Transformative Principal

Jerry Snow is a District Administrator and former high school and middle school principal. piedmont.k12.al.us contact information is there. jsnow@piedmont.k12.al.us Team time, class time, my time Class time - social studies, math, etc. Show mastery - what does that look like. My time - 3 days a week, you work on the lowest area. Souped up study hall. If you’re caught up on pace, work on what you want. 2 days a week you work on ILPs Team Time - looping with kids 6-8th grade. Goal setting, character education, team building activities, Student-led conferences. Kids come up with the ways they do better. Mastery looks like: mimic ACT aspire certain percentage of level 3 DOK. 2 types of grades A numeric grade (0-100, A-F) MasteryConnect - mastery report where students are at. Need to show mastery at 80% first time to get 100%. Teaching parents that mastery is what is really important, but still keep grades to make sense of it all. Pacing - kids can go as fast as they want, but they have to keep a minimum pace to