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It's the Mission with Amy Fast Transformative Principal 132
It's the Mission with Amy Fast Transformative Principal 132
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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Jul 10, 2016
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Podcast episode
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Join the #1 online conference for educational leaders: Limited Free Admission - Transformative Leadership Summit Assistant Principal Dr. Amy Fast explores the responsibility of our schools to focus on the mission, not the mandates. Educators are humanitarians at heart NCLB made me a better teacher, but it got warped Focus vs. tunnel vision Venn diagram of academic achievement, soft skills, and internal drive Need everyone in schools to bring their A game every single day! Need to measure every single circle What we test gets taught How do we measure that success? Soft skills - measured through observation, should be part of curriculum. Measuring motivation - identify the constructs of motivation: purpose, autonomy, choice, rigor Student survey via google forms Want to know more about you than just your test scores Staff didn’t know them as individuals. Non-anonymous survey. Coded the data Created a high flyer list of kids who didn’t have a high connection to the school. 100 kids who were the most disconnected. Hard to measure the intangibles? Just ask the kids! Measuring the right things Loading… 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. Sponsor: Sanebox Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey
Released:
Jul 10, 2016
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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