Deep Reflection with Sara Sonnenschein Transformative Principal 478

Sara Sonnenschein is a principal in New Jersey for the past 8 years, and taught in the writing classrooms the previous 19 years. She writes a curriculum to help kids learn to write at Curriculumhq.com

• A day in the life of principal Sunshine - LinkedIn posts inspired by Akbar Cook.
• Forcing myself to write about them I help myself look for them.
• Lots of watching people do things the wrong way.
• Many negative experiences as a student.
• Big picture questions can be difficult.
• My legacy is that kids have fond memories of their school.
• The power of writing - writing gets them to own whatever subject they’re writing about.
• When kids have choice in what they’re writing about it changes their ownership of the content.
• How she teaches writing.
• How to be a transformative principal? be in classrooms on a daily basis.
• Passion to inspire and empower teachers to be the best they can be to transform how they’re teaching kids.

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