trauma Informed Educators Network Facebook group

“I’m an activator,” he says. “In education, everyone is waiting for someone else to do something different, but if something is inequitable, I’m not going to wait―I’m going to disrupt.”

• Impact of social justice and trauma informed practices
• Trauma as a whole, but not as an event.
• Intergenerational transmission of trauma.
• Impact of racial trauma over time and day to day.
• ACES and Trauma.
• Understanding implicit bias
• If we’re not cognizant of it, it can wreak havoc on our impact as an educator.
• How do we navigate our roles as educator’s knowing that we possess bias?
• Why do we have clip charts in elementary schools?
• Unapologetic disruptor
• Our schools are designed to reflect the majority of our culture
• Behavior is a lagging skill instead of a personal choice.
• Change the school to meet the needs of our kids.
• When we put norms on kids.
• Look at kids as though they are doing the best they can!
• Many people have experienced trauma.
• Focused on the strengths of what kids come with.
• We’ve learned that clip charts in the classroom
• When public shaming becomes a norm in the school it can have major damage.
• Every kid is a genius.
• You’re being sent home because…
• How to have the conversation with adults.
• Teachers just like kids are doing the best they could.
• De-escalating kids.
• An escalated adult cannot deescalate an escalated child.
• Tap in and tap out strategy.
• Happy teacher revolution.
• You’re done.
• I can’t handle that weight. It’s too much.
• how to be a transformative principal? Activator - don’t wait for someone else to do it or try it. If it doesn’t work, it’s ok.

Today’s Sponsors

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

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

James Anderson is a educator, author, and speaker and a master of mindset work. Today we are talking about Learner Agency.

• Anders Ericson - purposeful practice.
• Agile Learner - capable of growth, but also knows how to go about achieving the growth.
• What it means to achieve the growth in life.
• Growth mindset is how much you see yourself as a learner.
• How do I get really good at achieving that growth.
• What it looks like to be a good learner.
• Five areas: challenge, habits of mind, mistakes, feedback, time and energy.
• We don’t talk a lot about being a skillful learner.
• Seeks to find out what students can do rather than defining their abilities.
• Performance learners avoid going to their best level. Stay in performance zone, but don’t go beyond their best.
• Challenges will come and go, but behaviors stay with them.
• Agile learner is proactive.
• What does it mean to be fragile.
• Anti-Fragile means drop me, it helps.
• VUCA World
• Post traumatic growth
• Black Swan Events - you cannot predict the future, but you can prepare for it.
• Look to the shite space in between.
• How to be a transformative principal? Ask yourself what are you currently doing that is deliberately focused on helping students become better learners. We don’t get

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

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

Tiersa McQueen is an unschooling mom and has a great story to tell. Follow her insightful comments on Twitter.

• You can learn a lot of math through cooking.
• What about math?
• Math is everywhere.
• Homeschooling vs unschooling vs public school
• Many different styles.
• You can relax a little bit with homeschooling. Ask your child what they want to learn. More of a family interaction.
• When you have choices, it totally changes the experiences.
• How do you know they’re progressing?
• Black holes - 4th dimension
• We live in a digital age with lots of social media. It’s never been easier to find your tribe.
• Our educational approach is really about having experiences.
• You have to get out of the mindset of being just your age group.
• How are you adapting with everything being closed? Libraries, etc?
• advice for a mind shift from being in school to home schooling? Three biggest mind shifts needed.
• We don’t have a schedule of everything that needs to happen every single day.
• Children do need structure. It comes from the family, not from following a bell schedule.
• Children need a lot of sleep.
• I had a lot of unlearning that I had to do. I always had this idea of children as people.
• The first thing I did was buy some curriculum.
• The things they were starting to learn were not coming from the curriculum. They were coming from the things they wanted to learn.
• How long it took for the mindshift to happen to her kids?
• Started to read John Holt
• What if we didn’t buy curriculum?
• You go as far as your interest goes.
• You have them in an environment that stimulates some learning.
• They don’t think of things in a linear school-based fashion.
• What her favorite tools non tech with kids? The tools of the home. They talk to each other.
• Socially involved? Finds ways for her kids to interact with other kids outside the home.
• Recommendations for learning more.
• How to be a transformative principal? Give kids some free time to learn something on their own. Not every second

Today’s Sponsors

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

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

Cory Henwood is the Innovation Coordinator for Iron County Schools, founder of Launch HS.

• What Launch HS is? How students demonstrate mastery.
• There are systemic barriers that prevent people from taking this leap.
• Lots of groundwork laid for this.
• Partnerships are really important.
• How is your partnership with SUU designed?
• How Launch HS got started.
• What skills do kids need to be successful?
• Start with 8 innovative skills for students to learn.
• State grants that support innovative approaches.
• One way to meet students where they’re at is to do competency based education.
• Design challenges that integrate curricular content and highlight entrepreneurial skills.
• Work with local businesses.
• 50% or more of time is dedicated to design challenges.
• Authentic Work
• How to be a transformative principal? use design thinking to help people know how to make decisions.

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Marti Sievek is Assistant Principal of East High School. Tania Lyon is the talent
Talent Development Coordinator. Both are in Mankato Area Public Schools Mankato Area Public Schools.

• District from a GT program to a more inclusive program.
• Professional development coordinator interim director of teaching and learning.
• Helping students have access to high quality instruction with no ceiling.
• Increase complexity of work that is being done
• Selecting resources that will help kids.
• Different and complex instead of more
• Start with what those needs are for your community.
• Start with Why, come back to How.
• The How can’t just be adding more to the teacher’s plate.
• Teachers needed a deep understanding of their academic standards.
• Taking away things from teachers - take away the idea of being a sage on the stage.
• What becomes electrifying for kids is the ability to collaborate with their peers.
• Beast Academy and Mentor Networks
• Gifted and talented is push-in instead of pull out.
• NWEA scores improved
• Able to connect with her friends that way.
• “Tickles your brain”
• It’s not just access, it’s the approach as well.
• It gives permission to not have a right or wrong answer.
• Strengths-based approach.
• How to be a transformative principal? Help teachers to have a mindset shift from sage on the stage to a relinquishment of control AND ask, ”If ti couldn’t look like that, what could it look like?”

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

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal