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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

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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