Kevin Finnegan's guest appearances

Kevin Finnegan

Transformative Principal

Extraordinary Educators Podcast

[un]common medicine

Family Fest Speaker Podcast

The Positive Effect - A retail leaders guide to changing the world

Pat Flynn

David Smith

Andrew Smith

Seth Godin

William Parker

Cory Doctorow

Jethro Jones

Anne Taylor

Liz Wiseman

Kat Howard

Derek Sivers

Adam Schaeuble

Michael Robinson

Geoff Woods

Aaron Walker

OwlTail

Kevin Finnegan, principal at the Prairie Hill School in Illinois, joins this episode. Kevin discusses how his school community uses consistent PLCs, which have changed student outcomes, and how leadership supports teachers with collaborative planning time. Kevin dives into replicable best practices that other leaders and teachers will definitely find helpful! The Prairie Hill SchoolTwitterInstagramEmail: ExtraordinaryEducators@cainc.com

Kevin Finnegan, principal at the Prairie Hill School in Illinois, joins this episode. Kevin discusses how his school community uses consistent PLCs, which have changed student outcomes, and how leadership supports teachers with collaborative planning time. Kevin dives into replicable best practices that other leaders and teachers will definitely find helpful! <ul><li><a href="https://www.prairiehill.org/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Prairie Hill School</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/CurriculumAssoc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="http://www.instragram.com/MyiReady" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a></li><li>Email: ExtraordinaryEducators@cainc.com</li></ul>

65 The Importance of Collaboration with Kevin Finnegan

The supplement industry is a vast and confusing space -SO MUCH OUT THERE!!So how do you choose the best products for the right reason? This episode will help sift through the noise and show you how to pick the most scientifically valid and toxin-free product for the right reason.  Of course with any supplement or nutrition protocol, the absolute best way to ensure safety and quality is to discuss your options with a trained medical provider, which is why I am talking with Kevin Finnegan from Xymogen today.Kevin and I talk about the overwhelming supplement industry, the power of how quality products can repair the body, and the best ways to find the best products on the market.  He is an experienced Medical Consultant with a demonstrated successful history of working in the age-management and functional medicine industries.  Kevin is skilled in educating, coaching, sales, and management, and has earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree focused in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, along with Physiology and Chemistry degrees from the University of Arizona.  Currently Kevin works for Xymogen, a family-owned company that prides itself on the highest quality formulas in the practitioner channel, as well as support from their long-standing functional medicine consultant team, and best customer service in the industry. Learn more about Kevin here: BioAnd connect directly with him via email at:  kevin.finnegan@xymogen.comor  Twitter: @KevinMFineganAnd of course, learn more about Xymogen and their fleet of exceptional products at:www.wholescripts.comwww.xymogen.com

The supplement industry is a vast and confusing space -SO MUCH OUT THERE!! So how do you choose the best products for the right reason? This episode will help sift through the noise and show you how to pick the most scientifically valid and toxin-free product for the right reason.  Of course with any supplement or nutrition protocol, the absolute best way to ensure safety and quality is to discuss your options with a trained medical provider, which is why I am talking with Kevin Finnegan from Xymogen today. Kevin and I talk about the overwhelming supplement industry, the power of how quality products can repair the body, and the best ways to find the best products on the market.  He is an experienced Medical Consultant with a demonstrated successful history of working in the age-management and functional medicine industries.  Kevin is skilled in educating, coaching, sales, and management, and has earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree focused in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, along with Physiology and Chemistry degrees from the University of Arizona.  Currently Kevin works for Xymogen, a family-owned company that prides itself on the highest quality formulas in the practitioner channel, as well as support from their long-standing functional medicine consultant team, and best customer service in the industry. Learn more about Kevin here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-finnegan-b602b042/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bio</a> And connect directly with him via email at:  <a href="mailto:kevin.finnegan@xymogen.com">kevin.finnegan@xymogen.com</a> or  Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinmfinnegan?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@KevinMFinegan</a> And of course, learn more about Xymogen and their fleet of exceptional products at: <a href="http://www.wholescripts.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.wholescripts.com</a> <a href="http://www.xymogen.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.xymogen.com</a>

Why Quality Supplements are Important and How to Find Them w/ Kevin Finnegan

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. How We Nearly Doubled Math Scores with Kevin Finnegan Transformative Principal 333 Social Media: When we saw Math could be a discussion, it totally changed everything. Kevin Finnegan is the principal of Prairie Hill School in Illinois. His students recently showed a 77% growth in Math, and we talk about how he made that happen.  Prairie hill is the school and the community comes together around it. Northern Illinois, PK–4th grade. 9 years as the principal. Mission statement: Students first, always. PLC school Reformed schedule so that every day (4 teachers per team) have an hour of common collaborative time every day. Why are we making this decision? The students are always the bringback. Norms: imagine the students you are talking about are here. To be a great principal is easy. You just have to have a great staff. PE teacher said, “I want students more.” Each class has 10 half hour blocks each week: Art, PE, STEM, Always been a high performing district. Makes change really hard when you have had success in the past. staff is competitive within themselves. Noticed that math scores were less than we expected. Dove into the data. Computation was awesome, but they struggled with elaborating on their thoughts. In every math assignment, adding the words, “I know this because…” If you see something that can be done in Kindergarten it can be done anywhere. Ready Math - iReady as platforms for learning. Standards based School, done in isolation. Common language in math. Didn’t get good training at first, but then got good training and that made a huge difference. Math has always dealt black and white. Math didn’t have to be one answer, it could be a discussion, totally changed everything. Talking about kids’ growth, talking about assessments, classwork, and then looking at the data. It’s not about what you teach, it’s about what we learned. How long did it take to understand that it was working? It fit us, rather than us fitting it. How to be a transformative principal? Spend a little time with kids, like on their birthday. It’s a constant reminder that kids come first.  Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. 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. John Catt amplifies fresh voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized around the world for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. Learn more about these 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/.  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 Learn about some of John Catt Educational’s newest publications:    What the Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom-Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era by Eric Kalenze   Be More Toddler: Leadership Lessons From Our Little Learners by Emma Turner   A Quiet Education: Challenging the Extrovert Ideal in Our Schools by Jamie Thom   Rosenshine’s Principles in Action by Tom Sherrington   The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community by Kulvarn Atwal   The researchED Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction: An evidence-informed guide for teachers by Various Authors  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. How We Nearly Doubled Math Scores with Kevin Finnegan Transformative Principal 333 Social Media: When we saw Math could be a discussion, it totally changed everything. Kevin Finnegan is the principal of <a href="https://www.prairiehill.org/prairie-hill/principals-page" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prairie Hill School</a> in Illinois. His students recently showed a 77% growth in Math, and we talk about how he made that happen. <ul> <li>Prairie hill is the school and the community comes together around it.</li> <li>Northern Illinois, PK–4th grade.</li> <li>9 years as the principal.</li> <li>Mission statement: Students first, always.</li> <li>PLC school</li> <li>Reformed schedule so that every day (4 teachers per team) have an hour of common collaborative time every day.</li> <li>Why are we making this decision? The students are always the bringback.</li> <li>Norms: imagine the students you are talking about are here.</li> <li>To be a great principal is easy. You just have to have a great staff.</li> <li>PE teacher said, “I want students more.”</li> <li>Each class has 10 half hour blocks each week: Art, PE, STEM,</li> <li>Always been a high performing district. Makes change really hard when you have had success in the past.</li> <li>staff is competitive within themselves.</li> <li>Noticed that math scores were less than we expected.</li> <li>Dove into the data.</li> <li>Computation was awesome, but they struggled with elaborating on their thoughts.</li> <li>In every math assignment, adding the words, “I know this because…”</li> <li>If you see something that can be done in Kindergarten it can be done anywhere.</li> <li>Ready Math - iReady as platforms for learning.</li> <li>Standards based School, done in isolation.</li> <li>Common language in math.</li> <li>Didn’t get good training at first, but then got good training and that made a huge difference.</li> <li>Math has always dealt black and white.</li> <li>Math didn’t have to be one answer, it could be a discussion, totally changed everything.</li> <li>Talking about kids’ growth, talking about assessments, classwork, and then looking at the data.</li> <li>It’s not about what you teach, it’s about what we learned.</li> <li>How long did it take to understand that it was working?</li> <li>It fit us, rather than us fitting it.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Spend a little time with kids, like on their birthday. It’s a constant reminder that kids come first.</li> </ul> Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Catt Educational</a>, has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. 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. John Catt amplifies fresh voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized around the world for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. Learn more about these 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>.  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> Learn about some of John Catt Educational’s newest publications: <ul> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/what-the-academy-taught-us-improving-schools-from-the-bottom-up-in-a-top-down-transformation-era" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> What the Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom-Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era</a> by Eric Kalenze</li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/be-more-toddler-a-leadership-education-from-our-little-learners" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Be More Toddler: Leadership Lessons From Our Little Learners</a> by Emma Turner</li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/a-quiet-education-challenging-the-extrovert-ideal-in-our-schools" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> A Quiet Education: Challenging the Extrovert Ideal in Our Schools</a> by Jamie Thom</li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/rosenshines-principles-in-action?_pos=2&amp;_sid=54a7afd39&amp;_ss=r" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Rosenshine’s Principles in Action</a> by Tom Sherrington</li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/the-thinking-school-developing-a-dynamic-learning-community?_pos=1&amp;_sid=45fc23f2e&amp;_ss=r" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community</a> by Kulvarn Atwal</li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-researched-guide-to-explicit-and-direct-instruction-an-evidence-informed-guide-for-teachers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The researchED Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction: An evidence-informed guide for teachers</a> by Various Authors</li> </ul> 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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