We are excited to have SchoolAI as a sponsor for the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. Please visit schoolai.com to save your teachers 10 hours per week. Dr. Paul Govani, an expert in human performance and coaching, emphasizes the importance of errorless learning and the role of AI in education. He believes that teachers need more practice and feedback to be effective, and that regular feedback for students is crucial for learning. Dr. Govani also discusses the need for tight feedback loops and the use of simulations to prepare teachers.
Errorless learning
Making sure that students don’t make mistakes
Gradual release
AI can play a huge part in improving education
The human element cannot be removed from education.
Learning happens from the environment.
Replace learning
Gives teachers a different role.
Education holds the key to success
We’re not doing a very good job educating our educators.
Too much theory, too little modeling, too little feedback.
Simulations hold the key to getting teachers ready to do the work of being a teacher.
Practice vs. game time.
Leaders get even less practice.
Got to equip people with knowledge and skills in the teacher program
If you start blaming people, you aren’t doing science
You can’t learn on the job.
Prepare them to a certain level and then support them.
Teachers are being dropped into the classroom before they are actually ready.
2 parts of the assessment.
Kids need regular feedback - positive and corrective
Delay in that feedback delays learning.
Have teachers enhance learning through their activities.
Admin has management ratios that are too high.
Frequency count of skills
People need tight feedback loops.
Why measuring opportunities to respond works behaviorally.
Pick one or two structures a week.
Discretionary effort
How to give tight feedback loops
Preplanned corrections
Social validity - how do people feel?
Survey data that’s not going back to the leader, but going back to the coach. Give them the why.
The 5 Laws
What kind of questions should we be asking?
Are we moving in the right direction, being supported? Look for leading indicators.

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About Paul GovaniAn expert in human performance, coaching, and organizational leadership, Dr. Paul “Paulie” Gavoni has worked in education and human services for 20 years.He has served in a variety of positions including COO, Leadership Director, Assistant Principal, School Turnaround Manager, Clinical Coordinator, Therapist, Behavior Analyst, and Adjunct Professor at IRSC, FAU, and NSU.  Beyond his direct work with students in poverty and those suffering from behavioral and mental health issues, Dr. Gavoni specializes in providing administrative teams, teachers, and staff with training, coaching, and consultation with analyzing and developing behavior and performance management systems to positively impact key performance indicators. As a behavior scientist, Dr. Gavoni is passionate about applying organizational behavior management (OBM) strategies to establish positive environments that engage and bring out the best in people so they can bring out the best in the children they serve.Former fighter and golden gloves heavy-weight coaching. He uses the science of human behavior to train fighters. He’s also a wall street journal and new york times best selling authorDr. Paul “Paulie” Gavoni is a behavior scientist specializing in human performance, coaching, and organizational leadership who has worked across education, human services, and sports for over two decades. In this capacity, he served the needs of children and adults in various positions including COO, Vice President, Director of School Improvement, Leadership Director, Professor, Assistant Principal, School Turnaround Manager, Clinical Coordinator, Lead Therapist, Trainer, Coach, and Behavior Analyst. Dr. Gavoni is passionate about applying Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) s