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Assistant Principal Dr. Amy Fast explores the responsibility of our schools to focus on the mission, not the mandates.

• Educators are humanitarians at heart
• NCLB made me a better teacher, but it got warped
• Focus vs. tunnel vision
• Venn diagram of academic achievement, soft skills, and internal drive
• Need everyone in schools to bring their A game every single day!
• Need to measure every single circle
• What we test gets taught
• How do we measure that success?
• Soft skills - measured through observation, should be part of curriculum.
• Measuring motivation - identify the constructs of motivation: purpose, autonomy, choice, rigor
• Student survey via google forms
• Want to know more about you than just your test scores
• Staff didn’t know them as individuals.
• Non-anonymous survey. Coded the data
• Created a high flyer list of kids who didn’t have a high connection to the school. 100 kids who were the most disconnected.
• Hard to measure the intangibles? Just ask the kids!
• Measuring the right things

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