Curating Knowledge with Jerry Snow Transformative Principal 204

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

• Part of a 1:1 initiative over 9 years ago.
• Many awards and recognitions.
• Trying to show kids that even though they are a small system, they can still do great things.
• NGLC planning grant
• Mastery based learning.
• Sometimes in a class you can only go as fast as your lowest student.
• Worked with Education Elements.
• “Embolden Piedmont”
• NWEA MAP into digital platforms to create ILPs (individual learning plans).
• Fill in gaps to build on those skills, rather than adapt around them.
• You’re curating the knowledge rather than giving the students everything.
• The myth of average - there is no average. If you’re teaching to the average, you’re teaching to nobody.
• Where a teacher will fall back into the old groove.
• You need to be honest and up front with them.
• We modify every year.
• Can’t go in with an iron fist.
• We want to make things better for the kids.
• Troubleshoot to help them do better.
• It’s a lot of pride, even though it is harder and more tiring.
• Making sure the information is a high enough DOK level.
• Harder for everyone, teachers and students alike.
• Took stuff from everyone and make it our own.

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