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Podcast: Transformative Principal
Episode: Saving Money with Smarter Scheduling with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 120
Description: Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.
Save $10,000 on paper because of 1:1
Don’t hire substitutes
Expectation is that teachers post everything to Google Classroom when they are absent.
Subs are just babysitters
Time serving students rather than students serving time.
Redesign cafeteria to make it a modern space like a starbucks.
Supervision of students.
3 Core Values: Leave no trace, be responsible, use time wi...