Starting a Meeting with a Student in Mind with Sam Brooks Transformative Principal 315

<p><a href="Http://twitter.com/vitalk12">Sam Brooks</a> is honored to have worked for Putnam County Schools (TN) for the past 27 years. Brooks leads all student/teacher personalized learning opportunities in the district, which includes online, dual enrollment, dual credit, and industry certification options. Mr. Brooks is a Google Certified Trainer and was recognized by the Center for Digital Education as a national Top 30 Technologists, Transformers, Trailblazers in 2014 and his program has been identified in several national publications.</p> <ul> <li>Director of Personalized Learning - started as credit options for kids. Now is for so much more.</li> <li>How can we meet the individual needs of each child in the classroom?</li> <li>State level personalized learning.</li> <li>VITAL - virtual instruction to accentuate learning</li> <li>Personalized learning task force.</li> <li>Mimic task force in our own district.</li> <li>Doing a lot with credit recovery.</li> <li>Pockets of innovation.</li> <li>Future Ready - Getting a student to be ready for whatever they want their future to be.</li> <li>I only saw how things affected me as a teacher within my four walls.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Be open minded and take on the mindset of working for the students.</li> </ul>