Have a Good Life

Gina Rodriguez-Nunez - Tippin
Born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Proud graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso. Received my Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelors of Liberals Arts. Masters of Education
I was an assistant principal for 7 years. I was named principal of Tippin elementary in 2009. I have served the Tippin community for 12 years.

Raised by two hard working parents who immigrated to the US after they were married. My mother was a stay-at-home mother and my father worked at a break making factory. When I entered school I only spoke Spanish. I am a product of the bilingual program in EPISD. I later became a bilingual teacher and now a supporter of the EPISD dual language program.

I am married and have 3 amazing children. While I am not being a principal I enjoy spending time with my children, traveling and reading.

• Brittni’s situation taught me a lot about my role as an administrator.
• Being present for them
• What can the school do for you?
• It’s easy to shy away from situations like that.
• You have to listen to what people are saying, and then you have to listen to your own heart and your own feelings.
• Really need to take care of our faculty and staff.
• Put yourself out there.
• How to put the heart component into leadership.
• Someone being there for me.
• How to take care of yourself when tragedy strikes - talk with other people.
• How to be a transformative principal? Stop and listen. Be present in the moment.
• Walmart shootings in El Paso Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting)

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

Sam is an IT Director and consultant with experience in K–12 education, corporate training, and telecommunications. He spent over ten years living and working in Bush Alaska, visiting 97 small towns and villages across the state, 3 years in China, and now resides in southern Florida with his wife and two boys. He is certified in a number of technology and vendor platforms/skills, but has focused more on cybersecurity in the last 3 years. He is passionate about privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity… especially when it comes to our youth. MakeITSecure is a consultant company that helps schools harden their systems when schools can’t afford a full time CISO.

• What it was like being a teacher in Bush Alaska.
• Why are schools not doing more to protect their students, staff and data?
• MakeITSecure
• How to make security a priority.
• You can’t just have IT be the only ones thinking about security, because all issues are security related.
• What should we spend money on in schools?
• Risk management equation.
• Where you should put your schools’ money when it comes to security
• What’s your goal? What are you trying to accomplish with that security program?
• Sit down and evaluate your risk and try to fill your gaps.
• Low-hanging fruit to reduce your risk.
• Information audit - what are the states of their policies and procedures.
• Repository of templates within a consortium so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
• Free software comes with a cost.
• There are ways to make anything safer.
• Transparent, honest communication.
• Just enough, just in time, just for me.
• Comparing your roles as an IT Director for schools in the US or Program Director for a US telecom, how would you describe social media, the internet, and digital trends in China -
• As a consumer it was a healthy experience.
• Serious seeds of doubt or a complete misunderstanding of it.
• Connection of Social Credit Score and our current situation.

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Dr. Temple is the Sealy and Smith Chair of Violence Prevention at the University of Texas Medical Branch, as well as a Licensed Psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Violence Prevention. His research focuses on the prevention of interpersonal, community, and structural violence, and has been funded through the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has over 200 scholarly publications in a variety of high-impact journals including JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. He recently co-edited a book on adolescent dating violence, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Primary Prevention, and is on the editorial boards of four other scientific journals. Dr. Temple recently co-chaired the Texas Task Force on Domestic Violence and served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Psychological Association. Locally, he served for 7 years as the Vice President of the Galveston Independent School District Board of Trustees. His work has been featured on CNN, New York Times, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, and even the satirical website, The Onion.

• Center for Violence Prevention
• Abuse online is quite extensive.
• The line between online and offline worlds is really blurred.
• Kids don’t differentiate between online and offline abuse.
• Online, you cannot walk that back.
• Unitentional bullying.
• Online can be anonymous.
• Consequence standpoint, lots of similar issues with in-person bulying and vioence.
• Being bulllied themselves.
• Everything is bullying…
• Why are we nicer in person than in the car?
• I am not a doom and gloom about social media and technology.
• This generation is the smartest generation that has ever lived.
• It just so happen st hat this generation has the world at their fingertips.
• There are a whole lot of benefits and advantages to the technological world.
• Kids were much better at maintaining relationships online.
• Poor quliaty screen time is certainly bad.
• It’s a mistake to police our kids and devices
• Start working on foundations of relationships and relationship skills before they get there.
• Teacher relationship skills.
• Meeting kids where they are.
• We were teaching relationship skills in a bad way before the pandemic, the pandemic made it even worse!
• 4th R - curriculum.
• Role plays how to resolve conflict, break up, etc.
• The power of problem based learning.
• If you witness domestive violence or rpoor relationships at home, you’re very unlikely to overcome challenges.
• How to be a transformative principal? model the relationship you want kids to have.
• www.utmb.edu/cvp
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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

Regina Collins is the Principal of the Global School at the Florida Virtual School.  Florida Virtual School is a national organization serving K - 12 students in online education for over 23 years.  She has 20 years in education and 11 of them in virtual education.  In her role as the Global School Principal, she collaborates with a diverse group of people to work towards the common goal of increasing student achievement and retention in an online setting.  She has a way of encouraging students and staff to remain positive and persevere while adapting to change.  And boy has the last 13 months or so really tested that skill! She believes partnerships with parents and school districts are essential to enriching the experience at FLVS Global School.  Prior to joining FLVS in 2010, she also has experience teaching at the elementary level where she passionately pursued strategies to reach the individual needs of each of her students.

• Teaching is an art and science
• Organization Development Manager
• National Standards for quality online instruction
• Ongoing multi-step process
• Targeted professional learning sessions
• Very large school, considered their own district
• informal and formal observations
• pre/post observation conferences
• classroom walkthrough meetings
• mid-year evaluation
• EOY Evaluation
• How do you monitor if someone is working?
• It doesn’t matter, what matters is that kids are learning.
• Heat map shows when kids are working.
• Students need to find the model that works for them.
• how to be a transformative principal? 1. Think outside the box 2. Collaborate - join Jethro’s Mastermind
  Topics:
  Questions from other leaders:
• How to evaluate when they are remote?
• How do you make sure a teacher is working contract hours?
• Collaborative Culture in online environment
• String of little things I do on a consistent basis.

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

Ted Harrington is the #1 best selling author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right, and the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the company of ethical hackers famous for hacking cars, medical devices, web applications, and password managers. He’s helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Google, Amazon, and Netflix. Ted has been featured in more than 100 media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. His team founded and organizes IoT Village, an event whose hacking contest is a three-time DEF CON Black Badge winner. He hosts the Tech Done Different podcast.

To get help with security consulting and security assessments, or to book Ted to keynote your next event, visit https://www.tedharrington.com.

• Using a modifier with a password
• How to think like an attacker
• A hacker is a problem solver - the intent is what matters.
• My job is to think the bad thoughts and ask the hard questions
• How to hack a bar waiting line.
• Determine what the rules of the game are
• The people who really succeed are the people who see the way the world could be.
• It’s really about independent thinking.
• Constraints provide opportunity for us to do better.
• How to teach people to be better
• Give kids opportunities to explore their creativity.
• Most humans are inherently wired to do good and make good choices.
• Be Better - the two words that define security
• Start from the foundation that all people are good.
• Automation of hacking techniques and if it’s too easy to be bad, people will do that.
• The democratization of an elite skill
• Zeroday vulnerabilities marketplace
• Security research community.
• The Blockchain bandit.
• What do we do about zerodays? We have to accept that they exist, and then we have to go find them.

Check out this episode!

Dr. April Joy Damian is an epidemiologist, health services researcher, and classically trained public health professional with expertise in health equity, social determinants of health, psychiatric epidemiology, and mixed methods.
She currently serves as the Associate Director of the Weitzman Institute, a research, education, and policy center dedicated to quality improvement and primary care transformation, with a particularly focus on vulnerable populations.
Dr. Damian is also the immediate Past Chair of the AcademyHealth Public Health Systems Research IG Advisory Board, and concurrently holds faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Wesleyan University.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelors of Arts in Ethnic Studies, Highest Honors. She then went on to earn a Masters in Medical Sciences from Harvard Medical School and PhD in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Rashard Curmon is a graduate of Elizabeth City State University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a minor in Speech Pathology, a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from East Carolina University, and a Master in School Administration NC State University. Rashard is a former Language Arts teacher. Rashard has served as an Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach and has worked at all three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. He currently resides in Winterville, North Carolina, and is a Principal for Lenoir County Public Schools.

• Elementary school principal - School opened in 2009
• 6th in 12 years
• Learn as much as you can.
• Don’t come in with a savior complex.
• What are the early wins for you?
• Clear vision and mission
• Didn’t take the route where you watch for six months to a year.
• Culture of collaboration
• Gracious space
• My total focus was achievement.
• Urgency is now!
• Instructional framework
• I had to bei n classrooms. I can’t move our school instructionally if I don’t know what’s going on.
• When I focus on culture, instruction goes down, when I focus on instrcution, culture goes down.
• Engulfed our staff in the why.
• Dr. Donyell Dickey
• Once you have results it doesn’t matter.
• How to be a transformative principal? Be someone who gives themselves totally to this work. Study, read, understand the research. Use Twitter to follow some other people. Do what you ask your teachers to do.

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