Designing a Transformative School

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jethro Jones, 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, is a former principal in Fairbanks, Alaska, and host of Transformative Principal, where he interviews principals, leaders, and influencers who help improve K-12 education throughout the world. He is also the founder of Transformative Leadership Summit and author of the new book, SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves! Available at</span> <a href="http://schoolx.me/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://schoolx.me</span></a></p> <h2> </h2> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show Highlights</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Steps to empathize and design education for the individual and not the masses</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">From failure to success with the Design Thinking Process </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A big social experiment you need to try </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Systems level solutions for year to year personalized transformation</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn to Lose interest on initiatives that don’t fit your visions focus</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Questions to ask about your Covid-19 plan for your learning community</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Having an overarching vision people can rally behind to share leadership</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You need to take care of yourself because you matter as a human being first and foremost, but also you need to get yourself in order. If you are running around, putting out fires every single day, then you're not going to be able to make any meaningful change because all you're doing is reacting. You've got to be proactive and stop putt