Transformative Principal

  Claude Charron is a Teacher in Miami Florida and director of STEM program in Gulliver Florida. Claude@conradawards.org Empowering students to make change Sports has it right in being able to expose kids at a young age to become an athlete. Things that will not work. Keeping kids safe doesn’t inspire. Kids have to choose something they are interested in. Empathy is vital. When students are inspired by seeing someone challenged by something, they have a purpose for working hard. Designing something that matters is what inspires kids. How designing something that matters inspires kids. Getting kids to agree on something is an art. How do you get kids to engage and go down the path where they want to design something that matters. You do learn things through projects. Design process since 1997! What is the art? We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. How do you go from an idea to a working prototype? Google Sprint method. Book Modules that would help teachers. How to select a challenge. Visualize everything on a