FF - RTI Scheduling

Transformative Principal

Today, Damon Hargraves, host of the WorkflowED podcast turned the mic on me and interviewed me for the 100th episode of the Transformative Principal Podcast. I can’t believe I have done 100 episodes of this podcast. Thank you so much for listening to this and helping me make it better.

• RTI idea was in place, but we needed a little kick in the pants.
• Value of getting away from the day-to-day issues at school.
• How to keep it going when you come back from conferences: hang up the poster.
• Reducing ELA from 90 minutes per day to 45 minutes per day, with students who need 90 minutes still getting that much time.
• How to get teachers to agree to reduce the number of minutes for their content area.
• Yolanda Westerberg
• We can always be better, so let’s always improve.
• There is a story written before you. Accept the story that has been there before your chapter 1 starts.
• How to have solid forward momentum as you make changes, and not get stalled.
• Meeting with the correct people so you don’t get stalled.
• Getting feedback and adjusting course.
• Schedules Explained for Teachers video
• Schedules Explained for Parents video
• Making sure that the right people had the information at the right time.
• The schedule we creating had a place for every student in the school.
• How to design software for your school when you don’t have what you need.
• Having plans in place even if it is going to be very difficult.
• Guru Technologies - the company we hired to develop the app for us.
• The app you can actually use yourself: Pickr App
• Teacher choice tutorial - kids know they aren’t performing and are eager to have the extra help.
• Be simple about what you’re trying to implement.
• MVP - minimum viable product
• Goals for moving forward: anticipate needs earlier.
• The book by Austin Buffum and Mike Mattos: It’s About Time