Eric Chagala's guest appearances

Eric Chagala

Parenting Beyond Discipline

Transformative Principal

David Smith

Seth Godin

William Parker

Cory Doctorow

Jethro Jones

Liz Wiseman

Kat Howard

Derek Sivers

Michael Robinson

Geoff Woods

Aaron Walker

Shelly Morgan

Jessica Johnson

David Wood

John Hope Bryant

OwlTail

This really is a must-listen episode for any parent who want to offer the best school experience for their child that they possibly can. Whether your kids are still really young or already in school, you will want to listen to today's episode with Dr. Eric Chagala. He is a multi-award winning educator with a heart of gold, dedicated to giving kids the most engaging school experience possible. Dr. Chagala has turned a failing school into a highly sought after school-of-choice through innovation, design thinking and the empathic process and brings it all into the kids' learning experiences.Learn about Dr. Chagala's school, the amazing values and processes that are integral part of each and every curriculum. It will enlighten you as to what school could and should be for all kids pre-K - high school.Dr. Chagala also shares what parents can do to find or help create schools that nourish and engage children's minds that will allow them to discover their unique strengths to bring to the world.To follow Dr. Chagala's school and learn of all the amazing projects, electives and how they implement their values into every classroom, follow: VIDAsharks on twitter.Sponsors:www.cariloha.com USE CODE PARENTING at checkout for the softest, cleanest, greenest sheets, bedding and bath.www.mathnasium.com to find a center near you or schedule an online consultationFollow on IG: @yourvillageonlineNew Podcast: Erin Royer Presents Minding The GapOur Sponsors:* Check out Wooga and use my code No promotion code/URL for a great deal: https://www.wooga.com/games/junes-journeySupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/parenting-beyond-discipline/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This really is a must-listen episode for any parent who want to offer the best school experience for their child that they possibly can. Whether your kids are still really young or already in school, you will want to listen to today's episode with Dr. Eric Chagala. He is a multi-award winning educator with a heart of gold, dedicated to giving kids the most engaging school experience possible. Dr. Chagala has turned a failing school into a highly sought after school-of-choice through innovation, design thinking and the empathic process and brings it all into the kids' learning experiences.Learn about Dr. Chagala's school, the amazing values and processes that are integral part of each and every curriculum. It will enlighten you as to what school could and should be for all kids pre-K - high school.Dr. Chagala also shares what parents can do to find or help create schools that nourish and engage children's minds that will allow them to discover their unique strengths to bring to the world.To follow Dr. Chagala's school and learn of all the amazing projects, electives and how they implement their values into every classroom, follow: VIDAsharks on twitter.Sponsors:<a href="http://www.cariloha.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.cariloha.com</a> USE CODE PARENTING at checkout for the softest, cleanest, greenest sheets, bedding and bath.<a href="http://www.mathnasium.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mathnasium.com</a> to find a center near you or schedule an online consultationFollow on IG: @yourvillageonlineNew Podcast: Erin Royer Presents Minding The GapOur Sponsors: * Check out Wooga and use my code No promotion code/URL for a great deal: <a href="https://www.wooga.com/games/junes-journey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wooga.com/games/junes-journey</a> Support this podcast at — <a href="https://redcircle.com/parenting-beyond-discipline/exclusive-content" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/parenting-beyond-discipline/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

#309: Is Your Child's School Crushing Them or Inspiring Them? with Dr. Eric Chagala

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.   Eric Chagala is the principal of of Vista Innovation &amp; Design Academy Twitter  Changing with the same kids same teachers same place. Using the design thinking process to actually get there. There is no difference in design thinking between business and schools. Trying to create and add value for and in the community. Identifying who our users are and what their How do you get deep insights? Steve Jobs idea, they never would have come up with that idea. Listen deeply, and read between the lines of what people are asking for. What is it that they have not imagines. About 1000 educational visitors come through our school each year. Want to do better by and for kids. Looking for exposure. Trying to gain understand about what might exist in different capacities. What they understand from the perspective that they have. Important for the designers to have a really vast set of exposures. It’s not just visiting schools. Stopped reading about education stuff. Starting reading and focusing on things from industry. Subscribing to more things outside the context of education. discussion, reading, and some travel to other places. Quallcomm, Mindsets of founding leadership team. Translate what we were hearing from students and teachers. Looking at creative firms that touch the education sector. Diversity of the ecosystem. The more diverse an ecosystem the better Feb 2013 - spring smiling at each other, year long journey of trying to figure out what a new school would be. August 2014, after just 1 year. Taught all day at the old school afternoon and evening were spent learning and gaining empathy. Be centered around design thinking. Doesn’t translate very well into pedagogy. Pedagogical framework, buck institute on Project-based learning. That gave us a framework to insert design thinking into. PBL is more challenging in Math than humanities, so moved to Problem-based learning. Challenge-based learning. Design-based learning. Deeper learning &amp; project based &amp; challenge-based DBLe - including entrepreneurship to get them ready for the gig economy. The narrative we share about the experience that kids get when they come here. VIDA - Life - Narrative of life vs. school. It’s not design thinking or PBL, what sets us apart is our narrative. This is not school. You can’t just show up for 7.5 hours and think you’ll change your life. First year - students who were matriculating through. Found some of the kids who had struggled the most in the old school and were stars in the new school. Tell their story on video. Turnaround kids. Schools have the power to perpetuate or change the culture of the neighborhood. “Now our teachers care about us” Pursue challenging tasks with Love the hell out of every single person, every day.  Schedule a call with Jethro Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!   Please take a moment to rate this podcast in  iTunes or on  Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.  Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download  Paperless Principal.   Take Control of your email Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher  Refer A Principal  Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey     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="http://twitter.com/drchagala" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric Chagala</a> is the principal of of <a href="http://vidasharks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vista Innovation &amp; Design Academy</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/vidasharks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <ul> <li>Changing with the same kids same teachers same place.</li> <li>Using the design thinking process to actually get there.</li> <li>There is no difference in design thinking between business and schools.</li> <li>Trying to create and add value for and in the community.</li> <li>Identifying who our users are and what their</li> <li>How do you get deep insights?</li> <li>Steve Jobs idea, they never would have come up with that idea. Listen deeply, and read between the lines of what people are asking for.</li> <li>What is it that they have not imagines.</li> <li>About 1000 educational visitors come through our school each year. Want to do better by and for kids. Looking for exposure. Trying to gain understand about what might exist in different capacities.</li> <li>What they understand from the perspective that they have. Important for the designers to have a really vast set of exposures.</li> <li>It’s not just visiting schools.</li> <li>Stopped reading about education stuff. Starting reading and focusing on things from industry.</li> <li>Subscribing to more things outside the context of education.</li> <li>discussion, reading, and some travel to other places.</li> <li>Quallcomm, Mindsets of founding leadership team.</li> <li>Translate what we were hearing from students and teachers.</li> <li>Looking at creative firms that touch the education sector.</li> <li>Diversity of the ecosystem.</li> <li>The more diverse an ecosystem the better</li> <li>Feb 2013 - spring smiling at each other, year long journey of trying to figure out what a new school would be.</li> <li>August 2014, after just 1 year. Taught all day at the old school afternoon and evening were spent learning and gaining empathy.</li> <li>Be centered around design thinking. Doesn’t translate very well into pedagogy.</li> <li>Pedagogical framework, buck institute on Project-based learning. That gave us a framework to insert design thinking into.</li> <li>PBL is more challenging in Math than humanities, so moved to Problem-based learning. Challenge-based learning.</li> <li>Design-based learning. Deeper learning &amp; project based &amp; challenge-based</li> <li>DBLe - including entrepreneurship to get them ready for the gig economy.</li> <li>The narrative we share about the experience that kids get when they come here.</li> <li>VIDA - Life - Narrative of life vs. school.</li> <li>It’s not design thinking or PBL, what sets us apart is our narrative. This is not school.</li> <li>You can’t just show up for 7.5 hours and think you’ll change your life.</li> <li>First year - students who were matriculating through. Found some of the kids who had struggled the most in the old school and were stars in the new school. Tell their story on video.</li> <li>Turnaround kids.</li> <li>Schools have the power to perpetuate or change the culture of the neighborhood.</li> <li>“Now our teachers care about us”</li> <li>Pursue challenging tasks with</li> <li>Love the hell out of every single person, every day.</li> </ul> <a href="http://transformativeprincipal.org/mastermind" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Schedule a call with Jethro</a> Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: <a href="http://transformativeprincipal.org/idealweek" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Create your ideal week</a>, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/transformative%C2%ADprincipal/id770942472?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Please take a moment to rate this podcast in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/transformative%C2%ADprincipal/id770942472?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> iTunes</a> or on <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jethro%C2%ADjones/transformative%C2%ADprincipals?refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Stitcher</a>.  Please follow me on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/jethrojones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@jethrojones</a> for the host and <a href="http://twitter.com/trnfrmprincipal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@TrnFrmPrincipal</a> for the show. <a href="http://www.jethrojones.com/new%C2%ADproducts/communication%C2%ADcards" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Buy Communication Cards</a> Show notes on <a href="http://transformativeprincipal.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TransformativePrincipal.com</a> Download <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/paperless%C2%ADprincipal/id558201943?ls=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Paperless Principal</a>.   <a href="http://mbsy.co/3jbnc" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Take Control of your email</a> <a href="http://transformativeprincipal.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Web Site</a> <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=44392&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transformative Principal on Stitcher</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pI7a1e%C2%ADrszZkDurFR2Jw9aXYjOX0XfCcJ%C2%ADuTsgNiAmo/viewform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Refer A Principal</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12nqS30m%C2%AD7PQ5BhlGSGrXoQrYwZ33bgulQRaXfUagC08/viewform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey</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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