Mar 14, 2017
Henry
Gradillas, along with his co-author Jerry Jesness, has written
a book that will challenge many common assumptions about public
education. Henry served as the Principal of Garfield High School
during the period depicted in the film “Stand and Deliver” about
Jamie Escalante’s success’ and challenges. Henry is a well known
Educator and Motivational Speaker.
In this book, Dr. Gradillas shares both his upbeat philosophy of
education and the practical school management techniques that
helped translate that philosophy into success for thousands of
students over three decades. The books focuses on three areas that
are key to the operation of an effective school: School Climate,
instruction, and curriculum. It includes many references to the
Garfield High School experience, as well as to other schools where
Dr. Gradillas was principal.
- How to adjust
- Thebestschools.org
prize
- Kids are so involved on other things.
- Teaching Spanish at 83!
- Using today’s technology
- How do you support great teachers, without other teachers
wanting to cut their heads off?
- They told me it couldn’t be done.
- Why AP is so important?
- Why is it so difficult to implement dual credit for high
schools and colleges still?
- Did not change one thing in the district policy, but
interpreted to make it work.
- Stamp of Approval for “Gifted” students.
- How can we implement this in lower grades?
- Infusing Math through everything
- Teach it to students early enough that they would be interested
in it!
- How to deal with the difficult things as they happen:
- Because you know you’re right!
- I am so glad that finally the principal is doing what
principals should do!
- Give the kids the opportunity to say how their school is
helping them.
- Mandated Algebra for every high school student.
- When you don’t give a class to a student because you don’t
offer it, you start them out as adults in a negative.
- When you’re in command, Command! Or get out!
- How to be a transformative principal? Go into a faculty and
staff meeting and say: We are working hard, and we have some
problems. Give me one thing that I can do to help you and make your
teaching more effective? Secondly, give me one thing that I can do
in the long-term to help you be more effective? Third, give me
something that will improve what your doing for next year? Then
what can you do yourself to move this along.
- How
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