Mar 7, 2021
Breaking Down the Need for Control with Rebecca Muller
Transformative Principal 393
- My days were spent filling out charts.
- An engaged learner is someone who is doing.
- I’d rather have a noisy classroom with kids laughing and having
a good time AND learning.
Rebecca Muller
is a special education teacher in New Jersey, host of Exceptional
Circumstances for Exceptional Learners on Learning Revolution.
12 years as a teacher, Masters in Education and Educational
Leadership from University of Pennsylvania.
- Breaking down the need for control in classrooms- the who,
what, when, where, and why.
- Kids aren’t successful, we test them to prove it, then put them
in a box because it is easier for us.
- People have a view of what school should look like.
- An engaged learner is someone who is doing.
- I’d rather have a noisy classroom with kids laughing and having
a good time AND learning.
- Do we want them to behave or want them to learn?
- How much control should we have on how they’re interacting with
one another.
- We’ve spent so much time on safety that we’ve forgotten that
learning is our priority in education
- You can’t learn if you’re not well.
- Behavior is a signal that there is something else.
- We can’t focus on just the learning when there are so many
other issues.
- My days were spent filling out charts.
- The kids figure it out and it’s a game.
- Kids need to see their levels and progress.
- There aren’t kids who want to be bad.
- Where they are and where they want to be.
- Kids should not have to earn a treat every time they do
something well.
- We get stuck there, because we know them and they have
worked.
- Special education has taught me to be flexible.
- Motivation,
intrinsic vs. extrinsic.
- Don’t take things personally.
- Trauma-informed practices.
- Justification for procrastination of doing the hard work of
pushing through the challenges that we are facing.
- Specific learning disability is the least specific label in
special education world.
- What is school for?
- Teachers are considered “infrastructure necessary“
- I have an addiction to learning.
- How to be a transformative principal? Don’t ever write off any
student or educator. If they are in the build they have potential?
Always look for everybody’s individual strength.
- Acting without boundaries.
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