Transformative Principal

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 disconnect