Karl Rectanus is an educator, entrepreneur and adviser. As cofounder and CEO of Lea(R)n, an education innovation Benefit Corporation that empowers educators and their institutions to organize, streamline and analyze education technology through its research-backed LearnPlatform, Karl leads schools and districts, states and networks, and colleges and universities in their efforts to simplify edtech selection, procurement, implementation and measurement. Karl works with learning organizations and networks across the country to establish and elevate standards of practice that drive personalized learning at scale, student achievement and equity in access.

Originally an educator and administrator in the US and abroad, Karl has started and led multiple education innovation organizations, and currently advises districts, states and foundations. Karl has lived, worked and studied in over 12 countries, and was an NC Teaching Fellow and James M Johnston Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, and graduate courses at UCLA’s Anderson Business School and CalTech Executive Extension. Karl, his wife and three daughters now live in Raleigh, NC.

• Became a CFO for schools
• Fourth successful education company
• How they evaluate the ed tech solutions.
• Saving time, so we can focus on things that are most important.
• 5000 ed tech tools.
• 8 most important criteria for teachers.
• Saves administrators
• Grades based on teacher’s comfort and familiarity with technology.
• Ed Tech is a broken economy
• Results Matter
• Store contracts in the platform.
• Analyze usage.
• only 9% of individual licenses are actually being used.
• Lack of Transparency leads to pricing inconsistencies
• Forming, storming, norming, and performing
• Exploring, hacking, optimizing, performing
• Self-assessment for determining where you are on the personalized learning at scale journey.
• 80% of schools are in the hacking phase.
• Really challenging to put together budget when you don’t know if tools are being used.
• How to be a transformative principal? Learnplatform.com/resources

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Matt Renwick is an 18-year public educator who began as a 5th and 6th-grade teacher in Rudolph, WI. He now serves as an elementary principal for the Mineral Point Unified School District . Matt also teaches online graduate courses in curriculum design and instructional leadership for the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He tweets @ReadByExample and writes for ASCD and Lead Literacy.

• Digital portfolios - started in 2012 with tiger woods golf, email and watching videos.
• Need to be strategic about what we are doing with the technology.
• How do we evaluate the digital portfolio options?
• You really need to look at your own school’s needs.
• Kidblog, freshgrade, google sites
• 6 C’s of digital portfolios.

1. Collect and curate
2. Create and Collaborate
3. Communicate and Celebrate - gotta put something out there that is yours.

• Age of the student matters when it comes to type of portfolio.
• Elementary - Freshgrade
• Middle - Google Site
• High School - start moving to their own platform.
• Every on the same tool, using it the same way is really an impossible task.
• Lisa Snider in Oklahoma web site for journalism class.
• Making dog toys out of t-shirts.
• Investigate portfolio assessment to start.
• There is a need for something physical and not just digital.
• Plan instruction and assessment with the student in mind.
• How to be a transformative principal? Now is a great time to try out a tool to give kids access to an authentic audience.
• Biblionasium.com
• Kidblog account for a trip to Peru.

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Thom Markham is a founding father of Project Based Learning.

Started in the mid-90s at a high school trying to reclaim the positive name of the school.

• Formed charter high school - envision schools.
• Wrote the handbook on PBL
• PBL Global
• PBL = problem to be solved, investigating process, end of process - defining what they did to solve their problem.
• Lots of variations in that definition.
• Inquiry, research, facilitated
• One of the misnomers is the notion is that it is discovery only.
• Teacher has a strong role in PBL, but it changes.
• 3 roles: direct instruction, mentor, designer.
• To be a designer, need to have a better idea of whose role is what?
• What do you need to learn from someone else, and what do you need to discover yourself?
• Sensitive to students, need to know them.
• PBL works better in a personalized culture in the classroom.
• Getting teams to work well is challenging.
• We don’t teach teachers known coaching protocols.
• Skillset is changing dramatically.
• Teaching 21st century skills.
• Goal of working with teams is welcoming disruption.
• Critique as designers.
• Focus on some personal skills.
• Every teacher candidate in personality profile to learn what their strengths and weaknesses are.
• Having very serious conversations about mindset and skillset.
• Self-analysis and inquiry into the teaching profession.
• You have to look at yourself and see if you can handle it.
• Take an inward look and not just an outward look.
• What is high quality PBL
• 6 essential principles of PBL
• Social Emotional learning
• Human performance method, not a content acquisition method.
• If you’re going to have kids working in teams, how are they going to work in teams?
• Chief characteristic is humility.
• Teams of students create quality work.
• Accountability, becoming a leader.
• Breaking down collaboration skills.
• What happens in the middle of the project?
• Teaching design thinking process.
• Social good-focused PBL projects.
• the standards are not capable of containing what we can learn in the world.
• Intelligence as successful behavior
• Z school
• Deep performance rubrics that kids can judge themselves against.
• What’s the nature of intelligence in today’s world?
• The curriculum is the world.
• You’re in one of the most creative professions in the world.
• In places where the PBL is happening, the teachers.
• How to be a transformative principal? Have some basic training in project based learning. How to become an inquiry-based teacher?

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This was a recording from our Connectathon session. 

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JT McCormick is the Co-Founder of Book in a Box. Email him

• JT’s interview on the 1 Thing podcast
• Scaled software company, now a president and CEO of a publishing company, BookinaBox.com
• No motivational story of someone who stood by him. Pushed through a bad educational system that did not meet his needs.
• What I quickly learned…There is no geometry on a deposit slip.
• Mindset, choices, and hard work = success for me.
• Get up at 4 am.
• If there’s anything I don’t like in life, it’s up to me to change it.
• Where did these ideas come from?
• What would you tell a 10 year old JT?
• It’s not always what you tell a kid, but more what you show them.
• 3 of the greatest moments - marriage, birth of children, mentor at-risk youth.
• First time they got to see an office building.
• Connecting with kids - What’s wrong with this picture? And this?
• Shake hands with a firm handshake - when do we teach them this?
• Manners, a firm handshake, and other small things have served me very well in life.
• How is there not a life essentials class?
• Every school a subscription the Forbes 400.
• 3 avenues out of poverty: 1. Athlete 2. Rapper 3. Drug Dealer
• Nobody told me the fourth option: entrepreneur.
• If you are going to think, dream, or set goals
• Money does not bring happiness.
• Many children just don’t understand the ways of the world.
• If you lost it all, what would you do?
• Put in the time, put in the hard work now.
• Have your own personal excellence every single day.
• Show them examples of people who have accomplished great things.
• Show little girls female executives.
• Bring the examples in to the schools.
• I have built a career off of asking questions.
• There are no dumb questions!
• No means not right now.
• How to be a transformative principal? Show kids.
• Routine is what breeds success
• I Got There - Book
• You can’t change the past, but you can change the future

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This is a teaser for the Transformative Leadership Summit

Be the One with Ryan Sheehy Transformative Principal 233

Social media: Work doesn’t always have to be done in the traditional space.

Ryan Sheehy is an educator, speaker, author and Elementary Principal @HighlandsMDUSD, Professor at @stmarysca Lifelong Learner, Father, Husband, Author of Be The One For Kids.

• Following a principal that was not well received.
• Kids are running to us, not running away.
• I’m a culture guy, so I was excited for the opportunity.
• I look at everything as an opportunity.
• I’m a principal of action.
• Excited to build a culture around the idea of being in classrooms.
• There’s no reason for me to be stuck in my office.
• Work doesn’t always have to be done in the traditional space.
• Being in the classroom allows me to have those conversations.
• Locked down in meetings before and after school when teachers are available.
• Too often we think the problem is with the kids.
• Getting bogged down by teachers slow to change.
• Be the one for kids: Stories about Ryan’s educational experiences.
• Be the one who changes the dream. It’s ok to change the dream, but keep dreaming.
• How do you help kids understand that it is ok to have a different dream?
• Are your habits of today on par with your dreams of tomorrow?
• Kids can achieve anything. Set up your habits today to achieve your dream.
• It’s about the relationships.
• How to deal with so many different challenges that we face.
• The power of a strong PLN. We’re never standing stagnant. We want to always be improving.
• If education isn’t fun, who would want to be a teacher or a principal?
• How do you build powerful relationships?
• We talked about everything but school. Really getting to know each other.
• Taking the time to go off course.
• Put yourself in the problem areas so you can get to know the kids.
• You’ve got to take time to build relationships.
• How to be a transformative principal? Get yourself out there and sit down with each person on your campus and make sure they know you believe in them by trusting them and encouraging them!

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