It`s Common Sense with Heather Staker Transformative Principal 210

Heather Staker is a former Mckenzie Consultant and coauthor of the book Blended Learning: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.

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• Senior in High School as a state school board member
• Reasonable and balanced voice that represents the whole.
• Interested and well-versed in innovation
• Clayton Christensen Center for Disruptive Innovation
• It’s not just efficiency, it’s common sense to give kids information at their pace.
• Agency is so important.
• Disrupting Class
• Actin Academy program for core skills.
• 7 types of blended learning
• What challenges do we still face?
• Schools lead with 1:1 announcements.
• How to address 1:1 issues?
• Lead with a very clear plan for how they use online learning.
• District and vendor level must prevent teachers from having to be the tech wizard.
• Help teachers to reimagine their role.
• Factory model settings do not give teachers the opportunity to do increase the humanity that can be in our schools.
• Mentors and tutors for each child.
• Not getting to deep work?
• Station rotations can prevent this. Not every blended learning model is perfect.
• How to create higher performing classrooms in 7 moves.
• Younger ages, recommended 20 minutes max per day on screens.
• “Certain children“ aren’t capable, but every child can learn
• It’s the adults. We get in our own way.

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