Imagination Creativity Innovation and Entreprenuership with Don Wettrick Transformative Principal 159

Last updated on October 29, 2024

Don Wettrick is a teacher in Noblesville, Indiana and founder of StartEdUp Innovation. He can be found on Twitter at @donwettrick, and his podcast on iTunes He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”

How to make standards real.
Begin in Elementary school
2 negatives to this
1. Grades go down in other classes!
1. Kids can get full of themselves.
Pockets of teachers vs. teachers being innovative vs. principals being innovative.
How to get leaders to buy in.
We need to push out the awesome things that we are doing in our schools.
Is 20% time enough time?
Imagination, Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship.
How to be a transformative principal? Go to people and say do something amazing.
It gets worse before it gets better!