Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids with Maureen OShaughnessy Transformative Principal 371

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/edevolutionpod">Maureen O’Shaughnessy, EdD</a>, is a career school innovator with over 30 years of transforming learning in schools to better serve all students.<br /> She is the founding director of Leadership Preparatory Academy, a nonprofit progressive micro-school in Washington State. With a master’s degree in educational administration and a doctorate degree in educational leadership, she has an extensive understanding of the components needed to transform the education system.<br /> Her book, <a href="https://amzn.to/344N8jf">Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids: A Step-by-Step Process that Empowers Frustrated Parents to Innovate Education</a>, includes a step-by-step process for how to start a micro-school of your own.<br /> She also has a podcast called <a href= "http://educationevolution.org">Education Revolution</a>.</p> <ul> <li>Always worked to find new ways of supporting kids.</li> <li>Overseas work in Kuwait and Ecuador.</li> <li>A school that could meet each student where they are.</li> <li>Independent school with sliding scale tuition.</li> <li>Use alternative learning laws.</li> <li>If you know something, we move you on.</li> <li>Competency based.</li> <li>Geared towards students thriving.</li> <li>Don’t have incentives to change it.</li> <li>We have to have a reason to make changes.</li> <li>The system was more important than the human.</li> <li>We’re part of the inhumane system.</li> <li>We need to examine our hearts, and what am I going to do to buck the system?</li> <li>We need to gently examine ourselves.</li> <li>It’s hard and uncomfortable.</li> <li>Agency is everything for teachers and students.</li> <li>When we let people go with their passions, they work so much harder!</li> <li>Let go of control.</li> <li>Let the trailblazers lead the way.</li> <li>Sometimes kids learn so much more from seeing their teachers fail.</li> </ul> <p>19:25 ad break</p> <ul> <li>Microschool is just a small school. Could be like your school.</li> <li>The local scho