Expanding on the Seed with Meredith Allen Transformative Principal 208

Meredith Allen, music educator and Iowa AEA instructional technology coordinator, and account manager for Soundtrap.

• Music is very powerful.
• Traditional music education.
• Giving kids an opportunity to expand on the seed in their head.
• Expand on the seed.
• Jon Churchville in Michigan.
• “Let’s make a song!“
• Guide kids by pulling out what is inside them.
• How to coach teachers - Don’t tell teachers to do something different.
• Students to take control of their learning.
• How to benefit from the kids compiling information.
• I was the teacher who did things the way I did them because that is how we did them for 50 years.
• Junk Funk
• Help teachers have that moment where they see the value.
• Be connected - I go on Twitter and there’s always somebody doing it better.
• SAMR - Using technology and getting to R.
• trudacot
• On Twitter, people often show what their doing and share the steps so that you can do too.
• I didn’t know what I was clicking and two minutes later, I was bawling.
• GarageBand and Google Docs had a baby, and it is called SoundTrap.
• Non music educators use the tool as well.
• Using it for group projects so kids can create it at home.
• Collaborate with students without being in the same space.
• Minnesota and Haiti connection.
• Collaboration all across the globe.
• How to be a transformative principal? Have great conversations with the best teachers!

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