Jeremiah Newell's guest appearances

Jeremiah Newell

Transformative Principal

What's Working with Cam Marston

David Smith

Jill Schlesinger

Seth Godin

Stephen Cope

Melanie Miller

William Parker

Cory Doctorow

Joel Sartore

Joel Salatin

Jethro Jones

Thom Shea

Dan Lyons

Liz Wiseman

Kat Howard

Derek Sivers

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We are excited to have SchoolAI as a sponsor for the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. Please visit schoolai.com to save your teachers 10 hours per week. Jeremiah Newell founded Alabama’s first charter school, Accel Day and Evening Academy is Alabama’s first charter school. It serves grades 9–12 and specializes in supporting youth who are disengaged in the traditional high school, have fallen behind, or dropped out all together. I’d like to discuss how ACCEL’s model puts unique supports in place, including academic instruction targeted to the needs of youth, mental health/counseling supports, and postsecondary options to ensure opportunity youth find success.  300 students in grades 9–12 How to manage split schedules. Be very intentional about who you’re serving when. regular day school and evening school. Working as partners with community leaders. Got graduation rate up, now how do we prep them? How to hire the right people. Mission alignment. We lead with being unapologetic with our mission. Create the space for them to do their best work. Half day Friday for students so teachers have time to get better. Teachers request professional development. As we recruit we allow people to meet with their future peers. Family environment helps recruit folks. Evening work is optional. Not allowed to work more than 2 nights per week. Young Adult model in NYC. Blended learning school. Teachers begin planning by identifying core standards. Utilize NWEA MAP data. whole group, small group, independent work. Grow 2–3 years in one semester because of how we teach. Instructional technology are tools to make that happen. We grow because we narrow our focus. We know where the gaps are and then carefully develop a learning plan that helps individual students. Intentional vertical articulation. Building the planning time matters so much. Half day every Friday enables time for teams to align what they’re doing. We don’t use grade levels, we use phases. Helping kids still earn credits. 3 phases, 5 classes per semester, 10 credits in year. Additional credit recovery outside of the school day. How to be a transformative principal? Assess the practices of the school. Think of yourself as a school designer, not a manager. I do have a responsibility to ask the question, What can I do differently?    Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools. Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:   Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh  Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli  Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley  The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson  Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard  John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones:  SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors SponsorsSave your teachers hours per week with SchoolAI. It's not just a tool, it's a partner in the classroom. With school AI teachers can plan courses in minutes. Get realtime learning data and provide one-on-one tutor tutoring. Plus it's free for teachers. Go to SchoolAI.com/tpWe're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

We are excited to have SchoolAI as a sponsor for the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. Please visit <a href="https://schoolai.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">schoolai.com</a> to save your teachers 10 hours per week. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremiah-newell-ed-l-d-48773a22/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeremiah Newell</a> founded Alabama’s first charter school, <a href="https://www.accelacademymobile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Accel Day and Evening Academy</a> is Alabama’s first charter school. It serves grades 9–12 and specializes in supporting youth who are disengaged in the traditional high school, have fallen behind, or dropped out all together. I’d like to discuss how ACCEL’s model puts unique supports in place, including academic instruction targeted to the needs of youth, mental health/counseling supports, and postsecondary options to ensure opportunity youth find success. <ul> <li>300 students in grades 9–12</li> <li>How to manage split schedules.</li> <li>Be very intentional about who you’re serving when.</li> <li>regular day school and evening school.</li> <li>Working as partners with community leaders.</li> <li>Got graduation rate up, now how do we prep them?</li> <li>How to hire the right people.</li> <li>Mission alignment. We lead with being unapologetic with our mission.</li> <li>Create the space for them to do their best work.</li> <li>Half day Friday for students so teachers have time to get better.</li> <li>Teachers request professional development.</li> <li>As we recruit we allow people to meet with their future peers.</li> <li>Family environment helps recruit folks.</li> <li>Evening work is optional. Not allowed to work more than 2 nights per week.</li> <li>Young Adult model in NYC.</li> <li>Blended learning school. Teachers begin planning by identifying core standards.</li> <li>Utilize NWEA MAP data.</li> <li>whole group, small group, independent work.</li> <li>Grow 2–3 years in one semester because of how we teach.</li> <li>Instructional technology are tools to make that happen.</li> <li>We grow because we narrow our focus. We know where the gaps are and then carefully develop a learning plan that helps individual students.</li> <li>Intentional vertical articulation.</li> <li>Building the planning time matters so much. Half day every Friday enables time for teams to align what they’re doing.</li> <li>We don’t use grade levels, we use phases.</li> <li>Helping kids still earn credits.</li> <li>3 phases, 5 classes per semester, 10 credits in year.</li> <li>Additional credit recovery outside of the school day.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Assess the practices of the school. Think of yourself as a school designer, not a manager.</li> <li>I do have a responsibility to ask the question, What can I do differently?</li> </ul> Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools. Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.johncattbookshop.com/</a>. Learn more about some of the newest titles: <ul> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/tiger-teachers-take-two-the-michaela-way" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/teaching-walkthrus-visual-step-by-step-guides-to-essential-teaching-techniques" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/putting-staff-first-a-blueprint-for-revitalising-our-schools?pr_prod_strat=copurchase&amp;pr_rec_pid=4388874092567&amp;pr_ref_pid=4337604952087&amp;pr_seq=uniform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-teaching-delusion-why-teaching-in-our-schools-isnt-good-enough-and-how-we-can-make-it-better" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/leadership/products/stop-talking-about-wellbeing-a-pragmatic-approach-to-teacher-workload" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard</a></li> </ul> John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/schoolx-how-principals-can-design-a-transformative-school-experience-for-students-teachers-parents-and-themselves" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves</a> Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors</a> SponsorsSave your teachers hours per week with <a href="https://schoolai.com/tp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SchoolAI</a>. It's not just a tool, it's a partner in the classroom. With school AI teachers can plan courses in minutes. Get realtime learning data and provide one-on-one tutor tutoring. Plus it's free for teachers. Go to <a href="https://schoolai.com/tp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SchoolAI.com/tp</a>We're so grateful to our sponsor <a href="https://edthena.com/bepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AI Coach by Edthena</a>. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers <a href="https://edthena.com/bepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

Alabama’s First Charter School is a Day and Evening School with Dr. Jeremiah Newell Transformative Principal 341

Dr Jeremiah Newell had many job offers after completing his Harvard Fellowship, but he returned to Mobile to work in and on the education system that had prepared him for his life's work. Today he runs ACCEL Day and Evening Academy, the state's first public charter school, where these non-traditional students get the extraordinary attention of a select faculty. In August 2020, the school will be expanded from grades 9 - 12 to grades 6 - 12, reflecting the demand and growth of an idea that's working. 

Dr Jeremiah Newell had many job offers after completing his Harvard Fellowship, but he returned to Mobile to work in and on the education system that had prepared him for his life's work. Today he runs ACCEL Day and Evening Academy, the state's first public charter school, where these non-traditional students get the extraordinary attention of a select faculty. In August 2020, the school will be expanded from grades 9 - 12 to grades 6 - 12, reflecting the demand and growth of an idea that's working.

Dr Jeremiah Newell Leads the State's First Public Charter School