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Justin Bathon

Transformative Principal

Reimagine Schools

Robert Quinn

Adam Welcome

Don Wettrick

Rick Jetter

Travis Lape

Derek McCoy

Jaime Casap

Alyssa Gallagher

Joe Erpelding

Dwight Carter

Tom Murray

Sonny Magana

Kim Bearden

Eric Sheninger

George Couros

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In this episode, we kick off our Summer Leadership Series with Dr. Justin Bathon, Director of Innovative School Models at the University of Kentucky, who talks about how the UK Next Generation Leadership Academy has evolved to help school districts throughout Kentucky take a bold step toward innovative practice and deeper learning strategies. Bathon also shares insights from his new book, Leadership for Deeper Learning: Facilitating School Innovation and Transformation, and why leaders of Deeper Learning Schools displayed high levels of courage and risk taking to create a direct and intentional visioning process to transform schools. Finally, Bathon announces an exciting new partnership between UK Next Gen and noted author and filmmaker Ted Dintersmith, that includes a What School Could Be Leadership Academy for the 2021-22 school year. Twitter: @JustinBathon. Website: lead.school.  Meet Dr. Justin Bathon Dr. Justin Bathon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky and serves as the Director of Innovative School Models for the College of Education. He is a co-Director of the Next Generation Leadership Academy at the College and a co-director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). Justin works directly with schools and school leaders to reform the systems that support the learner experience in school. Justin’s research focuses on the underlying code of education and the changes necessitated by the digital, global age. This work looks at the intersections of education, law, and technology and translates research into specific actions for local learning communities. Justin has legal and educational experience at the local, state, national, and international levels including as a high school teacher in southern Illinois. He holds a J.D. from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Indiana University. He is co-author of Leadership for Deeper Learning: Facilitating School Innovation and Transformation that will be available in July, 2021.   About Dr. Greg Goins As the Founder/Host of the Reimagine Schools Podcast, Dr. Greg Goins has emerged as one of the nation's leading voices on visionary leadership and the path to transforming our schools. He currently serves as the Director of the Educational Leadership Program at Georgetown College (KY) and previously spent 15 years as a school district superintendent in Illinois. Dr. Goins is a passionate keynote speaker and is available to speak at your next education conference or school PD day. To book Dr. Goins, please send inquiries to drgreggoins@gmail.com.  Twitter: @DrGregGoins.   Support The Reimagine Schools Podcast You can now help keep the conversation going by supporting the Reimagine Schools Podcast with a small monthly donation to help sustain future episodes. Thanks for your support! https://anchor.fm/greg-goins/supportIn this episode,  ---   Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greg-goins/support

In this episode, we kick off our Summer Leadership Series with Dr. Justin Bathon, Director of Innovative School Models at the University of Kentucky, who talks about how the UK Next Generation Leadership Academy has evolved to help school districts throughout Kentucky take a bold step toward innovative practice and deeper learning strategies. Bathon also shares insights from his new book, Leadership for Deeper Learning: Facilitating School Innovation and Transformation, and why leaders of Deeper Learning Schools displayed high levels of courage and risk taking to create a direct and intentional visioning process to transform schools. Finally, Bathon announces an exciting new partnership between UK Next Gen and noted author and filmmaker Ted Dintersmith, that includes a What School Could Be Leadership Academy for the 2021-22 school year. Twitter: @JustinBathon. Website: lead.school. Meet Dr. Justin Bathon Dr. Justin Bathon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky and serves as the Director of Innovative School Models for the College of Education. He is a co-Director of the Next Generation Leadership Academy at the College and a co-director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). Justin works directly with schools and school leaders to reform the systems that support the learner experience in school. Justin’s research focuses on the underlying code of education and the changes necessitated by the digital, global age. This work looks at the intersections of education, law, and technology and translates research into specific actions for local learning communities. Justin has legal and educational experience at the local, state, national, and international levels including as a high school teacher in southern Illinois. He holds a J.D. from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Indiana University. He is co-author of Leadership for Deeper Learning: Facilitating School Innovation and Transformation that will be available in July, 2021.  About Dr. Greg Goins As the Founder/Host of the Reimagine Schools Podcast, Dr. Greg Goins has emerged as one of the nation's leading voices on visionary leadership and the path to transforming our schools. He currently serves as the Director of the Educational Leadership Program at Georgetown College (KY) and previously spent 15 years as a school district superintendent in Illinois. Dr. Goins is a passionate keynote speaker and is available to speak at your next education conference or school PD day. To book Dr. Goins, please send inquiries to drgreggoins@gmail.com.  Twitter: @DrGregGoins.  Support The Reimagine Schools Podcast You can now help keep the conversation going by supporting the Reimagine Schools Podcast with a small monthly donation to help sustain future episodes. Thanks for your support! <a href="https://anchor.fm/greg-goins/supportIn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/greg-goins/supportIn</a> this episode, --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greg-goins/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greg-goins/support</a>

Next Gen Leadership with Justin Bathon

We are excited to have SchoolAI as a sponsor for the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. Please visit schoolai.com to save your teachers 10 hours per week. Dr. Justin Bathon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky and serves as a Co-Director of the Center for Next Generation Leadership.  He is the Director of Innovative School Models for the College of Education. He is a co-Director of the Next Generation Leadership Academy at the College and a co-director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). Justin works directly with schools and school leaders to reform the systems that support the learner experience in school.   STEAM Academy High School   Byproduct of Next Generation Leadership Academy. Original mission to smooth the transition to higher education.   So many involved in creating what that high school should be.   4 separate dual credit partnerships.   Paired relationship back to just Bluegrass community college.   Designing a high school from scratch is awesome.   Semester model, Canvas LMS   Lots of iterations, and still evolving,   Didn’t really want early graduation, but it started happening   In the early years, it was leader as designer.   Try an idea 3 times. If we weren’t satisfied then we would abandon it.   A lot of those ideas came from me, the ivory tower guy.   Everybody has an opinion about what the school should be!   We became gatekeepers of ideas.   That brought a lot more confusion into the space, and so we abandoned it.   There had to be something that made us feel like it could be great.   Second time, it couldn’t be worse.   Third time: Distinctly better.   That first year was pretty abysmal.   The kids didn’t mind the chaos because it was equal to what they experienced in the regular school.   Bias toward equity.   When you have a bias toward equity, you are always on the right ethical side of that choice.   Core equity practice to not do credit recovery online only.   Tina Stephenson, Chris Flores, and Eric Ridd   Can we do this model for all kids?   We abandoned the idea if it only worked for part of our kids.   We focused on models that built opportunity after opportunity for kids.   Some kids just need more time. We’re trying to buy them time.   Authentic relationships with our community.   You don’t just call yourself a PBL school, you have to learn that.   We gained trust in our community.   Our students accessed the whole of what Lexington felt like.   Things that took iteration.   Complete failure on Standards Based Grading.   How to work well with higher ed. Higher ed can be flexible.   The mentality about how they approach their perspectives is very different.   When working with Colleges on dual credit, come with a model and concept to someone at the provost level or above.   Project Moonshot - New approach to dual credit, focus on collaborative teaching.   Adding two adults to students - one from high school, and one from the University.   Only high schools that are willing to participate in the network get the dual credit in the schools.   Progressive, constructivist education.   Push is to change high school.   Help kids make the next step sooner and smoother.   Your future earning potential is deeply tied to what you accomplished after high school.   Broadly define college as a step after high school and not sole as the 4 year liberal arts degree.   Sponsors TeachFX Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com John Catt Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools. Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:   Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh  Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli  Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley  The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson  Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard  John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones:  SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors SponsorsSave your teachers hours per week with SchoolAI. It's not just a tool, it's a partner in the classroom. With school AI teachers can plan courses in minutes. Get realtime learning data and provide one-on-one tutor tutoring. Plus it's free for teachers. Go to SchoolAI.com/tpWe're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

We are excited to have SchoolAI as a sponsor for the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. Please visit <a href="https://schoolai.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">schoolai.com</a> to save your teachers 10 hours per week. <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbathon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Justin Bathon</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky and serves as a Co-Director of the Center for Next Generation Leadership.  He is the Director of Innovative School Models for the College of Education. He is a co-Director of the Next Generation Leadership Academy at the College and a co-director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). Justin works directly with schools and school leaders to reform the systems that support the learner experience in school. <ul> <li> STEAM Academy High School </li> <li> Byproduct of Next Generation Leadership Academy. Original mission to smooth the transition to higher education. </li> <li> So many involved in creating what that high school should be. </li> <li> 4 separate dual credit partnerships. </li> <li> Paired relationship back to just Bluegrass community college. </li> <li> Designing a high school from scratch is awesome. </li> <li> Semester model, Canvas LMS </li> <li> Lots of iterations, and still evolving, </li> <li> Didn’t really want early graduation, but it started happening </li> <li> In the early years, it was leader as designer. </li> <li> Try an idea 3 times. If we weren’t satisfied then we would abandon it. </li> <li> A lot of those ideas came from me, the ivory tower guy. </li> <li> Everybody has an opinion about what the school should be! </li> <li> We became gatekeepers of ideas. </li> <li> That brought a lot more confusion into the space, and so we abandoned it. </li> <li> There had to be something that made us feel like it could be great. </li> <li> Second time, it couldn’t be worse. </li> <li> Third time: Distinctly better. </li> <li> That first year was pretty abysmal. </li> <li> The kids didn’t mind the chaos because it was equal to what they experienced in the regular school. </li> <li> Bias toward equity. </li> <li> When you have a bias toward equity, you are always on the right ethical side of that choice. </li> <li> Core equity practice to not do credit recovery online only. </li> <li> Tina Stephenson, Chris Flores, and Eric Ridd </li> <li> Can we do this model for all kids? </li> <li> We abandoned the idea if it only worked for part of our kids. </li> <li> We focused on models that built opportunity after opportunity for kids. </li> <li> Some kids just need more time. We’re trying to buy them time. </li> <li> Authentic relationships with our community. </li> <li> You don’t just call yourself a PBL school, you have to learn that. </li> <li> We gained trust in our community. </li> <li> Our students accessed the whole of what Lexington felt like. </li> <li> Things that took iteration. </li> <li> Complete failure on Standards Based Grading. </li> <li> How to work well with higher ed. Higher ed can be flexible. </li> <li> The mentality about how they approach their perspectives is very different. </li> <li> When working with Colleges on dual credit, come with a model and concept to someone at the provost level or above. </li> <li> Project Moonshot - New approach to dual credit, focus on collaborative teaching. </li> <li> Adding two adults to students - one from high school, and one from the University. </li> <li> Only high schools that are willing to participate in the network get the dual credit in the schools. </li> <li> Progressive, constructivist education. </li> <li> Push is to change high school. </li> <li> Help kids make the next step sooner and smoother. </li> <li> Your future earning potential is deeply tied to what you accomplished after high school. </li> <li> Broadly define college as a step after high school and not sole as the 4 year liberal arts degree. </li> </ul> Sponsors <a href="http://teachfx.com/transformativeprincipal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TeachFX</a> Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at <a href="http://teachfx.com/transformativeprincipal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TeachFX.com</a> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Catt</a> Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools. Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.johncattbookshop.com/</a>. Learn more about some of the newest titles: <ul> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/tiger-teachers-take-two-the-michaela-way" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/teaching-walkthrus-visual-step-by-step-guides-to-essential-teaching-techniques" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/putting-staff-first-a-blueprint-for-revitalising-our-schools?pr_prod_strat=copurchase&amp;pr_rec_pid=4388874092567&amp;pr_ref_pid=4337604952087&amp;pr_seq=uniform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-teaching-delusion-why-teaching-in-our-schools-isnt-good-enough-and-how-we-can-make-it-better" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/leadership/products/stop-talking-about-wellbeing-a-pragmatic-approach-to-teacher-workload" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard</a></li> </ul> John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/schoolx-how-principals-can-design-a-transformative-school-experience-for-students-teachers-parents-and-themselves" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves</a> Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors</a> SponsorsSave your teachers hours per week with <a href="https://schoolai.com/tp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SchoolAI</a>. It's not just a tool, it's a partner in the classroom. With school AI teachers can plan courses in minutes. Get realtime learning data and provide one-on-one tutor tutoring. Plus it's free for teachers. Go to <a href="https://schoolai.com/tp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SchoolAI.com/tp</a>We're so grateful to our sponsor <a href="https://edthena.com/bepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AI Coach by Edthena</a>. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers <a href="https://edthena.com/bepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

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