Feb 13 2025 40 mins 1
In this bonus episode, originally recorded for Transformative Principal, Jethro Jones speaks with Eric Sheninger and Nicki Slaugh about their book Personalize: Meeting the Needs of All Learners. Hear about:
- The power of Quest Academy
- Retain teachers, retain students - how to keep kids there.
- Free public school
- Teenagers weren’t engaged.
- PD time every Friday
- Mastery Minutes
- Beginning of day, tracker system.
- Choice, voice, tracker data.
- Curating evidence.
- Culture
- Self-pacing route vs. choice boards.
- Removed points, extra credit, percentages,
- Emerging, developing, mastering, extending
- Prove-its aligned to proficiency scales.
- Big shifts require big moves.
- At Quest, we want you to be proficient
- When you remove the traditional structures, you have to add
- The right way is your way, there is no best practice.
- Performance reviews, students meet with teachers one-on-one.
- Impersonal approaches to focusing on the “who”
- How can we do it effectively, and what does it look like?
- Evidence of effective vs. ineffective practices.
- Practice, practice, practice, prove.
- Maximizing the time we have with our students.
- How to be a transformative principal?
- Eric: Show people the value of what you are doing
- Nicki: Get rid of the energy vampires
