Connect with Kids with Jay Posick Transformative Principal 416

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/posickj">Jay Posick</a> is principal of <a href="https://twitter.com/mertonint">Merton Intermediate school</a> in Merton Wisconsin.  He has been an educator since 1987, teaching 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.  In his 31st year as a middle school educator, the first twelve as a classroom teacher and the last 19 as an administrator.  I’m fortunate to be connected with many educators across the country, especially #principalsinaction friends and my middle school voxer friends.  Mark French, Ryan Sheehy, and Jay wrote the book #principalsinaction which was published in 2019.</p> <ul> <li>Open since September 1st.</li> <li>Found different schools in the building.</li> <li>Moving people around for big spaces.</li> <li>Removal of teacher furniture.</li> <li>Cohorts of kids who stay together.</li> <li>Livestream classes</li> <li>Implementing voice and choice.</li> <li>Heavy academic classes in the past, more SEL focused classes now.</li> <li>Instructional strategies in pandemic.</li> <li>Making connections with kids during pandemic.</li> <li>Kids not being able to participate in band, choir, drama, athletics, etc., has been really hard.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Connect with kids. Pictures of kids with checkmarks by them.</li> </ul> <h2>Sponsors</h2> <h3>InControl SEL for Middle School</h3> <p>In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.</p> <p>The videos are 5-6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There’s no guesswork in the program because there’s a 21-video progression for each grade level.</p> <p>They’ve thought of everything-- because it’s a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It’ll help you save tons of time and headaches.</p> <p>Take it from me, it’s