Everybody Has an Opinion About What the School Should Be with Justin Bathon Transformative Principal 389

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/justinbathon">Dr. Justin Bathon</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky and serves as a Co-Director of the Center for Next Generation Leadership. </p> <p>He is the Director of Innovative School Models for the College of Education. He is a co-Director of the Next Generation Leadership Academy at the College and a co-director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). Justin works directly with schools and school leaders to reform the systems that support the learner experience in school.</p> <ul> <li> <p>STEAM Academy High School</p> </li> <li> <p>Byproduct of Next Generation Leadership Academy. Original mission to smooth the transition to higher education.</p> </li> <li> <p>So many involved in creating what that high school should be.</p> </li> <li> <p>4 separate dual credit partnerships.</p> </li> <li> <p>Paired relationship back to just Bluegrass community college.</p> </li> <li> <p>Designing a high school from scratch is awesome.</p> </li> <li> <p>Semester model, Canvas LMS</p> </li> <li> <p>Lots of iterations, and still evolving,</p> </li> <li> <p>Didn’t really want early graduation, but it started happening</p> </li> <li> <p>In the early years, it was leader as designer.</p> </li> <li> <p>Try an idea 3 times. If we weren’t satisfied then we would abandon it.</p> </li> <li> <p>A lot of those ideas came from me, the ivory tower guy.</p> </li> <li> <p>Everybody has an opinion about what the school should be!</p> </li> <li> <p>We became gatekeepers of ideas.</p> </li> <li> <p>That brought a lot more confusion into the space, and so we abandoned it.</p> </li> <li> <p>There had to be something that made us feel like it could be great.</p> </li> <li> <p>Second time, it couldn’t be worse.</p> </li> <li> <p>Third time: Distinctly better.</p> </li> <li> <p>That first year was pretty abysmal.</p> </li> <li> <p>The kids didn’t mind the chaos because it was equal to what t