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Jerry Snow is a District Administrator and former high school and middle school principal. piedmont.k12.al.us contact information is there. jsnow@piedmont.k12.al.us

• Team time, class time, my time
• Class time - social studies, math, etc.
• Show mastery - what does that look like.
• My time - 3 days a week, you work on the lowest area. Souped up study hall.
• If you’re caught up on pace, work on what you want.
• 2 days a week you work on ILPs
• Team Time - looping with kids 6-8th grade. Goal setting, character education, team building activities, Student-led conferences.
• Kids come up with the ways they do better.
• Mastery looks like: mimic ACT aspire certain percentage of level 3 DOK.
• 2 types of grades
• A numeric grade (0-100, A-F)
• MasteryConnect - mastery report where students are at.
• Need to show mastery at 80% first time to get 100%.
• Teaching parents that mastery is what is really important, but still keep grades to make sense of it all.
• Pacing - kids can go as fast as they want, but they have to keep a minimum pace to keep kids up.
• Schedule 8 period day, science and math were paired up. Teachers can trade kids.
• How to be a transformative principal? Be a better listener.

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