Serving Students Individual Needs with Michelle Snyder Transformative Principal 249

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Michelle Snyder@mlsnyder92 Vista Visions academy

• Students have set lab times so they come in for special events.
• Students in a lab with 5 or six students
• Whether or not they are required to do the labs is up for debate, but it is good for kids to have the experience.
• What kinds of students are attracted to your school?
• Their reasons vary, but they each have a very specific reason for coming.
• If they hadn’t found us, they would have gone outside the district to a charter school
• Big picture learning. Upstream collaborative.
• Learning through interests (LTI) student internship program
• Teaching skills for seeking out their own internship.
• Parents often speaking for their kids and how do we help parents.
• Takes a lot for parents to be able to step back when they
• How to build for scale for this program.
• Looking at things from a dollars and cents point of view.
• We’re not the same system as a regular school, so we need to look at what’s actually happening to see what we need to do to help them.
• Every Friday afternoon we have collaboration and PD.
• Individual Student Support Spreadsheet to record notes of students.
• Touchstone - morning meeting with staff to see how everyone is doing.
• Always looking at other options for kids.
• How to be a transformative principal? Ask questions of their staff and listen to their answers.

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