Curriculum Audits with Trevor Goertzen Transformative Principal 370

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/SHMS_growdaily">Trevor Goertzen</a><br /> –15th year in education<br /> Building Principal at Spring Hill Middle School, Spring Hill, Kansas<br /> –5yrs<br /> Teacher & Instructional Coach Blue Valley School, Overland Park, Kansas<br /> –10yrs<br /> National Board Certified Teacher</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.kaesp.com/podcast">Kansas Podcast - KPA Listen Up!</a></li> <li>Communication director of Kansas Principal Association.</li> <li>Teachers in emergency learning environment.</li> <li>Didn’t have a way to ensure learning was taking place.</li> <li>You asked, we answered session in the summer focusing on best practices for learning in a pandemic.</li> <li>August planning to support good remote learning.</li> <li>Extra 12 days of professional development. And COVID precautions.</li> <li>High Yielding Remote practices.</li> <li>Prioritizing content standards</li> <li>Integrating past content. Flashback flash forward.</li> <li>What we didn’t want to do is front load all the work for the kids. Just in time learning.</li> <li>Technology training and professional training</li> <li>It’s not the way people thought it was going to be done.</li> <li>Specific questions to help teachers articulate the challenges they were facing.</li> <li>What support can we provide?</li> <li>How to help teachers articulate their feelings.</li> <li>Gave questions a few days in advance to help them be prepared.</li> <li>Met with 20 teachers over the course of a week.</li> <li>Worried about specific kids.</li> <li>It’s really hard to support kids that are around. Kids aren’t retaining it as well as they could.</li> <li>Got leadership together and asked what makes sense going forward?</li> <li>Allowed them time to talk about kids.</li> <li>Go slow to go fast.</li> <li>Pivoted this week to prioritize what teachers were doing.</li> <li>Give them time to talk with each other.</li> <li>The things you would have done, you’re not even thinking about right now.</li> <li>I just miss kids talking.</li> <li>Prioriti