Hannah Costello's guest appearances

Hannah Costello

Transformative Principal

Positive Blatherings Podcast

Quite Frankly

David Smith

Seth Godin

William Parker

Jonny Greco

Cory Doctorow

Jethro Jones

Liz Wiseman

Kat Howard

Annie Grace

Ed Monahan

Derek Sivers

Michael Robinson

Geoff Woods

Aaron Walker

Shelly Morgan

OwlTail

In this week's episode, Jaz sat down with Co-founder &amp; Head Chef of social enterprise cafe "Stepping Stone" -  Hannah Costello.Hannah and her partner Vanessa created social enterprise cafe "Stepping Stone" in order to serve their mission to provide work, skills &amp; knowledge to underprivileged minorities in the afro/colombian community in Cartagena, Columbia in order to facilitate equality &amp; choice (can i get an amen?) The current incarnation Stepping Stone Canberra provides inclusive employment and practical training opportunities for migrant and refugee women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds through an innovative and sustainable vegetarian cafe. Um, yes please!Listen in as Hannah shares the powerful story of pivoting during a pandemic whilst still keeping activism front of mind, the importance of change &amp; equality and how you can *actually* start being part of the solution. This and so much more; enjoy!CONNECT TO CAFE STEPPING STONE:Cafesteppingstone.comFollow Cafe Stepping Stone on IGDonate to Cafe Stepping StoneCONNECT WITH US:Quite Frankly's IGJaz's IGAmy's IG

In this week's episode, Jaz sat down with Co-founder &amp; Head Chef of social enterprise cafe "Stepping Stone" -  Hannah Costello. Hannah and her partner Vanessa created social enterprise cafe "Stepping Stone" in order to serve their mission to provide work, skills &amp; knowledge to underprivileged minorities in the afro/colombian community in Cartagena, Columbia in order to facilitate equality &amp; choice (can i get an amen?) The current incarnation Stepping Stone Canberra provides inclusive employment and practical training opportunities for migrant and refugee women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds through an innovative and sustainable vegetarian cafe. Um, yes please! Listen in as Hannah shares the powerful story of pivoting during a pandemic whilst still keeping activism front of mind, the importance of change &amp; equality and how you can *actually* start being part of the solution. This and so much more; enjoy! CONNECT TO CAFE STEPPING STONE: <a href="https://www.cafesteppingstone.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cafesteppingstone.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cafesteppingstone/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow Cafe Stepping Stone on IG</a> <a href="https://www.cafesteppingstone.com/merchandise/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Donate to Cafe Stepping Stone</a> CONNECT WITH US: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/quitefrankly.podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quite Frankly's IG</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jazborri/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jaz's IG</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/amylouiseruse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amy's IG</a>

EP. 018 - Creating Change, Meeting The Need & Being Part Of The Solution: An Interview with Hannah Costello Of Social Enterprise "Cafe Stepping Stone"

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. Hannah Costello graduated in January 2020 after homeschooling her whole life. While co-founding the Learner Council and volunteering at virtual camps in her distributed learning high school, she discovered a passion for guiding and supporting other learners, and for creating systems that work. She wants to help other kids to experience learning the way she did by designing and supporting individualized learning paths.  What is a distributed learning high school? Enrolled in a program where you had lots of power over your learning. Created our own curriculum through grade 9. Still a diploma granting program, but in Grade 10 switched to a thematic learning system. There weren’t courses, but projects and ideas that were combined in a theme. Having the opportunity to see connections between things is really important. Find something you are interested in and delve into it. Learner council was like a student council, and we didn’t have one. Many students saw struggles with all the changes. One student got fed up with all the changes and decided we needed a student council. The model was based on the idea that every student should be heard. Our school was so happy to have learner initiative. Challenges were creating space for kids to talk with us. We did all of our communication online. Each learner has a learner consultant that they talk with at least weekly. The school organized events (like camps) that were in person. Befriended the communications team within the school. Forum space set up to meet with Tools to be successful Reach out and ask for what I needed. There was lots of support, but kids weren’t making use of their educators. Found it useful to find out who was doing what. I feel bad for my educators, because I asked a lot of them. What to do now? I could not join the educator team because I don’t have a college degree. There are definitely uses for college. I don’t want to teach a class, I want to facilitate learning. Different ideas to help people. How to be a transformative principal? Offer kids options as to how to express their learning. Because not everyone is going to learn the same way and not everyone is going to want to do it the same way.  Today’s 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. Hannah Costello graduated in January 2020 after homeschooling her whole life. While co-founding the Learner Council and volunteering at virtual camps in her distributed learning high school, she discovered a passion for guiding and supporting other learners, and for creating systems that work. She wants to help other kids to experience learning the way she did by designing and supporting individualized learning paths. <ul> <li>What is a distributed learning high school?</li> <li>Enrolled in a program where you had lots of power over your learning.</li> <li>Created our own curriculum through grade 9.</li> <li>Still a diploma granting program, but in Grade 10 switched to a thematic learning system.</li> <li>There weren’t courses, but projects and ideas that were combined in a theme.</li> <li>Having the opportunity to see connections between things is really important.</li> <li>Find something you are interested in and delve into it.</li> <li>Learner council was like a student council, and we didn’t have one.</li> <li>Many students saw struggles with all the changes.</li> <li>One student got fed up with all the changes and decided we needed a student council.</li> <li>The model was based on the idea that every student should be heard.</li> <li>Our school was so happy to have learner initiative.</li> <li>Challenges were creating space for kids to talk with us.</li> <li>We did all of our communication online.</li> <li>Each learner has a learner consultant that they talk with at least weekly.</li> <li>The school organized events (like camps) that were in person.</li> <li>Befriended the communications team within the school.</li> <li>Forum space set up to meet with</li> <li>Tools to be successful</li> <li>Reach out and ask for what I needed.</li> <li>There was lots of support, but kids weren’t making use of their educators.</li> <li>Found it useful to find out who was doing what.</li> <li>I feel bad for my educators, because I asked a lot of them.</li> <li>What to do now?</li> <li>I could not join the educator team because I don’t have a college degree.</li> <li>There are definitely uses for college.</li> <li>I don’t want to teach a class, I want to facilitate learning.</li> <li>Different ideas to help people.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Offer kids options as to how to express their learning. Because not everyone is going to learn the same way and not everyone is going to want to do it the same way.</li> </ul> Today’s 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>.

Can You Teach without College? with Hannah Costello Transformative Principal 360

I first met Hannah Costello when she was working as a bank teller in my bank. She looked like such an interesting free spirit that I wanted to learn more about her. I was hoping she was an actress because as a filmmaker, I am always on the lookout for interesting new talent. Nothing happened with my first encounter with Hannah, but fate would have us both working for the same clients and so this was my chance to Blather with Hannah. She really has perfected reinvention and I was intrigued by how much she has done that in her young life. Join us!

Reinvention, with Hannah Costello