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The Ruckus Report Quick take: Most districts are dumping water into leaky buckets while wondering why they can't fill them. Nate Eklund shows us why we've been solving the wrong problem — and how "punching the shark" creates the workplace conditions that make educators want to stay.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Nate Eklund is the founder and CEO of Vital Network, a national organization focused on improving educator retention and well-being through workplace improvements. A former classroom teacher and author of How Was Your Day at School? Improving Dialogue about Teacher Job Satisfaction, Nate brings deep experience and research-backed insight to the conversation on creating sustainable, joyful workplaces for educators everywhere.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Nate Eklund challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: We Don't Have a Recruitment Problem — We Have a Retention Problem

What's broken: Districts frantically recruiting new teachers while ignoring why good ones leave
The shift: Focus on the "leaky bucket" — in Minnesota, there are more licensed teachers NOT teaching than teaching (enough to fill the Vikings stadium)
Impact: When you fix workplace conditions instead of just hiring more people, you solve the math problem at its source

Key Insight #2: Burnout Isn't a Personal Failing — It's Environmental

What's broken: Treating burnout as individual weakness ("eat more kale, get more sleep")
The shift: Recognize burnout as systemic depletion that no amount of self-care can overcome — you can't "kale your way out of your fifth reading curriculum in two years"
Impact: Leaders stop blaming teachers and start designing better workplace conditions that prevent burnout

Key Insight #3: There Are Two Versions of Every Educator

What's broken: Accepting that some educators are just "difficult" or "burned out"
The shift: Understanding that everyone has a "fired up" version and a "deflated" version — external factors determine which one shows up
Impact: Instead of writing people off, leaders create conditions where the best version of every educator can thrive

Quotable Ruckus "You can dump a lot of water into it and invest a lot of energy getting the water into the bucket, but if the bucket's leaking, you've got a fundamental math problem." – Nate Eklund

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Ask yourself: "What external factors are keeping my best educators from showing up as their best selves?"
This Month: Survey your staff about workplace conditions — not just morale, but actual day-to-day systems and decision-making processes
This Semester: Implement one "Punch the Shark" moment — tackle an uncomfortable workplace issue head-on with your team

Connect & Continue

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Expressability Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability, Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time-sucking tasks. 🔍 Learn more:here

ODP Business Solutions Stop letting compliance kill innovation. Some leaders are transforming their campuses with flexible solutions that actually work for modern learning environments. 🔍 Learn more:here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: If your school has beautiful values painted on the walls but nobody's living them, you're running a theater, not a school. Jimmy Casas exposes the brutal difference between what we say and what we do.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Jimmy Casas has been an educator for over 30 years, serving twenty-two years as a school leader. Under his leadership, his school was named one of the Best High Schools in the country three times by Newsweek and US News & World Report. Jimmy was named the 2012 Iowa Secondary Principal of the Year and was selected as runner-up NASSP 2013 National Secondary Principal of the Year. In 2014, Jimmy was invited to the White House to speak on the Future Ready Schools pledge. Jimmy is also the author of ten books, including the Washington Post's best-selling book CULTURIZE: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes, which has sold over 350,000 copies to date. Jimmy is the owner and CEO of J Casas & Associates, where he and his team serve as professional leadership coaches for school and district leaders across the country.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Jimmy Casas challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Systems Beat Inspiration Every Time

What's broken: Unorganized leaders who scramble and make their teams scramble, destroying credibility and culture
The shift: Create systematic approaches like the "summer list" and culturized journal to capture what needs attention without losing momentum
Impact: Leaders stay organized, teams trust the process, and nothing falls through the cracks

Key Insight #2: Culture Is Behavior, Not Posters

What's broken: Schools with beautiful mission statements on walls but no observable evidence of those values in action
The shift: Ask "When I walk into your classroom, what will I see that tells me you're building relationships with kids?"
Impact: Intentional observation leads to measurable culture change and real student achievement

Key Insight #3: Excellence Is Your Responsibility

What's broken: Settling for average because it's easier and letting others pull you down to status quo
The shift: Walk in every day believing you can make an impact and help others find their way back when they lose direction
Impact: Leaders create environments where children look forward to class and adults look forward to work

Quotable Ruckus "Don't let anybody take away your excellence because the world is full of average." – Jimmy Casas

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Start a "summer list" with your team - every time something comes up that needs deeper attention, add it to the list instead of letting it consume your mental energy
This Month: Pick one core value and define what you'll actually observe when you walk into classrooms - what will kids be doing? What will teachers be doing?
This Semester: Create your own reflection system (journal, digital tool, or team process) to track meaningful experiences and undercurrents you're creating

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript:here
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: here

Expressability K12 Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12, Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time-sucking tasks. 🔍 Learn more: here

ODP Business Solutions "Our STEAM program is too complicated" = Code for "We're doing it wrong." Stop letting fear kill innovation. Some leaders are transforming STEAM with a three-part framework that's not what you think. 🔍 Get the playbook: here

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Quick take: Most principals manage buildings instead of transforming lives. Dr. Chris Jones flips the script by putting teachers at the center of every decision, creating scheduling magic that serves everyone — and proves that embracing resistance makes you stronger.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Chris Jones has been an educator in Massachusetts for 24 years. He is finishing his 16th year as a building administrator. He is a teacher centered Principal and passionate about continuous improvement and the idea that success is not a destination, but a process. Chris is the President of the Massachusetts State Administrators Association (MSAA) and was the Massachusetts School Counselors Association (MASCA) 2022 State Administrator of the Year. Chris is active on social media, vlogs about continuous improvement on a weekly basis, and hosts his own podcast called SEEing to Lead as a way to amplify teacher's voices in an effort to improve education as a whole promoting his "just cause": improving the educational experience for as many people as possible by being purposeful, acting with integrity, and building character.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Dr. Chris Jones challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Schedules Should Serve People, Not Systems

What's broken: Cookie-cutter schedules that ignore what teachers and students actually need
The shift: Build schedules from scratch based on your values and vision — give teachers two preps, create rotating blocks that feel fresh, and add "WIN" time for individualized support
Impact: Teachers report feeling more connected, less burned out, and students are more engaged because the day feels "slower" and more purposeful

Key Insight #2: Resistance Is Your Design Partner

What's broken: Seeing pushback as something to overcome or defeat
The shift: Practice "kintsugi leadership" — break the old system completely, then rebuild it stronger using resistance as beautiful constraints that guide better solutions
Impact: Dr. Jones' assistant principal solved complex scheduling problems in one day by "breaking it" first, and senior tardiness plummeted when they redesigned privileges around what students actually valued

Key Insight #3: Schools Prepare Kids for the Past, Not the Future

What's broken: Standardized practices that keep the past alive in the present for a future that no longer exists
The shift: Individualize learning experiences, eliminate meaningless assessments like midterms/finals, and focus on what students need to be amazing
Impact: Schools become places where learning matters more than grades, and students develop skills for jobs that don't even exist yet

Quotable Ruckus

"You can't just throw something at people and say, okay, what do you think? You have to help them along and guide them as to what part of what you think, what they think you want to hear about so that you can make adjustments to it." – Dr. Chris Jones

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Ask your teachers one question: "What do you need to be amazing?" Then actually listen and take notes
This Month: Identify one "sacred cow" practice (like midterms) that doesn't serve learning and plan to eliminate it
This Semester: Practice kintsugi leadership on your biggest scheduling or systems challenge — break it completely and rebuild from your values

Connect & Continue

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IXL Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more:here

Expressability K12 Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12, Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time-sucking tasks. 🔍 Learn more: here

ODP Business Solutions Stop letting compliance kill innovation. Some leaders are transforming their campuses with flexible solutions that actually work for modern learning environments. 🔍 Learn more: here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: Award-winning Superintendent Dr. Nick Polyak reveals why the most innovative school leaders aren't just adding new programs—they're actively tearing down outdated practices to make room for transformational student experiences.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dr. Nick Polyak is the proud superintendent of the award-winning Leyden Community High School District 212. He earned his undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, his Masters from Governors State University, and his Ed.D. from Loyola University Chicago. Nick has been a classroom teacher and coach, a building and district level administrator, a School Board member, and a superintendent in both central Illinois and suburban Chicago. Nick earned an IASA School of Advanced Leadership Fellowship and he also graduated from the AASA National Superintendent Certification Program. He teaches for both the Illinois and National Aspiring Superintendent Academies and has co-authored four books on school leadership.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dr. Nick Polyak challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Unlearning Debunked Educational Practices

What's broken: Clinging to disproven theories like multiple learning styles while adding endless new initiatives
The shift: Actively identifying and discarding outdated knowledge to make room for evidence-based practices
Impact: Teachers empowered with current, relevant pedagogical approaches instead of layering old myths with new methods

Key Insight #2: Reimagining School Structure Through Innovation Incubators

What's broken: Traditional 45-minute siloed classes with bell schedules that fragment learning
The shift: Creating teacher-led innovation teams who design interdisciplinary, problem-based learning experiences like CoLab
Impact: Freshmen spending four periods daily in meaningful, community-connected learning that earns honors credit

Key Insight #3: Transforming Exclusion into Belonging Through Bilingual Programming

What's broken: Theater programs that don't reflect the school's 70% Latinx population
The shift: Creating Teatro Leyden with dual English/Spanish casts, treating language as an asset
Impact: Doubled theater participation and families who previously couldn't access school arts now fill auditoriums

Quotable Ruckus "We as human beings are really good at learning new things. We're really bad at unlearning things that are no longer true or no longer relevant to make room for new things." – Dr. Nick Polyak

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Identify one "sacred cow" practice in your school and research whether it's still educationally sound
This Month: Create an innovation incubator team of teachers from different disciplines to dream big about student experience
This Semester: Audit your programs to see if they reflect your student demographics—then redesign what doesn't

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: here
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more:here

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ODP Business Solutions: STEAM programs failing before they start?

Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash).

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: Visionary school leaders don’t follow dusty rulebooks. In this episode, Jethro Jones joins Danny Bauer to burn the old manual and co-create a new playbook for Ruckus Makers — one bold idea at a time.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Jethro Jones, 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, is a former principal from Fairbanks, Alaska, and the host of Transformative Principal, where he interviews leaders from around the world who are reimagining K-12 education. He’s the founder of the Transformative Leadership Summit and author of SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves!

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Jethro Jones challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Learning Is Not Linear * What’s broken: The assumption that learning progresses in a straight line, within four walls, at the same pace for all * The shift: Honor that all learning is personal and non-linear; value what students learn outside of school, too * Impact: Schools begin to partner with families and communities — not just invite them to partner with schools

Key Insight #2: Change Something in Year One * What’s broken: “Don’t change anything your first year” — the most paralyzing advice for new leaders * The shift: Make small, strategic changes that align with your vision from day one * Impact: Greater momentum, better clarity, and staff trust because you’re not waiting to lead

Key Insight #3: First In, Last Out Is a Trap * What’s broken: Hustle culture that measures effectiveness by time on campus * The shift: Shift to value-based leadership — do the right work, not all the work * Impact: Leaders reclaim time, model healthy boundaries, and lead more sustainably (without burning out)

Quotable Ruckus “You can’t out-teach what’s happening in the home. We should be partnering with parents, not asking them to partner with us.” – Jethro Jones

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Stop collecting a meaningless report or form you never read — free up your staff and your schedule
This Month: Draw your “Do School Different Scorecard” — list the top 8 areas of campus life and define where each needs to go
This Semester: Redesign how your school values time — for yourself, your staff, and your students

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: here 🔗 Follow Jethro Jones: LinkedIn | Twitter/X 💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: ruckusmakers.club/join

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Today’s RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: ixl.com/leaders

Expressability K12 Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12, Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time-sucking tasks. 🔍 Learn more: expressability.com/ruckus

ODP Business Solutions "Our STEAM program is too complicated" = Code for "We're doing it wrong." Stop letting fear kill innovation. Some leaders are transforming STEAM with a three-part framework that’s not what you think. 🔍 Get the playbook: here

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Quick take: Award-winning Principal Demetrius Ball reveals how intentional leadership, strategic decision-making, and being consistently present creates a school culture where students feel more connected than ever before.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Demetrius Ball was born and raised in Ohio. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY) and served 5 years on active duty in the US Army as a Field Artillery Officer. His education career began in 2008 as a social studies teacher, spanning roles in California and Maryland before moving into administration. Currently in his third year as principal of California High School, Demetrius was recently named Administrator of the Year. He is a proud husband and father of four amazing children, committed to professional development that benefits his school and community.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Demetrius Ball challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Strategic Decision-Making as a Leadership Superpower

What's broken: Rushed, reactive decision-making without challenging assumptions
The shift: Slowing down to journal, identify assumptions, and strategically question each one before implementing changes
Impact: More meaningful staff collaboration time and professional development aligned with actual teacher needs

Key Insight #2: Intentional Presence Transforms School Culture

What's broken: Administrators hidden in offices, disconnected from the daily pulse of school life
The shift: Being consistently present—greeting students at drop-off, walking campus, attending after-school activities
Impact: Students reporting they feel more connected to school than ever before, with meaningful learning experiences

Key Insight #3: Building Administrative Teams Around Complementary Strengths

What's broken: Hiring admin team members who mirror the principal's skills and style
The shift: Intentionally seeking team members with diverse skills that fill identified gaps
Impact: A more versatile, aligned administrative team that presents a united front while bringing different strengths to challenges

Quotable Ruckus

"One of the biggest secrets that I've found to being a successful leader and building trust in your community is being present. Not just physically being present, but showing up." – Demetrius Ball

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Start your day by walking a complete lap around your campus, popping into hallways and classrooms
This Month: Survey your staff about what they need, then use AI to identify the main themes from their responses
This Semester: Evaluate your admin team's collective strengths and weaknesses, then recruit specifically to fill the gaps

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: here
🔗 Follow Demetrius Ball: LinkedIn | Instagram
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with:

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks. Visit Expressability K12 to learn how here

ODP Business Solutions: "Our STEAM program is too complicated" = Code for "We're doing it wrong" Stop letting fear kill innovation. While some schools struggle with integrating STEAM, other leaders are using a 3-part framework to transform their programs. The secret? It's not what you think. Get the playbook: here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: International school leader Jennifer Bertram reveals how trusting your intuition can lead to unexpected leadership opportunities, and how joining a supportive community of fellow leaders transforms professional growth.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Originally from Canada, Jennifer's teaching journey began in Montevideo, Uruguay, followed by many years at Escola Americana de Campinas, Brazil. She transitioned to administrative roles including Secondary Dean of Students and Assistant Principal. Jennifer then served as Middle School Principal at the American International School of Dhaka for five years before moving to American International School Chennai with her family.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Jennifer Bertram challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Leadership Pathways Aren't Always Conventional

What's broken: The belief that leadership journeys must follow a prescribed, traditional path
The shift: Embracing unexpected opportunities, even when they seem imperfect or challenging
Impact: Discovering authentic leadership styles while gaining valuable experience in roles others might avoid

Key Insight #2: Community-Fueled Confidence

What's broken: The isolation and loneliness of school leadership positions
The shift: Joining supportive communities of like-minded leaders who face similar challenges
Impact: Creating a professional network that offers accountability, resource sharing, and emotional support

Key Insight #3: Sticky Core Values Drive School Culture

What's broken: Abstract, forgettable school values that don't connect with daily practices
The shift: Creating "sticky" core values that tell stories and create memorable mindsets
Impact: Transforming school culture through principles like "Every day is a new day," "Together we," and "The gift of concentration"

Quotable Ruckus "Leadership can be lonely. It can be one of those places where you would love to be able to talk about an issue with someone, and you just can't for various reasons. What I found in the Mastermind was a group that is very open." – Jennifer Bertram

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Trust your intuition when an unexpected leadership opportunity presents itself
This Month: Create one "sticky core value" that can be turned into a memorable, actionable school goal
This Semester: Build a support network of leaders facing similar challenges to combat professional isolation

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript:here
🔗 Follow Jennifer Bertram: LinkedIn
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks. Visit Expressability K12 to learn how here

ODP Business Solutions: Want to know why 67% of STEAM programs fail? Hint: It's not the budget. After researching many schools, ODP Business Solutions® uncovered three make-or-break factors that determine STEAM success. The best part? You probably already have what you need. See the research: here

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Quick take: When traditional approaches to school improvement aren't working, the answer may not be more control - but rather more connection. Dr. Mitchell reveals how transformative leadership starts with listening and building authentic relationships.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Dr. Derek Mitchell serves as the CEO of Partners in School Innovation, working with schools that face long histories of chronic underperformance and serve predominantly high-poverty communities. His organization partners with schools to create lasting, meaningful change through innovative leadership approaches.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Dr. Mitchell challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1

● What's broken: The assumption that out-of-control schools need stricter discipline and tighter control

● The shift: Building authentic connections with students by listening and understanding their perspectives

● Impact: One principal transformed his challenging middle school by first meeting with 30 struggling students to truly hear their needs, leading to innovative solutions like stealth support systems for students in distress

Key Insight #2

● What's broken: Traditional professional development that's neither professional nor developmental

● The shift: Creating authentic learning communities that build relationships while focusing on growth

● Impact: Moving PLC meetings off-campus and sharing meals together led to vastly improved outcomes and stronger teacher collaboration

Key Insight #3

● What's broken: The "skill solution" approach to addressing performance issues

● The shift: Using the skill-will-way matrix to properly diagnose and address teacher performance challenges

● Impact: More effective interventions by matching solutions to the real root cause - whether it's skill, will, or way

Quotable Ruckus

"Working within the lines will only produce what's been produced in the past. If we're really talking about excellence for each and every child, mean every young person reaching their potential, we got to get beyond the lines." - Dr. Derek Mitchell

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Color-code your calendar based on your top 3-4 strategic priorities to see how you're really spending your time
This Month: Move one regular meeting off-campus to build stronger relationships and more authentic dialogue
This Semester: Create a system to proactively schedule regular check-ins with your supervisor where you set the agenda and priorities

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: here
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks. Visit Expressability K12 to learn how here

ODP Business Solutions: STEAM programs failing before they start?

Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash).Learn the blueprint: here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: This experimental episode explores emerging educational trends with Mitch Weathers, diving into AI's impact on teaching, the evolution of education's purpose, and whether teaching remains a recommendable profession.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Mitch became a gifted teacher because he was a mediocre student. Despite taking seven years to graduate college, he navigated the classroom with discomfort. This unique perspective fueled Mitch's teaching approach. Recognizing the importance of laying a foundation for learning, he created Organized Binder. This research-backed strategy empowers teachers to impart executive functioning skills efficiently, preserving valuable instructional time. By establishing a predictable routine, Organized Binder fosters safer learning spaces, shaping Mitch's journey from a struggling student to an innovative educator.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Mitch Weathers challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: AI's Impact on Education

What's broken: The notion that AI will completely replace teachers within the next decade
The shift: Reimagining education as developing transferable competencies rather than just delivering content
Impact: Creating learning environments where teachers serve as guides and mentors while AI supports content delivery and practice

Key Insight #2: Redefining Education's Purpose

What's broken: Education systems focused primarily on knowledge transfer without clear career pathways
The shift: Focusing on developing student agency and capacity for learning in new environments
Impact: Preparing students for future careers that don't even exist yet through transferable skills

Key Insight #3: The Teaching Profession's Future

What's broken: The perception of teaching as financially unrewarding and morale-killing
The shift: Recognizing teaching as a meaningful profession with immediate visible impact
Impact: Creating school cultures where educators feel fulfilled beyond financial compensation

Quotable Ruckus "When you boil down education to its raw elements, it's a messy human-to-human endeavor, which means relationships matter." – Mitch Weathers

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Ask yourself: "What are we teaching and why?" in light of AI advancements
This Month: Identify transferable competencies your students need beyond content knowledge
This Semester: Create a plan to balance technological integration while preserving meaningful human relationships

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: [Link]
🔗 Follow Mitch Weathers:Twitter, Linkedin,Facebook &Organized Binder
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: The Ruckus Maker Club.club/join
📚 Read Mitch's Book: Executive Functions for Every Classroom

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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks. Visit Expressability K12 to learn how here

ODP Business Solutions: Want to know why 67% of STEAM programs fail? Hint: It's not the budget. After researching many schools, ODP Business Solutions® uncovered three make-or-break factors that determine STEAM success. The best part? You probably already have what you need. See the research:here

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Quick take: The factory model of education is dead. This school leader transformed a failing campus into a Blue Ribbon award winner by reimagining intervention through WIN Time - and now she's showing thousands of leaders worldwide how to do the same.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Stephanie is a veteran school leader, author, and owner of Principal Principles. With 18 years as a principal and now serving as an assistant superintendent of schools she's passionate about leadership, student success, and innovative school solutions. She's also the creator of WIN Time, helping schools implement data-driven interventions. Connect with her at PrincipalPrinciples.net!

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Stephanie McConnell challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Intervention Without Interruption

What's broken: The old pull-out model where students leave class for intervention and miss core instruction
The shift: WIN Time - built into the master schedule where every student gets intervention AND enrichment without missing anything
Impact: Transformed McConnell's school from an F-rated campus to a National Blue Ribbon Award winner in just two years

Key Insight #2: Flexible Grouping Based on Real-Time Data

What's broken: Static intervention groups that trap students in remediation all year
The shift: Data-driven regrouping every 2-4 weeks based on student progress
Impact: Students can receive double-blocked reading intervention AND math enrichment based on individual needs

Key Insight #3: Culture of Ownership > Compliance

What's broken: Teachers following prescribed programs without investment in outcomes
The shift: Challenging the "why" behind every practice and building true teacher ownership
Impact: Teachers shift from "I taught it" to "students learned it" mindset, driving real results

Quotable Ruckus

"Since the things that matter the most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter the least." – Stephanie McConnell

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Ask yourself "why" about one existing intervention practice in your school
This Month: Audit your master schedule to find where WIN Time could fit
This Semester: Visit a school using WIN Time or bring Stephanie's framework to your team

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: [Link]
🔗 Follow Stephanie McConnell: Instagram, Facebook
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📚 Join Stephanie's Leadership Group: Link

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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with:

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks. Visit Expressability K12 to learn how here

ODP Business Solutions: "Our STEAM program is too complicated" = Code for "We're doing it wrong." Stop letting fear kill innovation. While some schools struggle with integrating STEAM, other leaders are using a 3-part framework to transform their programs. The secret? It's not what you think. Get the playbook here

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The Ruckus Report

Quick take: In a system built for efficiency rather than connection, Dr. Godfrey shows how one district is creating space for what truly matters—from targeted reading interventions to wellness days for staff—proving that even large districts can make the human element their highest priority.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Dr. Anthony Godfrey is the Superintendent of Schools for Jordan School District in Utah, overseeing 58,000 students and 9,000 employees. Appointed superintendent in 2019, he brings 31 years of experience in the district, having served as an English teacher, assistant principal, principal, and administrator of schools. Dr. Godfrey holds a Bachelor's in English Teaching and French from Weber State University, along with a Master's Degree and Doctorate from the University of Utah. He hosts the popular "Jordan Supercast" podcast, using his platform to connect directly with his community.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Dr. Godfrey challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Fund Preparation Time, Not Just Professional Development

What's broken: Traditional PD without paid time for teachers to implement what they've learned
The shift: Securing board funding for teacher preparation time alongside professional development for their Walk to Read program
Impact: Reading scores higher than ever before, despite launching during the pandemic

Key Insight #2: Prioritize Staff Wellness Through Structural Changes

What's broken: Expecting staff to maintain wellness without creating systemic support
The shift: Implementing dedicated "Health and Wellness Days" (three-day weekends) for all 9,000 district employees
Impact: Creating a culture that values people over processes, demonstrating that employee wellbeing isn't just talk

Key Insight #3: Reimagine Leadership Communication

What's broken: Relying on emails and memos to build connections and communicate vision
The shift: "Email is for information, not conversation" philosophy and launching a superintendent podcast
Impact: Deeper connections throughout the district as people hear their superintendent's voice and style, creating familiarity and trust

Quotable Ruckus

"Email is for information, not conversation. And many times we want to have a conversation through email. Email is just for information." – Dr. Anthony Godfrey

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Audit your own communication habits—are you trying to have conversations via email that would be better in person?
This Month: Create a plan to pay teachers for their preparation time for your next major initiative, not just the training
This Semester: Explore what a wellness day would look like in your school or district—even starting with a half-day pilot could show commitment to staff wellbeing

Connect & Continue

🎯 Listen to the Jordan Supercast: https://supercast.jordandistrict.org/
🔗 Follow Dr. Godfrey: X/Twitter | LinkedIn
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here.

Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here.

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It's time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks. Visit Expressability K12 to learn how here.

ODP Business Solutions: "Our STEAM program is too complicated" = Code for "We're doing it wrong" Stop letting fear kill innovation. While some schools struggle with integrating STEAM, other leaders are using a 3-part framework to transform their programs. The secret? It's not what you think. Get the playbook URL: here.

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The Ruckus Report

Quick take: Schools only account for 20% of a child's waking hours. Reschool co-founder Amy Anderson reveals how innovative partnerships with families and communities can transform the other 80% into powerful learning opportunities that create more equitable education for all.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Amy Anderson is the Executive Director and co-founder of RESCHOOL Colorado, which she established in 2013 to ensure learning systems offer options responsive to families' interests and needs, particularly those facing barriers to accessing opportunities. With over 25 years in education innovation, Amy previously served as Associate Commissioner at the Colorado Department of Education, leading the Division of Innovation, Choice, and Engagement where she created a statewide vision for personalized and expanded learning opportunities.

Amy's impressive career includes pioneering work in online and blended learning at the DK Foundation, education policy and school finance with APA Consulting, and new school development for the Colorado League of Charter Schools. She was instrumental in launching the nation's first charter schools in the early '90s at Designs for Learning in St. Paul, MN, and co-founded The Odyssey School in Denver, one of Colorado's first and longest-running charter schools. Amy holds a Ph.D. and M.Ed. from the University of Colorado and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and currently serves as Chair Emeritus of the Aurora Institute's Board of Directors.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Amy challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Co-Design Educational Solutions With Communities

What's broken: Creating educational programs for communities rather than with them
The shift: Inviting families and students to co-design learning experiences from the very beginning
Impact: More relevant and effective solutions that address actual needs instead of assumed ones, building lasting change (like a charter school Amy helped design that's now 26 years old)

Key Insight #2: Empower Families With Resources and Agency

What's broken: Privileged families can direct resources toward their children's learning outside of school, while others lack this opportunity
The shift: Creating "Learning Dollars" that give under-resourced families funds to access learning opportunities that supplement school
Impact: Over $600,000 distributed to families across Colorado, allowing them to direct resources toward tutoring, arts, sports, STEM, and other opportunities that match their children's interests and needs

Key Insight #3: Connect Schools to Community Learning Resources

What's broken: Schools trying to be everything to all students without utilizing community resources
The shift: Mapping community learning assets and connecting schools with these resources to expand what schools can offer
Impact: Creating "learning ecosystems" that leverage community expertise, like DenverLearningEcosystem.org, which helps schools find and partner with local learning providers

Quotable Ruckus

"Learning happens everywhere and we need to make sure it's equitable for all kids." – Amy Anderson

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Download the Design Lab resource from ReschoolColorado.org/tools to learn the basics of co-designing with your community
This Month: Identify 3-5 community organizations that could enhance your school's offerings and schedule initial conversations about potential partnerships
This Semester: Create a pilot program that gives families some agency over a portion of educational resources, perhaps starting with summer learning opportunities

Connect & Continue

🎯 Explore Reschool's Design Lab: ReschoolColorado.org/designlab
🔗 Learn about Denver's Learning Ecosystem: DenverLearningEcosystem.org
🌐 Visit RESCHOOL Colorado: ReschoolColorado.org
📱 Follow RESCHOOL: Instagram | Facebook | X/Twitter | LinkedIn
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here..

Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with:

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here.

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It’s time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks.Visit Expressability K12 to learn how here.

ODP Business Solutions: "Our STEAM program is too complicated" = Code for "We're doing it wrong"

Stop letting fear kill innovation. While some schools struggle with integrating STEAM, other leaders are using a 3-part framework to transform their programs. The secret? It's not what you think.

Get the playbook URL: here.

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The Ruckus Report

Quick take: When transforming struggling schools, following the traditional playbook isn't enough. Learn how effective turnaround leaders strategically break rules, build relationships, and create rapid improvement while working within traditional systems.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Amy Galloway serves as Executive Director of PIVOT School Improvement Leaders, providing intensive coaching and development for principals leading significant school improvement efforts in Tennessee and Mississippi. With experience as a successful turnaround principal herself, Amy now helps school leaders master the delicate art of driving rapid change while building sustainable systems.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Amy challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: The Power of Listening First

What's broken: Traditional top-down leadership where principals arrive with pre-made plans
The shift: Starting with door-to-door listening campaigns to understand community needs and dreams
Impact: Building deep trust and authentic buy-in from families and staff

Key Insight #2: Strategic Rule-Breaking

What's broken: Rigid adherence to system norms that maintain status quo results
The shift: Identifying which rules to break, preparing for consequences, and focusing on student impact
Impact: Creating rapid improvement by removing bureaucratic barriers while maintaining accountability

Key Insight #3: High-Performance Planning

What's broken: Reactive leadership consumed by daily fires
The shift: Protected time for quarterly/monthly/weekly planning aligned to priorities
Impact: Leaders who can drive strategic improvement even amid frequent crises

Quotable Ruckus

"If you're going to center your kids' experience and you're going to center student learning, that often means you have to make a choice that doesn't necessarily fit within the expectations or the system. And that is more than okay. In fact, it should be expected." - Amy Galloway

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Block off 30 minutes for weekly planning - make it your most important meeting
This Month: Schedule listening sessions with 5 key stakeholders about their hopes for your school
This Semester: Identify one system norm that needs to change and create an implementation plan

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: LInk
🔗 Follow Amy : Link - Website
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

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Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here.

Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with:

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

Expressability K12: Your inbox isn't a task manager. Your mind isn't for storing mundane processes. It’s time to break free. With Expressability K12 Ruckus Makers can prioritize student success by offloading time sucking tasks. Visit Expressability K12 to learn how. (expressability.com/ruckus)

ODP Business Solutions® STEAM programs failing before they start? Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash).Learn the blueprint here.

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The Ruckus Report

Quick take: In this special episode, Danny shares his journey from rule-following student to educational disruptor, then delivers key updates on everything happening at Ruckus Maker HQ in 2025 that can help you transform your leadership.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Danny Bauer is the founder of Better Leaders Better Schools and host of the most downloaded podcast for school leaders. As a former principal turned educational leadership coach, Danny has dedicated his career to helping visionary school leaders "do school different" through his coaching programs, live events, and the Ruckus Maker movement.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Danny shares his origin story and provides exciting updates about the Ruckus Maker movement:

Key Insight #1: Breaking Rules Intentionally Creates New Possibilities

What's broken: Following rules without questioning often leads to playing games you can't win
The shift: Consciously deciding to play different games on your own terms, even when it breaks convention
Impact: Discovering what you truly value and finding authentic pathways to success that align with your strengths

Key Insight #2: Leadership Support Requires Multiple Formats

What's broken: One-size-fits-all professional development that doesn't meet the diverse needs of innovative leaders
The shift: Creating an ecosystem of support through newsletters, accelerator programs, live events, and masterminds
Impact: School leaders can find the right level of support for their specific needs, challenges, and leadership journey

Key Insight #3: Creating a Campus Experience Worth Showing Up For

What's broken: Schools operating with uninspiring environments that fail to engage students and staff
The shift: Reimagining schools as vibrant, exciting, innovative places that rival Disney for creating meaningful experiences
Impact: When leaders set this tone, both students and teachers become more engaged, creating a virtuous cycle of positive energy

Quotable Ruckus

"There's two kinds of principals. Those play-it-safe principals who maintain the status quo. If they get better, it's incrementally better. They don't rock the boat at all. Nothing really changes. And then there's Ruckus Makers that I like to think are visitors from the future, showing us one day how education can be." – Danny Bauer

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Subscribe to Ruckus Maker News and use the Weekend Resource to plan your innovative approach for the week
This Month: Choose one rule or conventional practice at your school that needs questioning, and start exploring alternative approaches
This Semester: Identify where you need the most support in your leadership journey and commit to joining a community like the Mastermind or attending the Impact Intensive

Connect & Continue

🎯 Subscribe to Ruckus Maker News: https://ruckusmakers.news/subscribe
🔗 Learn about the Summer Impact Intensive: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/live-event-2025/
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind-application/

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here.

Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn More Here.

Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here.

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The Ruckus Report

Quick take: Missouri Superintendent Dr. David Buck shows how real-world learning experiences are transforming education from standardized "assembly lines" into dynamic pathways that prepare students for a future even educators can't predict.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Dr. David Buck has been an educator for 28 years, serving as a teacher of everything from at-risk to gifted classes and middle school science. He's been involved with the Missouri Leadership Academy since 2006, helping emerging leaders become principals through a year-long development process. As a father of three daughters (one in college, one in high school, and one in middle school), he brings both professional expertise and personal investment to his transformative work in education.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Dr. Buck challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Transform Spaces into Real-World Learning Environments

What's broken: Traditional school facilities that limit hands-on, applied learning
The shift: Purchasing and repurposing a 15-acre former amusement park into a multi-level learning center for PreK-12, including environmental education, hospitality programs, and hands-on science experiments
Impact: Every grade K-5 now has culminating real-world science experiences, high schoolers gain practical career skills, and the community has rallied behind this bold reimagining of educational spaces

Key Insight #2: Make Learning Contextual Through Real-World Application

What's broken: Teaching academic content in isolation from its real-world applications
The shift: Creating contextual learning programs like "AMPed-up Algebra" where students learn algebra while running a screen-printing shop, and hands-on geometry through construction projects
Impact: Students in the applied algebra program scored higher than those in traditional classes, demonstrating that contextualized learning leads to better retention and understanding

Key Insight #3: Build Direct Bridges Between Education and Employment

What's broken: The disconnect between school learning and workforce needs
The shift: Implementing "Diploma Plus" programs that ensure every graduate has college credit, an industry-recognized certificate, an internship, or client-connected projects
Impact: Increased from 48% to 79% of graduates with market-value assets, with numerous success stories of students solving real business problems that adult employees couldn't crack

Quotable Ruckus

"What do kids need individually? And it's not going to be the same from kid to kid... I think historically one of the knocks you could put on education is they're quick to solution instead of wrestling and fully understanding the problem." – Dr. David Buck

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Identify one traditional lesson that could be taught through hands-on, real-world application instead. How might algebra look in a business setting or science in an environmental context?
This Month: Map your community's business assets and reach out to 3-5 potential partners who might provide internships or client-connected projects for students
This Semester: Establish a "Career Navigator" position or repurpose an existing role to focus specifically on connecting students with real-world learning opportunities

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link
🔗 Follow Dr. David Buck: Link
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here..

Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn More Here.

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here.

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: A veteran educator shares powerful insights on building trust, implementing anchor practices, and creating a school culture where both teachers and students want to show up every day.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

A middle school principal with 14 years of experience in education transitions from teacher to coach to administrator, bringing fresh perspectives on building authentic relationships and implementing meaningful change.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, our guest challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Trust-Building Over Tools

● What's broken: Focusing solely on implementing new programs and initiatives

● The shift: Building genuine relationships and trust first

● Impact: Increased teacher buy-in and more authentic implementation of school practices

Key Insight #2: Anchor Practices as Culture Builders

● What's broken: Treating classroom observations as purely evaluative tools

● The shift: Using anchor practices to celebrate and spread effective teaching strategies

● Impact: Teachers seeing observations as coaching opportunities rather than evaluations

Key Insight #3: Attendance Through Engagement

● What's broken: Treating attendance as a compliance issue

● The shift: Creating a school environment students don't want to miss

● Impact: Increased attendance rates and student engagement

Quotable Ruckus "Be curious, not judgmental." – Anonymous Principal

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Have a non-evaluative conversation with a teacher about their interests outside of school
This Month: Identify your school's anchor practices by studying your most effective teachers
This Semester: Build a comprehensive plan to make your school a place students don't want to miss

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript:
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join
🚀 Join the 90-Day Accelerator Waitlist: https://90-day-waitlist.carrd.co/

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here.

Today's RUCKUS cast in Partnership with:

Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn More Here

Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here

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Dr. Lupita Hightower on Strategic Planning: Turning Belief into Transformation

The Ruckus Report

Quick take: Arizona's Superintendent of the Year drops a masterclass on how strategic planning—when done right—creates school systems where every child is valued as a treasure and success is the expectation, not the exception.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker

Dr. Lupita Hightower is Arizona's Superintendent of the Year for 2023 and has worked in education for over 27 years in various roles, serving as superintendent for the last 12 years. As an immigrant starting school in the U.S. in the 7th grade, she credits her success to the many believers including family and educators.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Dr. Hightower challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Strategic Planning Must Begin With Belief

What's broken: Strategic plans that lack a core belief system or are created without authentic community involvement
The shift: Building a foundational belief system—"Every child is capable of success without exception"—before crafting a community-driven strategic plan
Impact: A district where expulsions are non-existent (zero in 12 years) and long-term suspensions are extremely rare (only two in 12 years)

Key Insight #2: Parent Engagement Requires Genuine Partnership

What's broken: Blaming parents for lack of engagement instead of examining school practices
The shift: Implementing Academic Parent Teacher Teams where families become true educational partners, sharing transparent data and supporting each other
Impact: 23% of enrollment comes from out-of-district families, driven entirely by word-of-mouth, despite being in one of the nation's most competitive school choice environments

Key Insight #3: Diversity Requires Removing Bias From Selection

What's broken: Traditional hiring processes that perpetuate unconscious bias
The shift: Implementing a "blinded process" where applicants' identities are hidden during initial screening, with evaluation based purely on task performance
Impact: A district where 60% of staff are people of color, creating powerful representation for a student body that is 95% students of color

Quotable Ruckus

"We cannot forget that as parents, we are our children's first teacher. Yes, in the school, you make a huge difference, but we cannot forget that." – Dr. Lupita Hightower (sharing wisdom from a parent)

Your Do School Different Challenge

Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Audit your language around students—how can you shift from deficit-based descriptions to treasure-focused language?
This Month: Identify one way to make parent engagement more data-transparent and collaborative, perhaps through piloting Academic Parent Teacher Teams in one grade level
This Semester: Examine your hiring practices for hidden bias—could a "blinded" initial screening process help diversify your staff?

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link
🔗 Follow Dr. Hightower: LinkedIn | Instagram
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here.

Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn More Here.

Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here.

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The 90-Day Accelerator: Launching Your School Year for Legendary Impact

Danny Bauer on Transforming School Leadership Through Intentional Planning

The Ruckus Report Quick take: A game-changing framework for school leaders who want to escape the firefighting trap and create intentional, high-impact leadership from day one.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer, host of the Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast and founder of the Ruckus Maker movement, shares his journey from experiencing "the worst start to school ever" to developing a comprehensive system that helps school leaders launch their years with clarity, purpose, and momentum.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Danny challenges traditional education leadership paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Self-Leadership Before School Leadership

What's broken: Starting with operations and putting yourself last
The shift: Prioritizing your energy management and growth first
Impact: Leaders who are focused, empowered, and modeling the change they want to see

Key Insight #2: Communication as the Foundation

What's broken: Unclear expectations and complex messaging
The shift: "Simplicity is velocity, complexity is the devil"
Impact: Teams aligned and motivated, all "rowing in the same direction at once"

Key Insight #3: Focus Beats Fragmentation

What's broken: Chasing 10-20+ initiatives simultaneously
The shift: Zeroing in on 3-5 high-leverage priorities that create domino effects
Impact: Meaningful progress on what truly matters instead of watered-down results

Quotable Ruckus "You're going to get the culture that you deserve, whether that's positive or negative, depending on how you show up. It's either intentionally designed or it designs itself." – Danny Bauer

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Complete the School Leadership Scorecard to identify your highest-leverage growth opportunities
This Month: Draft an intentional 90-day plan focused on the five core areas: self-leadership, communication, academic focus, culture building, and operations
This Semester: Join the 90-Day Accelerator to transform your leadership approach with proven frameworks and systems

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link
💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join
🚀 Join the 90-Day Accelerator Waitlist: https://90-day-waitlist.carrd.co/

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here: http://ruckusmakers.news/subscribe

Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn More Here.

Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: A compelling look at how embracing AI and creativity can transform education, told through the journey of a young entrepreneur who went from feeling constrained by traditional schooling to teaching others how to innovate.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Today's episode features two innovators in education:

Nate Corona is a Santa Cruz entrepreneur who's redefining what's possible for students in the AI age. Starting with a sneaker cleaning business in his hometown, Nate chose the "harder route" over traditional paths, leading him to d'Skills where he transformed a random thought into a successful logo design business. Now part of d'Skills' business development team while also working in auto advertising, Nate exemplifies how embracing different thinking styles can lead to unexpected opportunities.

Hannah Williams is the founder of d'Skills, a VC-backed startup shifting students from test prep to life prep. Her own unorthodox journey began at age 12 when her father handed her a phone to close a real estate deal from a blue pickup truck. She went on to enroll in college at 14 and graduated with a degree in international business at 18. Now at 25, Hannah leads d'Skills in equipping motivated teens with digital and AI skills, helping them convert these skills into paid, real-world projects with small businesses. Her vision is to help 1M high schoolers build impact portfolios that give them more experience and connections than most college graduates. Christopher Lochhead calls her "a pioneer of our time."

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Nate Corona challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Embracing Technology as an Ally

What's broken: Schools often fear and restrict technology use
The shift: Viewing AI and tech as tools for enhanced learning and creativity
Impact: Students develop practical skills while maintaining engagement

Key Insight #2: Learning Through Creation

What's broken: Traditional test-based assessment and rigid curriculum
The shift: Allowing students to drive their own learning through creative projects
Impact: Middle school students voluntarily creating additional learning spaces and refusing to leave class

Key Insight #3: Redefining Success

What's broken: One-size-fits-all approach to education and career paths
The shift: Embracing different thinking styles and entrepreneurial mindsets
Impact: Students discovering profitable opportunities and meaningful work before finishing traditional education

Quotable Ruckus "Don't be scared to be different. Be different. I think being different is awesome." – Nate Corona

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Begin exploring how AI tools could enhance one lesson or activity
This Month: Create a space for students to pursue creative projects using technology
This Semester: Develop a program that connects student creativity to real-world opportunities

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🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link
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Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn More Here.

Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: A former teacher turned ed-tech founder reveals how simple daily actions - from hallway check-ins to thoughtful class placements - can transform school culture and help every student thrive.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Mike Cronley is the CEO and co-founder of Class Composer, bringing 12 years of 3rd grade teaching experience to revolutionize how elementary schools create balanced classes. After witnessing firsthand how traditional class placement methods could unintentionally disrupt student relationships and learning environments, he developed a solution to help schools make more informed, equitable placement decisions.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Mike challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: The Power of Being Present

What's broken: Leaders getting caught up in administrative tasks and losing touch with their staff
The shift: Intentional daily check-ins and genuine conversations with teachers
Impact: Teachers feel valued, leading to increased motivation and better student outcomes

Key Insight #2: From Paper to Purpose

What's broken: Complex, paper-based class placement systems that miss crucial student dynamics
The shift: Data-informed decisions that consider academic, social, and emotional needs
Impact: More balanced classes and stronger student relationships

Key Insight #3: Taking Smart Risks

What's broken: Fear of failure leading to stagnation in educational practices
The shift: Creating a culture where trying new approaches is encouraged
Impact: Continuous improvement through calculated risk-taking and innovation

Quotable Ruckus "You have to be willing to take risks and try to improve. Not gigantic risks, but if you want to move the needle and do something different and better, you have to be willing to try." – Mike Cronley

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Walk your halls after school and have one genuine conversation with a teacher
This Month: Create a system to track meaningful check-ins with all staff members
This Semester: Review your class placement process and identify opportunities for more data-informed decisions

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with:

Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn More Here.

Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: A veteran superintendent reveals how shifting from a mastery mindset to an unfinished mindset can transform school leadership and create environments where innovation thrives, student voice matters, and continuous growth is celebrated.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dr. Michael Lubelfeld serves as Superintendent of North Shore District 112 in suburban Chicago, leading 9 elementary schools with 4,000 students. A passionate educator since 1992, Mike was awarded the 2021 Administrator and Supervision Distinguished Alumni Award from Loyola University Chicago. He's co-authored four books, including his latest "The Unfinished Teacher: Becoming the Next Version of Yourself."

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dr. Lubelfeld challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: The Power of Coaching Fundamentals

What's broken: Complex leadership initiatives that overlook basic human connection
The shift: Regular, structured coaching conversations focused on growth and support
Impact: Principals create better conditions for teacher growth, leading to improved student outcomes

Key Insight #2: Embracing the Unfinished Mindset

What's broken: The pressure to achieve mastery and have everything figured out
The shift: Viewing leadership as a continuous journey of growth and evolution
Impact: Creates a culture where innovation thrives and continuous improvement is celebrated

Key Insight #3: Leveraging Student Voice

What's broken: Top-down decision making that excludes student perspectives
The shift: Actively incorporating student input in strategic planning and facility design
Impact: More engaged students and better-designed learning environments that meet real needs

Quotable Ruckus "I'm never going to be done doing it. I'm going to learn more from the next principal than she or he learned from me because I'm learning from them and we're growing together." – Dr. Mike Lubelfeld

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Schedule a one-on-one coaching conversation with a teacher or principal focused on their aspirations and goals
This Month: Create a student advisory panel to provide input on one major school initiative
This Semester: Develop a structured feedback system that celebrates growth and learning

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link
🔗 Follow Dr. Lubelfeld: LinkedIn
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with:

Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn more here..

Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more: www.questfms.com

ODP Business Solutions: Most schools botch STEAM implementation because they're missing 3 critical elements. Here's the wild part: it's not about fancy tech or massive budgets. ODP Business Solutions® has researched many successful programs to identify what actually works (and what's just burning cash). 🔍 Learn the blueprint: here

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: In this special coaching episode, a K-4 principal shares his honest struggles and breakthroughs in implementing project-based learning, revealing why communication and teacher buy-in are crucial for meaningful educational change.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dan is a K-4 principal with an art education background, bringing a unique creative perspective to his leadership role. As a solo administrator in his building, he's passionate about transforming education through project-based learning while maintaining strong relationships with his staff.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dan challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Consistent Communication

What's broken: Sporadic communication about new initiatives, assuming teachers will automatically buy in
The shift: Consistently discussing and reinforcing PBL benefits while giving teachers autonomy to experiment
Impact: Teachers feel more supported and are more likely to take risks with new teaching methods

Key Insight #2: Building Authentic Relationships

What's broken: Traditional top-down mandate approach to implementing new programs
The shift: Building genuine relationships and understanding teachers' individual goals and aspirations
Impact: Increased teacher engagement and willingness to try new approaches

Key Insight #3: Meaningful Feedback Systems

What's broken: Complex, jargon-filled evaluation systems that don't drive real improvement
The shift: Simple, meaningful feedback focused on growth and celebrating small wins
Impact: More authentic professional development and risk-taking in the classroom

Quotable Ruckus "You have to have the mentality that everybody you meet is going through something that you don't know anything about. We have a saying here: 'Sweep the sheds.' It sounds kind of weird, but it's about humility and doing the work that needs to be done." -Principal Dan

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Ask your teachers what's stopping them from trying something new in their classrooms
This Month: Create a weekly roundup to celebrate teachers taking risks and trying new approaches
This Semester: Develop an implementation plan based on teacher feedback and goals

Connect & Continue * 🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link * 🔗 Join The Ruckus Maker Club waitlist: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

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Today’s Pod in Partnership with: IXL Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more here.

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: As California mandates AI literacy in schools, education leaders face a critical choice between teaching basic AI operation and empowering students to reimagine what's possible with AI fluency.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Hannah Grady Williams is the Chief Rebel at d'Skills, where she helps students transform their passions into real-world projects using AI. Starting college at 14 and graduating with her bachelor's at 18, Hannah brings a fresh perspective to education innovation. Chris Lochhead calls her "one of the most important voices in education today."

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Hannah challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: AI Literacy Isn't Enough

What's broken: Schools focusing only on basic AI efficiency like email writing and lesson planning
The shift: Moving toward true AI fluency where students apply AI across all aspects of learning
Impact: Students who can creatively innovate and think beyond what AI alone can accomplish

Key Insight #2: Integration Over Isolation

What's broken: Adding standalone AI clubs or career pathways as a checkbox solution
The shift: Embedding AI project-based learning into every core subject
Impact: Students developing real-world AI applications across all disciplines

Key Insight #3: Authentic AI Experience

What's broken: Using "sterilized" educational versions of AI tools that limit real learning
The shift: Teaching students to work with actual AI tools they'll use in their careers
Impact: Graduates prepared for the true demands of an AI-transformed workplace

Quotable Ruckus "If our response as leaders is to go with sterilized versions of tools to satisfy a mandate, we're not doing our kids a service for their future." - Hannah Grady Williams

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Evaluate how your school currently uses AI - is it for efficiency or empowerment?
This Month: Identify one core subject where you can integrate AI project-based learning
This Semester: Develop a comprehensive AI fluency strategy across all grade levels

Connect & Continue

🎯 Get the full episode transcript: [Link]
🔗 Follow Hannah: hannah@dskills.io
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions®: Want to know how top schools create collaborative learning environments that actually work? ODP Business Solutions®, formerly Office Depot Business Solutions Division, has equipped innovative educators for over three decades. 🔍 Visit www.odpbusiness.com/education and let's make a ruckus together.

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The Ruckus Report

Quick take: In this transformative session, Danny Bauer shares the powerful RISE method to help school leaders move from playing it safe to creating meaningful change in their schools.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer is the founder of Better Leaders Better Schools, author of multiple bestselling books, and host of one of the world's top 0.5% podcasts. He helps school leaders "Do School Different" through coaching, mentorship, and building communities of innovative educators.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨

In this episode, Danny challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: From Reactive to Reimagining

What's broken: Leaders getting stuck in day-to-day reactive mode
The shift: Using the RISE method (Reimagine, Identify, Select Strategic Strikes, Execute)
Impact: Creates clear path from current reality to reimagined future

Key Insight #2: From Overwhelm to Strategic Focus

What's broken: Trying to tackle too many initiatives at once
The shift: Using the 80/20 principle and "The One Thing" question
Impact: Identify highest leverage actions that make other things easier/unnecessary

Key Insight #3: From Planning to Execution

What's broken: Analysis paralysis and lack of momentum
The shift: Breaking goals into first day/week/month actions
Impact: Building momentum through quick wins and strategic progress

Quotable Ruckus "Ideas are great, but not the greatest. Taking action is really important." - Danny Bauer

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Use the Do School Different Scorecard to assess your current reality
This Month: Identify your "One Thing" that makes everything else easier
This Semester: Implement strategic strikes using the 80/20 principle

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: From surviving childhood trauma to revolutionizing student mental health, Dr. Watson reveals how schools can transform their approach to student wellbeing from crisis response to proactive skill-building.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dr. Hayley Watson is the founder and CEO of Open Parachute, a Tier 1 K-12 curriculum program supporting mental health for students, teachers, and parents. A Clinical Psychologist with a PhD in school bullying interventions, she's spent 20 years developing youth programs that turn challenges into opportunities for growth.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dr. Watson challenges traditional mental health paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Mental Health Belongs in Tier One

What's broken: Relegating mental health support to counseling offices and crisis intervention
The shift: Teaching core mental health skills to all students as fundamental curriculum
Impact: Reduced pressure on Tier 2/3 services; students develop essential life skills early

Key Insight #2: Four Steps to Emotional Intelligence

What's broken: Reactive responses to emotional challenges without systematic approach
The shift: Feel, Pause, Think, Act framework for processing emotions
Impact: Students learn to recognize triggers and choose constructive responses

Key Insight #3: Student Voice Drives Transformation

What's broken: Adults lecturing about mental health without authentic connection
The shift: Real student stories and experiences guide learning
Impact: Increased engagement and relatability in mental health education

Quotable Ruckus "Don't be afraid to bring mental health into the classroom. This is the ruckus making that we need to really create generational change for the future." – Dr. Hayley Watson

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Practice the Feel-Pause-Think-Act framework yourself in a challenging situation
This Month: Create safe spaces for students to share their stories and experiences
This Semester: Implement a tier one mental health curriculum across grade levels

Connect & Continue

🌐 Website: https://openparachuteschools.com/
📚 Get "Finding the Words": https://openparachuteschools.com/finding-the-words/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-hayley-watson-2b249a16/
📧 Email: hayley@openparachuteschools.com
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn more here.

ODP Business Solutions®: Want to know how top schools create collaborative learning environments that actually work? ODP Business Solutions®, formerly Office Depot Business Solutions Division, has equipped innovative educators for over three decades. 🔍 Visit www.odpbusiness.com/education and let's make a ruckus together.

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: From middle school gum empire to innovative children's author, Mr. B reveals how embracing uniqueness and real-world learning can transform education from standardized to remarkable.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Mr. B is a multi-faceted creative and entrepreneur, blending Hip-Hop music, live-streaming, and children's storytelling into his unique brand. Known for his viral rhymes and as the creator of What Rhymes With Orange?, Mr. B brings fans into real-world experiences with his innovative 'Find Me IRL' live-streamed events and music concerts. He's on a mission to connect people, both in-person and online, with a fresh mix of freestyle rap, humor, and creative flair.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Mr. B challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Real-World Learning Beats Standardization

What's broken: Schools focus on standardized formats and rigid rubrics
The shift: Enable students to engage in real-world business and creative projects
Impact: Mr. B's middle school gum business generated over $1,000 in 2.5 months, teaching vital lessons about supply, demand, and credit

Key Insight #2: Pattern Breaking Creates Opportunities

What's broken: Traditional teaching methods crush creativity and innovation
The shift: Encourage unique approaches and celebrate different ways of learning
Impact: Students develop confidence in their uniqueness and learn to innovate

Key Insight #3: Beauty, Innovation, and Respect Transform Learning

What's broken: Sterile environments and hierarchical relationships
The shift: Create beautiful spaces and authentic connections between staff and students
Impact: Students take themselves more seriously and operate at a higher level

Quotable Ruckus "Change is going to come from the kids, not the adults." – Mr. B

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Sit with students at lunch and engage in genuine conversation
This Month: Create opportunities for students to publish or monetize their school work
This Semester: Design a program that lets students explore entrepreneurship within your school

Connect & Continue

📚 Get Mr. B's book "What Rhymes With Orange?": https://a.co/d/cPcq47B
📷 Follow Mr. B on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrbinspire
📧 Contact: mrbinspire@gmail.com
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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

Class Composer: Want to know why Ruckus Makers love Class Composer? Because it turns the dreaded end-of-year class placement meetings into a streamlined, data-driven process. Your teachers will save hours of time while ensuring that nothing is overlooked, including student separations. 🔍 Learn more here.

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: Start 2025 strong with three game-changing frameworks that help school leaders move from traditional planning to actionable transformation.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer is the founder of Better Leaders Better Schools and host of the top 1% education leadership podcast worldwide. His mission is helping Ruckus Makers "Do School Different" by reimagining education even within traditional systems.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Danny challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Simplicity is Velocity

What's broken: 28-page improvement plans that gather dust and don't guide real work
The shift: The RISE Method (Reimagine the possible, Identify current reality, Select strategic strikes, Execute with energy)
Impact: Clear, actionable one-page strategies that excite stakeholders and drive real change

Key Insight #2: Staff Success Requires Differentiation

What's broken: Generic hiring checklists and standard operating procedures
The shift: Creating unique Staff Success Scorecards that define excellence in your context
Impact: Attract and retain top talent by clearly articulating your school's unique value proposition

Key Insight #3: Reflection Drives Innovation

What's broken: Reinventing the wheel each year without learning from experience
The shift: Regular reflection using tools like the Year in Review framework
Impact: Breakthrough insights that help leaders work smarter, not harder

Quotable Ruckus "Strategy answers three fundamental questions: Where are we now? Where do we aspire to go? And how can we credibly get there?" – Danny Bauer

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Download the Do School Different Scorecard and honestly assess your current reality
This Month: Create your school's Staff Success Scorecard with your leadership team
This Semester: Implement the RISE Method to transform your strategic planning

Connect & Continue

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Today's RUCKUScast in Partnership with: Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more: www.questfms.com

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: From humble beginnings in Greenfield to becoming an award-winning superintendent, Dr. Galván shares powerful insights on leading with empathy, building authentic relationships, and preparing students for an AI-driven future.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dr. Zandra Jo Galván serves as Superintendent of Salinas UHSD, is CALSA Immediate Past President (California Assoc Latinx Sups & Admin), was named ALAS National Superintendent of the Year 2023-2024, and recognized as a Top 100 National Influencer for District Administration 2024.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dr. Galván challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Authentic Leadership Transforms School Culture

What's broken: Traditional hierarchical leadership creating barriers between administrators and staff
The shift: Leading with vulnerability, genuine presence, and intentional relationship-building
Impact: Staff feel valued, seen, and supported, leading to stronger engagement and better student outcomes

Key Insight #2: Wellness Must Be Systemic

What's broken: Stigma around self-care and mental health in education
The shift: Implementing district-wide wellness initiatives including mental health days, beach cruiser bikes, and blender bikes
Impact: Created a culture where taking care of oneself is celebrated and supported

Key Insight #3: Future-Ready Education Requires Innovation

What's broken: Preparing students for jobs that won't exist
The shift: Embracing AI, creating innovative pathways, and focusing on future skills
Impact: Students develop entrepreneurial mindsets and are better prepared for emerging careers

Quotable Ruckus "I'm a very authentic person and vulnerable, and I'm okay with that. And a title is not going to change who I am for the virtue of position." – Dr. Zandra Jo Galván

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Start your day in classrooms, connecting with students and teachers
This Month: Implement one wellness initiative for your staff
This Semester: Identify future-ready skills and begin planning innovative pathways

Connect & Continue * 🎯 Get the full episode transcript: [Link] * 🔗 Follow Zandra on LinkedIn * 💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

Do you Subscribe to the Ruckus Maker Newsletter? Do School Different 3x a Week. Join for FREE here.

Today’s RUCKUScast in Partnership with: Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more: www.questfms.com

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: Discover how a veteran superintendent transforms traditional power structures into collaborative leadership, proving that giving away authority actually strengthens your impact as a leader.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dr. Tricia Mooney brings 30 years of educational experience to her role as Superintendent of Hermiston School District. A relentless advocate for student achievement, she's dedicated to creating multiple education pathways for students both in the classroom and beyond graduation.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dr. Mooney challenges traditional education paradigms:

Key Insight #1: Reimagining Positional Power

What's broken: Traditional hierarchy where titles create barriers and centralize decision-making
The shift: Intentionally giving away power and maintaining approachability ("I'm still just Tricia")
Impact: Created a more collaborative culture where team members feel empowered to innovate and take ownership

Key Insight #2: Trust-Based Leadership

What's broken: Micromanagement and the superintendent's need to "know everything"
The shift: Building strong teams and trusting specialists to lead in their areas of expertise
Impact: Developed a system that runs smoothly even in leader's absence, with increased innovation and specialized excellence

Key Insight #3: Strategic Resource Allocation

What's broken: Prioritizing budgets over community needs
The shift: "We budget our priorities, we don't prioritize our budget"
Impact: Successful implementation of innovative programs like the Think Big Space and comprehensive summer programs serving the community's unique needs

Quotable Ruckus "Your job is to develop another leader. If a sniper takes me out tomorrow, what's going to happen? The system should run so well that you don't notice whether or not I'm here." – Dr. Tricia Mooney

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Identify one decision you can delegate to empower your team
This Month: Map out your team's strengths and begin aligning roles with natural abilities rather than traditional expectations
This Semester: Launch one innovative partnership program, starting small and building based on community needs

Connect & Continue * 🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link * 🔗 Follow Dr. Mooney: LinkedIn | Email: tricia.mooney@hermistonsd.org * 💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: https://ruckusmakers.club/join

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Today's Pod in Partnership with: Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more: www.questfms.com

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

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Dr. Chris Nagy on Transformational Educational Leadership

The Ruckus Report Quick take: In this paradigm-shifting conversation, educational futurist Dr. Chris Nagy reveals how superintendents can create innovative learning environments by embracing entrepreneurial mindsets and emerging technologies, challenging traditional educational frameworks while preparing students and staff for an AI-driven future.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dr. Nagy is a retired school superintendent, co-founder of MagicEdX.ai, and founder of Nagy Education Group. As a transformational thought leader and educational futurist, he brings entrepreneurial thinking to education leadership. His work spans consulting, teaching doctoral programs, and creating content through his Leadership Sparks Series.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dr. Nagy challenges traditional education paradigms:

Embracing Emerging Technologies

What's broken: Schools treating AI and immersive technologies as threats rather than opportunities
The shift: Running toward obstacles and embracing emerging technologies as tools for innovation
Impact: Students and staff becoming confident pioneers in using AI, VR, and other technologies to enhance learning

Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindsets

What's broken: Traditional mindset of staying inside or thinking outside the box
The shift: Creating environments where there is no box, fostering new neural pathways and creative thinking
Impact: Teachers and administrators functioning as educational entrepreneurs, creating innovative learning experiences

Creating Innovation Spaces

What's broken: Professional development that doesn't prepare for the future
The shift: Creating "playground" spaces for staff to experiment with new technologies and approaches
Impact: More engaged staff who feel empowered to innovate and adapt to changing educational landscapes

Quotable Ruckus "We need to continue to become more and more uncomfortable territory so that we could push ourselves to grow and to take on new experiences." - Dr. Chris Nagy

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Create a simple experiment with AI tools in your administrative tasks
This Month: Develop a "playground" space where staff can safely explore and learn new technologies
This Semester: Draft and implement policies for emerging technologies that encourage innovation while maintaining educational integrity

Connect & Continue * 🎯 Get the full episode transcript: Link * Watch the Dr. Nagy Leadership Sparks Series: YouTube * Read "Bringing the Future to the Present": NJ School Boards Magazine * Read "The Next Disruption in Education is Here": Medium * Contact Dr. Nagy: dr.chris.nagy@gmail.com * 💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: ruckusmakers.club/join

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Today's Pod in Partnership with: Quest Food Management Services: Creating joyful learning environments starts in the cafeteria. Quest brings 40 years of expertise in crafting scratch-made meals that nurture both body and community spirit through innovative student engagement programs. 🔍 Learn more: www.questfms.com

IXL: Meet your students where they are and take them where they need to go. Join over 1 million teachers who trust IXL to drive data-informed excellence in their classrooms. 🔍 Learn more: IXL.com/leaders

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The Ruckus Report Quick take: Want to sleep well at night as a school leader? Dr. Jon Bartelt shares how embracing joy, listening deeply to students, and staying true to core values helps him lead with confidence through 23 years as superintendent.

Meet Your Fellow Ruckus Maker Dr. Jon Bartelt serves as Superintendent of Bloomingdale School District 13 in Illinois, leading a PreK-8 district of 1,400 students. With 34 years in education and 23 as superintendent, he's guided by three core values: ensuring student learning, treating everyone with respect, and working collaboratively. A graduate of Valparaiso, Harvard, and Loyola University Chicago, Dr. Bartelt is active in educational leadership organizations while cherishing his role as husband, father of six, and grandfather of four.

Breaking Down the Old Rules 🔨 In this episode, Dr. Bartelt challenges traditional education paradigms:

Leading with Joy Instead of Fear

What's broken: Schools driven by anxiety, control, and "that's how we've always done it" mindsets
The shift: Creating environments where students and staff find genuine joy in learning and teaching
Impact: Students who cry on the last day of school because they don't want to leave

Embracing Student Voice

What's broken: Adults making all decisions without student input
The shift: Actively listening to students and implementing their ideas (like reviving competitive science programs)
Impact: More engaged learners who feel ownership in their education

Making Bold Decisions

What's broken: Leaders paralyzed by fear of public criticism
The shift: Focusing on core values and student safety over public opinion
Impact: Confident decision-making even when facing social media backlash

Quotable Ruckus "It's not just a job, frankly, and it's not a vocation. It's life. It's the life I've chosen to lead." – Dr. Jon Bartelt

Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement these ideas? Start here:

Tomorrow: Take a walk through your school focusing only on moments of joy
This Month: Create regular opportunities for students to share ideas directly with leadership
This Semester: Evaluate major decisions through the lens of your core values

Connect & Continue * 🎯 Get the full episode transcript: [Link] * 💪 Join the Ruckus Maker Movement: [Link]

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Show Highlights

Strategies for effective curriculum communication.
New student grouping system for differentiated instruction that meets diverse learning styles.
Balancing teacher input with administrative decisions.
Focusing on 'acceleration' instead of intervention.
Utilize feedback from the foundation meeting to adjust strategies accordingly.
Tips for resistance from staff who are accustomed to previous curricula.
Ways to gamify personal health goals.
Drawbacks of 'inbox zero' approach and prioritization.

Get the episode transcript here! Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Dr. Tracy Vitale proudly serves as Superintendent of Schools for the Seneca Valley School District, one of the largest public school districts in Western Pennsylvania. She is credited with opening and implementing the district’s first elementary world language program, accelerating academic rigor and leading educators in a collaborative approach to systems thinking.

Show Highlights

Shift traditional teaching methods toward coaching and facilitating rather than just imparting knowledge.
Create an environment that excites students and breaks away from traditional school norms.
Design the building as a teaching tool, posing curious questions throughout.
Include diverse voices and stakeholders in decision-making.
Consider the impact of a circular ramp on students' excitement for learning.
Encourage teachers to reflect on their practices and make changes based on research.
Emphasize the importance of student engagement and give students a voice in their own learning.
Focus on intentional space design at the district level to enhance teaching and learning.

Get the episode transcript here!

“There's a little taste of Finnish schools. There's a taste of our Pittsburgh Children's Museum. All good ideas should be replicated. And you may not be able to do that necessarily in the business world with patents, but in schools and in education, we love to steal good ideas and give people credit.”

-Dr Vitale

Episodes’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter/X

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Chris Loeffler is the Head of Wilmington Friends Lower School. Prior to this role, Chris spent 7 years in administration, 13 years in the classroom, and even graduated from Wilmington Friends. His experience as a student, where he felt valued and given a voice in a peaceful environment, motivates him as an educator to provide the same experience for each of his students.

Show Highlights

Mastermind helps leaders be proactive and prepared for future challenges.
Listening is crucial for new leaders to build confidence and understand different perspectives.
Gain practical advice and strategies that can be applied to their own challenges.
Unexpected positive response from faculty, parents, and former students.
Emphasis on trusting oneself and learning from mistakes in leadership roles.
The importance of having a trusted community of leaders.
Mastermind provides a network of support for ongoing growth and problem-solving.
Chris shares his leadership mantra: 'Be present, be curious, and be creative.

“How you respond is probably the most important thing you can do when you're making decisions, because you're not going to get it right all the time.”

-Chris Loeffler

Get the episode transcript here!

Episodes’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Wilmington Friends School

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Kwame Sarfo-Mensah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Temple University. For nine years, he served as a middle school math teacher in Philadelphia, PA and Boston, MA. Currently, he is the founder of Identity Talk Consulting, a global educational consulting firm that specializes in developing K-12 teachers into identity-affirming educators. Throughout his 17-year career as a classroom teacher, author, and consultant, Kwame has earned numerous accolades for this work, which include being honored as the 2019 National Member of the Year by Black Educators Rock, Inc. and being recognized as a Top Education Influencer by brightbeam, Inc. in 2021 and 2022. His newest book, "Learning to Relearn: Supporting Identity in a Culturally Affirming Classroom", will be coming out Fall 2024.

Show Highlights

Evolving teaching practices and rejecting educational premises.
Hesitation towards AI in education.
Democratizing education by centering student voices.
Co-create with student input in shaping classroom culture instead of preset rules.
Example of pushing back a test based on student readiness.
Balancing pacing with student understanding to create moments that students will remember.
Acknowledging the existence of racism and centered whiteness in schools.
Importance of calling in vs. calling out when addressing harm.

Episodes’s Resources & Contact Info: * Instagram * Twitter/X * Linkedin * PATREON- * Kwame Sarfo-Mensah | creating multimedia content & ABAR community spaces for teachers | * YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/@kwamesarfo-mensah5785 * WEBSITE - Identity Talk For Educators * PODCAST - Identity Talk 4 Educators LIVE Podcast

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Dr. Derrick Gay is a globally recognized intercultural competency strategist, dedicated to fostering cultures of dignity and respect. With multifaceted expertise as an international speaker, author, researcher, educator, and university lecturer, Dr. Gay empowers individuals and organizations to deepen belonging and empathy by cultivating shared language, raising awareness, and fostering inclusive personal behaviors and organizational practices and policies.

Drawing from his extensive international experience, Dr. Gay designs meaningful strategies that resonate across a broad range of industries and cultures. His approach, informed by research and practitioner experiences in over 50 countries, facilitates meaningful connections and promotes belonging on a global scale.

Fluent in five languages, Dr. Gay has supported a broad clientele spanning the globe, including over 800 organizations in education, financial services, beauty and fashion, non-profits, and the arts. His clients range from Sesame Street to Oberlin Conservatory, Phantom of the Opera to Tom Ford, The International School of Panama to GCM Grosvenor, and The Business of Fashion to Barilla. He has also served as adjunct faculty/lecturer at Parsons Paris, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Business School, International Fashion Academy, and Teachers College at Columbia University.

Dr. Gay's work has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, NPR, TEDx, and The Business of Fashion, and other national and international publications. A global citizen, Dr. Gay delivers content in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

Show Highlights

Teach your students to have choice-filled lives and be good people.
Complexities in implementing diversity initiatives within schools.
Reframe diversity to encompass a broader definition.
The problem of diversity being seen as a proxy for historically marginalized groups.
Schools need to address how events like George Floyd's death changed the conversation about diversity globally.
Outlined steps for leaders to create spaces of belonging.
Emphasizes the importance of taking action to make the world better.
A framework that aligns with every school and every mission.
Discusses the challenges of politicization of diversity work.

“You are seen, you are heard, you matter. All the research is clear around this belief that one has about oneself, about their inherent value and how that can help in times of adversity, resilience. Life is going to throw challenges at you. If you have this fundamental sense of your worth, then there's a higher possibility that you're going to get through it. And it's our, certainly our job as educators and curators of a learning environment that everyone that walks to that building feels that way.”

-Dr Derrick Gay

Get the episode transcript here!

Episodes’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Website: Dr. Derrick Gay * Dr. Derrick Gay

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

Set clear goals for both personal and professional growth to drive success and balance in life.
Explore powerful takeaways from books and tools that are shaping and enhancing leadership skills.
Key insights that inspire personal development and authentic self-expression for impactful leadership.
Discover one key strategy to boost team efficiency.
Leverage mastermind tools in a safe, practical learning environment to strengthen leadership abilities.
Master difficult conversations with confidence and apply these skills immediately for better outcomes.
Strengthen communication, community building, and research skills for a more effective, cohesive team environment.
Sticky Core Values leverage leadership momentum for lasting impact.

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SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

Why you need the 90-day planning and the 'Ruckus Maker Mindset.'
'Playing with the Lead' for proactive planning and organization to stay ahead of challenges throughout the school year.
Key initiatives and maintain momentum in leadership efforts.
Challenges in scheduling planning time with assistant principal.
Importance of celebrating staff efforts and improvements.
Discussion of the 'Electric Papaya' concept: focusing on one project yields better results.
Challenges of over-planning, the need to prioritize, and delegate to avoid burnout.
Plans for addressing math and language arts gaps.

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Frederick Buskey leverages 33 years of k-12 and higher education leadership experience. He provides simple frameworks and practical tools to help leaders make immediate incremental improvements. Frederick hosts The Assistant Principal Podcast, and is the author of A School Leader’s Guide to Reclaiming Purpose. He works with school and non-profit leaders to help them live and lead better.

Show Highlights

The challenges faced by colleagues helps leaders provide tailored support and guidance.
The journey to Reclaiming Purpose involves recognizing the impact of small, mindful moments in leadership.
Introduction of the 'good enough' concept for assistant principals.
Analysis of teacher-related issues vs. student-related issues in discipline.
The importance of supporting teachers and improving their skills.
The difference between urgent leadership and strategic leadership.
Exploration of managing priorities vs. managing time.
Three epiphanies from Frederick's book.

Get the episode transcript here!

Fredrick’s Resources & Contact Info: * Frederick Buskey-Website * Blog * The Assistant Principal Podcast * LinkedIn * 1/30-minute-coaching-call * Free:Book Give Away: Stage 1

Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here. SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

Prioritize Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) amid challenges.
Focus on scheduling, intervention strategies and enrichment.
7-period day versus a rotating block schedule to better address the educational needs of students.
Tips to overcome significant learning gaps through targeted interventions.
Discussion on implementing intervention and enrichment within regular classes.
Importance of data analysis and targeted mini-lessons.
Implementing essential standards and co-teaching approaches.

Get the episode transcript here!

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

effective email management and communication strategies to alleviate overload.
The need for ongoing learning and collaboration with others to enhance leadership skills.
AI-powered coaching tool for teachers for reflection and personal growth.
School Initiatives and Challenges
Planning for the next academic year
Discussion on redesigning the bell schedule
Introduction of WIN (What I Need) time for student support
Identifying non-negotiable skills for middle school students
Overcome the struggle with managing a high volume of emails.
Create the ideal day and work-life balance.
Establishing healthy habits through meal planning to increase energy levels, and better mental well-being.

Get the episode transcript here!

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

Challenges in school culture can lead to a lack of trust and effectiveness.
Student discipline concerns often reflect broader cultural issues within the school.
Tips to overcome a divisive incident regarding school policy.
Effective resolutions with union involvement and petitions.
Impact of emotional decisions about safety and fairness.
Foster a culture of "gracious assumptions" for thoughtful communication and reduce snap judgments.
Tackle potential conflicts early, reducing anxiety among staff and students.

Get the episode transcript here!

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

Shifting from accomplishment-focused education to learning and community contribution.
Balancing community values with educational objectives.
Strategies for engaging family and community input in education.
Tips to celebrate hard conversations about bias on campus.
Challenges of high-performing school environments and pressure on students.
Balancing traditional educational values with new workplace demands.
Engaging families in conversations about their aspirations for their children.
Find your “square squad’, mode vulnerability and seek support.

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

Boosting Leadership Effectiveness in a Post-Pandemic World.
Aligning professional development with collective beliefs relevant for all.
Delivering effective, equitable support for every student.
Balancing staff readiness and innovation with potential risks.
Strategic resource allocation: Maximizing human capital.
Empowering top teachers to impact students who need it the most.
Aligning practices with beliefs (individual vs. collective).
Achieving clarity in advancing organizational and staff goals.

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Every principal deserves high quality coaching and mentorship.

Who is your coach or mentor?
What would you be able to accomplish with help figuring out how to accomplish your biggest goals?

At Ruckus Maker HQ we have two great options for you:

Option 1: Join the BRAND NEW Ruckus Maker Club. Learn more here

Option 2: Join The Ruckus Maker Mastermind™ our flagship program. Learn more here.

Show Highlights

Essential tips for first-year principals,
Be aware of political landscape and power structures
Use a 'political heat map' to map relationships within staff
Make time for support staff and 12-month employees
And much more….
Ruckus Maker Club Benefits
Provides focused social media alternative for professional growth
Encourages a proactive approach to leadership by breaking down larger objectives into manageable plans.
Clean, easy-to-navigate platform design
Continuous addition of exclusive tools and resources for leaders.

Get the episode transcript here!

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Dr. Chara N. Willaford, founder of Be Your Best Yet Coaching and Consulting, is an educational leader with 25+ years of experience. A National Mentor and Trainer, she specializes in turning around schools, empowering future and early-career principals. Dr. Chara's journey spans roles at state, district, national, and building levels, reflecting a deep commitment to shaping the future of education. Her holistic approach and commitment to continuous learning are embodied in the motto, 'The Best is Yet to Come.

Show Highlights

Powerful principal pipelines for sustainable leadership development.
Strategies to overcome imposter syndrome in educational leadership.
Stop downselling yourself and putting a ceiling on what you can accomplish.
Making the invisible visible for aspiring leaders.
Importance of developing a CEO mentality for principals.
Work-life harmony for long term sustainment in the job.
Scheduling thinking time for strategic planning.
Guidelines for building collective excellence for your teams.

“When I think about working with leaders, the beauty of having this big bird's eye view at the state level, and I would even say at the national level, because I work with leaders at that place as well, is that the commonalities are the same. It doesn't matter if you're in one state or the next. If you're in a smaller district or a bigger district, the need for coaching, the need to have a community that you can lean upon is ever so present in leaders for today. The overall stress of ensuring that we have school communities that work for kids is something that transcends every leader.”

-Dr. Chara N. Willaford

Get the episode transcript here!

Dr. Chara’s Resources & Contact Info: * www.beyourbestyet.org * Twitter * Linkedin * Instagram * Facebook * Get Updates from Dr Chara * Coaching with Dr. Chara

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Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

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Adam Stolzer is the Burwell Jr./Sr. High School Principal located in Burwell, Ne. Adam is an educational leader who makes a ruckus with his mobile office, Longhorn Support Days, and helps facilitate bringing out students' passions. Adam takes great pride in leaving a daily legacy of being a model of support for students.

Show Highlights

Strategies aimed at enhancing student engagement and behavior.
Improvement in absences with motivational reward days off.
Power of Purple and Passion in Education.
Mobile office strategy to increase accessibility and communication.
Exposing students to diverse opportunities and hands-on learning.
Belief that tough conversations lead to growth and evolution.

“Unless we can have honest conversations with ourselves, with our staff, with our peers, colleagues, I don't think that evolution is there. And eventually, if you don't have tough conversations, you get stuck in a status quo because everybody's just comfortable. And if you want to grow, you want to learn something new, you have to get uncomfortable.”

-Adam Stolzer

Get the episode transcript here!

Adam’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: Professional Website * Cornhusker Chats * X/Twitter * Facebook: Burwell Jr-Sr High School * X/Twitter: BHSLonghorns

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Kathy Kolbe is an acclaimed theorist, best-selling author and pioneer, Kathy Kolbe was the first to prove the existence of the conative mental faculty, which causes us to act, react and interact. She has spent over 40 years collecting and analyzing conative traits to help us be ourselves. She founded Kolbe Corp, was CEO for 30 Years, and is now its Chairman Emerita. Nicole Loucks is the Vice President of Youth and Education Programs and Director of Training at Kolbe Corp, Nicole has the privilege of working directly with business leaders, educators, and students alike to help them understand their innate strengths and how to utilize them in the ways they care about most. Nicole is passionate about educational advocacy and helping children. Show Highlights

Take a powerful personal assessment tool to give purpose to your leadership.
Schools don't meet the needs of students with diverse learning styles.
Most teachers lead with Fact Finder or Follow Through modes.
Building on strengths is crucial for better employee performance and relationships.
Conation vs cognition in schools.
Student Aptitude Quiz provides tips and tricks for using strengths productively.
Educators and parents play crucial roles in giving purpose to youth.
Communication possibilities for cognitive conflicts

“‘We're going to change everything.’ That's super stressful for a lot of people to hear in the education field. It's all about how to communicate and deliver work collaboratively together with those differences so that you are able to reach that purpose. I don't know any educator who's gone past the first year principal or teacher or assistant who's not there because their purpose is to help kids, but you have to understand their approaches to help. Bottom line, to educators, if your purpose is to help kids learn, I think the first thing they have to help is how they learn. They need to understand themselves and how they learn best. And by helping students learn how they learn and the joy of learning, then they become purposeful in their learning. And then the teacher feels I've accomplished a goal.”

-Kathy Kolbe

Get the episode transcript here! Kathy Kolbe and Nicole Loucks’s Resources & Contact Info: * Kolbe A Assessment * Student Aptitude Quiz * Kids and Parenting Solutions | Kolbe.com * The History of Kolbe Corp

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Hannah’s story began in a blue pickup truck at age 12. Sparked by this intro to business by her dad, she went to college early, graduating with her bachelors at 18.

Now, Hannah is the Chief Rebel at d’Skills - a hub where students turbo-charge their passions with AI, then convert them into paid, real-world projects. Chris Lochhead calls her "one of the most important voices in education today" and a school administrator called her "offensive to some."

Show Highlights

avoid obsolete education and turbocharge student passion with AI The Skills.
Unique differentiation for students to build income and professional networks at school.
Challenge negative perceptions surrounding AI with these top tools.
Expedition AI is an innovative educational approach critical for an AI-driven future.
Internships for students without needing extra staff or an IT specialist.
AI is going to touch every single career. Are your students future ready?
71% of the employers are not hiring people who don't have AI skills. Get d’Skills to develop AI literacy for your students.

“I'd want a Ruckus Maker to remember that students are capable of so much more than any system curriculum any of us could possibly imagine. And if we can find that one part of them to unlock, if we can be that person who helps unlock that potential, then we've done our job. That's our job as educators, as mentors, and as people who inspire kids, is to unlock that one bit of potential. And once they can do that and turbocharge that with AI, they're gonna be unstoppable.”

-Hannah Grady Williams

Join Expedition AI for Schools here!!

Get the episode transcript here!

Hannah’s Resources & Contact Info: * 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report: AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part * d'Skills * Projects students have completed: d'SKILLS DISPATCH * Free sprints: 1 Day AI-Project Sprints! — d'Skills * Join Expedition AI for Schools here. * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Ari Gerzon-Kessler is author of On The Same Team: Bringing Educators & Underrepresented Families Together, which won the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2024 IPPY Gold Medal for outstanding education book. He is a speaker, trainer, and coach working with schools and districts committed to forging stronger school-family partnerships. Ari also leads the Family Partnerships department for the Boulder Valley School District (CO).

Ari has been an educator since 2000, having served as a principal and bilingual teacher. His leadership efforts to strengthen partnerships with underrepresented families and dismantle unjust practices was featured in Education Week in 2015. Ari regularly presents at national and international conferences on Families and Educators Together (FET) teams and other innovative family partnership best practices. He received his bachelor’s in African American Studies from Wesleyan University and a master’s in instruction and curriculum from the University of Colorado.

Show Highlights

Shifts that translate into higher learning with family access opportunities.
Centering family voices in educational decision-making to improve student learning.
3 minute activities to skip challenges due to time constraints on initiatives.
Challenge the status quo in the ways that we engage with families.
Same Team Bringing Educators and Underrepresented Families together, to redesign education.
Small pockets of time that expose staff to best practices that increase choice.
Supportive spaces that increase value because leaders don't provide guidance.

“And the heart of the FET( Family and Educators Together) teams is creating the kind of space where everyone feels like their voice is deeply valued and that we're co-creating transformational change so that we're designing a school for everyone, not just based on what's worked in the past. It's composed of educators and the school leader. And that's a pivotal piece.”

-Ari Gerzon-Kessler

Get the episode transcript here!!

Ari’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Families and Educators Together Project — Mediators Foundation * Ari's School-Family Partnerships Resources to Support Your Next Steps * Linkedin * Facebook * Solution Tree link for book and free reproducibles: On the Same Team |

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Where is the Teacher? 12 Shifts for a Student Centered Classroom

Kyle Wagner, the founder of Transform Educational Consulting Limited, has always had a bold mission since he became an educator 15+ years ago: Create transformational learning experiences that connect students' interests and passions to issues that matter in the real world. This bold mission has literally taken him around the world. From the design of living museums, model governments, and engaging project-based experiences as a Humanities Teacher in world renowned High Tech High in San Diego; to co-founding student-led programs and schools as a Program Director in China; Kyle has remained true to that mission, and vowed to share it with others.

His book, The Power of Simple, outlines the simple shifts classrooms and schools can make to allow for these experiences, and the conditions required to ensure they have lasting impact. Kyle currently resides in Hong Kong, where through workshops, coaching, courses and bespoke training, he has now empowered over 1,000 forward thinking educators worldwide to create more socially, globally, and emotionally aware citizens through project-based learning.

Show Highlights

12 shifts for student-centered environments.
The difference between engagement and empowerment in education.
The next step you need to take is to Implementation of inquiry-based learning.
Importance of making small changes in the physical classroom setup.
Formulate a big question to create an inquiry framework designed by students.
Unpack the 3 key factors for motivation.
Create magic with a mindset shift to scaffold learning for students with their own interests.
Classroom transformations through peer-to-peer teaching.

“With inquiry, it's like when you take your dog off the leash for the first time and you haven't trained them to be off the leash, they're going to run off. But if you've gone through that process of like, ‘Okay you're going to walk beside me first.’ We're going to make sure that when the traffic comes, you're not going to freak out, then you slowly give them more opportunities where they can really formulate their own inquiries. They know what kind of interests are, they know how to ask deeper questions. And that's something that the teacher can support as a facilitator moving from that front of the classroom role.”

-Kyle Wagner

Get the episode transcript here!

Kyle’s Resources & Contact Info: * Transform Educational Consulting Limited * Where is the Teacher? * Twitter * Linkedin * Kyle Wagner - YouTube * The Power of Simple

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

The power of SIMPLE: Transform your school by conquering standards, individualizing learning and creating a community of innovators

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Graham Dugoni is the founder and CEO of Yondr. Founded in 2014, Yondr is the pioneer of “phone-free spaces.” The company helps educators, artists, and organizations around the world create distraction-free environments where focus and creativity can flourish in the absence of technology.

Show Highlights

Phone-free spaces and its benefits for students and teachers.
Reduction in behavioral issues and increased student engagement.
Steps to implement phone-free policies in schools, starting with leadership commitment.
Clear communication of the benefits and policy details to all stakeholders.
Addressing student resistance and creative attempts to bypass new policies.
Importance of clear consequences and consistent enforcement.
Positive changes in school culture and student interactions.
Support from Yonder in policy implementation and community engagement.

“I started the company in 2014 with young people in mind. And ir started from the point of view that smartphones and social media were radically new and there were going to be a lot of unintended consequences, basically, especially for young people. And I thought that it was my generation's responsibility to give them a sense and the experience of what life is like for at least 8 hours a day without that, so they could get perspective on them.

-Graham Dugoni i

“It always starts with leadership, with someone who says,'I see this problem and how phones and social media are affecting my students and the way they're developing and their focus in the classroom and the way it affects my teachers and their ability to get to feel effective in their environment.' What we do is we come and say, 'Okay, here's how the honor product works. Here's how our program works.' But the most important thing is for you to get the commitment of your community. And that's what we always start with. We start with helping principals or superintendents to get that commitment from their community. That's the community, parents, that's very important, but also teachers and administrators in the school.”

-Graham Dugoni i

Get the episode transcript here!

Graham’s Resources & Contact Info: * Yondr

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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A Ruckus Maker Club for innovative school leaders who want to do school differently with shared ideas and support.
Ruckus Maker Club features and benefits
Access to tools and free content
Coaching calls
Innovation labs
Accountability space.
Discussions on challenges in educational leadership
Tech support and event recordings.
Inventive solutions on challenges working within resistant systems.
Practical, actionable strategies for innovation provided by the club.
The value between the Ruckus Maker Club and free online content.
Download the Ruckus Maker eight-step goal setting tool.

“Imagine a space where innovative educational leaders from around the world come together. It's a place where you can find support, share ideas, and learn from others who are successfully shaking things up in their schools. I created the Ruckus Maker club because I believe that together we can do school differently and create the future of education. The Ruckus Maker Club is designed for those of you who refuse to accept the status quo.”

-Danny Bauer

Get the episode transcript here!

Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Become a Founding Member of The Ruckus Maker Club Today!

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Lindsay Cravens is currently in transition from being the High School Principal at Stockton (KS) for the past 3 years to my new position of High School Principal at Republic County (Belleville, KS). This fall will be her final semester working towards my EdS in District Administration from Fort Hays State University.

Show Highlights

Impact of 'Build Leadership Momentum' on her interview process and confidence.
Dynamic book insights, strategies and leadership philosophy.
Importance of being calm and prepared as a leader.
Keys to building relationships and enjoying the job.
Importance of admitting mistakes and learning from them.
Value of mentorship and continuous learning.
Community support, including help from the FFA group.
Tips to provide for all students and create a supportive environment.

“The book gave me a lot of good talking points and planning points to go from not only in the interview, but to feel more prepared. And then I'm going to use some of those pieces going into the next school year as well. So now I will be the high school principal in Belleville.”

-Lindsay Cravens

Get the episode transcript here!

Lindsay’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Facebook

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Charles Hartney is the Head of Upper School and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion coordinator at The Park School of Buffalo, a progressive, independent school serving students from PreK and Montessori through Grade 12. Outside of school, Charlie is a proud husband and father of two, an avid reader, and a lifelong Buffalo sports fan. #GoBills.

Show Highlights

Create intentional deposits with every member of your learning community.
Charles' highlights his quest from transitioning from teacher to administrator within the same building.
Significance of seeking help by involving others in decision-making processes.
Cultivate a celebratory culture without having to be the cheerleader type.
A culture team doesn’t exist without both faculty and student representatives.
Importance of curiosity, compassion, and community in education.
A framework that gives you the permission to be the kind of leader that you want to be.

“I want people to remember that you don't have to be in a moment of crisis to seek help, to get unstuck or to think again about the work that you do. If anybody out there is like me and has been resistant to help in the past, or feels like they might be burdening other people by asking for help, or just feels like they should have all the answers, I would encourage you to find ways to get yourself unstuck, to seek out that help. Because once you have the support that you need, the work you're going to be able to do for your schools and for your faculty and for your families and for your students is going to be immeasurable. You can do incredible things.”

-Charles Hartney

Get the episode transcript here!

Charles’ Resources & Contact Info: * The Park School of Buffalo * Linkedin.

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Ph.D., is a scientist turned designer who has created and facilitated a wide range of learning experiences in design, creativity, and innovation at the Stanford d.school and beyond. Her creative methods include the use of emerging technologies to help people grow as self-directed, action-oriented, reflective, and responsible shapers of the future. She co-directs the University Innovation Fellows Program and is an adjunct professor at the Stanford School.

Leticia has a PhD in developmental biology from Stanford University and is a former member of the Research in Education & Design Lab.

Show Highlights

Tips to avoid traumatic teaching where students learn in spite of what we do and create assignments ensure agency.
Leveraging reflection is a Ruckus Maker super power to gain more depth.
Experiment 4: to focus on who you really are when you're out there in the world.
Fixed identities get in the way of learning. Explore the multiple identities or elements of identities out there.
Fascinating questions to elevate the answers as the thing that is valued.
The value of reflecting forward and technology infused with teaching and learning connection.
1st, 2nd, 3rd order consequences to the work you do.

“Best to start small and sneaky. Ruckus Makers are change makers. It's hard. Instead of thinking when I have resources and when I have x, y, and z, I'll be able to do ABC, what do you have right now? How can you do something small? Actually, intentionally small, that is going to maximize your learning, allow you to learn something and challenge your assumptions. Going back full circle to the beginning of my story as a teacher, we have more levers to play and more control about things that we can experiment, that we think, just thinking about what is my sphere of influence and what can I do?”

-Leticia Britos Cavagnaro

Get the episode transcript here!

Leticia’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Experiments in Reflection * Riff | Sharpen your Reflective Skills with AI

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Laura Di Franco is the CEO of Brave Healer Productions, an award-winning publisher for holistic health and wellness professionals. She spent 30 years in holistic physical therapy, has 14 years of training in the martial arts, and has authored 10 books. Her company has published over 60 Amazon bestselling books with a global community of over 1000 authors who are waking the world up to what’s possible for healing, one brave word at a time.

Show Highlights

Your healing journey begins with living, healing and Taekwondo.
Leverage the wisdom in your community through expert collaboration tips.
Get a daily nap with ‘Awareness Practice’ to pause quickly before burnout.
Mindful body awareness is key to rejuvenation for your entire body.
Top 3 ways to boost your holistic health.
Overcoming the practice of ‘not feeling’ and speaking with your body.
Respond to life instead of react with Box Breathing and Sound Healing.

“People can shift, never at their expense. You're just not going to do any kind of good in the world if you don't start with yourself. I've got this favorite mantra. I love having enough time, energy, money, and resources to generously take care of myself and everyone I love and serve. I had to come first. And so when I have all those things and I'm feeling good and I'm taking care of myself, then the overflow is what I'm serving from. I never have to, like, tap into the reserves.”

-Laura Di Franco

Get the episode transcript here!

Laura’s Resources & Contact Info: * Brave Healer Productions * Facebook * Instagram.com * Linkedin * Brave Healer Productions - YouTube * Other Pages for Brave Kids Books: * https://www.instagram.com/bravekidsbooks/ * https://www.facebook.com/bravekidsbooks/ * Listening to Smile

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Danielle Nuhfer, a former teacher turned coach and author of "The Path of the Mindful Teacher," has dedicated over 20 years to supporting educators in navigating the challenges of the school system. As the founder of Teaching Well, she works with teachers and school leaders to prioritize well-being and transform schools into thriving learning communities.

Show Highlights

The crucial role of school administrators' support and mindfulness practices to avoid teacher burnout.
Practical applications of the TLC framework in teaching.
The TLC framework to help teachers with emotional regulation and self-awareness.
Managing one's inner landscape to improve teaching outcomes.
Practical examples of how mindfulness changes interactions with students.
Ways to find well-being leaders among teachers.
Importance of emotional regulation and self-awareness for teachers.
"Teaching Well in Schools" professional development and wellness coaching to foster well-being among educators.

“The biggest thing is … you have the conversations, even if there's no evidence of change, you might not see it, but the words that you speak to the teachers and the doors that you open just through asking those simple questions, you might not see what happens on the other side, but they matter. I'm living proof of that. 20 years after the fact, I've remembered that conversation, and it has shaped the trajectory of where I'm at. I want all Ruckus Makers to know that.”

-Danielle Nuhfer

Danielle’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * The Path of the Mindful Teacher • Teaching Well * Teaching Well Life Call * Teaching Well

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Andy Rodford is the Principal of Venture Gained Consulting and works with school, camp, and business leaders to build capacity. He’s been involved in education for 30 years, holding senior roles at various independent schools, and is passionate about experiential learning. He has degrees in Science, Education, and leadership and loves wood carving, outdoor adventures, and helping others unearth potential.

Show Highlights

Every interaction is an opportunity for managing trust and building relationships.
Overcoming the 'yeah, but' stage challenge of receiving hard feedback.
Make a goal board for effectively receiving and implementing feedback.
211 degrees will change the state of your school.
Throw a ‘Failure Fest” to celebrate productive failure.
Consulting and counseling in leadership to avoid isolation.
Live out what's most important to your values with a ‘dump journal.’

“ There's nobody that's going to help you move ahead in your leadership and as a school leader than the people that you're working with. And if you try to pretend that you're something that you're not, when everybody is giving you feedback that you're not doing what they hoped that you would be doing, you're going to be ground into the halt over time because people will just start to disconnect. And that is part of the management of trust.”

-Andy Rodford

Get the episode transcript here!

Andy’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Venture Gained Consulting Inc.

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Alexandra Mejia, who goes by Sasha, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice specializing in working with complex trauma, dissociation, and personality disorders. She aims to de-stigmatize trauma and personality disorders through her social media platforms and Clinical Residency Program and to spread the word on using DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) to settings outside of therapy.

Show Highlights

Coexistence of self-acceptance and change through Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques.
Walk ‘the middle path’ to promote awareness through mindfulness practices.
Resolve conflicts by observing internal opposing forces.
Create an inclusive educational environment emphasizing life skills education over traditional teaching methods.
Emphasizes applying mindfulness to daily activities and thoughts.
Distinguishing between reality and thoughts to enhance accountability.
3 Guiding Principles that align coursework with student passions as key principles for schools.
Applying mindfulness skills to navigate various challenges effectively.

“In dialectics, we like to call it walking the middle path. And it's taking a look at the positives and the negatives at each side of the dialectic. Let's say one side of the dialectic, there is self acceptance. And who out there doesn't want to find an experience? Self acceptance. It's a wonderful thing. We think we are more confident. We are less likely to be down on ourselves and to talk down to ourselves. If we're self accepting, we're not going to struggle as much or be as anxious or be as depressed if we're accepting of ourselves.”

-Sasha Mejia

Get the episode transcript here!

Sasha’s Resources & Contact Info: * Mindfulness with Sasha * Linkedin * Facebook * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Robyn Hamasaki is the Managing Director of Leadership Development at the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Leading a multidisciplinary team of Leading & Learning, Student Program Operations, Recognition & Engagement, and External Relations, she fosters the growth and engagement of school leaders, advisers, and students through impactful programs and services nationwide. Previously, she established the Principal Leadership Institute at Colorado's Department of Education. Her career has included roles as a principal, assistant principal, educator, and a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Show Highlights

The power of asking questions in education
The impact of understanding individual student needs.
Tips to build trust with students can lead to better educational outcomes.
Importance of growing your network and taking an extra day to synthesize learnings.
Cultural shock and inclusion are keys to belonging in education.
How to maximize the experience at the United conference
Details about the conference strands and keynote speakers.

“The power and magic of feeling included, noticed, and a sense of belonging is paramount. And it's paramount in education, where every day, as a principal, as a teacher, you know, we need to see our kids, and we need to help them feel seen and that we need to help them realize that they matter 100%.”

-Robyn Hamasaki

“Leadership matters. You matter. People look up to you. You are a role model. Everything you do, people are watching, kids are watching, babies are watching, and every student is someone's baby. And so what we do with students matters. And whether you're having a good day or a bad day, you matter. So keep up the good work, and we believe in you. You are doing an amazing, impossible job during turbulent, challenging times. And you are the unsung heroes of education and democracy.”

-Robyn Hamasaki

Get the episode transcript here!

Robyn’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Robyn Hamasaki (@hamasaki_r) / X * UNITED 2024 in Nashville

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Camp is Head of Teaching & Learning at NEIA. He oversees the development of systems to recruit, hire, support, and evaluate teachers and helps teachers develop and implement the curriculum. He's been a leader and a teacher at a variety of schools throughout his 29-year career: boarding, day, single-sex and college.

Show Highlights

‘Aim to teach what cannot be googled.’
NIA's unique mashed up of 5 different assessment systems for mastery learning.
A needed mindset shift to let go of rigid structures and embrace innovative approaches.
'X Days' for teaching and learning flexibility with integration across subjects and collaboration.
Transforming traditional school systems through the power of letting go.
Unlearning traditional methods among parents, students, and staff
Strategies for effectively communicating changes and supporting stakeholders through transitions and school policies.
Avoids siloed learning with ‘Spiraling Curriculum.’
Targeted feedback with single panel rubric feedback feedback

“We have a mindset that we're going to be flexible. We're going to help you achieve the things you want to achieve or pursue the things you want to pursue. And for a lot of students, especially post Covid in this day and age of AI and everything else, that helping a student navigate an academic path that they have some ownership in is really liberating.”

-John Camp

“My biggest thing for Ruckus Makers is to make sure you have the courage to change education. We're relying on you to be a Ruckus Maker. We're relying on you. We need you to do that. Otherwise the inertia of the system will steamroll and just keep going. And so, yes, as we've talked about, being a Ruckus Maker is not for everybody, and it's not easy. If you have that feeling inside at all about change, we're relying on you to do it. Get out there and do it. Act outside the box and get it done.”

-John Camp

Get the episode transcript here!

John’s Resources & Contact Info: * Instagram-New England Innovation Academy (@hello.neia) * NEIA's website: www.neiacademy.org

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Veronica Holyoke, has been working in education for 24 years. Originally from the East Coast she moved to Utah in 2012. She has held various leadership roles in the Jordan School District before becoming a school administrator 3 years ago.

Veronica underwent a transformative journey through the Ruckus Maker Mastermind. She initially faced challenges in school leadership and imposter syndrome but found renewed joy and confidence upon joining the program. Through activities like the hot seat, she received practical advice and support from educators globally, fostering a supportive community that helped her overcome obstacles in both professional and personal life.

Veronica describes her new perspectives on leadership effectiveness. With aspirations for advanced research in educational practices and leading a lab school, she credits the mastermind for instilling confidence and clarity about her career path. She sees herself using her leadership capabilities to one day get a PhD in education to do the latest research to support the future of education. Her ultimate goal is to work collaboratively with school districts to research best practices, especially in terms of classroom management and behaviorism.

In less than 90 days after joining the Ruckus Maker Mastermind, Veronica was named the assistant principal of the year for her district and since recording this podcast she was named the assistant principal of the year for the state of Utah.

Show Highlights

Thrive amidst external challenges for a "life-changing" experience and new perspectives on leadership effectiveness.
Professional development opportunities with practical reflective practices and deep listening to enhance leadership skills.
Action-oriented approach with steps and support from the Mastermind
The lack of a leadership roadmap strands leaders when facing difficult conversations.
Navigate ambiguity and the importance of adapting to challenges in leadership roles.
Defeating imposter syndrome and reconnecting with joy in work
Tools for flipping mindsets from challenges to smooth with colleagues to create more value on campus.

“The structure of the sessions (Mastermind) is that we don't just moan and groan. We have an agenda. And the thing I love about it the most as a former instructional coach, is the way the questions are asked. I feel like I've never been a part of anything where better questions were asked, and it's actually helped me improve my own level of questioning when I'm in tough situations with people, kids, adults, whatever. The questioning is super fabulous. I knew right at the end that this was the place to be. I just didn't expect, necessarily, the deep dive into my own soul.”

-Veronica Holyoke

Get the episode transcript here!

Veronica’s Resources & Contact Info: * veronica.holyoke@jordandistrict.org

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Michael Frino, Ph. D, Director Organizational Development at Boston Scientific | WSJ Bestselling Author | Performance Researcher. Over the last 25+ years he has worked with Fortune 500 companies in the areas of sales, sales training and leadership development. I am passionate about building high-performing teams and organizational cultures.

He enjoys publishing research on human performance, sales and the euphoric state of flow. His experience has also given him the opportunity to work closely and lead teams responsible for multimedia production, organizational DE&I strategies and marketing competency development.

Katie Desiderio, Ph. D, Assistant Vice President, Corporate-Educational Partnerships | Tenured Professor of Management | Partner in Learning | WSJ Best Selling Author | Mama. Katie counts her blessings starting with the people in her life, which guides her approach to work where her focus is on every organization's most important asset – you! Her personality and behavioral attributes emphasize collaboration and all things that keep human beings in focus, which fuels her intrapreneurial spirit.

As an athlete, she found flow in sports and later discovered flow at work to fuel her professional trajectory. After working for several years in corporate marketing, Katie chose a second career in higher education, where she celebrates the honor of being the first female chairperson of the Economics and Business Department at the sixth oldest institution in America and first to educate women.

As the mama of two extraordinary girls, she is committed to the development of rising leaders, namely in the spirit of leading from any seat. Along with her work as a tenured faculty member at Moravian University, Desiderio is Principal Partner in Learning of Proximal Development, LLC, an authorized DiSC partner, specializing in leadership development and the advancement of performance through learning.

Upon completion of her doctorate in Organizational Learning and Leadership, Katie has been co-authoring scholar-practitioner journal articles, conference proceedings, and now this book with her learning partner and friend. Join them on this journey to inspire how you will pollinate the world!

Show Highlights

Unceremoniously squash the queen bee of your hive to put productivity front and center.
Embracing messiness in leadership is essential for generating new ideas and encouraging diverse perspectives.
Learning and unlearning are vital components of value creation and collective progression when creating change.
Encouraging people to lead from any seat to create influencers around you to engage your entire community.
Maximize production in your “hive” with a hexagon shape collaboration.
Place yourself the center of someone's growth to create the honey in your bee hive.
Get your FREE growth guides that encourage learning in the space of curiosity for deep level diversity.

“There's an opportunity here to think about change agents. As Ruckus Makers, we have to continually turn the lens to be able to self reflect, to think about value creation.”

-Katie Desiderio

“We can't let that serve as a blind spot for us to think about the impact on the collective whole. For all of us to be able to hit the pause button to say, ‘I probably could have done that better,’ or ‘how could I rephrase that or how could I look at this from a different lens to try to do it different or to bring someone else that might be more effective than I am in this space.’”

-Katie Desiderio

“If you don't have a philosophy that you can share how you're going to lead the good, the bad, and ugly and share it, then the environment that you're creating may not be one that's vulnerable and authentic, and people will just see you as kind of a hierarchical leader. And that's not what we're trying to encourage. We're trying to convert, encouraging buyers where everybody can lead from every seat. It's okay to bring your best self to work, come as you are, choose the lens you want, but let's all work at this together.”

-Michael Frino

“When we think about being innovators and disruption and demonstrating a ruckus, you have to go through a process, and it has to be messy. It can't be so rigid. The best ideas come when the process is messy, and you have to allow yourself permission to do that. Some people are really uncomfortable in that space, but getting out of your comfort zone, whiteboarding, brainstorming, being messy, will bring to life brand new ideas, brand new concepts, and probably allow people who have really great ideas to speak up that may not otherwise be heard, be messy.” -Michael Frino

Get a copy of the episode transcript here!

Katie and Michael’s Resources & Contact Info: * Leadership Fables * Linkedin:Michael * Linkedin:Katie * Twitter / X-Katie * Katie P Desiderio-Facebook * Twitter/X-Michael

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Register for the 2024 Spring Success Series here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/2024-spring-success-series/

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Navigating the Path of Educational Leadership

Pablo Muñoz is the managing director of Muñoz & Company, an educational and leadership consulting organization. A first-generation high school graduate, Muñoz earned a bachelor’s in psychology from Yale University and a master’s in educational administration from Columbia University.

He has thirty years of experience as a teacher and administrator and was a

superintendent for sixteen years. Muñoz was named one of the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s Daring Dozen—a prestigious group working to reshape the future of education.

He is the son of Luz and Pablo Muñoz, both from Aguada, Puerto Rico, and the proud father of two daughters, Cecilia and Sadie.

Show Highlights

The Leader's Algorithm," is a simple equation you execute consistently with public accountability to transform your life, work, and schools.
Unique word association for interviews to assess candidates' understanding of the instructional core.
8.5 × 11 paper holds a leader's true north to stay focused amid distractions and challenges.
Public education sits at the center of raw, brass, knuckle, bloodsport politics. Important actions you need to take as a leader.
The three L's that provide students with learning experiences beyond the classroom.
“Personal Theory of Action” is crucial for leaders to stay focused and accountable amidst the noise.
Getting ready to fail kindergarten reflects on the questions and conversations all leaders must have in their learning communities.

“Improving the lives of children should be everyone's legacy in education.”

-Pablo Munoz

“It's important for the Ruckus Makers to know why I wrote the book. And for me, it was one word, ‘help.’ I wanted to write a book to help aspiring, new, and current school administrators. My vision for the book was to share what I learned from my 30 year journey in public education, 16 years of that as Superintendent of schools… My hope is that aspiring current and new administrators, school administrators, will read the book, and then they will use the book to create a leadership framework and strategy to lead and manage their schools and their school districts.”

-Pablo Munoz

Get the episode transcript here!

Pablo’s Resources & Contact Info: * Muñoz & Company * The Leader's Algorithm * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Come to The Sustainable School Leadership Summit and bring a friend for free!
Register today: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Bradley James Davies

A Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Program graduate and ICF-certified coach with over two decades of corporate and nonprofit leadership experience, he works with clients to help them optimize their lives both at work and at home.

A strategic listening expert and dedicated leadership wellness practitioner, he speaks and facilitates workshops on “Next Level Listening: How to Be the Best Listener in the Room” and “Leadership Wellness 101: How to Lead Well Without Losing Your Way.”

Born and raised in Minnesota, when not exploring our inspiring planet, he calls Crested Butte, Colorado and Madrid, Spain home.

Show Highlights

Pulling weeds versus watering plants leadership strategy.
The one person on the planet who is most easily deceived. What to avoid in leadership.
The recipe we've been given to be a transformational school leader is fundamentally unhealthy.
Maintaining your well being need not be as rare as a copy machine that never breaks down.
Build yourself a “Buddy Bench” to maintain personal and professional effectiveness.
Ruckus Makers, straddle the space between what is and what could be.
The biggest bang for your school improvement buck comes from walking out of the emergency room.

“My body woke me up to what my head and heart wouldn't let me see. And that's particularly how I really resonate with Ruckus Makers. People who are trying to make tomorrow's school a reality today. People who are really challenging that status quo. I was that. So how do ruckus makers respond to adversity? We work harder. We love more, we give more than we give. And so I was really blinded to the low point I was getting to and my body woke me up.

“I was flourishing at work, I was floundering where it mattered most, at home and with my family and friends. And that's what I hope my book and my work now can help Ruckus Makers do, is to avoid the place where I got so they can continue to thrive in their work and have the impact that they're having.”

-Bradley James Davies

Get the episode transcript here!

Bradley’s Resources & Contact Info: * www.bradleyjamesdavies.com * Instagram * Linkedin * Facebook * Tiktok * Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Nick Saccaro is the President of Quest Food Management Services, providing onsite food and hospitality services to K-12 schools and other organizations throughout the Midwest. A proven innovator and leader in the industry, Nick has 15+ years generating rapid, sustained growth and high-performing teams. Prior to his food service industry roles, Nick worked for Feeding America for nearly a decade.

Show Highlights

Leadership defining moment at a community garden.
Unique approach to recognizing staff members and building relationships
Leveraging food service to connect classroom learning with real-world experiences
Ways to let student voices shape educational experience.
Evolution of students' preferences towards customized and authentic food experiences.
Implementing the 15 commitments of conscious leadership
Tips to speak with empathy and without argumentation is key to valuing everyone at your school.
Dignity is the key for leaders in learning communities.

“A more almost perfect representation of what the dignity of work is supposed to mean to a person, even if it's not a job that the rest of society might find as glamorous or valuable. As a school leader or a building leader, there are so many people in these positions in your buildings. And while you may not be able to change the economics of what their lives look like, you may not be able to change the pay scales and the pay grades and the benefits and the pensions and all those kinds of things that those individuals have access to. You certainly can impact the way it feels for them to be at work.”

-Nick Saccaro

Get the episode transcript here!!

Episodes’s Resources & Contact Info: * Websites: Quest Food Management Services * Instagram * Facebook * LInkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Vince Bustamante, M.Ed., is a Calgary-based instructional coach, curriculum content developer, and author. Formerly focused on school improvement, Vince now specializes in working with teachers, leadership teams, schools, and school districts in implementing high impact strategies and systems. Vince is currently pursuing his Ed. Doctorate with a focus on the sustainable implementation of professional learning across school districts. Vince has co-authored two bestselling books with Corwin Press: Great Teaching by Design and The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning. His most current title: Leader Ready: Four Pathways to Prepare Aspiring School Leaders is also available from Corwin Press.

Tim Cusack Ed.D. has over 30 years’ experience in K-12 education as a teacher, principal, and superintendent. He recently became Dean of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton, supporting teacher and school leader preparation programs. Tim has a doctorate from University of Portland with a focus on preparing aspiring school leaders. He also serves in the Royal Canadian Navy as a Naval Warfare Officer.

Show Highlights

"Leader Ready: Four Pathways to Prepare Aspiring School Leaders."
Challenge traditional leadership predictors to support younger educators and foster a culture of growth belonging.
Be the “dive master” your team needs to take risks and discover their voice.
"Hold the ladder steady” to help leverage the gifts of aspiring leaders.
Strategies for results over building a resume for leadership success.
How to create an environment for team members to flourish.
3 categories on how you run a school and navigate the policies, procedures, etcetera.
Pathways for leadership development and impactful school culture.

“What really impressed me the most was I was with a leader who made it abundantly clear that my voice mattered, that my opinions were important in that learning dynamic. He didn't assume I knew something or presumed that he knew better in any way, shape, or form. But by really being authentic and getting to know who the aspiring leaders are in front of you, I think you can really take them to deeper levels of engagement and understanding.”

-Tim Cusack

“Listening is really important. Nonjudgmental listening. So if you're in senior leadership and you have some sort of rising star or shooting star or someone who's doing remarkable things, give them a platform to share what they're doing and just honestly listen to how that came about.

Something that a senior leader needs to recognize and say, what are you doing? And how can we help you continue to do that within our district? Because every district has someone that is doing remarkable things. Everyone, every district has some sort of Ruckus Maker that's doing something outside the box, whether it's in their classroom or in their school or in their role. Oftentimes the Ruckus Maker or the ruckus they are making is perceived as negative, when really it may just be a misunderstanding of what they're actually trying to do.I think honestly listening is really important.”

-Vince Bustamante

Get the episode transcript here!

Episodes’s Resources & Contact Info: * Leader Ready * Timothy Cusack: Home * Linkedin.Tim-Cusack * Linkedin.Vince Bustamante * Vince Bustamante (Twitter/X) * Tim Cusack Ed. D.🇨🇦 Twitter/X * www.vincebustamante.com

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Loren Brody is an elementary school principal in Northern Virginia. He is also a husband, father of two teenagers, amateur violinist, dedicated swimmer, new vegetarian cook and mindfulness devotee, and Washington Wizards and Nationals sports fan -- still holding onto his New York roots with allegiance to the New York Jets.

Show Highlights

Rebranding is a key focus to differentiate your school effectively to leave a lasting impression.
Turn interviews into a professional learning experience to tap into candidates' motivations and interests.
Tips to stand out in the hiring process and attract ideal candidates for your school.
Enhancing candidate engagement elevates the interview process.
Transforming interviews into professional learning experiences with 3 questions.
Outside of the box email pitch to help differentiate candidates and sell what is unique about your school.
A key adjustment that is essential for your schools survial.

“I'm really pumped about the changes we've made in the email pitch, for sure. I think it's just because the language is exciting. And the language means something real.”

-Loren Brody

“Most educators don't get into education to work with other adults. And that's sort of one of the dirty secrets about K- twelve education. Many educators are great with kids and terrible with adults.

-Danny Bauer

Get the episode transcript here!!

Loren’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Kevin works at the American Cooperative School of Tunis and is the secondary school principal. This is his 23rd year in education. Kevin is originally from Philadelphia, PA USA and is a die-hard sports fan. He has been married for 22 years to his wife Pascale and has three children. Kevin loves learning. In his spare time he does 10 minute yoga and runs two miles everyday.

Show Highlights

A secret weapon that arms you to face global challenges in education.
A transformative experience to boost confidence in handling tough situations to make leadership easier.
Immersing yourself in the “human aspect” of school leadership.
Grow beyond comfort zones with the importance of intentional leadership and narrative control.
Tackle the challenges in front of you with support that fits your diverse leadership style and personality.
A turning point in your career to get to the rewards of school leadership.
Clear the hurdles in school leadership and foster a culture of celebrating successes in a Mastermind.
The positive spotlight tool every leader needs to improve their leadership.

“I think we talked about it a little earlier. I love the combination of how the meetings work. I like being held accountable by a group of educational leaders, and from the book reads, they've been very good. All readers are leaders.You have to be reading. You have to stay current. And that's something that I really appreciate with the Mastermind.”

-Kevin Thomas

Get the episode transcript here!

Kevin’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter * Facebook

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Kristen Horton began her career in education at Navajo Mountain Community School as a teacher in a multi-age classroom. Dr. Horton has a commitment to supporting students and teachers through collective educator agency and relational capacity. Dr. Horton currently serves as principal of Continental Colony Elementary School and founder of

L.E.A.D.S. She understands support for teachers will sustain her “why” every day, to increase life chances for students.

Joseph Hyun started his educator journey at UCSD when he signed up to tutor local high school students and discovered his passion for teaching math and commitment to fighting for social justice. Today Joseph serves as the Head of Partner Success at TeachFX, where he supports teachers in increasing equitable opportunities for their students to participate and engage in learning.

Show Highlights

TeachFX brings significant shifts in leadership for professional learning and coaching.
Leadership strategies to support student learning and teacher growth.
Purpose-driven curricula to save time and address learning gaps.
The most important principle when designing curriculum.
Tips to encourage diverse forms of dialogue that deepen understanding and promote active participation.
Avoid ineffective PD sessions that lack teacher agency by encouraging professional learning.
Support teachers in increasing equitable opportunities for student engagement and participation.
Transferring ownership to students, using these tools.

“The scariest place to be in is the same place as last year, grow."

-Dr Horton

Get the episode transcript here!

Dr Horton’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Instagram * Facebook

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

Quest Food Management Services

Quest Food Management Services provides high-quality, scratch-made food in K-12 schools and universities across the country, prioritizing the health and wellness of students and elevating the cafeteria dining experience. Quest offers a full-service approach to their school partners, bringing 40 years of expertise through every stage of program development and nurturing a true sense of community through interactive events such as student food committees. For more information about Quest Food Management Services, www.questfms.com

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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David Moffa is the Principal at Holy Cross Preparatory Academy, a private school in Delran, NJ serving students in grades 9-12. David has taught at the high school level in both public and private schools, and his mission as a school leader is to build communities where teachers and students feel a deep sense of personal value and empowerment.

Show Highlights

Strategies to build trust within a school community.
Dave shares how the Mastermind is an investment in his growth as a leader, personal development, and leveraging the collective wisdom.
Systems-level thinking for creating an "automatic" school.
Elevate your leadership to the next level through delegation and systems-level thinking.
Principal Checklist to prioritization on what works and what needs improvement.
Tips to start a parent support group, crowdsourcing information on PTO operations and where to get valuable input.
Building a leadership playbook through continuous action and reflection.

“I would use a phrase from Bart Simpson. Work smarter, not harder, that's what it comes down to. Work smarter, not harder. Why spend 6 hours a night on your own trying to solve things when you can come to a group (Mastermind) of people for an hour, bounce ideas off people, learn from other people, grow personally, grow professionally, and all of a sudden, everybody's better off.”

-Dave Moffa

Get the episode transcript here!

Dave’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website:Holy Cross Preparatory Academy * Linkedin * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Mitch became a gifted teacher because he was a mediocre student. Despite taking seven years to graduate college, he navigated the classroom with discomfort. This unique perspective fueled Mitch's teaching approach. Recognizing the importance of laying a foundation for learning, he created Organized Binder. This research-backed strategy empowers teachers to impart executive functioning skills efficiently, preserving valuable instructional time. By establishing a predictable routine, Organized Binder fosters safer learning spaces, shaping Mitch's journey from a struggling student to an innovative educator.

Show Highlights

Navigate the two challenges with teaching executive functions.
“Studentness” will provide the skills and habits to be successful regardless of content and skills.
6 executive functioning skills that framework for the book, Executive Functions for Every Classroom.
“The zone of genius” is embedded in what people are already doing.
A golden opportunity critical for learning with retrieval practice tips.
Never let your teachers start the day this way or plan key concepts.

“Your curriculum, the stuff you're teaching.Have fun, let it be engaging, get passionate about it. Never mess with the routine. A consistent, predictable routine, because predictable learning environments are safer and we can't underestimate for some students how unpredictable their lived experience is outside of class.”

-Mitch Weathers

Get the episode transcript here!

Mitch’s Resources & Contact Info: * Organized Binder * Twitter * Linkedin * Facebook * Book: https://bit.ly/42pCMbq

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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David Moffa is the Principal at Holy Cross Preparatory Academy, a private school in Delran, NJ serving students in grades 9-12. David has taught at the high school level in both public and private schools, and his mission as a school leader is to build communities where teachers and students feel a deep sense of personal value and empowerment.

Show Highlights

Proactive leadership in school management
The value of community engagement in achieving educational excellence.
Spread Positivity and tap into why it matters with a free tool betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive.
Building Communities in Schools where teachers and students feel valued and empowered.
The challenges of figuring out funding, growing enrollment, and organizational structure for the school.
Tailor Programs to Meet Enrollment current educational trends.
Create a career and life prep school with community involvement

“The idea of a college prep school, what we've learned is I'm glad that our need isn't Holy Cross College Prep Academy. What we're learning is we're not focused on college. It can't be just college prep, has to be career and life prep. We're still a preparatory academy, but preparing you for everything.”

-Dave Moffa

Get the episode transcript here!

Dave’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website:Holy Cross Preparatory Academy * Linkedin * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Show Highlights & Resources

Opportunity for educational disruptors to create a lasting influence.
Key cultural values to be addressed at the summit, exemplified by gaping void's culture tiles.
Broadening school success metrics beyond academic scores.
This summer you're invited to attend the ONLY event in education available to Ruckus Makers.
Join us in Nashville this July 12-14 for The Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
Learn more here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/
Jump Start Passes are available until March 15 (50% off ticket price).

Get the episode transcript here!

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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5 Benefits You Will Experience In Nashville

Show Highlights & Resources

Danny highlights five benefits that attendees can expect from the Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
This summer you're invited to attend the ONLY event in education available to Ruckus Makers.
Join us in Nashville this July 12-14 for The Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
Learn more here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/
Jump Start Passes are available until March 15 (50% off ticket price).

Get the episode transcript here!

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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Nurturing Trust and Building Connections In Education

With over two decades of experience as an educator in various school settings, I have cultivated a profound philosophy of education known as Two Rules. This philosophy serves as a foundation for fostering building-wide support for the social-emotional learning and mental health needs of students. Through the years, I witnessed the transformative impact of prioritizing these essential aspects of education, contributing to a positive and nurturing school environment.

Since my retirement from formal education, my commitment to educational advancement has not wavered. I have found a meaningful role as a mentor and coach with the Illinois Principals Association, where I guide and support aspiring and early-career educators. This role allows me to share my wealth of experience and insights, contributing to the growth and development of the next generation of educational leaders.

Show Highlights

Leadership in education focusing collaboration and feeling safe.
Early life incidents influence stress, empathy and resilience.
Tips to help students reflect on emotional regulation and the difference between responding and reacting.
Importance of every student having at least one caring adult.
Guiding questions to encourage students in problem-solving solutions.
12 Resiliency Resources in Brenda's book.
Choose edges on a continuum to guide leadership decisions.

“I think it would be, together we can be the solution. Home, school and community. I think together we can be the solution.”

-Brenda Yoho

“Clarity. How we communicate and how we are clear with what our message is and what we're trying to do. Everybody is valuable to what we're doing, and we're placing value on everything that we're saying. We have so much power in the words that we use, and I think that we forget that as educators.”

-Brenda Yoho

Get the episode transcript here!

Brenda’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website:Brenda Yoho * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Attracting Top Talent / Scorecard

Show Highlights & Resources

School leadership scorecard with seven categories to assess effectiveness.
A tool to set your school apart when competing for teachers with other similar schools.
Set "now" and "next" goals for improvement.
This summer you're invited to attend the ONLY event in education available to Ruckus Makers.
Join us in Nashville this July 12-14 for The Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
Learn more here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/
Jump Start Passes are available until March 15 (50% off ticket price).

Get the episode transcript here! Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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Play it safe principals fear, risks and potential failure.
Embrace the unknown, pivot, and adapt
This summer you're invited to attend the ONLY event in education available to Ruckus Makers.
Join us in Nashville this July 12-14 for The Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
Learn more here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/
Jump Start Passes are available until March 15 (50% off ticket price).

Get the episode transcript here!! Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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This summer you're invited to attend the ONLY event in education available to Ruckus Makers …
Teach about the friction versus flow continuum in school leadership.
Discuss the concept of ruckus makers investing in runways for sustainability.
Encourage firing oneself to build team capacity and open new opportunities.
Join us in Nashville this July 12-14 for The Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
Learn more here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/
Jump Start Passes are available until March 15 (50% off ticket price).

Get the episode transcript here!! Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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This summer you're invited to attend the ONLY event in education available to Ruckus Makers …
Avoid a square peg in a round hole feeling in education.
Emphasis on sustainability in school leadership
Delve into the question of what education is for and the need for innovative shifts in the educational system.
Join us in Nashville this July 12-14 for The Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
Learn more here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/
Jump Start Passes are available until March 15 (50% off ticket price).

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

Bonus: 5 Reason To Come To The Sustainable School Leadership Summit

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Show Highlights & Resources

This summer you're invited to attend the ONLY event in education available to Ruckus Makers …
Friction versus flow continuum in school leadership.
The concept of Ruckus Makers investing in runways for sustainability.
Firing oneself to build team capacity and open new opportunities.
Join us in Nashville this July 12-14 for The Sustainable School Leadership Summit.
Learn more here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/school-leadership-summit/
Jump Start Passes are available until March 15 (50% off ticket price).

Get The Episode Transcript Here!!

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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Husband and father who teaches high school in Cedar Springs, MI. His blog, DaveStuartJr.com, is read by over 50,000 educators each month, and his bestselling These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most has been cherished by teachers and leaders around the world. Accomplished creator of professional development facilitator, having spoken on nearly 200 different occasions, both overseas and in every US state.

Show Highlights

Five key beliefs for cultivating student motivation and desire to learn.
Practical advice for teachers and school leaders for continuous growth
Two questions you need to answers as a school leader
Strategies to avoid sacrificing your personal life on the ‘altar of professional success.’
pedagogy became so much deeper and simpler because of making that decision.
Tips to increase your ruckus ability and make the most of your year.
Free book opportunity to maximize your ruckus factor.

“More kids experience negative emotion in their high school days than experience overwhelmingly positive emotion. So that's a problem. And it's an interesting problem because that goes completely in contrast to everyone's intentions. There's not a single listener, it's not a single parent, not a single teacher that wants that to be true. And yet it is true. And what I argue in the book is it's because we're not paying attention to belief.”

-Dave Stuart

Get the episode transcript here!

Dave’s Resources & Contact Info: * website:Dave Stuart Jr. * DSJR: Get Better at Teaching - YouTube * Twitter * The Blog of Dave Stuart Jr. * FOCUS: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

FOCUS: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning

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Stephanie Pierotti is the Director of Arizona State University's ShapingEDU Community. She leads this transdisciplinary network of over 4,000 "K to grey" education changemakers. Stephanie recently created a partnership with Learning Planet Alliance (powered by Learning Planet Institute in Paris and UNESCO), and forges new collaborative relationships within ASU, and across universities around the world. She also serves as an advisor to REFASHIOND Ventures, pioneers in the refashioning of global apparel supply chains, and as an advisor to Arizona Stitch Lab, a workforce development initiative that teaches industrial sewing skills to Native Americans. Stephanie is also a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt and a certified sommelier.

Show Highlights

Choose your leadership edges with the 5 focus areas of ShapingEDU.
Practical tips and AI chat bots for prioritization of mental health, resilience and retention.
The power of thinking in possibilities and “what if.”
Ask these unconventional questions to drive change in exploring democratizing and decentralizing educational paths.
AI tools are ingredients in a reduction recipe you can’t substitute.
Collectively change the way that lifelong learners learn and how educators educate.
“Solutioneering '' and play as a priority to attract new educators into the education world.

“You are not alone. There is a community of folks out there that share your passion and want to work together to make education better around the world. So stay strong and persevere, be resilient and be curious.”

Get the episode transcript here!

Stephanie’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Shaping EDULinkedin * ShapingEDU * The Age of AI has begun by Bill Gates * Pi, your personal AI

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Daniel Pascoe Aguilar, PhD, MDiv, is passionate about problem solving and collaborating with students, alums, the university community, and community organizations on meaningful partnerships and innovative strategies for the development of a diverse, purpose-driven, interculturally sensitive, and systemic-challenge-ready next generation of leaders. Currently, Daniel is Excelsior University’s CDO & founding director of the Center for Social Justice. Before this, Daniel served in career development, DEI, crisis services and spiritual development leadership roles at diverse universities and organizations in México and the US. Daniel has a PhD and an MS from Indiana University, an MDiv from Palmer Theological Seminary, and a BA in Industrial Design from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in México.

Show Highlights

Capture 100% of the strengths, gifts, brilliance, and humanity of students.
3 commitments Ruckus Maker should make for designing the future of school.
Tools and resources for leveraging intuition in education to elicit engagement and understanding..
Intercultural sensitivity in education and developmental models to enhance cultural understanding.
Rethink Education and stop delegating to the next generation.
Guiding Principles for Dream Schools that you need to hear.
Systemic challenges that we're not solving and are beginning to change life, as we know.

“How ready, how engaged, how diverse, and how authentic they (systemic changes) are will determine our future and the future of our children.”

-Daniel Pascoe Aguilar

Get the episode transcript here!

Daniel’s Resources & Contact Info: * Excelsior University | Communities Hub * Center for Social Justice * LinkedIn * Breaking Barriers - uConnect * Forbes Article “Building Communities to Address Systemic Challenges in Higher Education”

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Eric Potterat, Ph.D. is a Clinical, Performance and Sport Psychologist who is considered one of the leading experts in high performance psychology, performance optimization, decision-making and teamwork under pressure, mental skills training, and individual and organizational resilience. He retired as a Commander in the Navy after 20 years of service, the last 10 of which he served as the Head Psychologist for the US Navy SEALs and was responsible for all the psychological Assessment, Selection, Development, Maintenance and Enhancement programs for all Navy SEALs worldwide. He also worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers as their Director of Specialized Performance Programs for 7 years, where he managed the mental performance optimization programs, the pre-draft talent acquisition and scouting character assessments, player mental performance profiles/development, etc. His experience in sport is wide ranging. He was also with Red Bull North America for 6 years as their High Performance Psychologist, where he developed and managed the mental performance and mental skills optimization programs for over 850 Red Bull athletes worldwide. For the last 25 years, he has focused his research and practice on teachable and actionable mental performance techniques, stress resilience, character development, selection, neuropsychology, decision-making under stress, mental toughness training, and elite human performance in extreme environments. He is also credited for developing and implementing the Mental Toughness Training Program for the U.S. Navy SEALs and embedding it into their training pipeline, as well as creating the Performance Psychology program for Red Bull High Performance athletes. He has 30 peer-reviewed, professional journal and/or chapter publications, has been featured on national media (History Channel, MSNBC, national magazines, etc.), and has served as a consultant and speaker on human factors, assessment and selection, performance optimization and mental toughness to many organizations including, NASA, Fortune 500 Companies and Executives, the U.S. Olympic Training Center, many law enforcement and government agencies, and numerous professional (NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.) and collegiate sports teams.

Show Highlights

Avoid knee-jerk reactions by having “trusted advisors" outside of your discipline.
Eliminate white space in your schedule by leveraging your time.
Practice the 4-4-4 breathing method to reduce stress and enhance cognitive performance before demanding meetings or events.
Avoid bias towards action and redefine performance to affect incremental value in your schools.
Modify evidence-based principles with thought management.
Minimize negative aspects of traditional teaching methods.
Eric suggests changing the term "visualization" to "sensorization" to perform at your best.

“When you look at the best performers in the world, they're focusing on a process and a recipe, and they double and triple down on being consistent and efficient with a process that chips away through segments, through time.”

-Eric Potterat

Get the episode transcript here!

Eric’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Learned Excellence: Mental Disciplines for Leading * Twitter * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Zaretta Hammond is an educator focused on literacy and equity. She is a former classroom writing teacher. And is a lover of all things Marvel. She’ll quote the Lord of the Rings at any opportunity she gets. In her spare time, you’ll find her reading up on cognitive neuroscience or out in nature and can be seen routinely hugging trees.

Show Highlights

Culturally responsive teaching isn’t hot sauce
The ripple effect caused by leaders ignoring the slow burn of “Cognitive Redlining.”
Embrace intellectual curiosity and encourage students to chase their own curiosity.
Instructional Coaches are the “linchpin” to bridging the gap between leadership and teachers for pedagogical legacy.
Make that first pancake and build collective intellectual curiosity and transformative practices that are important to your community.
Questions to consider in the instructional core include how to help confused students and how to encourage the use of new skills.
How to assess the current reality in classrooms to identify areas for improvement.

“Even when we talk about equity, it doesn't always mean you have to be talking about race. You have to have an understanding of how inequity actually presents itself in your environment and therefore know where to place those disruptive innovations, how to get those people that are the resistant minority to be part of the crew, part of the effort to make shifts. How do we reignite their idealism and move them into it? I think it's a small thing. Again, invite them to follow their intellectual curiosity.”

-Zaretta Hammond

Get episode transcript here!!

Zaretta’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter * Facebook * Free Resource: Bridging Community-Building and Becoming a Community of Learners.: https://ready4rigor.com/ruckus/

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

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GLENN ROBBINS is the proud Superintendent of the Brigantine Public School District in Brigantine, New Jersey. He has served as a public school superintendent in New Jersey since 2016. Prior to becoming a superintendent, he was a middle school principal, a high school assistant principal, a high school social studies teacher, and a high school varsity coach. He is also an author and speaker.

Glenn has been awarded numerous administrative national and state recognitions including the National Exemplar of Education Award, Northeast Innovative Superintendent Award, NJ Visionary Superintendent Award, Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools Member, NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Winner, and SETDA Student Voice Award Winner. He has been invited to the White House and the US Department of Education several times. He is also the proud recipient of a National Superintendent Certification, and serves as an AASA National Governing Board Member, AASA Aspiring Superintendent Mentor, and Chair of NJASA Technology Committee.

Glenn Robbins has been recognized across the globe for his innovative school and district improvement methods, and has been featured in numerous conferences, books, podcasts, and other publications. Glenn is passionate about helping school leaders create schools where every student and educator can have the opportunity to succeed to their utmost potential in a VUCA world.

Ariel Curry helps people make an impact on the world through the power of books. She fell in love with editing and publishing at her first internship in London. She spent the next decade acquiring nonfiction books and editing manuscripts. In 2021, she started Ariel Curry Editorial to work with more authors and expand my work coaching, editing, and ghostwriting books and proposals. Ariel’s passion is to help professionals, thought leaders, and educators make an impact on the world through the power of books.

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Why you need a copy of “Calm in the Chaos”

It is a valuable resource for school leaders that provides practical advice and case studies based on real experience.
Explores using stoic wisdom for school leadership.
Emphasizes the need for stoicism as a leadership tool, particularly in dealing with difficult situations and maintaining a calm mindset.
Helps readers develop resilience and maintain integrity.
Provides reflection questions to encourage readers to think about how they can apply these practices in their own lives.
The book will change your life to help you not get crushed by the waves leaders face in their professional and personal lives.
The 4 virtues that will help you be an active leader.

“‘To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it’.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“We control the controllables. We control what happens to us as much as we can. We control our attitude, we control our thought process. There's a lot of leaders out there who I talk to who are struggling and a lot of leaders out there who are ambitious and ready to take on the world. But no matter what, that storm is going to roll in. You're going to hit those waves. And whether it's big or small, I think this is going to help a lot. So to both of you, thank you for helping put this beautiful thing together, and I'm excited for people to get their hands on Calm in The Chaos, to hopefully make a change in their lives for the better.

-Glenn Robbins

Get the episode transcript here!

Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Glenn's Linkedin * Ariel's Website * Ariel’s Twitter * Ariel Curry Editorial Facebook * Ariel's Linkedin

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Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

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Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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IXL

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Professor Netzer is the Vice Dean of Research and the Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, an affiliate of the Columbia Data Science Institute, and the author of Decisions over Decimals. Professor Netzer is a world-renowned expert in data-driven decision-making and extracting meaningful insights from data. He wrote dozens of papers published in the top tier academic journals. His award-winning research is broadly read and highly cited. He is an award winning teacher at Columbia Business School's MBA, Executive MBA and Executive Education programs.

Show Highlights

Avoid blind spots and asking the wrong questions that change the data you use to drive decision making and the candidates you hire.
Concerns about misinformation and persuasive language generated by AI models.
Teach students to guesstimate and understand the practical application of math in everyday life.
The value of looking for surprises and outliers in data analysis.
The importance of asking the right questions and spending time with a problem.
The potential impact of AI in education and the need for regulations.
IXL provides personalized growth plans to close knowledge gaps and accelerate learning.

Get the episode transcript here!!

Oded’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Oded Netzer's Home Page * Decisions Over Decimals

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Justin Breen is the Founder/CEO of the exclusive connectivity platform BrEpic Network and global PR firm BrEpic Communications. His newest book, Epic Life, features a foreword from Dr. Peter Diamandis and has been the No. 1 overall book for sales on Amazon Kindle. It also recently made the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller lists.

Show Highlights

Tools to recognize patterns and the 4 things that separate Ruckus Makers.
Establish the right mindset to attract the right network that creates opportunities for bigger investments to be in smaller rooms with impactful individuals.
Knowledge and tools from other industries that can be applied to education.
The process of building a “Visionary” network and the importance of finding the right team.
The concept of choosing one word or phrase to simplify goals and provide focus.
Insights on living an “Epic Life” and the 4 step journey everyone goes through.

“You're not a limit test for people you serve, that's hypocrisy. I'm a dad who happens to be an entrepreneur, not an entrepreneur who happens to be a dad. I would never let entrepreneur life destroy my family life. I think for a Ruckus Maker, if you destroy your family for the ruckus you're making to change the world, then might not be the right ruckus to make.”

-Justin Breen

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Justin’s Resources & Contact Info: * BrEpic Network * Wall Street Journal-USA Today Best-Selling Book "Epic Life" --> https://lnkd.in/gKb5Reff * Linkedin * Do you have Visionary, Abundance, Investment Mindset?

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

IXL

IXL is the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. Over 1 million teachers use IXL in their classrooms every day for one reason: They love it. Visit IXL.com to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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Dr. Leena Bakshi McLean is the founder of STEM4Real, a nonprofit professional learning organization committed to combining STEM and standards-based content learning and leadership with principles of justice-centered pedagogy. She currently serves as the Director of Multicultural Education and Equity for the National Science Teaching Association. Leena has worked with pre-service teachers at UC Berkeley and Claremont Graduate University teaching STEM methods and Universal Design for Learning. She is a former county and state level administrator and mathematics, science and anatomy teacher. She is also the author of the children’s book, “There’s Something in the Water”, a story that highlights the real life of Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes, an endocrinologist from UC Berkeley. As a woman of color and a mom of two girls, access and opportunity in STEM are personal for her. She believes that in order for us to increase our representation in STEM, we must create an identity in STEM. Her doctoral dissertation was on "The Successful Implementation of STEM Initiatives in Lower Income Schools". Leena travels the world as a keynote speaker, inspiring audiences in education, leadership, and technology to think about equitable STEM education and how to ensure access for all. Her next book, Teaching and Learning in STEM, #4Real will be coming soon in October of 2024.

Show Highlights

Investigate the hesitancy of teachers towards discussing justice and anti bias topics.
Provide support, coaching, and mentorship for teachers that focuses on building strong relationships with students.
Tips to unbind yourself from the system, to lead within the system to implement changes.
Don’t attach yourself to results by experimenting, observing and pivoting where the results take. you.
Create a transparent budget aligned with the priorities of your community.
Pull leaders out of the weeds with a candid assessment of school priorities.
The challenges created by neglecting science and history curriculum.

“The system is not set up to disrupt itself, to innovate, to redesign, but we need that because just looking at the results that kids experience we know that they're inequitable. If you're okay with that, keep doing what we're doing and maintain the system. If that bothers you. Our kids deserve better and equity is something we should all be fighting for, then how are we changing the system to produce a better result?”

-Chief Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer

“There's a program called the Anti Bias and Education Grant that came out of California, and this word anti bias has so much energy where some leaders are saying, you know what, I think we should just call it something else or let's kind of tippy toe around the word or let's not say the word. I don't want to dissuade people from coming. And there's part of me that's like, no, there is bias. We're going to address it, we're going to go head on. And then another part of me that's like, well, yeah, maybe we can change the word and invite people in and call them in and see what way we can handle it. And that's just with one word, anti bias.”

Dr. Leena Bakshi McLean

Get the episode transcript here!

Dr Leena’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * STEM4Real * What Does a STEM4Real Partnership Look Like? * Teaching STEM #4Real Podcast – Listen Now | STEM4Real * Webinar: Creating An Anti-Racist STEM Classroom | STEM4Real * STEM Lesson Planning Tools * Better Leaders Better Schools Resource Hub

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Jason Ablin, the author of The Gender Equation in Schools: How To Create Equity and Fairness For All Students, consults with schools across the country regarding gender and creating positive school cultures. At American Jewish University’s Graduate School for Education, he trains teachers to create gender aware classrooms and is also the founder/director of AJU’s Mentor Teacher Certification Program.

Show Highlights

Be able to receive feedback from a “cringe worthy moment.”
Practical tools to frame and drive transformation based on issues of gender in schools.
The Gender Equation is a vehicle for helping students experience success.
Validate your teachers with questions instead of framing conversation through a specific lens.
Lead from the middle and avoid aspirational leadership that alienates people who are trying to work together.
Meet the goal of liberating students.
Order, conformity, and obedience are the enemy of authentic education, and schools that are way too quiet.

“You should feel like if we're really talking about making school like the real world, the school should be a place where we're literally teaching students how to enact their freedoms and speak up against systems which are not working well, whether it's at work or whether it's in your community or whether it's in your religious establishment, whatever it is. But you see yourself as a real change maker in the world because you see yourself as free. Everything in the school is surrounded by that principle and ideal.”

-Jason Ablin

Get the episode transcript here!

Jason’s Resources & Contact Info: * Book: The Gender Equation in Schools * Website: Ablin Educational Services, LLC. * Blog: Educating Gender * Twitter * Instagram * Linkedin * Facebook

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Show Highlights

After Action Review and the Ruckus Maker Eight Step Goal Setting Tool are two tools you need in your leadership toolbox.
Resources and game changing ideas to equip and empower you to have an incredible 2024.
Create talent incubators to avoid the turnover in education.
Tap into your inner Ruckus Maker to confidently create the future of schools.
Get Danny’s last two books Build Leadership Momentum, The Remarkable Vision Formula and the Ruckus Maker Newsletter FREE!

“The future of school is a place where teachers and students and all adults and kids co-create wisdom. Currently, many schools are stuck in being told how to play the game. What are the rules, how do you win versus school of the future, or making a ruckus? In education, they're defining the rules, not being defined by them. They're designing the rules of the game and how to win. It's a much more proactive and empowering posture to hold. I believe everybody has a Ruckus Maker inside them.”

-Daniel Bauer

Get the episode transcript here!!

Episode’s Resources & Contact Info: * Ruckusmakerssubstack.com

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Dr. Rachel Roberts has served in various leadership roles in education for over 20 years as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, principal, and principal supervisor. Rachel is passionate about women in leadership and believes that relational leadership is key to high-performing schools. Rachel lives with her wife Jules, and a menagerie of pets and enjoys biking, reading, and fishing.

Show Highlights

Bucking the status quo yields the greatest results when dropping the archetype of a “leader.”
The importance of informal check-ins with team members.
Challenges faced by highly qualified female leaders that can cause them to drift from their authentic selves and the strategies for combating this.
Adopt relational leadership to foster authentic connections that allow you to know the humanity of your team.
Rachel shares other models of leadership to consider for transformational leadership to challenge the impact of current systems.
Empower everyone to be a learner by emphasizing the importance of questioning.
Intentionality and the power of having protocols.

“And the success that I had over the years has really been closely related to my ability to let down my guard, to bring my authentic self to space, and to allow others to do the same. In any thorny challenge I have ever had, leading schools or working with principals, I bring that problem right back to the team because it's our problem that we own together. I think that's made me pretty successful, I should really say the teams are very successful.”

-Rachel Roberts

“Never stop learning and to find those stories that align to your authentic selves, and to also recognize that every one of your staff members needs to be able to bring their true, authentic self. And they can only do that if you do that. It takes that intentionality. It takes a lot of thinking on your part around who I am and how I can intentionally connect with everyone to make a school, to make a community, a place where they can do that themselves.”

-Rachel Roberts

Get the episode transcript here!

Rachel’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Antioch University

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Michael (Mike) Nelson began his career as an elementary school teacher before becoming an elementary school principal. As a district leader, he led learning initiatives in two Washington state school districts. As the superintendent for Washington’s (EEE)Enumclaw school district, he led several initiatives to improve cultural support and academic outcomes for Native students. In 2019, the Washington Association of School Administrators named him the Washington State Superintendent of the Year.

Peter DeWitt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For the last 10 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books.

Show Highlights

The importance of having an inner fire to do great things for others.
Strategies for lowering suspension rates and conducting classroom walkthroughs.
The 6 parts of the Instructional Leadership Reflective document.
free reflection document during the show
The value of listening and understanding from the student perspective
Examples of Success Criteria, implementation and reflecting on student engagement.
How to get school boards to engage in the conversation about the need for coaching at all levels of leadership.
Redefining collaborative communities and collective.

“One of the things that I have learned is you always care about the people in the room, whether you're a teacher or a principal or you're facilitating workshops. One of the things that I've learned over the past three years of working with Mike is I'm much more intentional in what I do with that carrying.”

-Peter DeWitt

“Instructional Leadership Academy, where people are coming together to talk collectively, the word collective means something different to us. Danny and I think that's the key is it's this integrated approach. And if I could describe it, not only are we talking about work, but I'm making you better, and you're making me better with each and every conversation that we have together. And we're building this network with each other and support.”

-Mike Nelson

Mike and Peter’s Resources & Contact Info: * Instructional Leadership Collective * Linkedin-Peter-DeWitt * Linkedin-Michael-Nelson * Twitter-Michael Nelson * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Heidi DeCoux is a serial entrepreneur who’s built four businesses with 50%+ profit margins, sold 3 of them, including a 7-figure exit, and has appeared in magazines and websites like Forbes. She’s become known as “The Optimizer” because she’s passionate about helping entrepreneurs optimize their businesses and life. She’s now gearing up to launch her newest company, Alchemized Teams, designed to help small businesses build winning teams.

Show Highlights

Unleash the “genius” of every child with learning guides instead of teachers.
Revolutionize K12 education across the planet with micro schools or pod schools that offer customized learning experiences for every student.
Motivate students to learn how to innovate themselves regularly.
Wipe the slate clean of traditional factory system education and redesign the school experience for today's world, emphasizing innovation, entrepreneurship for a rapidly changing future.
Create a customized learning experience without grouping students by grades or ages.
Incorporate a 3 part phase program for deep financial literacy and life skills into student programming.
Help students navigate both their personal and work lives in an ever-changing world.

“We need to create something new for today and how the world is quickly changing. I'm coming in saying, ‘No, wait, classrooms don't exist. Chalkboards don't exist, desks don't exist.’ When you've been in education for a long time, it's hard to break that mindset. And so they tend to just default to innovating the existing instead of wiping the slate clean and saying, ‘If we were creating school for the first time today and you had never seen a classroom, you had never seen anything that existed today, how would you do it? What would you create that meets students with today's world?’ And that's designed to innovate itself.”

-Heidi DeCoux

“I would say the one thing that we know for certain throughout history is that the only real progress has come from the Ruckus Makers. So if not you, who, and if not now, then when.”

-Heidi DeCoux

Get the episode transcript here!

Heidi’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: Alchemized Teams * Illuminated Life School * Linkedin * Twitter * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Lynn Hardin is a retired elementary school principal and certified life coach with over 20 years of experience working with school leaders at all levels.

She is passionate about staying current with the latest research and trends in education leadership. But most importantly, she is committed to helping her clients achieve greater success, both personally, and professionally and become the leader everybody loves.

Show Highlights

Let your DNA and “universe” help guide your career.
The golden thread behind creating a high performing and/or award winning school.
3 things to look for to spot and support good teaching in your building.
Create strategic leadership that attracts good teachers and repel those that are not a fit.
“The Model” you need for coaching “Brain 101” to to process the emotional side of leadership and teaching.
School leaders should NOT want to get rid of stress entirely.
Get a free tool that will shift you into action to free up time for rest with The Principal Planner.

“Good teachers, good teaching, that's all I needed. I didn't need programs. I didn't need more technology. I didn't need more textbooks. My philosophy was always to give me good teachers, and that's where I put my blood, sweat, and tears. It was good teaching. That was the golden thread that ran through all of 'em. And the last one was one of America's best urban schools. And they kind of picked us because of our STEM lab and all that was going on in there. But without good teaching, having all of this technology means nothing.”

-Lynn Hardin

Get the episode transcript here!!

Lynn’s Resources & Contact Info: * Lynn Hardin | Certified Life Coach for Principals * Free Planner for Principals * Podcast * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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The School Leadership Series promises to provide motivation on your way into school every Monday-Friday in five minutes or less. Co-hosted by Karine Veldhoen (founder of Learn Forward) and Danny Bauer (founder of Better Leaders Better Schools) we'll offer you a challenging idea and a clear action step each day. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE. Learn more at https://betterleadersbetterschools.com and https://learnforward.ca. Buy Daniel's latest book published by Corwin and AASA: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/go READY TO LEVEL UP? Apply to the mastermind -- a leadership community changing the landscape of professional development for school admin. https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind-application/ Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

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The School Leadership Series promises to provide motivation on your way into school every Monday-Friday in five minutes or less. Co-hosted by Karine Veldhoen (founder of Learn Forward) and Danny Bauer (founder of Better Leaders Better Schools) we'll offer you a challenging idea and a clear action step each day. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE. Learn more at https://betterleadersbetterschools.com and https://learnforward.ca. Buy Daniel's latest book published by Corwin and AASA: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/go READY TO LEVEL UP? Apply to the mastermind -- a leadership community changing the landscape of professional development for school admin. https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind-application/ Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

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Lisa is a high school writing teacher & PK-12 principal of a rural South Dakota school district. She leads a 2020 ESEA Distinguished Elementary School and a 2021 National Blue Ribbon Elementary School. She is a co-developer and facilitator of the South Dakota Department of Education’s “Good to Great” Teacher Mentoring Program and a public speaker at a variety of state and national education

events.

Show Highlights

Leverage student input to build connections and solutions to benefit the whole school.
Looking through the eyes of who you’re talking to allow you control in any situation
Giving is the best approach to getting things that you want.
Communicate in ways that “softening the edges.”
Tips to “beat the message home” to increase family engagement and buy-in from those that have an aversion or are disconnected.
Invite challenge and criticism with families to dig in and navigate a path together.
Understanding the pitfalls of Happiness, Toxic Positivity, and Perfectionism.
Choose a relationship-based emotional profession to share the load.

“I have to control my emotions. I really get to decide how I interpret something that happens to me. I really believe events don't have meaning. No event has meaning. We decide what it means. We put the judgment on there.”

-Lisa Parry

Lisa’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

View Details

The School Leadership Series promises to provide motivation on your way into school every Monday-Friday in five minutes or less. Co-hosted by Karine Veldhoen (founder of Learn Forward) and Danny Bauer (founder of Better Leaders Better Schools) we'll offer you a challenging idea and a clear action step each day. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE. Learn more at https://betterleadersbetterschools.com and https://learnforward.ca. Buy Daniel's latest book published by Corwin and AASA: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/go READY TO LEVEL UP? Apply to the mastermind -- a leadership community changing the landscape of professional development for school admin. https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind-application/ Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

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The School Leadership Series promises to provide motivation on your way into school every Monday-Friday in five minutes or less. Co-hosted by Karine Veldhoen (founder of Learn Forward) and Danny Bauer (founder of Better Leaders Better Schools) we'll offer you a challenging idea and a clear action step each day. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE. Learn more at https://betterleadersbetterschools.com and https://learnforward.ca. Buy Daniel's latest book published by Corwin and AASA: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/go READY TO LEVEL UP? Apply to the mastermind -- a leadership community changing the landscape of professional development for school admin. https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind-application/ Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

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The School Leadership Series promises to provide motivation on your way into school every Monday-Friday in five minutes or less. Co-hosted by Karine Veldhoen (founder of Learn Forward) and Danny Bauer (founder of Better Leaders Better Schools) we'll offer you a challenging idea and a clear action step each day. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE. Learn more at https://betterleadersbetterschools.com and https://learnforward.ca. Buy Daniel's latest book published by Corwin and AASA: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/go READY TO LEVEL UP? Apply to the mastermind -- a leadership community changing the landscape of professional development for school admin. https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind-application/ Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

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Carlon is the Chief Impact Officer and Co-Founder of Equity Institute. In his role, he oversees organizational strategy, internal operations, and implementation of Equity Institute’s educator pathway program. Carlon is an avid reader and lifelong learner who spends much of his time exploring topics related to social science, history, and leadership.

Show Highlights

Storytelling builds a collective support community that creates connections to each other.
Unlocking student engagement can be found in a ripped up piece of paper.
Leaders need to embrace fractal thinking to make lasting change.
“Impacted Leadership” puts people that are mostly impacted directly in positions of power to enact the change that we all need.
Organizational strategy, internal operations, and implementation of equity institute's educator pathway program
Provide opportunities for your staff to gravitate towards shared and learning experience.

“This thing that we call education is much bigger than just trying to perfect the craft of teaching content. It is also about cultivating people into the best that they can be. It's about helping them maximize their potential. And that's really where the beauty and the magic exist.”

-Carlon Howard

“The power and change isn't trying to figure out the perfect way to reach the most number of people. It's really about how do you have these small interactions that can then add up over time that then equate to this large scale change.”

-Carlon Howard

Get the episode transcript here!

Carlon’s Resources & Contact Info: * Equity Institute * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Dr. Danya Tiara Woods is a self-motivated enthusiast who seeks opportunities to enhance the lives of today’s youth through education, mentorship and cultural exposures. Currently serving as an Assistant Principal of the Dr. Joseph E. Johnson Elementary School in Red Clay Consolidated School District her education philosophy centers on the idea that students learn best when their basic needs and interests are met. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Dr. Woods obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education from Clark Atlanta University (2011), and both her Master of Education in School Leadership and Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership from Wilmington University (2016/2020). When she is not dedicating her services to the advancement of her students within schools, Woods devotes her time to uplifting her community serving on city, county and state committees and initiatives.

Show Highlights

Make your school a hub for the community with these innovative tips to create partnerships.
Ways to connect families with resources specific to their needs.
Building connections within the school by having colleague conversations.
The potential unintended consequences of not communicating effectively within the school community.
Fosters a sense of unity by involving staff in decision-making processes and addressing issues proactively.
Create an academic atmosphere where students feel the same excitement and sense of belonging in their school.
Provide opportunities to enhance the lives of today's youth through education, mentorship, and cultural exposures.

“In the work of education, we can't do it alone. We don't have all the ideas, but the people that are around us, the people that are across the street in those businesses or that may be in the classroom, setting up that they have answers to the problems that we had, and getting them at a table, getting them on a Zoom that we can actually support and serve our students in the best way possible with just knowing that you aren't in it alone. And to utilize the resources and the people that are surrounding you.”

-Dr Danya Woods

Get the episode transcript here!

Dr Danya’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

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Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Jon Campopiano is in his fifth year as the Executive Director of Secondary Education for the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. In his duties as Executive Director, Jon supervises all SRVUSD Middle and High Schools, leads the district Local Control Accountability Plan and strives to institutionalize equity for all students, staff and community members. Prior to his district leadership, Jon was the Principal of Stone Valley Middle School.

Show Highlights

Coach your school leaders like you would coach your baseball team.
Leadership practice tips that are guaranteed to inspire, empower and motivate.
Create alignment to internal vision and values.
You lose collaboration when you get lost in compliance and the emergencies of the day.
Be a “people leader” to ensure every student has a support system.
Put on your “Oxygen mask” to be able to do what matters most.
Understand the biggest change with our leaders.
Don’t rubber stamp learning opportunities for your staff and students.

“We become addicted to compliance, it's this cover. It's a political thing or it's whatever you want to say. I see it time and time again, but the best leaders cannot thrive because they have compliance in the way. My job is trying to figure out how to remove some of those compliance blocks, to go in and change lives.”

-Jon Compopiano

Get the episode transcript here!!

Jon’s Resources & Contact Info: * LinkedIn * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Adam H. Frank, PhD, principal at Palmer Ridge High School in Monument, Colorado, provides consulting, speaking, and professional development services specializing in school discipline, legal practices, student-centered engagement, leadership development, and change theory.

Show Highlights

Reading the signs when your staff goes “BIG.”
Discipline done well is a loving process with these practical strategies.
Leaders need to get comfortable "embracing the messy" for productivity.
Edgy topics around the concept of discipline.
Forming groups vs committees.
Systems thinking structures around challenging ideas and criticism to make the ideas better.
Establish routines instead of rules within a real world liability and expectations for parents and students.

“Restorative practices, restorative justice, it seems to never talk about how to do the discipline when discipline must be involved. And so if you can avoid discipline by good routines, good relationships, that's the ideal. But when a bad choice has been made, how do you interact with that kid? What do you do? Restorative justice talks about circles and restoring the relationship after the bad decision has been made, but in a real world with real liability and real societal issues and expectations.”

-Dr Adam Frank

Get the episode transcript here!!

Dr Adam’s Resources & Contact Info: * Email twelve@gmail.com * Twitter (@DrAdamFrank) * Twitter(@EdExpression) * LinkedIn: Adam Frank, PhD * Website: Adam H. Frank, PhD * Purchase a Copy of his latest book: Non-Punitive School Discipline

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Namita Prasad is a Confidence Educator and the author of The Power of Why Not. Her revolutionary approach to confidence development redefines confidence as a mindset. She believes anyone can become confident and developed the framework of A Confident Mindset ™ school program for K-8 students to create a schoolwide culture of confidence encouraging children to say why to opportunities.

Show Highlights

The Power of Why Not. Know the difference between WHY vs WHY NOT thinking.
You don’t have to be something in the moment. Embrace the mindset of “grow and glow.”
Be “A confidence educator” to motivate a growth mindset.
Courage without character is directionalist.
Infuse your school with a culture of confidence.
A 6 step ready made framework to create a school-wide culture of confidence.
Tips to learn to have courage and face your fears.
Commitment is regular practice vs better practice.

“I realized that confidence was a form of education. It was not an extracurricular activity. It was not a conference building workshop. It wasn't a program to do in the summer. It was truly an act. It was a part of education. And I realized that every student that understood how to become confident and was educated on how to become confident, had better outcomes in school.”

-Namita Prasad

Get the episode transcript here!!

Namita’s Resources & Contact Info: * Namita Prasad * Linkedin * Facebook * Pinterest * The Power of Why Not

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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April Gaydosh is an Administrator of Schools for Jordan School District in West Jordan, Utah. She has previously held positions as a building level principal, assistant principal, high school teacher, and an adjunct college faculty member in both North Carolina and Alabama. She is always looking for new challenges and thrives in environments where creativity/innovation is encouraged and expected!

Show Highlights

What game are you playing with yourself?
A robust way to optimize your potential and set your goals, not choose a goal.
Tailored PD that is collaborative, interactive, and practical to hone in on exactly what you need.
Over Deliver and maximize your PD time.
PD that covers multiple levels with multiple tools to connect with your yearly goals.
PD with Intentional messaging to different audiences.
A training tool and a protocol to create solutions.

“Another piece that I think I liked about it was, it wasn't like this one message with this one tool, and they we're gonna kind of belabor this. It was, ‘Here's this great story. Here's maybe a problem you're dealing with. Here's a great tool, let's practice it.’ And then another, you were able to touch on different things that people were connecting to in different ways. It wasn't like this one and done, there were multiple levels, multiple tools that they could connect with.”

Get the episode transcript here!!

Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Jordan School District

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Nathaniel Provencio is a career educator who has worked in public education for over 20+ years. Nathaniel has served as a teacher, school principal, and associate superintendent. Nathaniel is an award-winning leader, author, and speaker on regional, state, and national levels, and currently serves as a national school leadership consultant focusing on school improvement, team development, and community engagement.

Show Highlights

Genuine ways to truly advocate for students and families.
Leverage your school’s relationships with families to create greater academic success.
The 4 As every school needs to focus on.
Branding your schools will give you a 5 star rating.
Give your learning communities the “customer experience” they deserve
Stop purchasing the silver bullets in education.
Build instructional and cultural frameworks to avoid the challenges facing school systems.
Don’t have an “open doors” policy but have a “doors open” policy.

“ At the end of the day, leadership is service and customer service. How we treat those that engage with our product, the experience of school. And that means our staff. That means our student, that means our parents. Will they give you a five out of five star type of experience if they reviewed you. It's a good question to ask.”

-Nathaniel Provencio

Get the episode transcript here!

Nathaniel’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: ProvenPrincipal LLC * Twitter * Community Connections and Your PLC at Work®

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Jacqueline M. Baker is a speaker, author, leadership consultant and advisor known for her unique approach to modern etiquette and leadership. As the author of The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You and Leader by Mistake: Becoming A Leader One Mistake At A Time, she frequently speaks and writes on the leadership-for-all concept.

Her inspiration and expertise comes from more than a decade as the founder and principal consultant for Scarlet, a consultancy that provides leadership training to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, community organizations and individuals across the globe. She also leverages her experience serving in a number of corporate board and community service roles.

An avid dinner-party hostess, Jacqueline creates space and opportunities to gather groups for compelling conversation, delicious cuisine and untraditional ways for continued leadership development. She is also the host of the podcast, Just Start™: From Ideas To Action.

Show Highlights

Reading “mildew letters” to remind you of your greatness.
Remember you default to cut the response time when your negative inner critic joins the discussion.
Understanding what are the rubber balls and not the glass balls you can divvy out to help others grow on their journey.
Giving yourself permission to see yourself as a leader, is the first step you need.
Stop leaving your leadership qualities and the front door.
The unexpected leader will help you level up your “leadership wheel.”
Filter your “life thesis document” to prioritize your ideas.

“Scarlet, which is now a leadership consultancy. But Scarlet First started out as an etiquette company, specifically targeting teen girls. We've grown to be a leadership consultancy over time. But there are two lessons that I wanna pull out of that question. And one is, it's amazing when you give yourself permission to start things, start a business or start your learning journey, the lessons that you get from it that you never anticipated.”

-Jacqueline Baker

Get the episode transcript here!!

Jacqueline’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: Jacqueline M. Baker * Facebook * Twitter @magicaljax * Instagram * The Unexpected Leader

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Dr. Lisa Stanley is the Superintendent of North Texas Collegiate Academy, a public charter school district in Denton County, Texas. Dr. Stanley received her Certificate in School Management and Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education, was among the first 100 superintendents in the US to earn National Superintendent Certification and is a member of Southern Methodist University’s District Leadership Fellows 2021-2022 cohort. Her focus on improving teacher retention in high-poverty schools has created a sustainable teacher pipeline with 93% of staff returning every year and 45% staying with the district for at least five years.

Show Highlights

Creating a space of “Listen first and talk last” with your teachers as a powerful idea.I love your motto – “Over Serve the underserved” – what does that look like in the day to day?
Grow teacher retention from 65% to 97% with “stay interview” and “goal getters” to address pain points.
Teachers should never be secondary. Shift your focus and Invest in the heartbeat of your schools.
Tips to make sure your staff’s fingerprints are on every decision you make.
You cannot buy culture by putting donuts in the break room or letting teachers wear jeans.
A transformational recognize and reward idea that serves the moment.
Spend the finances in empowering and building the capacity of the staff you already know believe the vision of your school.

“You cannot over-serve a child. This child is a member of a bigger household and if we don't address the barriers the whole household is facing, we're not gonna get full achievement from the student. We feel very much like it is our duty and our responsibility to connect our families with as many resources as we can. If the parent needs access to ESL classes or GED support or job skills or helping them write their resumes or help borrow tax ins or anything like that, we offer all of that for free for our families. Number one, because they deserve it. They're all valuable human beings who are unique and fearful and wonderfully made. They deserve the help. A school cannot just serve the kids that sit at its desk.”

-Dr Lisa Stanley

Get the episode transcript here!

Dr Lisa Stanley’s Resources & Contact Info: * Lisa Stanley | LinkedIn * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Dr. Amy Platt is delighted to be the Head of School at the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School. Amy is passionate about excellent instruction and working with teachers to be the talented professionals they are destined to be. Amy holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Toronto. When Amy is not at work she can be found on long-distance bike rides, pondering the larger issues facing education.

Show Highlights

innovative ideas to do with your leadership team in designing the future of your school.
Micro leadership tiered systems grow leaders to operate as a whole system.
Determining what is most valuable within the school day.
Avoid personal time that gets invaded to do this minutia of school.
RACI model of decision making provides clear and informed responsibility.
Solving a thorny problem with an experimental mindset is more manageable than solving a problem with a permanent mindset.
Dr Amy shares how the Principal Success Path was transformative for her organization, period.

“‘Many leaders are scared about developing people and then having them leave, they should be more worried about not developing people and having them stay.’ I originally became obsessed with this idea of developing people in leadership capacities in particular, and what that meant with respect to distributive leadership. I've tried all sorts of things over time. When I came into this role as head of school, it was me and then lots and lots of people under me. And I've thought really hard about how we created a tiered system.”

-Dr. Amy Platt

“I'm just trying to take great ideas and stretch them as best I can to make the greatest impact on student learning and faculty culture. And maybe actually that's what being a Ruckus Maker is. I don't know. So I think what I'm doing and thinking about things sort of innovatively and differently is really just continuing to refine the ideas of distributive leadership that were presented to me over a decade ago when I first took my principal's qualification courses in Ontario.”

-Dr. Amy Platt

Dr Amy Platt’s Resources & Contact Info: * Podcast by Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools * Middle-School - Paul Penna * Instagram * Facebook * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Bonnie Low-Kramen is a highly sought-after TEDx speaker, teacher, and founder and CEO of “Be the Ultimate Assistant,” a curated training solution for corporate leaders and assistants creating synchronous and thriving work environments. She is also the author of the forthcoming book, Staff Matters (out in 2023).

Show Highlights

“We Wait too Long to Train Our Leaders” and develop the essential soft skills needed for a strong leadership foundation.
One of the biggest opportunities is to create “listening tours.”
Explore the SMES or Zone of Genius with the backbone of your organization for a partnership with your assistants.
The four things every staff member wants.
Resources to discover expertise lurking in your building.
Tips for schools create safer environments and lessen sexual harassment and workplace bulling.
The most powerful message to send your staff is giving them a financial investment for their professional development.

“It doesn't seem logical to me that in 2023 we're leaving it to luck, and that's not good enough. I see that staff are suffering because of that lack of education. And let us really put the spotlight on this subject because it's no longer possible to begin your job either as a school principal or leading a company, large or small, and not receive any supplemental training on how to do it well. Which leads to retaining people or chasing them away.”

-Bonnie Low-Kramen

Get the episode transcript here!

Bonnie’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: Bonnie Low-Kramen * Linkedin * Twitter * Facebook * Staff Matters

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Dr. Chris Jones has been an educator in Massachusetts for 22 years. His experience in the classroom ranged from 8th - 11th grade working in an urban setting. A portion of this was spent opening a high school division for an expanding charter school. He has just finished his 14th year as a building administrator. Currently the Principal of Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in Whitman, Massachusetts, Chris is also the President-Elect of the Massachusetts State Administrators Association (MSAA). He is the author of SEEing to Lead, a book that provides strategies for how modern leaders can and must support, engage, and empower their teachers to elevate student success. Chris vlogs weekly and is also the host of the podcast SEEing to Lead as a way to amplify teachers’, students’, and leaders’ voices in an effort to improve education as a whole. His Just cause is to continuously improve the educational experience for all those involved by being purposeful, acting with integrity, and building character. Chris is passionate about continuous improvement and the idea that success is not a destination, but a process. Chris is a teacher centered principal and his beliefs around the importance of a positive work environment, continuous growth, and a healthy family work-life integration can be seen in the presentations and workshops he has given for the Massachusetts School Administrators Association (MSAA), Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE), Massachusetts Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (MASCD), the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP); and his participation in the Better Leaders Better Schools Mastermind group. A finalist for the Massachusetts School Administrators Association’s Principal of the Year award and named the 2022 Massachusetts School Counselors Associaltion’s (MASCA) Administrator of the Year, Chris is described by his past Superintendent as being “...wholly invested in the success of the school…a creative problem-solver who is able to deliberate yet be decisive, be creative yet accountable…calm and clear-headed even under the most trying of times…has built a strong collaborative and collegial school culture…he is a positive influence on teachers, teaching, and learning.”

Chris’ education includes a BA from Bridgewater State University, an MA from Salem State University, and a Doctorate from Northeastern University. He currently resides in Southeastern Massachusetts with his wife, Mary (Bella) and two boys, Tommy and Scotty.

Show Highlights

Leadership PD that doesn’t just check the boxes.
Get specific tools to create your vision.
Discover the leadership map you create yourself.
Be in a space with other innovative leaders invested in getting better every day.
Take responsibility for your role in the current situation that you exist in.
Tips to keep an open mind to constructive criticism when giving and getting straight forward feedback.
Accountability partners are the keys to keep you firing on all cylinders.
Sit on the Hot Seat to discard or dig in on ideas you want to implement in your school.

“The Mastermind certainly helps leaders become more proactive and get out of a reactive state. You just ask, ‘Hey, do you have an answer for this? Well, actually I do’, and I have five more answers and I can anticipate five more questions, critiques and challenges.”

-Dr Chris Jones

Get the episode transcript here!

Dr Chris’ Resources & Contact Info: * Podcast: SEEing to Lead * Book: SEEing to Lead * Twitter: @DrCSJones * SEEing to Lead Newsletter * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

How We Serve Leaders The School Leadership Scorecard™

Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard

Month-to-Month Principal Checklist

As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?

When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get

12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do
Space to write your campus specific items.
Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work

Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.

Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™

The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated. It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™.

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset

The Positive Spotlight Tool™

Energy flows to where attention goes!

If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…

Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here:

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive

The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™

Are you ready to accomplish more?

With less effort and in less time?

When you download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ I’ll send you the tool and a short 8-minute coaching video that shows you how to work smarter, not harder…and create more value for your school campus.

Download The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ for free at

https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/goals

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

View Details

Irreplaceable Leadership

Dr. Chris Jones has been an educator in Massachusetts for 22 years. His experience in the classroom ranged from 8th - 11th grade working in an urban setting. A portion of this was spent opening a high school division for an expanding charter school. He has just finished his 14th year as a building administrator. Currently the Principal of Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in Whitman, Massachusetts, Chris is also the President-Elect of the Massachusetts State Administrators Association (MSAA). He is the author of SEEing to Lead, a book that provides strategies for how modern leaders can and must support, engage, and empower their teachers to elevate student success. Chris vlogs weekly and is also the host of the podcast SEEing to Lead as a way to amplify teachers’, students’, and leaders’ voices in an effort to improve education as a whole. His Just cause is to continuously improve the educational experience for all those involved by being purposeful, acting with integrity, and building character.

Chris is passionate about continuous improvement and the idea that success is not a destination, but a process. Chris is a teacher centered principal and his beliefs around the importance of a positive work environment, continuous growth, and a healthy family work-life integration can be seen in the presentations and workshops he has given for the Massachusetts School Administrators Association (MSAA), Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE), Massachusetts Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (MASCD), the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP); and his participation in the Better Leaders Better Schools Mastermind group.

A finalist for the Massachusetts School Administrators Association’s Principal of the Year award and named the 2022 Massachusetts School Counselors Associaltion’s (MASCA) Administrator of the Year, Chris is described by his past Superintendent as being “...wholly invested in the success of the school…a creative problem-solver who is able to deliberate yet be decisive, be creative yet accountable…calm and clear-headed even under the most trying of times…has built a strong collaborative and collegial school culture…he is a positive influence on teachers, teaching, and learning.”

Chris’ education includes a BA from Bridgewater State University, an MA from Salem State University, and a Doctorate from Northeastern University. He currently resides in Southeastern Massachusetts with his wife, Mary (Bella) and two boys, Tommy and Scotty.

Show Highlights

Take a tiny step and turn it into a big change. No more finals!!
Success minimized critics. Take inventory and turn your enemies or critics to cheerleaders.
Stop running your schools like politicians and focus on what’s most important.
Innovation Career Pathways Curriculum knocks down roadblocks in learning.
If your school needs bumpers and floaties you’re not bringing out the best in your community.
Stop making your staff dizzy and create a beautiful trail of improvement.
Pull off the band-aids and stop educating children for the fake world.
The most frustrating part of public education is people stop you from fear and being uncomfortable.

“In public education, this is one of the most frustrating parts. People stop you from fear and being uncomfortable. And I'm not gonna sit here and talk about the idea of people being uncomfortable with any kind of change, because everybody knows that. But it comes down to people wanting to know where they fit into that change. They can become much more comfortable when they realize that it's not disrupting them so much that they're gonna have to just adjust slightly. And it's a smaller ask. And before they know it, they're pulled into it.”

-Dr Chris Jones

Get the episode transcript here!

Dr Chris’ Resources & Contact Info: * Podcast: SEEing to Lead * Book: SEEing to Lead * Twitter: @DrCSJones * SEEing to Lead Newsletter * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Amanda Conley is currently the Principal at Middletown High School, in Middletown, DE. She is a former Social Studies teacher, with experience in teaching at alternative and turnaround schools. Currently, she is focused on leading an innovative, community-connected school and she is passionate about creating opportunities for all students and challenging our traditional grading systems.

Show Highlights

Innovative feedback to invest in your teachers and principles of instruction.
“Stealing little moments” with great focus will change your leadership.
Opportunities and lessons outside of education that have a big impact on your why.
Build confidence with a “cycle of growth” for your students, teachers, and administrators.
Cultivate leaders in your building with tips for effective team leadership.
The course catalog you need to implement leadership projects for all your students.
Intentional resources to address teacher burnout and adult SEL in your building.

“I think about stealing little moments, whether it's a moment with my family, a fun little interaction to energize me for the morning, for my long day ahead, or at Walgreens listening to a Danny Bauer podcast while I get some antibiotics for a crying three year old. If it's a priority to develop yourself professionally, you're gonna find the time without sacrificing important stuff like your family.”

-Amanda Conley

Get the episode transcript here!!

Amanda’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Leading as a Fearless Disrupter

Dr. Towanna Burrous, President CoachDiversity Institute, is a best-selling author, trainer, and certified professional coach based in Washington, DC. As a much sought-after executive coach, Towanna and the Coach Diversity team deliver training, curriculum, and customized diversity and leadership programs for corporate and individual clients.

Coach Diversity Institute Ranked No. 524 on the 2021 Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Towanna is a trusted partner and problem solver for many clients tackling morale, employee retention, employee engagement, employee performance, and development. She has a Doctor of Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Howard University.

Show Highlights

Recognize the influence of positive and negative disruptors in your schools to leverage their talents.
“Playing small” and the fear of success.
A personalized resource to support leaders making cultural shifts.
Two “misses” people often make in coaching.
Leaders load balance to tie the vision and purpose together.
Live below the level to know and uncover unseen diversity that could exist within your organization.
Flip punitive punishments into necessary relationship building moments.
Common fears will push aside accountability.

“Even when you're scared, Ruckus Makers are disruptors. In the beginning it was a negative thing. I became a positive disruptor. I did it when I was scared. I did it when I was afraid. I did it no matter what, because I knew that it was my purpose. And your purpose is always gonna be wrapped up in some type of fear. And so I say just do it. Do it anyway.

-Dr Towanna Burrous

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Towanna’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Instagram * Coach Diversity Institute

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TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

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Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Martín Blank is a visionary educator, breathwork instructor, and educational consultant specializing in whole-school wellbeing and teacher and staff retention. He’s worked with over 15,000 students, and 14,000 educators over the last 10 years in hundreds of schools across districts nationally. He uses positive psychology, stress management, and resilience training to help leaders fight staff burnout and turnover and create systems that enable school and district thriving.

Show Highlights

Novice teachers outperform the “best” veteran teachers with the “best” students using these breathing techniques.
The question to ask students to pull their power and peace of mind.
The connection between emotions and breathing bleeds into a student's abilities and academics.
Tools to sit with frustration and be able to focus despite distraction to be a lot less reactive.
8 sessions of a “Resilience Journey for Leaders” to create retention positive school climates and wellbeing for everyone.
Behavior is NOT where you should start in PD
Whole school wellbeing training we need in order to increase our power as individuals and avoid “above the neck bias.”

“One is this idea of drowning. Because that's what's happening. People are drowning. They're drowning in demands, and they don't have a life jacket. They don't have resources. Whether those resources are time, money or staff. Resources are limited, demands are high. That's a recipe for stress. If somebody's drowning, is that the moment to teach 'em how to swim? Is that the moment you say, ‘Hey, let me teach you Backstrokes, you'll be fine.’ No, man, they're drowning. They're in fight or flight. They're like, if you don't physically take them out of the water, then they might die. Trying to do self-care in an environment of toxicity, an environment of high levels of stress, high levels of demands, low levels of resources is akin to that. And it's a little bit tone deaf.”

-Martin Blank

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Martin’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter * School Wellbeing Solutions

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TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Formerly a high school English teacher and a new teacher coach in Palo Alto Unified School District (Palo Alto, CA), Jennifer Abrams is currently a communications consultant and author who works with educators and others on new teacher and employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations and creating identity safe workplaces.

Jennifer’s publications include Having Hard Conversations, The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicate, Collaborate & Create Community, Hard Conversations Unpacked - the Whos, Whens and What Ifs, and Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives. Her newest book is Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work.

Show Highlights

4) Let's dig into one of the facets you wrote about in this book that seems to be particularly important to develop during the time of quiet quitting and teacher recruitment and retention - building resiliency - tell me about what your take is on this important skill to buil
Help leaders, adults and educators “grow up at work and play nice” to communicate effectively and support each other.
The professional credential we all need to start with and achieve.
Five facets to stretch curriculum and your learning edges.
Suspend certainty and stop extinguishing better ideas being offered by your learning community.
Tips to create a level of professionalism and “healthy hygiene” where everyone takes responsibility for their contributions.
The umbrella book you need to have on your bookshelf.

“The concept of adult development is something we don't focus on in schools. We have child development, we have their curriculum. We know where you're supposed to move vertically over through the grades. And this concept of adults developing isn't a piece of what we think we should be doing because we're already cooked.”

-Jennifer Abrams

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Jennifer’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: Jennifer Abrams * Twitter * Linkedin * Instagram * Facebook * Books:www.miravia.com/products/stretching-your-learning-edges-growing-up-at-work/

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today?

When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers.

Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Dr. Chad Dumas is a Solution Tree associate and international consultant,

presenter and award-winning researcher whose primary focus is collaborating

to develop capacity for continuous improvement. Having been a successful

teacher, principal, central office administrator, professional developer and

consultant in a variety of school districts, he brings his passion, expertise, and

skills to his writing and speaking as he engages participants in meaningful and

practical learning. In his Amazon best-selling books, Let’s Put the C in PLC

and An Action Guide to Put the C in PLC, Chad offers readers and audiences

educational research, engaging stories, hands-on tools, and useful knowledge

and skills they can implement immediately.

Show Highlights

Get underneath the iceberg and draw out the greatness you see in others.
Let’s Put the C in PLC – building that collaborative environment.
10 elements principals need to know to identify gaps in their schools.
Interpersonal communication skills and questions stem to help you land your message as a leader.
Multiply yourself through these strategic committees at “Collaborative Leadership Academy.”
The 8th element to engaging all staff in decision making.
Stop talking to a rock and see the red flag characteristics in broken relationship ships blocking your message.

“The one thing is that you matter what you say and what you do impacts others. As you are impacting others, be sure to be drawing out from them their very best, even if they don't even know what they're best at.”

-Chad Dumas

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Chad’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website |Next Learning Solutions * Twitter * Facebook * Linkedin * Other Links | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TPMX39R ,https://www.solutiontree.com/chad-dumas.html

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

How much student talk happened today? When classrooms come alive with conversation, learning improves, students feel a sense of belonging, and teachers feel inspired.

The TeachFX instructional coaching app gives teachers powerful insights into their student talk, student engagement, and classroom conversation.

With TeachFX, teachers see how much student talk happened, the moments of students sharing their brilliance, and the questions that got students talking.

Learn how to pilot TeachFX with your teachers. Visit: teachfx.com/betterleaders ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Jason P. Dropik (Babaamii-Bines / Eagle Clan) is the School Administrator for the Indian Community School (ics-edu.org), in Franklin, WI, which serves Native students in the metro Milwaukee area. A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians (BadRiver-nsn.gov), Jason is committed to supporting students, families, staff, and the community both near and far. Having recently completed a two-year term as President of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA.org), he advocated for and spoke on the importance of tribal sovereignty, policy, appropriations, and student support across the country. As a Board Member of NIEA, Jason continues with that work, championing training and providing information for schools and community organizations, while creating visibility and understanding of Indigenous perspectives. He is involved in many organizations throughout the state, doing his best to ensure that Native voices are present in diverse groups. He has served as a Board Member for the Wisconsin Association of Environmental Education (WAEE.org), an Advisory Council Member for the Midwest Environmental Advocates (MidwestAdvocates.org), and many other community organizations. He is a graduate of the Urban Indian American Indian Teacher Training Program from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2004). He holds a Master's Degree in Administrative Leadership from Concordia University (2017), and recently completed his Superintendent's License from UW-Milwaukee (2023). His greatest passion is creating spaces for Native students to develop their identity, take pride in their language and culture, and to celebrate the rich legacy and the promising future of Indigenous communities. Jason, along with his wife and children, share a home in Franklin, WI.

Show Highlights

Sustainable and reciprocal relationships that build authentic experiences for leaders.
Be a catalyst for a different way of looking at education to support the various languages, cultures, and educational experiences for your community.
The greatest investment in your professional life.
Get your board of directors to budget you into the bottom line for PD.
Finding common ground from different perspectives and experience to close gaps in education.
The force multiplier of the Mastermind foundation.

“I wanted to make sure that I was doing everything possible to be the best leader that I could. It wasn't so much that I did want to learn and grow. That's something I've always been interested in, but I really wanted to be the leader that my community deserved and I wasn't sure what that looked like..”

-Jason Dropik

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Jason’s Resources & Contact Info: * https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/bipoc/ * Twitter * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Brantley Turner is the East Asia Education Director for Dwight Schools with campuses in New York, London, Seoul, Shanghai, Dubai, Online and is currently launching Dwight School Hanoi. Ten years ago Brantley co-founded the only Sino-US cooperative high school in China, Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School. Serving as the American Principal at Qibao Dwight until July 2022; Brantley continues to serve on the school governing board. She looks forward to sharing her non-traditional path to educational leadership and how making a ruckus is a part of her approach to all things school.

Show Highlights

Push yourself out of your comfort zone and out of the country to deal with leadership paradoxes.
Saying YES to stuff will be the best gift in your life.
Tips to attract the smartest people by using an Assessment Center for interviews.
Learn how rest can be a form of resistance.
Belief in the power of disruption drives globalized education.
A motto and strategy that keeps children in mind when creating teams of support for your learning community.
Stop creating tribalism and avoid boxing your school in.

“ I didn't say, ‘Let me change my value system,’ I said, ‘Let me try to walk in the shoes of that value system and see what I can get from it, or how I can counsel people to think or feel differently as opposed.’ And my motto for that is ‘I really try to focus on getting it right, not being right, getting it right can look really different.’”

Brantley Turner

“If you don't feel like you're challenging this status quo in your current context, find a way to disrupt yourself, move your body, get out.”

Brantley Turner

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Brantley’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Jessica Gamble graduated from Howard University, which is located in Washington DC. Mrs. Gamble is a huge supporter of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Mrs. Gamble is married with two children, Kevin and Kai. Mrs. Gamble’s favorite place to visit is Jamaica. She loves it so much that she has been there five times! Mrs. Gamble loves to get her nails done. She always uses unique colors and she NEVER matches her fingers and toes. When Mrs. Gamble was growing up her parents owned a balloon event decorating company so now she can make any space into a party place! When Mrs. Gamble lived in D.C. she worked for the Washington Wizards and the Mystics. She was the captain of the fan patrol for five seasons. She loved to get the crowd engaged in all sorts of outrageous ways!

Show Highlights

Leverage relationships with caring adults for your students.
Tips to multiply your skills vs experience as a novice principal.
Be a principal that people remember forever.
Being the face of your building is essential.
Masterminds help define who you are as a leader to build your leadership tool belt.
Fill the gaps from principal meetings from the district.
Grow beyond your “managerial tasks” to lead your school in a better way.

“What you don't know about the Mastermind is what surprises you the most. You go in thinking I'm just gonna level up my leadership. But what you get out of it is so much more than that. It's friendship, it's comradery, it's togetherness, it's communication, it's tools, it's strategies, it's laughter, and it's hard conversations.”

-Jessica Gamble

Get the episode transcript here!

Jessica’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Jessica Gamble graduated from Howard University, which is located in Washington DC. Mrs. Gamble is a huge supporter of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Mrs. Gamble is married with two children, Kevin and Kai. Mrs. Gamble’s favorite place to visit is Jamaica. She loves it so much that she has been there five times! Mrs. Gamble loves to get her nails done. She always uses unique colors and she NEVER matches her fingers and toes. When Mrs. Gamble was growing up her parents owned a balloon event decorating company so now she can make any space into a party place! When Mrs. Gamble lived in D.C. she worked for the Washington Wizards and the Mystics. She was the captain of the fan patrol for five seasons. She loved to get the crowd engaged in all sorts of outrageous ways!

Show Highlights

You're a character in your students and staff's stories. Hear tips on how and what to narrate.
A Hard Conversation Series on the roles schools play in discussing inequities and bias.
Navigate an uncomfortably hard conversation we all must have.
A process and protocol for facilitating conversations surrounding the topics needed at your school.
Appreciate the diversity in your student body by inviting open communication and visibility.
Cause friction and the tips on how to deal with it.
Interesting ways to increase family engagement so people feel welcomed and at home in your building.

“I would say bet on yourself. Don't be afraid to be bold and jump out there. You're sitting in that seat for a reason and so bet on yourself. You are the best person for the job for a reason.”

-Jessica Gamble

Jessica’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin

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Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Last year, teachers using TeachFX increased their student talk by an average of 40%. TeachFX uses AI to help teachers see the power of high-leverage teaching practices in their own classroom-level data. It’s like having a personal instructional coach...on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/betterleaders.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Loren Brody is an elementary school principal in Northern Virginia. He is also a husband, father of two teenagers, amateur violinist, dedicated swimmer, new vegetarian cook and mindfulness devotee, and Washington Wizards and Nationals sports fan -- still holding onto his New York roots with allegiance to the New York Jets and Mets

Show Highlights

The mastermind experience model that's transforming professional development around the world for school leaders.
Gain more confidence on how to be a school leader in the way you want to be a school leader.
Standard principal development is great at getting leaders to understand the “who” and “what” they want to accomplish. The Mastermind gives the “How” and steps to navigate all the challenges to accomplish your vision.
Create a culture unique to the talents you bring.
The nuts and bolts embedded in the value of the Mastermind
Inspirational conversations
Collaboration with leaders around the world
Learning, growing and having fun with the challenges of leadership.
Tools to deal with difficult situations
How to handle the pressure of needing to produce results as a school leader.
Steps to take school culture to the next level
Feedback and ideas you can implement the next day.
In the Mastermind, each principal's story is really important and how to apply that to the work.

“I thought it (the Mastermind) was really a different way to get a wider perspective from a wider area hitting principles from all over. Until the Mastermind, I had these really good opportunities for learning, and I definitely learned and grew. I didn't have the opportunity to benefit from a wider perspective on school leadership.”

-LorenBrody

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Loren’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Demetrius Ball is a dynamic leader focused on serving his family and community. As a current high school principal Demetrius is committed to creating a climate and school culture that is welcoming and inclusive for all students and staff members and sees strong relationships as the key to helping students and staff thrive.

He has presented at local, regional and national conferences on topics such as technology integration, podcasting, the power of developing your professional/personal learning community, Restorative Justice, and Culturally Responsive Teaching.

Demetrius is a graduate of the United States Military, West Point, New York, where his leadership journey truly began. After graduation he served 5-years as a field artillery officer in the Army completing two tours in the Middle East. Demetrius lives in Northern California with his wife, Valu, his West Point classmate, and 4 children.

Show Highlights

Masterminds are crucial to your longevity and minimize turnover and burnout rates in education.
Build collaboration for leaders like we do for teachers to gain a leadership edge.
Safe environment to have challenging conversations to learn from the experience of peers who have been there.
Become a connected educator and get to Point B faster with confidence, and ready to use tools.
Online platform formatted to build personal connections, interactions and outcomes without excuses with “thought partners.”
The catalyst and most challenging part about being a participant.
Demetrius shares why the Mastermind is “vital” for leaders.

“Finding the support will be crucial to your longevity. No one wants to necessarily bounce around from school to school, community to community. Find that group that's gonna help sustain you. It's more than just the joy of your career. It's about maintaining your health.”

-Demetrius Ball

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Demetrius’ Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Linkedin * Instagram * Join A Mastermind

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

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Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

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Dr. David Franklin is an award winning school administrator, education professor, curriculum designer, author, and presenter. He earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from California State University, East Bay, a Master’s Degree in Education Technology from National University, and holds a B.A. in Music from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Franklin is the founder of The Principal's Desk, an online community with a membership of over 215,000 educators from across the world. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Education for Colorado State University and a Marzano Research fellow trained in High Reliability Schools, Instructional Rounds, Collaborative Teams, and PLCs.

Dr. Franklin has presented at national and international education conferences and is a sought after presenter in the areas of academic intervention, school leadership, creating a shared vision, creating common assessments, and data analysis.

Show Highlights

Let Lenny Kravitz ruin your music career to courageously lead your school.
The importance of focusing on culture before you focus on academics.
School leadership is a musician. Tips to create your soundtrack.
Tips to understand the necessary process of being a new principal and creating a new foundation.
The secret to pinpoint the root cause of school attendance to get a 98.5% attendance rate.
“The Principal’s Desk” you need to spend time at.
Lead with your expertise to tap into your veteran teachers and light their spark again.

“The three guiding principles.I always get back to people, process, and product. It's the people. That's foundational. I think for any organization, especially schools. I want the right people and I don't want the same type of people. I want different types of people in there that all can work with kids in different ways, but I want people who have that practical life experience as well,who can also take the content.”

-Dr David

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David’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Instagram * The Principal's Desk * Facebook

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Last year, teachers using TeachFX increased their student talk by an average of 40%. TeachFX uses AI to help teachers see the power of high-leverage teaching practices in their own classroom-level data. It’s like having a personal instructional coach...on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/betterleaders.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Jason P. Dropik (Babaamii-Bines / Eagle Clan) is the School Administrator for the Indian Community School (ics-edu.org), in Franklin, WI, which serves Native students in the metro Milwaukee area. A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians (BadRiver-nsn.gov), Jason is committed to supporting students, families, staff, and the community both near and far. Having recently completed a two-year term as President of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA.org), he advocated for and spoke on the importance of tribal sovereignty, policy, appropriations, and student support across the country. As a Board Member of NIEA, Jason continues with that work, championing training and providing information for schools and community organizations, while creating visibility and understanding of Indigenous perspectives. He is involved in many organizations throughout the state, doing his best to ensure that Native voices are present in diverse groups. He has served as a Board Member for the Wisconsin Association of Environmental Education (WAEE.org), an Advisory Council Member for the Midwest Environmental Advocates (MidwestAdvocates.org), and many other community organizations. He is a graduate of the Urban Indian American Indian Teacher Training Program from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2004). He holds a Master's Degree in Administrative Leadership from Concordia University (2017), and recently completed his Superintendent's License from UW-Milwaukee (2023). His greatest passion is creating spaces for Native students to develop their identity, take pride in their language and culture, and to celebrate the rich legacy and the promising future of Indigenous communities. Jason, along with his wife and children, share a home in Franklin, WI.

Show Highlights

Retain and attract more leaders of color by understanding the leadership lens they look through.
Training and information for schools to create visibility and understanding of indigenous and other marginalized perspectives.
Create spaces where people feel valued, loved and appreciated for all that they bring.
Avoid forcing your students or staff to blend in by eliminating the “other” option.
Take a seat at the table and avoid “being on the menu” to broaden perspectives.
Designate affinity spaces for representation reflective of the communities that you serve.
Eliminate barriers to ensure diverse safe places that navigate challenging situations with balance.
Join the BIPOC Mastermind specific for leaders of color to expand the room with a trusted environment to overcome isolation.

“When you think about that perspective of what Asian Americans are experiencing as well as our African American and Hispanic Latino communities are still under-represented. There's progress made in some areas, in some communities, but overall, as a system, we're failing. We're failing our kids and failing those communities that continue to have strong advocates that are supporting kids, but also don't have the shared experience that some people do that come from marginalized communities.”

-Jason Dropik

Jason’s Resources & Contact Info: * https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/bipoc/ * Twitter * Linkedin

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Erika has been an educator for over 20 years, currently serving as the Assistant Superintendent in the Ashland School District. A special educator at heart, she is passionate about supporting all students through individual support to reach their limitless potential. She is excited about her new book, co-authored with Tiffany Burns, Connecting Through Conversation: A Playbook for Talking with Students.

Tiffany loves working with kids. In her two decades in education, she taught elementary, middle, and high school students, and worked as an instructional coach, curriculum writer, and university adjunct instructor in Oregon, Alaska, and Mexico. She loves her current role as an elementary school principal where she gets to lead, learn, and play with her favorite people–kids and their grown-ups.

Show Highlights

Guide your children out of the tree with a heart centered approach to transform student impulsiveness post pandemic.
The micro-PD to create a systematic way to create a culture of connection.
Dig into equity and trauma-based practices to close the gap in lack of resources.
Three components to stop talking about why relationships are important, and show what makes a strong connected relationship.
Techniques to avoid power struggles and close the loop because emotions are contagious.
The book every teacher needs to construct day-to-day interactions and conversations to build a culture of connection in our schools.
Tools needed in our schools that go against instinct.

“I would encourage all of the Ruckus Makers listening to really focus on how each interaction you have with a student or a fellow educator is serving to build a connected relationship we're learning. Know and give yourself grace. It's not always instinctive or easy. Oftentimes it is really hard. So, prepare, write it down, make a plan. We got into this because we love kids so use your conversations to make sure that they feel that every single day.”

-Erika Bare

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Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Connecting-Through-Conversation * Connect with Erika, + Website: connectingthroughconversation.com + Email: info@connectingthroughconversatin.com + Twitter

Connect with Tiffany,
Website: connectingthroughconversation.com
Email: info@connectingthroughconversatin.com
Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Last year, teachers using TeachFX increased their student talk by an average of 40%. TeachFX uses AI to help teachers see the power of high-leverage teaching practices in their own classroom-level data. It’s like having a personal instructional coach...on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/betterleaders.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Dr. Christopher Thurber is an award-winning writer and thought leader who has dedicated his professional life to improving how adults care for kids and to enhancing the experience of adventurous young people who are spending time away from home. A graduate of Harvard and UCLA, Dr. Thurber has served as a psychologist and instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy since 1999.

Show Highlights

Avoid “woodshed moments” when trying to innovate in education.
Get organizations and bureaucracies to be open to innovation versus being entrenched in the way things are done here.
Pressure is instinctive. Know what kind of pressure is unhelpful and what kind of pressure inspires.
Raising your awareness for your parents will help your leadership.
Tips on how to be mindful of the pressures we put on children and where to apply pressure that motivates performance.
Evaluate if the work you create advances your students' thinking.
The value in maneuvering through the appropriate channels to cast a bigger net of support.

“I realized that we as parents (and leaders) had been asking the wrong question. Our book is based on asking a different question and the benefits to people of doing that. Even though I haven't said this explicitly, learn from your mistakes. We learn the most from our mistakes. That's the best learning opportunity anyone can have. “

-Dr. Christopher Thurber

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Christopher’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * The Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure * Dr Chris Thurber

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Michael Lehan competed for six years in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns before getting tapped to become a dean of students and assistant principal for the Osseo Area Schools, and then principal of Osseo Senior High School, which he guided to its first ranking as one of “The Best High Schools” in the nation by US News and World Report. In February 2022, he was named IMG Academy’s head of school, where he oversees, organizes, and grows the world-renowned school’s academic programs while assisting with various aspects of its athletic program.

Show Highlights

Stop stealing the identity of your student athletes with tips to transform from being an athlete and a scholar, to a scholar athlete.
Reframing and reconditioning minds to avoid discrediting what is inherently brilliant in your students.
Dive in and access untapped rigor and avoid limiting opportunities.
Know the difference between windows and mirrors to avoid putting productive tension on yourself and others.
Know what necessary static and unnecessary static is to reach meaningful outcomes for your learning community.
Allow students to fail safely by building cognitive endurance to hone in on what is important.
Check out IMG’s resources and training to build capacity and ownership and avoid empathy fatigue.

“As educators, we wanna put a reflection of our students inside the curriculum, and give them opportunities to expand beyond what their lived experience is. A global perspective is gold.”

-Michael Lehan

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Michael’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter * IMG Academy * IMG Academy+ Online Coaching

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Last year, teachers using TeachFX increased their student talk by an average of 40%. TeachFX uses AI to help teachers see the power of high-leverage teaching practices in their own classroom-level data. It’s like having a personal instructional coach...on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/betterleaders.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Ruckus Makers,

Did you enjoy this guided meditation? Would you benefit from more content like this? Tell Danny what you think! Email: danny@betterleadersbetterschools.com Or call/text to tell him yourself: +1-312-788-7595

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Merel Kriegsman, Women's Wealth Advocate, is dedicated to helping you become the wealthiest woman in your lineage. A former cleaning lady turned self-made Millionaire Matriarch, she believes that the most powerful thing we can do for our children is become unapologetic female leaders who fearlessly demand what they're worth, AND GET IT.

Her insights, based on helping 1000+ women step into SELF-FUNDED wealth, have been featured on CBS news, ABC news and in publications like Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Good Housekeeping.

Spot her in the wild on her organic farm in Canada, reading erotic novels in a 1920s lace dress and rubber boots.

Show Highlights

Get a mindset tune up by experiencing the “hard stuff.”
Tips to approach cultural and gender expectations to avoid passing on patterns of scarcity to children.
Address leadership fatigue specifically for men, women, and families.
Value “Exquisite simplicity” by decluttering choices and protecting what you love.
A real financial investment to become an even better leader and become the wealthiest woman in your lineage.
The revolution and reckoning to look at the ethics through the major rate upheaval as leaders, as couples, as parents.
Don’t outsource your chores.

“Who are you surrounding yourself with? So, this means entering mastermind programs and leadership incubators where you have a safe space to discuss those things because everybody's looking to you for leadership. Maybe even in your own home. We need those safe spaces where there are people that understand what we're experiencing and we can let down and really feel understood.”

-Merel Kriegsman

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Merel’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: Merel Kriegsman * Podcast secret link: https://merelkriegsmanmedia.thrivecart.com/wealth-whispers/?coupon=WEALTH22 * Instagram * Facebook * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Connie Hamilton has served many roles in over two decades as an educator. She has been an elementary and middle school teacher and instructional coach. As an administrator, Connie held positions as a principal at both the elementary and secondary levels and a central office curriculum leader. Her experience in these positions fueled a passion for supporting high quality instruction.

Dr. Joseph Jones is the Superintendent of Schools in the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District. Joe is a former high school teacher, assistant principal and principal. As principal, he was named the Delaware Secondary Principal of the Year and during his tenure, Delcastle Technical High School was the first high school to receive the state’s Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. Joe received his doctorate from the University of Delaware in educational leadership. He is also an adjunct professor for various universities.

Dr. T.J. Vari is the Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Schools and District Operations in the Appoquinimink School District. T.J. is a former middle school assistant principal and principal and former high school English teacher. His master’s degree is in School Leadership and his doctorate is in Innovation and Leadership. He holds several honors and distinctions, including his past appointment as President of the Delaware Association for School Administrators and the Paul Carlson Administrator of the Year Award. He teaches educational leadership courses at the masters and doctoral level.

Together, Joe and T.J. present nationally on topics of school leadership, and they co-founded TheSchoolHouse302, which is a leadership development institute specializing in leadership coaching for new and experienced school leaders. They have written five books together, co-authoring several of those with their friends, Principal EL and Connie Hamilton.

Show Highlights

7 mindset shifts designed around accepting whatever happens with model solutions to implement.
The “Octopus Approach” will get in the right mindset so the crisis doesn't crush you, but rather catapult you.
Technical tips with practical solutions and strategies to avoid professional development that doesn’t land.
Get into the dirty details of how to solve your biggest obstacles with a model shaped around your immediate needs.
Creative ways to rethink, embrace and implement new scheduling, teacher retention and technology that works specifically for your school.
The questions you need to ask to identify somebody willing to be a part of your learning culture and join your system.
Systems outside of education that will transform your schools from the inside out.

“Remember is that nothing really comes easily and it may take some effort, but solutions are out there. We have plenty of resources available to help us to achieve some goals and we have plenty of evidence that we can do things that we never thought were possible before.”

-Connie Hamilton

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Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Author of : Hacking Questions, Hacking Homework, Strained and Drained, and 7 Mindshifts for School Leaders * website Connie Hamilton, Blog | Podcast * Facebook * Linkedin/connie-hamilton * Twitter: Conniehamilton, Joe & T.J. * Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Last year, teachers using TeachFX increased their student talk by an average of 40%. TeachFX uses AI to help teachers see the power of high-leverage teaching practices in their own classroom-level data. It’s like having a personal instructional coach...on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/betterleaders.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)

Hacking Homework: 10 Strategies That Inspire Learning Outside the Classroom (Hack Learning Series)

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Dr. Glover is a servant leader committed to equity and inclusion. She is a former educator, administrator, Human Resource manager, and Diversity, equity and inclusion professional. In 2017, Dr. Glover earned her doctorate degree in Urban Education, from Cleveland State University. With an emphasis on policy and planning, Dr. Glover has transferred her learning into reimagining the ways in which we socialize scholars, future teachers, and current educators. More recently, Dr. Glover self-published her first book: Centering Student Voice: A Guide for Cultivating Emotionally Intelligent Educators and Culturally Responsive Classrooms. She is the daughter of Joseph and Sheryl Glover. She has one brother, one sister, and is the mother of Kylan Richburg. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with family.

Show Highlights

The wake up call to challenge the learning systems for young educators.
Re-imagining the ways we socialize scholars, future teachers, and current educators.
Disrupt University provides intercultural experiences in a space of ongoing learning to develop authentic relationships.
The 3 D’s to create an environment to make quality connections.
Honor ancestors to “disrupt” the future.
Know the difference between a golden rule and a platinum rule. S
Create conversations around the difference between allyship, advocacy and activism.

“Disrupting takes courage, but it also, it also is aligned to who you are and the unique difference that you bring to the world. Be committed to your uniqueness. Be committed to who you're supposed to be, who you are called to be because you are solving a problem that no one else in this world has solved.”

-Dr Erica Glover

Get the episode transcript here!! Erica’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Linkedin * book:centering student voice * Instagram: @drericaglover

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Ben Jones knew he was going to be a principal when he was in 3rd grade. His entire school career, while a bit tumultuous at times, gave him experiences that helped him become an impassioned educator. After graduating from the University of Georgia in December of 2002, he began teaching at Carson Middle School in Greene County, GA.

After getting married in 2004, Ben and his wife moved to Forsyth County, GA where Ben began teaching at Liberty Middle School. In 2010, Ben became the Graduation Coach at LMS where he supported students, parents, and teachers. In 2012, he had the privilege of being named one of the Assistant Principals at SilverCity ES. 4 years later, he was named AP at South Forsyth Middle School. In 2019, he was named the Principal at Shiloh Point ES where he proudly remains today.

Ben is a faithful Christ follower, loves to read, watch movies with his family, and eat Twizzlers. He is also a member of the Guiding Principals Mastermind that meets on Wednesday nights!

Show Highlights

Solutions for solving isolation and loneliness in educational leadership.
See a transformational leadership with visible results in 30 days.
Practical questions and silent solutions to transform how you show up.
An authentic space to connect with your learning community.
Judgment free zone to tackle unrealistic fears of leadership and belonging.
Tips to collaborate and not compete to consistently connect.

“You gotta do something, whether it's Mastermind or not. You've got to do something. Would I still be a principal if I didn't have guiding principles as a Mastermind? Probably. Would I be as energized to Happily build? Probably not.”

-Ben Jones

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Ben’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Shiloh Point Elementary

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Last year, teachers using TeachFX increased their student talk by an average of 40%. TeachFX uses AI to help teachers see the power of high-leverage teaching practices in their own classroom-level data. It’s like having a personal instructional coach...on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/betterleaders.

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Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

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Ben Jones knew he was going to be a principal when he was in 3rd grade. His entire school career, while a bit tumultuous at times, gave him experiences that helped him become an impassioned educator. After graduating from the University of Georgia in December of 2002, he began teaching at Carson Middle School in Greene County, GA.

After getting married in 2004, Ben and his wife moved to Forsyth County, GA where Ben began teaching at Liberty Middle School. In 2010, Ben became the Graduation Coach at LMS where he supported students, parents, and teachers. In 2012, he had the privilege of being named one of the Assistant Principals at SilverCity ES. 4 years later, he was named AP at South Forsyth Middle School. In 2019, he was named the Principal at Shiloh Point ES where he proudly remains today.

Ben is a faithful Christ follower, loves to read, watch movies with his family, and eat Twizzlers. He is also a member of the Guiding Principals Mastermind that meets on Wednesday nights!

Show Highlights

Created your “core team” to connect and move your school forward.
Be the chief repeating officer for showing and connecting the vision of your school.
Use the “Constellation Mindset” for that interdependence piece for your leadership team.
The playbook for leaders to create agreements connected to your vision for essential conversations with your community.
“Teaching sprints” will transform the classroom and impact students.
Dial in your staff. Hear how 99% of Ben’s decisions are not made in isolation.
Invested in your continuous growth, challenge the status quo and design the future of school.
The importance of passing the leadership baton.

“‘I don't affect anybody else. I don't have any power over anything. My actions don't matter.’ That couldn't be farther from the truth. We're all connected in some way to our kids, our staff, our community. Every choice we make, every time we show love and kindness, every time we show respect, every time we're selfless, every time we serve, it means something.”

-Ben Jones

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Ben’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Shiloh Point Elementary

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

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Stacey Green began her tenure at Stockton Grade School (SGS) as a new principal with an ambitious goal: transform the school’s culture from an isolated, individual classroom focus to an integrated, responsive, and collaborative environment where teachers lead with the whole child and the whole school in mind. In just six years, Green has had remarkable success, not only because of her individual talents, but because of her belief that change happens when leaders “empower others to remove barriers and transform problems into opportunities.” Green has used this approach to lead SGS through the Kansas School Redesign process, earning the distinction of being named a Kansas Mercury School in 2017. On the path toward personalizing student learning, Green has supported teachers in aligning with school vision and purpose through personalized professional development. SGS teachers have since embraced trauma-informed practices, increasing connection with students across experiences, and improving staff’s capacity for mutual support, self-care, and vicarious trauma prevention. Today, SGS is known for high community and family engagement, regularly hosting visits and presenting at conferences on the power of redesigning instruction through research-based practices. Superintendent Roger Lowry notes Green’s insatiable quest for knowledge of education and leadership, calling her the best principal he has observed in his 20 years as an administrator. Green holds an M.S. from Fort Hays State University and a B.A. from Bethany College.

Show Highlights

The Mastermind motivated Stacey to tackle three challenges proactively.
Mastermind groups provide innovative, personal ways to think through topics out loud with an outside perspective.
An unexpected feeling became Stacey’s first big win on her first hot seat.
The moment that would stop most leaders dead in their tracks, but not Stacey.
Psychological safety and diversity for leaders who seek help to expand their network beyond their district, town, or state.
Ask different questions of staff, students, and families to better serve them through the topics and the books shared in the Mastermind.

“It's a chance to really lean into people who really want to grow other people. When we're investing in each other and having that collective efficacy, even among leaders. There's so much more we can do and really advocate on behalf of our students as we continue to see the world shift as it does to really get it back into the right place.”

-Stacey Green

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Stacey’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * The Obstacle Is the Way * Level Up Join Mastermind

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Last year, teachers using TeachFX increased their student talk by an average of 40%. TeachFX uses AI to help teachers see the power of high-leverage teaching practices in their own classroom-level data. It’s like having a personal instructional coach...on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/betterleaders.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I'd argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but think about it. That's totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids there was something within their control that would help them be successful in every class? It's not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination.

When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed.

Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills.

Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

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Stacey Green began her tenure at Stockton Grade School (SGS) as a new principal with an ambitious goal: transform the school’s culture from an isolated, individual classroom focus to an integrated, responsive, and collaborative environment where teachers lead with the whole child and the whole school in mind. In just six years, Green has had remarkable success, not only because of her individual talents, but because of her belief that change happens when leaders “empower others to remove barriers and transform problems into opportunities.” Green has used this approach to lead SGS through the Kansas School Redesign process, earning the distinction of being named a Kansas Mercury School in 2017. On the path toward personalizing student learning, Green has supported teachers in aligning with school vision and purpose through personalized professional development. SGS teachers have since embraced trauma-informed practices, increasing connection with students across experiences, and improving staff’s capacity for mutual support, self-care, and vicarious trauma prevention. Today, SGS is known for high community and family engagement, regularly hosting visits and presenting at conferences on the power of redesigning instruction through research-based practices. Superintendent Roger Lowry notes Green’s insatiable quest for knowledge of education and leadership, calling her the best principal he has observed in his 20 years as an administrator. Green holds an M.S. from Fort Hays State University and a B.A. from Bethany College.

Show Highlights

A Design Thinking model that transforms the problem from being an obstacle, to a gift.
Teacher voice is more prevalent when they have tools they can access and tangible data to provide ownership and impact.
Make sure your school is “TIGER ready.”
Tips to create powerful shifts from identifying as a “math teacher” to a “teacher of students through math.”
Internal research teams that find purposeful activities for your community to avoid good things happening in silos,
Build “community groups” to connect students to your vision and each other.
Don't get tripped up by fear, but build confidence in yourself as a professional in education.

“The leadership piece is giving that permission to, ‘Don't come ask me, go for it. And if you need me along the way or if there's any support I can give you, please ask.’ I wanna stay out of their way because as professionals, they know their content best, they know their students best. I'm just here to give them the necessary tools they need to move forward or problem solve with them or, and just get out of the way.”

-Stacey Green

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Stacey’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Linkedin * The Obstacle Is the Way

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

With TeachFX, teachers are creating classrooms that are alive with conversation. Our app gives teachers insights into high-leverage practices like: How much student talk happened? Which questions got students talking? It’s eye-opening for teachers, and scales the impact of coaches and principals. Start your free pilot at teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Why do students struggle? I’d argue that they lack access to quality instruction, but that is totally out of their control. What if there was something we could teach kids … That was in their control … and would help them succeed in every class? It’s not a magic pill or a figment of your imagination. When students internalize Executive Functioning Skills they succeed. Check out the new self-paced online course brought to you by OB that shows teachers how to equip their students with executive functioning skills. Learn more at organizedbinder.com/go Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

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Do You Have A Safe Space to Unpack Tough Career Decisions?

Dr. Charles Warfield has served the Haddon Township School District since 2002, where he has simultaneously been the principal of Stoy Elementary School and Jennings Elementary School.

Prior to his tenure in Haddon Twp., Chuck spent three years in the Cherry Hill School District as an Assistant Principal at Carusi Middle School. He also taught elementary school in the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District before becoming an administrator.

Show Highlights

Achieve your #1 goal by surrounding yourself with your people.
Express what the hard parts are and share vulnerably to implement change.
Feedback that flushes out your leadership ideas into action.
The time commitment that gives you time.
Balancing challenges and investing in a program that invests in you.
Present a problem to a different set of ears and listen to a solution unfold.

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Chuck’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Charles Warfield has served the Haddon Township School District since 2002, where he has simultaneously been the principal of Stoy Elementary School and Jennings Elementary School.

Prior to his tenure in Haddon Twp., Chuck spent three years in the Cherry Hill School District as an Assistant Principal at Carusi Middle School. He also taught elementary school in the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District before becoming an administrator.

Show Highlights

Figured out how to multiply yourself, and be in two places at the same time.
The benefits of leading multiple schools and how to honor the differences of schools and staff to create a trusting environment.
The key piece necessary to implement change is the mistake that many leaders make.
The components of identifying and uncovering the different personalities of your staff and families to master communication and messaging.
Wield the power to inspire your PTA to build learning gardens for your schools.
Chuck’s 2 minute TED talk on the importance of distributed leadership in really letting go.
Strategies to find the unexpected leaders in your buildings.

“Be open to differences with the people that you work with. We're in the business of working with people. From the people who are the teachers to the students, to the parents. We're all individuals, but we're all people. We need to be conscious of the fact that we need to be forgiving of each other, we need to help each other out and we need to lean on each other. It's okay to do all of that. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to show a little bit of emotion and it's important to show empathy toward everybody.”

-Chuck Warfield

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Chuck’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Lauren Cikara is the Director of K-12 Initiatives at Active Minds. Prior to that, she worked for the Colorado School of Public Health School recruiting schools to participate in the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey (HKCS), Colorado’s Youth Risk Behaviour Survey (YRBS), and Smart Source. She is a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusive school board policies and ensures the work she is a part of has an equitable and intersectional lens.

Show Highlights

Must hear student campaigns that expand the generational lens surrounding mental health.
Peer to peer approach for mental health education school’s can easily adopt.
Active Academy students create policies that take control of their mental health.
Build a student coalition for moving through the system.
Be a “youth champion” to provide life skills, support and tools to children.
Change the conversations and destigmatize mental health with this next step.
Rethink your learning environment with “Stressless Weeks.”

“For the students, I would say speak your truth and say it louder for people in the back. We don't sometimes listen to the stories that our youth are telling us, their experiences and how they advocate for their lived experience. For the youth champions, the adult stakeholders, listen to students.”

-Lauren Cikara

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Lauren’s Resources & Contact Info: * Active Minds * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Hailing from Canada’s Capital region, Loop pedal violist, composer, and educator Kathryn Patricia Cobbler has crafted a singular niche in improvisation and classical performance. Bringing creativity to concert halls, schools, and community venues, her work as a performing artist, composer, educator, and speaker centers around multidisciplinary collaborations that both hold space for and tell the life stories of audiences and communities

Show Highlights

Approach your work with co-creation and innovation using this unique framework with your entire learning community.
The powerful question you need to ask and the workshop you need to support the answers.
Put your own oxygen mask on 1st because you're the catalyst of your school.
Lean into and invite students to be a part of the narrative and own the direction of where the project or the task at hand goes.
Connect your vision with a loop pedal to engage your community spaces where people are actually active and doing life together.
Unleashed Igniting Creativity Through Art and Sound,helps students have a stake in creating something that's unique to themselves.
Promote student voices and diversity into crafting the lessons they can connect with.

“We learn as we go and for us to be able to mirror what we admire, then we'll start to see the culture and the change that we want in our communities.”

-Kathryn Patricia Cobbler

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Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Website: Kathryn Patricia Cobbler * Interactive Concerts and Workshops:Kathryn Patricia Cobbler – MASC * Workshop with the National Arts Centre: From the Ground Up | National Arts Centre * Mailing List: Thanks for stopping by!Here's a free recording * The beautiful constraint

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Tips to boost your confidence to avoid imposter syndrome.
Every leader needs a “Jar of Awesome" to capture the results you create.
Learn your default response when it comes to facing obstacles, challenges, and failures.
No Wasted Experience, you need to invest in yourself.
Accomplishing anything of massive value in your life takes a strong mindset.
Modify “A principal's lunch” to optimize your performance.
Complete “The Input Audit”, “Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool” and the “Square Squad” to direct your mindset to focus on the fundamentals.

“A crazy stat, a hundred percent of our members agree that the Mastermind is an essential part of how they grow themselves in terms of professional development and leadership. And so that's really important to know. The Mastermind totally works.”

-Daniel

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Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Dan Sullivan - The Strategic Coach

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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How to solve the crisis in education

Stanley Litow is a Professor at Duke, Trustee of the State University of NY and columnist at Barron's. He previously served as President of the IBM Foundation, Deputy Schools Chancellor for New York City, Founder and head of Interface and Executive Director the Urban Corps. He organized and led 3 National Education Summits, served on two Presidential Commissions and helped found PTECH schools

Show Highlights

Solutions to the crisis that education is facing as a cause of the pandemic.
Unpack the demands leaders are facing from the decline in the achievement rates, high school graduation, college enrollment and teacher recruitment and retention.
The essential step to addressing student achievement.
The P TECH program provides a clear pathway from school to college, to career.
Be part of the solution at the upcoming National Summit on Pathways from School to College to Career in Washington DC this March.
Overcome the doomsday data facing education leaders.
The big tent approach for Ruckus Makers to make systemic change.

“The one thing I would say is, and having been Deputy Chancellor of schools in New York City, the largest school system in the United States, worked in the private sector, worked for a mayor back in the day, worked in the non-for-profit community At this juncture, I don't think that there's an issue that's more significant and important than education, but it can't only be solved by educators. This is something that we need to get every American involved in. And not just to say what could we do, but give them a very concrete and specific agenda where our investment and it's gonna take an investment, but done in an innovative, creative and different kinds of ways can produce real meaningful change. And I think it is definitely possible.”

-Stan Litow

Episode’s Resources & Contact Info: * Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools * Twitter * LinkedIn * Facebook * Stanley Litow * Link to the event here: https://nationalpathwaysinitiative.org + The 2023 National Pathways Initiative Summit will be designed and structured to advance a clear vision for a new educational system that will incorporate a fundamental shift in the paradigm that has long guided U.S. education and enhance the pathways from the classroom, to college to a career. + To bring this initiative to life and marshal the support of federal policymakers, we are forming a diverse National Pathways Coalition composed of prominent leaders in sectors vital to this effort, including business, education, government, the civil rights community, nonprofits and students and young adults.

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career

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Road To Awesome

Darrin Peppard is a leadership expert focused on organizational culture and climate, and coaching growing emerging leaders. Darrin is the author of the book Road to Awesome: Empower, Lead, Change the Game. He is also the host of the Leaning into Leadership podcast. As a ‘recovering high school principal’, Darrin shares strategies and lessons learned and effective from over 25 years in public education to help leaders to be more effective and positively impact the world around them.

Show Highlights

Transform a toxic culture by honestly investigating your own experience to avoid creating expectations that push people to be compliant.
Simple and effective practical tips for schools to show that they see, hear, and love their students.
Leadership coaching stops you from being a firefighter and starts you on a path towards ensuring you can go and do that work.
Focus on 3 primary tenets to travel the Road to Awesome with 6 things that are important to leaders.
Leaning into Leadership will help you create a culture of celebration.
Stop looking for the “red cars” in your school and start training your mind to look for the great things in your school.
Nurture your relationships and stop pretending to listen and build systems that can be delegated.

“As a school leader, as the principal, my really biggest job was to grow and coach everybody else in that school, grow and coach my teachers, grow and coach my leaders, grow and coach my support staff so that we were doing everything we could for kids.”

-Darrin Peppard

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Darrin’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * LinkedIn * TikTok * Road To Awesome, LLC

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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The Leadership Optimization Compass

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Operating at your personal best consistently every day next year for your campus with this tool.
Learn the four parts to The Leadership Optimization Compass framework.
Unplug in Denver with a stripped down personalized approach to achieving your leadership goals.
If you wanna create bigger results for your campus, you need to network to implement the best practices that move you.
A mental model all leaders need to have a healthy life on and off campus.
15 choices all the best Ruckus Makers make in order to optimize their performance.
No Wasted Experience Tool to learn from the biggest mistakes you make as a leader and turn them into a growth mindset sort and leverage point.

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Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/denver2023/

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Bryan Miltenberg is the proud principal of Aquebogue Elementary School in Riverhead, New York. He's been a teacher, dean, and middle school assistant principal, and has presented and published on topics including school climate and culture, instructional technology, self-aware leadership, inclusivity, time management, and co-teaching partnerships. Against all logic, he remains a suffering lifelong Mets and Jets fan.

Show Highlights

Establish transformational belonging at your school by avoiding these misunderstandings.
The different mechanisms Bryan put in place to understand the rapid changes occurring in his school to understand what people were experiencing.
We all have an “eyes problem.” Build something inclusive with tips to increase teacher retention.
Tips to build a pipeline that attracts culturally and linguistically diverse candidates to see your school as a place that they wanna be.
Create a Punk concert environment for your students to connect with their learning community.
Take the Michael Jordan and Brene Brown approach to adversity and harsh feedback.
Leaders need to play the long game by balancing the tension between urgent and significant.

“I tell that story, not to say that it's radical to have a greeter or to have a bilingual person, but because it's symbolic of what we're trying to do in terms of telling kids, families and staff, we accept you as you are. We're gonna make the adjustments that we need to make to support you rather than force you to do something you may not be able to do yet.”

-Bryan Miltenberg

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Bryan’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Aquebogue Elementary School | Facebook

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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The one decision that's going to change everything for you with this simple strategy regarding culture.
Stop blaming students for failures and get organized as a professional learning community.
The survey you need to overcome your blind spots to ensure you are celebrating your entire learning community.
Epic Live Mastermind event in Denver this summer with a brand new framework, “Leadership Optimization Compass.”
Hire you mom to accelerate nurturing and belonging in your school.

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Show’s Resources & Contact Info: * Denver Live Event

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Culture to the Max

Dr. Shontoria Walker is a graduate from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas with a degree in Professional Leadership with an emphasis in Literacy. Her research focuses on using culturally relevant pedagogy to influence literacy achievement for middle school Black Male Students based on her experiences as a former 8th grade English teacher at an all-boys preparatory academy. She has also served on the Texas Teacher Advisory Board, a Teach Plus Policy Fellow as well as a Senior Policy Fellow with Teach Plus Texas from 2014-2019. During her time and beyond she has advocated for educational policy laws that directly impacted the classroom as well as contributed to policy briefings for the revision of The Every Student Succeeds Act and national policy reports such as If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How To Disrupt Teacher Turnover and more recently To Be Who We are: Black Teachers on Creating Affirming School Cultures.

Show Highlights

8 minutes you must hear if you believe in tapping into cultural responsiveness in your schools.
Do something different with your teacher prep to provide a voice to your new teachers with learning opportunities, not just survival techniques.
Stop putting a bandaid on students falling through the cracks and give them authentic engagement opportunities.
Tips to create culturally relevant content that transfers ownership of understanding to provide opportunity to make meaning from the complex process.
4 domains to form strong community partnerships and responsive teaching to achieve Culture to the Max.
“Real Talk Friday” gives students the opportunity to elevate their voices and actually see each other.
Not classroom management, but culture management.
Gaps in preparing teachers for their students and building connections that transforms the learning process.

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Shontoria Walker’s Resources & Contact Info: * Education PowerEd Website * Twitter * Instagram * Facebook * LinkedIn

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Born in Scotland and raised around the world, Kirsten is a truly global thinker. Her educational training spans Scotland, USA, Australia and more.

After 27 years of international education experience across 7 countries and leadership positions in 5 schools, she now works as an independent consultant, creating individually tailored PD for schools, developing online learning events and coaching educators.

Kirsten founded one of the most popular educator PLNs on Facebook, where 120,000 global educators share resources, support and inspire one another – the Global Educator Collective.

Show Highlights

RSVP to your invitation to join a free event for educators and leaders all over the world with resources to transform your schools.
Unleash your Leadership potential by utilizing these 4 domains and go from Aspiration to Action.
Stop Stealing Dreams, tell the story of your school, and face epic challenges for leadership in a global community of Ruckus Makers bootcamp.
Unpack shared resources from case studies that engage your whole community (DEIJ, how to be responsive to trauma, how to implement a gifted and talented, how to develop a school with the community, how to develop a teacher growth program and more).
Be human first and level up communication.
Global insights for the Ruckus Maker that will benefit their leadership.

“ I always say human first amongst everything, amongst all of our differences. Whether it's ‘social economical’, cultural or experiential, whatever it is. The one thing is we are human first. Instead of looking for what is different, look for what you have in common. Look for where you can make connections and always understand that you are capable of making that connection. If you just pause, if you just pause and just for one second, imagine that you are that other person and what they're feeling.”

-Kirsten Durward

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Kirsten’s Resources & Contact Info: * https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/slb * Global Educator Collective * Global Educator Collective | Facebook * Twitter * Stop Stealing Dreams: Free eBook from Seth Godin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Steven Weber is the Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning. He brings more than 20 years of experience to the district having previously served as the Executive Director for Curriculum and Instruction with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (NC). During his career, he has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, director of secondary, and executive director of curriculum and instruction. Weber’s professional experience includes serving as a curriculum director with the Arkansas Department of Education and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Weber serves on the Executive Cabinet for Fayetteville Public Schools and provides leadership by working with teachers, administrators, and staff. He works with teachers from each of the district’s sixteen schools to review programs, develop curriculum, and analyze district inputs and outputs. Weber leads the Office of Teaching and Learning and works with building principals to support continuous improvement. His areas of leadership include academic achievement, instructional strategies, formative assessment, leadership development, professional learning, continuous improvement, and collaborating with families to support students.

Show Highlights

Burning a bridge with a parent helped to create strategies to build empathy and respect with people we don’t agree with.
Tips to navigate the turbulent waters between confidence and the imposter syndrome.
Leadership is about customer service.
Prioritize dialogue and conversation over conflict and disrespect when facing highly energized people.
Steven’s instructional leadership program that builds a pipeline for leaders.
Schools are in a service industry. Make sure your first touch point is a welcoming experience.
The message you need to remember when communicating to an audience.

“As a community, we should embrace our schools, embrace our teachers and our principals. We should embrace the positive impact that a school can have on a community. We don't need to destroy our schools through public rhetoric, but we do need to have conversation and dialogue. And that dialogue is hard to have at a school board meeting, which is only designed for public comments.”

-Steven Weber

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Steven Weber’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Linkedin * email: steven.weber@g.fayar.net * Kyle Wagner - Transform Educational

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Ryan Steuer is the founder of Magnify Learning, a Project Based Learning professional development organization. Prior to founding Magnify Learning, Ryan was an engineer for a Fortune 50 company, an eighth-grade English teacher, and a missionary. He shares his educational leadership insights on YouTube and on the PBL Simplified podcast.

Show Highlights

The adventures and life learning from RV education.
Bridging the gap to connect the dot between essential concepts and real world experiences for students.
Wake up kids with relevant and authentic learning with these tips on how to create a PBL curriculum.
The importance of having a WHY behind student learning to identify standards learned and transferred.
Ryan shares a story of failing at PBL and why it is critical to have students in on the unit planning process.
The benefits of a Mastermind “is you get somebody that knows the work enough to like slam your foot down on the pedal to really move your work farther.”
PBL Simplified, has a proven 6-step process directed at supporting leaders in motivating staff and maneuvering through the creative constraints.

Ryan Steur’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Facebook * Project Based Learning Blogs * PBL Simplified Podcast — Magnify Learning

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Mitch doesn't teach teachers how to teach. He teaches teachers how to set students up for success. He can teach teachers how to deliver content - He is good at it, but that’s not where he adds value for your school or district.

As you know, unless students develop a solid foundation for learning it does not matter how great your teachers deliver content, or how emergent the technology, or even how engaging a lesson might be. When students hone executive functioning skills, teachers’ efforts to deliver content find fertile ground and everyone succeeds.

Mitch has a black belt in creating fertile ground for learning. He shows teachers how to equip students with executive functioning skills. It is possible for teachers to engage the most disengaged or disinterested students and set them up for success in school and life. That is his superpower.

Show Highlights

Classroom routines to teach executive functions.
The FREE 5-Part Webinar Series you must attend to cultivate executive functions for your learning community.
3 keys to teaching executive functioning skills
The best learning is at school, not at home.
Invest more in teaching your students executive function skills to provide a foundation for success.
The skills we take for granted.
Accessing your “Working Memory.”

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Mitch Weather’s Resources & Contact Info: * Organized Binder + 5 Week EF Series RSVP

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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School transformation and really leveraging curiosity and intentional design.
Turn critics into cheerleaders with the “Can If mental model”
Use the nine propelling questions to leverage the constraints and do something powerful within your school.
Use your leadership superpowers and tools and follow the map your biggest critics provide.
Create opportunity and rewards for your community by
leveraging the knowledge and expertise of your parent community.
removing X, which will allow us to get to y.
Access essential tools by joining the Principal Success Path like the Decision Making Journal.

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Episode Resources & Contact Info: * GOOD by Jocko Willink

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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In this special episode, Chief Ruckus Maker, Danny Bauer teaches the Principal Success Formula™. This episode is in-depth. Much deeper than a usual show. We recommend you listen to this one with a notebook, so you can follow along and do the work Danny had leaders do when he taught this live. The four parts of the Principal Success Formula™ are: * LEVEL UP your mindset so that you are an even more magnetic, impactful, and effective leader … * Learn how to use intentional design to create an even more welcoming and inclusive environment … * Follow the “clues” left by remarkable leaders that you can use to create the school culture of your dreams! * Absorb and practice the foundational actions that Ruckus Makers take to consistently create results you’ll be proud of …

And if you'd like to work with us to implement this framework consistently, we invite you to apply to the fourth cohort of The Principal Success Path™. We're getting started January 15. Apply today here: https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/principalsuccesspath/ Read my best-selling book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership. Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills. Apply to the mastermind today! SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations. TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms. From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice. Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

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Dr. Decoteau J. Irby’s life work focuses on creating and sustaining organizations that contribute to Black people’s self-determined well-being, development, and positive life outcomes. He is an Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is the author Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press) and the picture book Magical Black Tears: A Protest Story (Derute Consulting Cooperative).

Show Highlights

Parallels between live performance and leadership to overcome the plateaus of learning.
Relationships with mistakes and failure create more equitable schools for all our students.
Redefine mistakes to take the pressure off and create a better performance.
Strengthening the conditions of your school community requires an important commitment.
Create transformative experiences between a teacher, a student by connecting the learning process to how we facilitate learning.
Racial equity breakthroughs and how they act as indicators of progress.
Break from the status quo most schools are built around and stop celebrating false positives.

“I think that leaders should be really mindful to seek out coaching, to seek out opportunities to learn. I try to give myself a major learning opportunity about every seven years. And that might mean, enrolling myself into a leadership training program that has nothing to do with my work.”

-Dr Decoteau Irby

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Dr Decoteau Irby’s Resources & Contact Info:

Decoteau. - Decoteau J. Irby
Stuck Improving Racial Equity and School Leadership
Lead for Equity
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TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Shannon Buerk is the Founder and CEO of engage2learn, a leading provider of Education Intelligence through smart professional learning, job-embedded coaching, and related technology solutions since 2011. Educator turned entrepreneur, she has emerged as a thought leader on educational leadership, organizational culture, and systems thinking. Buerk recently published Connect the Dots: Utilizing Education Intelligence to Accelerate Growth, Retain Talent, and Optimize Outcomes.

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Convert PD from a burden to a benefit. Tips to redesign PD for your staff.
Connect the Dots with an elegant solution to measure what you really value.
Create a growth-based system to provide measurable educator growth and avoid random feedback.
Teachers are the talent you need to focus on. Generate support for educator growth to lead to student growth.
Evidence-based recognition is a critical and complete game changer.
A Ruckus Maker perspective about teacher prep programs, certification, and evaluation.
Understanding learning styles, how the brain works to truly engage all learners.

“What's not working, which includes one size fits all PD. It's easy enough to say ‘differentiate’ and it's very difficult to do in terms of systems. The first step is looking at the system as more competency based.”

-Shannon Buerk

“The idea of evidence-based recognition and evidence-based feedback based on evidence of practice is what can truly change the culture. It puts the agency back in the professional's hands and you're saying, ‘Here's a piece of evidence of practice that I'd like feedback on,’ and they're giving feedback.”

-Shannon Buerk

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Shannon Buerk’s Resources & Contact Info: * Connect the Dots * Website: Connect the Dots * engage2learn * LinkedIn * Twitter

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TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Will Jawando is an attorney, an activist, a community leader, and a councilmember in Montgomery County, Maryland, a diverse community of more than one million residents. Called “the progressive leader we need” by the late congressman John Lewis, Jawando has worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Sherrod Brown, and President Barack Obama. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post and The Root and on BET.com, and his work has been featured in The New York Times and New York magazine and on NPR, NBC News, and MTV. He regularly appears on CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets.

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The key for Ruckus Makers who want to cause good trouble in their school.
Relationships with black men and boys have a superhuman power to combat structural racism and inequity.
Policies, strategies and your role in creating more equitable schools.
Knowing the difference between a Decision kid versus Destination kid to provide encouragement to call out their gifts.
The 1% zone factors that are devastating black boys in this country..
We all need these relationships to thrive.
When you get smacked in the face when you're trying to do something good, don't give up.

“At the bottom of that totem pole were black men. Intentionality was put in to tell us in the world at large, who and what we are, which most of which was negative. We're still counteracting that. We all need to work to do that. But when you have the presence of engaged black men in the lives of black boys and men, I personally can attest that it has a superhuman power.”

-Will Jawando

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Will Jawando’s Resources & Contact Info: * Buy Will’s book: My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole * Speaker link: Will Jawando - Macmillan Speakers Bureau * (@willjawando) · Twitter * Instagram

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TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. CJ Lowery, is the Assistant Superintendent in Rockport-Fulton Texas. He has a background with inner-city and rural Title 1 schools as a teacher and principal. CJ believes that education is not a job, it’s a mission field. This mission field requires strong relationships, data, and collaboration for success. “It’s not who you know, but who you were good to.”

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Ruckus Makers need to embrace the tension of veteran teachers while amplifying the talent of novice teachers.
"Who you know, is not nearly as important as who you're good to.”
Restaurants and bars are the best places to find top teaching talent.
Education is not a job, it's a mission field that requires 3 ingredients for success.
Have the mind and the heart of a child and encourage people to fill your leadership gaps.
The growl you need to hear to know you are pushing your school in the right direction.
One thing that lawmakers are moving the right direction for teachers.
Leaders need to understand how to lead people who are risk averse.

“Good leaders wanna find some common ground to say, ‘Hey you're seeing something I didn't see.’ It’s either I have a blind spot or a gap somewhere that now I can evaluate and hopefully make it better for you.”

-Dr CJ Lowery

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Dr. CJ Lowery’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Twitter

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TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Today we are talking about a topic I love -- MARGIN

So many of my peers in the education space think that there isn't enough time. That's simply not true.

The problem is that not everyone -- including me -- utilizes time effectively 100% of the time.

I pride myself on telling you how it is.

When I do use my time effectively I get so much done and realize there is an actual ABUNDANCE of time.

Today I share both the concepts and the practical HOW TO DO IT …

If you are interested in creating more MARGIN in your calendar, listen up and take action.

Even better, join the Maximize Your Margin Challenge kicking off on December 5th.

More than 150 school leaders have signed up.

You can sign up too. It's 100% free and over 6-days, I've planned a workshop that will help you create more margin so you can live and lead on your own terms.

Get access now: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/margin

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TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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It’s not about outcomes, it’s about good judgment.
Immediately results in building consistency and trust with your team.
Batching tasks will maximize your time and focus. Stop switching and multitasking your to-do list.
A system and a process for principals to lean into your genius.
Alignment is key. How aligned are all the things that happen within your school?

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Resources & Contact Info: * Free Resource BetterLeadersbetterschools.com/margin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Crafting The Culture

Jeff Zoul, is a lifelong teacher, learner, and leader. During Jeff’s distinguished career in education he has served in a variety of roles, including Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning in Illinois. Jeff also served as a teacher and coach in the State of Georgia for many years before moving into school administration. Jeff has been recognized as a local Teacher of the Year and as an outstanding principal in the State of Georgia. He is the author/co-author of more than a dozen books. Jeff has earned several degrees, including his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts and his doctoral degree from the University of Alabama. In his spare time, Jeff enjoys running and has completed over a dozen marathons.

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Are you a Play- It-safe Principal?
Traditions that kill culture.
Culture is made in micro moments of 30 seconds at a time, get the daily cultural devotional to reflection on what matters most for your community.
Relationship building tools that transform small things into grand.
“Start before you’re ready” is the only way to make a relevant ruckus.
Why you want to hear push back and how you create a respectful, right way, right time, right place environment.
Innovate inside and out of the box you create for teaching.
A dangerous measuring stick you need to create a good measuring bar for students.
Dismantling 3 status quo operations in education that haven't met the moment.

“Relationship building. It's the small things that can mean a lot. I try my very best but It's hard, but my personal mission is to improve the life, in some small way, of every person with whom I have a meaningful interaction. That's my mission and I hope that I can do that.”

-Jeff Zoul

Jeff Zoul’s Resources & Contact Info: + email: jeffzoul@gmail.com + LinkedIn + Twitter

Crafting the Culture
Blog: Teach. Learn. Lead. Repeat.
Connected.org

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TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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3 Ways To Build An Even Better Culture

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Create the right energy for your school with tips on relationship building and culture.
You may be what’s getting in the way of the culture you want to create.
Separating emergencies vs distractions with the demands on your time.
Moments that erode culture in your community.
Tips to have critical conversations to increase value.
Invest in a staff relationship management system/tool (CRM).
Set up your priorities with meaning, value and satisfaction with the 10 x advantage.
Separate your school from all the other schools in the neighborhood, in the district, in the state, the city, the state, the nation.

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Rebecca Rolland is the author of The Art of Talking with Children (HarperOne, March 2022). She is a national certified speech-language pathologist and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Boston with her family.

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The power of language transforms with music.
A framework to access what lights people up.
Build resilience by micro moments and through everyday conversations.
Question starters used to create meaningful conversations.
Seven key areas to The Art of Talking with Children.
Help students draw on their natural resilience and raise their awareness about themselves.
Counteract bias and help students celebrate the differences among others.

“The idea is to be creative about what you wanna get across, about the curriculum, about your overall goals, and about how you can bridge those goals with the goals or interests of your students. Rather than saying, ‘I'm going to sit here and wait for students to come to me.’ How do you create that equal bridge where students are coming with their interests, you're coming with your goals and interests, how do you actually meet in the middle?"

-Rebecca Rolland

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Rebecca Rolland’s Resources & Contact Info: * Facebook

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The Art of Talking with Children

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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MARK C. CROWLEY is a recognized visionary in workplace management, engagement, and culture. When the first edition of his book, Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century, was published over a decade ago, many business leaders were slow to embrace it and misinterpreted its title as being synonymous with soft, weak, and ineffective management. Today, his pioneering philosophy on heart-led leadership has launched a global movement and Forbes Magazine has called his ideas “visionary” and “the blueprint for the future of workplace leadership.” As an educational resource, the first edition of Lead From The Heart has been taught in nine universities. Now, Crowley has released a new edition of Lead From The Heart (August 23, 2022), updated and revised to address the needs of those managing Gen Z and Millennial employees, supported by the latest global research on employee engagement.

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Lead from the Heart to let your experience influence your work.
How negative feedback can be the catalyst to keep you connected to approaching the “hard sells” of leadership.
Mark shares his process on how to stay committed to your vision.
Take this first tiny first step to build a foundation for developing heart-centered leadership that will transform your school and impact the value you create for others.
You need a “mirror moment” and a key ingredient to build the right team to empower your learning community. Mark tells you how.
The formula for a competitive advantage, a leadership edge, and to take your school to the next level.

“I believe when I'm supporting people the way that I was, I made people feel safe. I made people feel appreciated. I found out what they wanted to learn. I knew about their families. I knew about their dreams. I supported them in unique ways and made people feel that I love them, cared about them, and they wanted to work hard for me.”

-Mark Crowley

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Mark Crowley’s Resources & Contact Info: * Mark C. Crowley

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PODCASTS - Mark C. Crowley

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Improve the most underdeveloped area of your leadership.
Understanding how you measure mindset growth and effectiveness. One of the problems with this though is that do you understand?
5 ways you can improve your mindset.
Catch the inner critic and stop allowing yourself to beat yourself up.
Sign up for a free growth opportunity challenge at BLBS “Maximize Your Margin Challenge.”

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Show Resource & Contact Info: * Emotional intelligence 2.0

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Nathan D. Lang-Raad is an educator, speaker, and author. He is the Vice President of Strategy at Savvas Learning Company. Throughout his career, he has served as a teacher, elementary administrator, high school administrator, and university adjunct professor. He was the Director of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, as well as education supervisor at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He was also the Chief Education Officer at WeVideo. He serves as the US State Ambassador for the Climate Action Project, a collaboration between the United Nations, World Wildlife Fund, NASA, and the Jane Goodall Institute, and an advisor for TAG (Take Action Global).

Nathan is the author of Everyday Instructional Coaching, The New Art and Science of Teaching Mathematics co-authored with Dr. Robert Marzano, WeVideo Every Day, Mathematics Unit Planning in a PLC at Work, The Teachers of Oz, co-authored with Herbie Raad, Boundless Classroom co-authored with James Witty, and Instructional Coaching Connection.

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The hardest moments are teachable moments if you can learn from the vulnerability
Juggle the major changes with Instructional Coaching Connection.
6 pathways to build your instructional coaching practice and model alongside to provide feedback and critiques.
The practical emotional intelligence question to use to offer someone the exact support they need.
Dr Nathan prescribes the key strategy to create more value for your organization.
Give the coordinates to your school’s Northstar to create different pathways for coaches to operate to help and support teachers.

“We should be developing healthy, skeptical learners and then also independence of mind, teaching students to think independently and having the confidence to believe in themselves, to ask those questions and search for answers.”

-Dr Nathan Lang-Raad

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Dr Nathan Lang-Raad’s Resources & Contact Info: * Dr. Nathan Lang-Raadad.com * Instructional Coaching Connection: Building Relationships to Better Support Teachers * LinkedIn * Twitter

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Linc Kroeger is the President of Knight Moves, a limited profit company creating the next generation of elite technology professionals through extensive training in technology disciplines, with an intentional focus on including Native American, rural, and urban underserved communities.

Show Highlights

Organizations aren't designed for workforce development, computer science, diversity, or inclusion and only move people around instead of shifting culture.
The importance of specific messaging to focus on what people care about through feedback loops.
Knight Moves has a profound impact by breaking tradition and barriers for underserved communities with no curriculum, no classroom, no grades.
Stop eliminating experience, interest and challenge by filtering out students fit for tech programs based bias.
Experiment and innovation tips that serve every Ruckus Maker.
Pivot, persevere, kill is the model leaders need to overcome the rigid, unrealistic systems facing education.

“I asked 400 graduates from school, tell me what impacted you most in school. Nobody ever says the curriculum in the book I had in math. It's always some important thing a teacher did in their life. That wasn't just a teacher. It was a person who could bridge people to their future.

-Linc Kroeger

Linc Kroeger’s Resources & Contact Info: * LinkedIn * Twitter * Knight Moves | Home

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Bolster up your weakest leadership area with a new four part framework, Leadership Optimization Compass.
Top three benefits of using the Leadership Optimization Compass.
Add more than a hammer to your leadership toolbelt.
Mental models you need at your disposal to become a more effective leader.
Tools outside of education that build a bridge to meaningful change.
Apply podcast information and get real world results with these tips.
Better Leaders, Better Schools Live Mastermind event in Costa Rica!! Opportunity to be re-energized or re-inspired with the Leadership Optimization Compass.

“I will tell you that mindfulness training has increased my awareness and has been the number one sort of secret tactic I use to improve, scale my leadership, and the results I have created.”

-Chief Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer

The Leadership Optimization Compass Transcript

Show’s Resources & Contact Info: + https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/CostaRica/

The great mental models
Poor Charlie Almanac
The search inside yourself
Waking Up - Free 7 Day Trial - Turn Meditation Into a Habit
StrengthsFinder 2.0 - Gallup StrengthsFinder

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Pete Hall is a capacity-builder. Driven to impact others’ lives in a profoundly positive way, he channels his experiences as a school principal, life coach, and small-business owner into manageable lessons for continuous growth, personal improvement, and positive mindset. Tenacious, courageous, and incorruptible, Pete shares his optimism, joy, and practical application of strategies for getting the most out of yourself.

Show Highlights

Understanding your mission and the moment you identified it.
Explore 13 life lessons organized around 4 tenets to help you strive to be a better and live an extraordinary life.
“Seek out your antelopes” and look for “Purple Cows” in your life in leadership.
A powerful reframe to “Embrace Disequilibrium.”
The explicit connection between controllables and uncontrollables with the “A Yikes Week” resource.
A model to promote your priorities and understand time management.
Take an intentional step towards awakening and unlocking what's going on inside our own heads.
Reflective personal development that comes from going through toil and hardship.

“The most important thing for us to remember is that we're dealing with human beings. The one thing that is so difficult to define, which is who we are as human beings. If we remember our job is to build capacity in kids and grownups, in communities, societies, parents, families and ourselves, we'll be really, really successful no matter what we take on and no matter what initiatives we have on our plates. There's a lot of initiatives on our plates in education.”

-Pete Hall

Pete Hall Transcript

Pete Hall’s Resources & Contact Info: * EducationHall * A Teacher's Reflective Impact Journal | McREL Store * Twitter * LinkedIn

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr Shira Lewibowitz is a dynamic educator, author and entrepreneur, Shira is CEO and founder of both Revabilities and Discovery Village. Rev Abilities is a Professional Learning Academy helping educational business owners and directors bring their vision for learning to life so they can increase their income and improve the lives of their students. Discovery Village is a premier project and play based childcare center and preschool located in Tarrytown, NY. Shira is co-author of The Coach Approach To School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness. Her upcoming book, to be published summer 2022, is titled Havens of Hope: Ideas for Redesigning Education From The COVID-19 Pandemic.

Shira holds a Ph.D in Education and is an experienced school leader who served for 20 years as a principal of nursery through eighth grade independent schools in the greater New York City area. She is a faculty member in the doctoral program of education at Northeastern University; co-author of The Coach Approach to School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness; a national faculty member for the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development; and a leader of professional development for educators. Shira has been working with childcare centers regionally and nationally on how to navigate the health, financial, and educational challenges facing early childhood centers in the age of COVID-19. Throughout it educational programs have not only navigated through but have become dramatically better. At Revabilities, Shira shares the insights and inspiration that sparked their success.

Show Highlights

Turn devastation into hope by going off script to create an oasis for learning grounded on the wellbeing of your community.
The highway to happiness protocol for curiosity and exploration to flip the magic “up” where kids need it most.
Insights when countering the negative, LOUD story of what goes on in education with hope and positivity.
Teaching children to play and explore within the constraints of any environment is the necessary path.
Overcome the two simultaneous narratives to every crisis to ensure your team comes out stronger.
Examples on how to get teachers and parents comfortable with the evolution of change happening daily in education and the uniqueness of your school.
Approach creativity in your leadership and switch your mindset from a matter of “if” to a matter of “how.

“When we say there is no other choice than to figure it out and to be present for our students, we do that. Figuring things out requires us to level up in ways that are profoundly uncomfortable and stretch ourselves in ways that, frankly, education doesn't support.”

-Dr Shira Lewibowitz

Dr Shira Lewibowitz Transcript

Dr Shira Lewibowitz ’s Resources & Contact Info: * Havens of Hope * Linkedin * Twitter * Instagram

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In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Al Kingsley is the CEO of NetSupport and Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust

As well as his CEO and Chair roles, Al is an FED Co-chair of two groups, Chair of the BESA EdTech Group, member of Forbes Technology Council, and chairs his regional Employment and Skills Board. He’s a well-known face in EdTech speaking internationally; the author of “My Secret #EdTech Diary” and co-author of “A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education”.

Show Highlights

Interesting ideas on how to roll out and adopt technology
Create a school that's actually responsive to community needs.
Be a firm believer in lifelong learning and become an Edu sponge.
Reevaluating how to effectively label, measure and validate high performing schools.
The misalignment between high stakes tests and student performance.
How to be a school responsive to the students and the community you’re in front of needs?
Stop buying technology that doesn't deliver and adopt a strong digital vision within your school or district.

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“I think that that love of learning really comes down to inquisitiveness and that sense of actually, the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know.”

“The one thing I want every child to leave school with is a love of learning and a passion to learn more. Not a sense of ``I've got through that and never again.’”

-Al Kingsley

Al Kingsley’s Resources & Contact Info: * My Secret #EdTech Diary:

Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram
Netsupport Radio- Podcast
EdTech Shared | a podcast
Websites –
https://www.netsupportsoftware.com/
https://www.alkingsley.com
https://authory.com/AlKingsley

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Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

My Secret #EdTech Diary: Looking at Educational Technology Through a Wider Lens

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Bonus: Best Seller Show Notes

Show Highlights

Creating reality from your dreams comes from feeling it in the moment to unlock success.
Five things Danny’s learned from achieving bestseller status!!
Positive visualization is essential to guide the steps you take towards manifesting your goals to the world.
Don't hide the failures. Talk about what you've learned regarding the failures.
Embracing that there's not just one way of doing life.
Being risky and being vulnerable is the way to be authentic in what you hope to achieve.
Ruckus Maker Event in January!! Go to betterleadersbetterschools.com/Costa Rica, view the video explaining the event and join the waitlist.

“A key question for you, whatever you're trying to achieve in life, whether that's as a school leader or putting a book out there, whatever that project is, how are you taking 100% of responsibility to achieve the goal that you want to achieve?”

-Chief Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Christina Hidek is a recovering attorney, and current Professional Organizer and certified PTO volunteer nerd. She founded PTO Answers 5 years ago to help empower parents to improve their child’s educational experience and school community through PTA/PTO involvement. She’s been an active PTO leader for the past 12 years and hosts the vibrant 7500+ member PTA/PTO Super Star Leaders Facebook Group. When she’s not volunteering, you can find her in her garden, cheering on her boys at their hockey games, or walking the family dogs.

Show Highlights * Encourage your PTOs to be on a first name basis with the superintendent. * Tactics to create a culture that identifies problems with solutions when voicing feedback. * Social media “Needs to be jazzier” to effectively generate attention towards the great stuff happening in your school. * PTA / PTO are circuit breakers for teacher retention and selling your school to the community. * Approaches when forming a new relationship or transforming a negative relationship with the PTA/PTO. * Effective ways school leaders increase parent involvement. * “I’m going to look for you on Tuesday” is a powerful phrase you need to master to create connection.

“The game has changed most drastically for public school leaders and for public school districts because they need to really be selling their school. It's not just that you're going to worry about educating the kids, coming up with a curriculum and all that kind of stuff. No, you have to go and sell your school to get the community kids to come to your school.”

-Christina Hidek

Christina Hidek’s Resources & Contact Info: + Linkedin

PTO Answers
Facebook
You don't have to go it alone as a PTA/PTO leader!
Pinterest
Youtube
Freebie: 5 Uncomfortable Truths PTAs/PTOs Wish Principals Understood (and how to level up from the missed opportunities):Principal Uncomfortable Truths

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Sarah Saint, advises and litigates on behalf of public and private educational institutions and school boards on an array of education law issues, including special education and disability issues, civil rights laws and tort claims. She has a particular focus on diversity and civil rights issues, including issues related to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and religion.

Show Highlights + Tips for districts to create more inclusive settings that connect with trans kids. + Navigate serving both very liberal and very conservative districts to approach how to create psychological safe places for learning communities. + Learn to identify the importance of when a person is ready to be supported by the school system by” letting the process in” instead of “coming out.”

Avoid these assumptions or myths about transgender children.
Stop allowing your students and staff to wear “costumes” at school with ways to help them shed the layers and be their authentic self.
Learn how to take the first step in creating a space dedicated to showing your school is safe.
If you care about the survival of children they should not be the one to open the doors and demand to be heard or demand to be allowed to be authentic.
You need to care about the “third spaces” in your community and not just the 1st and 2nd spaces.

“When you are authentic, you create authenticity in others. They feel safer to be authentic with you. When you are not afraid to say when you're wrong, when you're not afraid to make wonders. People feel safer in that relationship.”

-Sarah Saint

Sarah Saint Transcript

Sarah Saint’s Resources & Contact Info: + Twitter + Linkedin

And Tango Makes Three

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

And Tango Makes Three (Classic Board Books)

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LaTonya Wilkins, Founder of The Change Coaches, Latonya, and her team, build cultures of belonging through customized coaching and consulting services.

A sought-after keynote speaker, she has inspired audiences all over the world, and was featured on a list of most inclusive HR influences in 2019. Her book, Leading Below the Surface, features her revolutionary signature concept of 'Below the Surface Leadership.' About creating psychologically safe relationships across differences, and empowering underrepresented employees to feel valued, heard, and engaged.

Show Highlights + Why LaTonya HATES Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? + The magic sauce missing from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. + The issue with school leaders having real empathy instead of sympathy. + Demystify the myths leaders believe around being “nice” or “kind” to redefine archetypes of leadership.

Lead Below the Surface to throw out dominant leadership standards.
Build a continuum of psychological safety where intersectional identities can bring their entire selves to work.
Throw out the agenda with tips to access empathy through observing eyes and listening ears.

“It's not diversity and inclusion. It has never been anything separate. If an organization is trying to make it separate, I question what they're trying to do there. It’s really a part of culture. It’s really a part of how you develop people. It's really part of structures and systems on how you run your organization?”

-LaTonya Wilkins

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LaTonya Wilkins’ Resources & Contact Info: + Linkedin + Twitter + Instagram + Change Coaches + Podcast

Leading Below the Surface

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Leading Below the Surface: How to Build Real (and Psychologically Safe) Relationships with People Who Are Different from You

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Dr. Amy Platt is delighted to be the Head of School at the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School. Amy is passionate about excellent instruction and working with teachers to be the talented professionals they are destined to be. Amy holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Toronto. When Amy is not at work she can be found on long-distance bike rides, pondering the larger issues facing education. Show Highlights * Podcast tips for an effective way to tell your school’s story. * Intentionally create impactful school life for your community with partnerships and social action projects. * Address the twofold cultures within every school to develop a unique, independent experience. * Master rigor and resistance by breaking the cadence. * Highly effective leaders approach the day with this mindset. * 7 values of building school culture defined by our place in the world. * Build on success with stakeholders by creating relationships.

“What the teachers have found is that when we break the cadence and we keep the kids engaged, excited and happy, their ability to keep pace with their curriculum and maybe even move faster. They know that they sometimes have less time because all of these great things are happening with respect to school life. It keeps them moving quickly. It keeps them on their toes and it keeps them really engaged with their learning.”

-Dr Amy Platt

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Dr Amy Platt’s Resources & Contact Info: * Middle-School - Paul Penna * Instagram * Facebook * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jennifer Cantor is a proud graduate of the University of North Georgia, where she received a degree in English with a concentration in Writing and Publication. She went on from college to become an English teacher at Rivers Academy (formerly known as Chalk to Champions) in the Fall of 2008. Jennifer quickly became immersed in the school and explored any opportunity that became available. Within her first two years at Rivers, she gained the role of Teacher Liaison and Admissions Coordinator. Jennifer completed her master’s degree in Educational Administration from National University in March of 2014. She became the Principal of Rivers Academy in the Fall of 2014. For the next four years Jennifer strived to create a school where students and staff feel valued and accepted. Rivers Academy has become leaders in their industry by providing students a high-quality college preparatory curriculum in just three school days.

At the age of 34, Jennifer became a co-owner in June of 2018 with her business partner, Debbie Beasley. During their first year of ownership, Rivers Academy joined the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA), where they have gone on to win three state championships in Golf and Swimming over the past three years. The school expanded by opening a new middle school building and adding eight new teachers at the start of the 2019-2020 school year. We currently have 240 students in 5th-12th grade and 32 staff members.

Jennifer has received the Greater North Fulton Chamber’s Women Influencing Business Rising Star Award in 2020. She has had the opportunity to serve on several external review committees for schools seeking accreditation, and she has really enjoyed being able to speak on various podcasts sharing her experience as the Principal and Co-owner of Rivers Academy. She loves any chance she gets to support her community and share her love and passion for the school with others. Jennifer lives in Cumming with her husband, David, and their two children, Reese and Margo. She loves camping with her family and spending time outdoors. Jennifer considers herself extremely lucky and blessed to have the opportunity to serve such amazing students, families, and staff at Rivers Academy!

Show Highlights + Being a great teacher requires you to disconnect with the university's definition of great teaching. + Inspire and motivate students to pursue their passion outside of the classroom. + Overcome the hardest part about operating outside the box in a unique way.

A plan to give kids balance without academic compromise.
Plant seeds to create real results for your community.
Give teachers a school where creativity shines and time is available for developing their passion for students and watch the magic happen.
Activities and professional development inspired from the podcast to hallways for meaningful transformation.

“You can provide students with balance. There's nothing wrong with full time public or full time private, but one size doesn't fit all. We all remember the teachers who shook it up in the classroom. We want to be a part of a school that shakes it up for everybody and gives teachers the autonomy to be what they jumped into teaching to be.”

Jennifer Cantor

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Jennifer Cantor’s Resources & Contact Info: * Jennifer Cantor | Rivers Academy * Twitter * Facebook

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Everett Hendrixon, with Eco Supply LLC, has been in agriculture for 20+ years. With an early career in law, and then business management, Everett believes he found what he wants to be when he grows up – someone who feeds people. Whether that means giving fresh produce from his micro-farm or educating others on the benefits of growing real food, his mission is to connect as many as possible to their food source.

Show Highlights + Connect your learning community to their food source for positive educational outcomes.

The benefits of Flex Farm to get your students excited about authentic learning in the classroom.
Don’t be a “boiling frog” disconnected with the needs of students in both urban and rural areas.
The limitations, pitfalls and generational disconnect in our current agriculture system.
Get kids eating bags of lettuce to support connection to the community.
Teach your brain emotional intelligence, raise self worth, build confidence and self esteem with these systems to “grow” in the classroom.
The need to pivot to help students find solutions to the fragility of our supply chain and climate change to minimize the carbon footprint.
Food can reframe the challenges you have in a way that makes solutions obvious.

“You educate yourself by educating. You're feeding your mind and then you can feed others. You feed your body, you can feed others.”

-Everett Hendrixon

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Everett Hendrixon’s Resources & Contact Info: * Eco Supply * harvestsquared.com * LinkedIn

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Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Madeleine Mortimore is the Global Education Innovation and Research Lead for Logitech, where she leads research on EdTech hardware. With years of experience as a classroom teacher, Madeleine has developed a curriculum for grades 4-12. Her research experience includes positions at the MIT Teaching and Learning Lab. Madeleine has a Master of Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Show Highlights * Setting clear values on how you function as an educational team requires reorienting structure toward impact for students in the education space, not what's easiest.

Incorporating voices from different angles of innovation drives meaningful change around a collective purpose to build community and support.
Logitech’s interactive tools to avoid complacency, increase student voice, and alleviate stress in the classroom.
The need to pivot from unrealistic assumptions pertaining to classrooms is needed to find balance in discovering true knowledge and abilities within your learning community.
Arm your staff with the right knowledge of what is truly a classroom.
You need this “North Star” to drive impact that takes many different routes.
Why is teaching infinitely harder than being a doctor?

“Sometimes it's hard to really stand your ground where maybe it's cheaper, maybe it's faster, or we need to hit a certain timeline. I've learned my personal Northstar is just as important as having team values. I can stay really focused when there are those decisions to make, when the impact in the classroom is against the corporate need to be within a certain budget or timeline.”

-Maddie Mortimore

Maddie Mortimore’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Logitech for Education website * Education Center page

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Mark's passion is to release untapped leadership potential in people. So much leadership is wasted when the world defines leadership too narrowly. Mark's work helps people to better understand themselves and grow to be comfortable leading out of who they are. Mark has worked as a High School Teacher, Chairman of a youth charity and Youth Pastor and now runs a leadership consultancy called Leaderfull (leader-full.co.uk), focussing most of his time in schools and colleges. He lives in the UK with his wife and young family and loves to explore the great outdoors.

Show Highlights * Avoid the leadership stereotype and invite more participants to the leadership table.

What to do when you hear someone say “I’m not a leader.”
Stop wasting leadership potential and release untapped leadership with these tips.
Development pathway that connects the students and the principal.
The small things that make the most effective leaders.
Discover the “leadership” in every member of your learning community.
Take responsibility to lead out of your blindspots to be a much more authentic leader.
You don't have to lead from the front to be an effective

“Leadership is about influence, not about position. We can all have a positive influence on other people. Leadership is inherently relational. I really define leadership as having a positive influence on other people through relationships.”

-Mark Herbert

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Mark Herbert’s Resources & Contact Info: * LinkedIn * Website: Leaderfull * I'm [Not] a Leader Kindle Edition * You're Not Listening: * Leaders, Stop Trying to Be Heroes - Harvard Business Review

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In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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Afrika Afeni Mills is an Education Consultant and the author of Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students, available for pre-order through Corwin Press. She works with colleagues, teachers, coaches, and administrators to develop and sustain student-centered learning experiences that are diverse, inclusive, and equitable. Afrika has been featured on podcasts, blogs, delivered keynote addresses, and facilitated sessions at conferences across the United States. Afrika believes that all educators can be motivated, engaged, dynamic practitioners and leaders when provided with the support needed to create student-centered, anti-bias, anti-racist, culturally responsive learning environments that inspire wonder and creativity and nurture diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion.

Show Highlights * Avoid surface diversity in various spaces in leadership structures and decision makers. * How a Black Woman talk to White Educators and White students about bias and racism? * Every leader needs braided rope and Marigolds. * Navigate the imposter syndrome of doing this work with an essential book, Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students. * The importance of educators doing their own racial identity work to help students grow their perspective of the world. * Words of encouragement for educators who want to do this work but understand the political reality and challenge of championing this work? * The critical difference between family/community involvement and family and community partnership. * Invest in unpacking competing priorities for educators to engage in deep learning and conversation.

“Let's be in this together, let's support one another because we have important work to do. We are well suited to the task. We just have to make sure that we stay the course.”

-Afrika Afeni Mills

Afrika Afeni Mills’ Resources & Contact Info: * AfrikaAfeniMills.com * Twitter * Instagram * Facebook * Afrika Afeni Mills - Equity Guardian * Linkedin * Personal Blog: Continental Drift

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Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Leading Equity In Your Schools

Sheldon L. Eakins, Ph.D. is the Founder of the Leading Equity Center and host of the Leading Equity Podcast. He is also the author of Leading Equity: Becoming an Advocate for All Students. With over 11 years in education, he has served as a teacher, principal, and Director of Special Education.

Dr. Eakins has a passion for helping educators accomplish equitable practices in their schools. He has earned a B.S. degree in Social Science Education, an M.S. degree in Educational Leadership, and a Ph.D. in K-12 Education.

Show Highlights * The downfall of having an equity checklist. * The book that takes you on a resourceful journey for learning to make changes at your school and systems. * Finding your voice comes through understanding your identity in challenging situations. * Avoid doing harm with strategies and approaches for having conversations that are difficult for you. * Practical, empathic, and very doable relationship building strategies and advice. * Equity is not limited to just race. All schools have room for growth in understanding the reality and not the idea of equity. * Recognize the process, exclusions, and tradition necessary for generating buy-in from your staff. * Embrace unique opposition to create authentic experiences for your stakeholders.

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Sheldon L. Eakins’ Resources & Contact Info: * Buy Leading Equity on Amazon * Buy Leading Equity on Dr. Eakins’ website. * Leading Equity Center * Leading Equity Podcast * sheldon@leadingequitycenter.com * Instagram * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Leading Equity: Becoming an Advocate for All Students

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Title: Your Mess Your Message

Dr. Donna Marie Cozine helps overworked and exhausted Educational Leaders on the verge of burnout increase their work-life balance, so they can lead their organizations AND live the life they DESERVE! She is a leader, author, speaker, podcast host, and executive coach.

Dr Cozine has been featured in Authority Magazine, Principal Magazine, The Rochester Beacon, Medium, Connections with Evan Dawson, WHAM 13 Rochester NY, WXXI News Rochester, NY, and various national and international podcasts.

Show Highlights * “Your mess is the message” is a model on how to pivot to see obstacles as opportunities.

Effectively leading with accessible boundaries to avoid being overwhelmed and burnt out.
Free resources you need as a leader!!
Create a backwards map to support your top priorities with boundaries with “The Driver’s Method.”
Don't go for the best solution, go for the next best solution. Go pass the knee jerk reaction of planning.
Connect with those you serve to pull you through the hard times by overcoming this fear.
It’s not about ego but to extend yourself by asking these questions.

“I'm really proud of what I've accomplished. I know that what I've accomplished will be there well beyond me and that's true leadership. Creating something that will be there after you've left.”

-Donna Marie Cozine

Dr Donna Marie Cozine’s Resources & Contact Info: * About Our Organizational Culture Management | Consult DMC * Linkedin * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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As a chronically late student, Daniel Bauer once told his Chemistry teacher a fib about saving an entire girl scout troop from a burning building to get out of a tardy.

Daniel is not sure if it was the very made up story, the very real cookie he offered his teacher, or a combination of both that got him out of a detention that day …

That experience taught him it pays to develop your storytelling skills.

Daniel has been telling stories since then, most recently on the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast, ranked in the TOP 0.5% of 3 million global podcasts, and via his latest book, Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader, co-published by Corwin and the National School Superintendents Association (AASA).

His mission is “to connect, grow, and mentor every school leader who wants to level up.”

Show Highlights * Common problems facing school leaders * The Principal Success Path™ promise -- become a better leader in 5-weeks or less * Parkinson's Law * Why is NOW the best time to join? * The 4 Steps in The Principal Success Path™ * What former leaders said about the program ... * What are the 13 projects? * What is the weekly cadence? * How much time will this take? * How much does it cost? * What is the Ruckus Maker Guarantee

Special bonus 4 x 15 minute "laser" coaching sessions with Danny himself!

Note: This is for the first TEN leaders who apply and are accepted into the program. To be eligible -- write LASER COACH SESSIONS in the "Anything Else" section of the application. Become a better leader in 5-weeks or less ... Apply today ===> https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/principalsuccesspath/

Question? Call/Text?WhatsApp Danny at +1-312-788-7595 or daniel@betterleadersbetterschools.com

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Title: Improve Your Culture With For Belonging

Dr. Susie Wise is a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and the social sectors. She coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship. Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school and co-created Liberatory Design.

Show Highlights * Stop redesigning a bad situation.

Create roles and scenarios that invite people to contribute in an authentic way.
Activities to safely unearth memories of not belonging to avoid retraumatization for learning communities.
Why is it fundamental for school leaders to care about creating belonging?
A threshold exercise designed for concrete listening.
Know the 3 dimensional levels to pay attention to at critical junctures with staff, students and parents.
Simple Interventions for students to support their success and avoid shut down.
Redesign a back to school ritual to interrupt some of the traditional power dynamics in a school.
The “assumption storm” analytic tool for generating ideas you need to know.

“Having an identity as a learner is fundamental to getting to learn anything else. As a school leader, as an educator, cultivating a sense of belonging is kind of a job one.Safety first, but the next job is belonging. They go hand in hand. They're next to each other on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, in fact.”

-Dr. Susie Wise

Dr Susie Wise’s Resources & Contact Info: * Design for Belonging * designforbelonging.com/toolkit * Design for Belonging * Twitter * Instagram * Linkedin

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Title: How to Use Storytelling To Address the (In)Equity in Education

Max Freedman is a reporter, producer, and co-host of School Colors. He created School Colors with Mark Winston Griffith, a veteran community organizer and the editor of Brooklyn Deep. After four years of research and reporting, the first season premiered in 2019 to critical acclaim. He is thrilled to publish Season 2 through NPR's Code Switch.Freedman is also one of the creators of Unsettled, a long-running independent podcast about Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. For Unsettled, he most recently reported and produced "The Birthday Party," an immersive narrative series about Palestinian-Jewish solidarity work in the occupied West Bank. In the early weeks of COVID-19, he produced Making the Call, a weekly show about medical ethics and the pandemic for Endeavor Content.

Before becoming a journalist, Freedman was a facilitator with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, adjunct faculty at Pratt Institute and a senior educator at the New-York Historical Society, where he created an enrichment program for grades 4-8 using musicals to teach American history.He holds a B.A. in theater from Northwestern University, and an M.S. in design and urban ecologies from Parsons School of Design. His work on School Colors Season 2 was supported by the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University.

Mark Winston Griffith is the creator, host and writer of School Colors along with Max Freedman. Griffith is a third-generation resident of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Until April 2022, he was the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, a Black-led community organizing group based in Central Brooklyn that he co-founded in 2011. His parents' organizing in Central Brooklyn and authorship of a report on Community School District 16 inspired him to co-create School Colors.

While at Brooklyn Movement Center, Griffith created Brooklyn Deep, a citizen journalism initiative that chronicles neighborhood change in Central Brooklyn. He has served as an adjunct professor of urban reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and has been a board member of The City news site, City Limits Magazine and Free Speech TV.

Griffith is an enthusiastic parent of two teenage boys and has navigated the public, private and charter school systems.

Show Highlights * The power of storytelling as a vehicle for making change happen.

Looking through a leadership lens of equity and inequity that exists in our educational system.
Gain a keen sense of how race and gentrification impacts the conversation about education.
Be a curious leader by engaging in “real conversations” to avoid ill-conceived assumptions.
Examples of how the schools are conditioned by external forces.
Stories of principal development and the benefit of community resources.
The dangers of perception, zone preference and how it impacts families.

“We spend so much time in School Colors thinking about the problems, looking at what's going wrong and the barriers. To be quite frank, we don't spend enough time with kids and the very subject of the things that we're talking about. In spending that little time with those kids, it brought home to me what this was all about in the first place. These are not subjects or like broken people. These are vibrant human beings.”

-Mark Winston Griffith

Max Freedman & Mark Winston Griffith’s Resources & Contact Info: * School Colors - Home | Facebook * school colors | Brooklyn Deep * Twitter/max * Twitter/Mark * LinkedIn/Max * LinkedIn/Mark * Instagram/Max * Instagram/Mark * NPR's Code Switch/Twitter * Leave a voicemail at 929-483-6387

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Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

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100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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The Perfect Rejection Resume

Dr. Eli Joseph is an author, educator, and public speaker who currently serves as a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies and as a business partner and medical examiner at ExamOne, a Quest Diagnostics company. His new book is The Perfect Rejection Resume: A Reader’s Guide to Building a Career Through Failure.

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Complete your “Rejection Resume” to celebrate failing forward.
“Pride is the devil and shame is your angel”
Become more comfortable accepting accountability as a leader, even if it is not your fault.
The skill you need to pay the “rent being due every day” to meet your goals.
Stop working against time and celebrate victories against your greatest competitor.
Leaders need to establish their niche to develop an identity.
Utilize failure and rejection to become resilient with tips from Dr Eli.

“It takes 20 years to accomplish something huge within your life. You can only take 5 minutes to destroy it all at once.”

-Dr. Eli Joseph

“You have to develop a track record of failures and success in order for you to make a case of an expert in your own endeavor or in your own field. No trace, no case.”

-Dr. Eli Joseph

Dr. Eli Joseph’s Resources & Contact Info: * Eli Joseph: Books * Linkedin * Instagram * Twitter

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

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Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

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Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jean Burk is the author of the award-winning College Prep Genius program and has written numerous articles about the SAT and PSAT tests, high school prep, college prep, and how to get free college. She is a Fox News contributor on radio interviews and has been featured as an SAT expert on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, TXA21, CW33, Choice Media TV, WE, Forbes, UShop TV and The Homeschool Channel. She homeschooled both her children and they each earned free college and incredible scholarships because of their PSAT and SAT scores. Some of the benefits included full tuition, room and board, unlimited laundry and lunchroom passes, study abroad stipends, etc. Her son also earned free law school and her daughter earned free grad school.

She currently travels and speaks about the importance of college preparation at conventions, book fairs, schools, libraries, etc. She has taught her revolutionary, award-winning “Master the SAT” Prep Class all over the United States, mainland China, India, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico and Thailand. Many of her students have raised their SAT score as much as 700 points, ACT 9 points, become National Merit Scholars and have gone to an Ivy League for free! Her Vocabcafé book series helps teenagers and younger children increase their knowledge of SAT level vocabulary words through fun and wholesome books and her “High School Prep Genius” book won the “Blue Ribbon Award” for the best and favorite college prep resource along with 21 unsolicited awards for her program.

Show Highlights + How to play the game to go college for free despite income.

The specific skill set the standardized test truly assesses.
Common Data Set formula for matching you to the right college.
A Coffee donut negotiation for better offers and scholarships.
The Summer Melt and what upperclassmen should focus on this summer.
Ace the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and CRT with College Prep Genius.
The P6 framework that can set you on a direction in life. best fit in? to get you pointed in the direction to lead to your ultimate career choice.
FAFSA mistakes and the secret formula colleges use your learning community need to know.
Learn the shortcut strategy needed to improve standardized test scores.

“It's all about the test. I'm a big believer that test taking should be a separate class. It doesn't conflict with your math or your science or your English, it actually compliments.”

-Jean Burk

Jean Burk’s Resources & Contact Info: * YouTube * Twitter * FB * Instagram * Pinterest * LinkedIn

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

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SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Resilience expert Deborah Gilboa, MD, aka “Dr. G” works with families, organizations, and businesses to identify the mindset and strategies to turn stress to an advantage. Renowned for her contagious humor, Dr. G works with groups across multiple generations, to rewire their attitudes and beliefs, and create resilience through personal accountability and a completely different approach to adversity. Author of the new book From Stressed to Resilience, she is a leading media personality seen regularly on TODAY, Good Morning America and The Doctors. Dr. G is board certified attending family physician and is fluent in American Sign Language. She resides in Pittsburgh with her four boys.

Show Highlights + Redefine your relationship with stress.

Rewire attitudes with a completely different approach to adversity.
Stress is the new smoking. Practical tips for managing.
Proactively plan for promoting change in your personal and professional life.
Build resilience faster with The Resilience Cycle instead of building assumptions.
Navigate change and come through mission oriented with 3 safety mechanisms.
Teach the steps of perseverance and boundaries.
Shorten the gap between helping people get better and helping them be well.
8 scientifically most validated tools to measure growth and resilience.

“One thing I really want leaders to hear is to stop feeling betrayed or hurt or angered when some of your people reliably struggle with change. It's a reflex. It is not a referendum on your leadership.”

-Dr G

Dr G’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Facebook * Linkedin * Get Dr. G’s book here! * Get the FREE resilience cycle and video here! * Visit Dr. G’s website here!

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

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Erika Horsley is a teacher, coach, consultant, mom, and founder of Love, Morty. With 16 years of experience teaching, she now offers coaching and consulting services supporting teachers holistically so that they can show up regulated to co-create caring classroom communities with ease.

Show Highlights + Build classroom culture that increases students' achievement. + Effortless SEL and self-awareness support for teachers and students. + How school leaders can actively heal our schools.

The service you need to support teachers holistically.
Micro-PD is the key to creating caring classroom communities.
The mindset shift that needs to happen in teachers and in schools.
Manageable steps to avoid being dismissive to the voices in your building.
A straightforward first step in transforming schools.

“Being able to share power in an appropriate way with the students is a good thing. It’s an important thing because ultimately this is for them. If we say that we're doing this for the kids, but we want to have power over them, is that really for them if it's controlling them? This is one of many major mindset shifts that needs to happen in teachers and in schools.”

-Erika Horsley

Erika Horsley’s Resources & Contact Info: * Facebook * Instagram * Love, Morty * LinkedIn

Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Resilience expert Deborah Gilboa, MD, aka “Dr. G” works with families, organizations, and businesses to identify the mindset and strategies to turn stress to an advantage. Renowned for her contagious humor, Dr. G works with groups across multiple generations, to rewire their attitudes and beliefs, and create resilience through personal accountability and a completely different approach to adversity. Author of the new book From Stressed to Resilience, she is a leading media personality seen regularly on TODAY, Good Morning America and The Doctors. Dr. G is board certified attending family physician and is fluent in American Sign Language. She resides in Pittsburgh with her four boys.

Travis Allison hates mushy fruit but loves jam. It’s not just fruit that Travis thinks about in great detail. His creative and conscientious persona has made him a keynote speaker at conferences across the US and Canada.

Travis knows his mission: to help organizations create spaces where children and young adults can be truly noticed and appreciated.

Show Highlights * Solve “pain points” to normalize feeling inadequate in the “new normal” for your learning community.

Systematize kids' contributions to create connections to your community.
Tips for schools prove your mission and vision.
Savvy public school leaders use this loyalty marking tool.
You can’t be an expert in everything but use your expertise to focus feedback.
How to meet frustration with a little gratitude, some empathy and curiosity?
The private podcast you need to take the pressure off educators and help parents feel like allies.
Intentionally design engaging moments with the most powerful thing you can give a child.
Successful ways to connect with millennial parents.
Address children’s mental health issues without developing a new set of skills.

“The lens that I look at this through involves kids, whether it's in building or cleaning, not to teach them a skill and check it off, which is valuable, but to depend on them for their work is the difference between being wanted, which is great and needed. There's a lot of neuroscience research that as soon as we perceive we are needed by a community, we are then much more connected to that community. Travis talked about the power of being seen. A great way to help kids feel seen is to say, `we need you.’”

-Dr G

Travis Allison and Dr G’s Resources & Contact Info: Do you want to start a podcast for your school?

Apply: https://privatepodcasts.pro/schools

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Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Julie Stern is a global consultant and author: Julie has nearly two decades experience facilitating adult learning, and feels lucky to partner with educators to take their practice to the next level. She is a four-time, best-selling author of Learning That Transfers, Visible Learning for Social Studies, The On-Your-Feet-Guide to Learning Transfer, and Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary and Secondary.

Show Highlights + Tips to move beyond capacity and dig deep into the reserves. + Ideas to honor educators,students and leader’s wellbeing and still improve their craft. + How to find the intersection of professional development and well being? + Say Goodbye to being overwhelmed with a 7-day reset and Time Audit for Teachers

Stop dividing equally to move past topical level learning in your school.
Find your most essential elements in 3 words
Build excitement and momentum for your staff by asking 2 questions.
ACT, to transfer and facilitate learning that is contagious.
Solution surveys to eliminate time constraints for teachers in your building.

“How many of us have thought I got nothing left? Many of us have broken and many teachers are leaving the profession. Many leaders are leaving the profession, which breaks my heart. My passion is the intersection of how do we get better while not maintaining our well being, our own personal well being. My life's work is: how do we update teaching and learning to prepare kids for an ever-changing world while we still are healthy.”

-Julie Stern

Julie Stern’s Resources & Contact Info: * Teacher time audit template

Goodbye to Overwhelm free course
7-Day Reset free course
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Podcast | learning that transfers
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Julie Stern - YouTube
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Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap: Small Ideas That Lead to Big Impact

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Andrea Caprio is a Master Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach who helps busy professionals take back their power from yoyo dieting and overeating with proven tools and simple lifestyle hacks! It is Andrea's mission to help others free themselves from self-sabotage and unhealthy habits so they can live a fulfilling and confident life.

Show Highlights * What goes into a healthy detox? * Stop limiting your mindsets regarding health and nutrition * Relearn healthy habits to rewire your lifestyle. * Mason jar planning is the key to overcoming challenges. * The Food Freedom Formula provides a roadmap to healthy habits. * Free gift and discovery you need to hear about. * Free yourselves from self sabotage and unhealthy habits * Easy next steps for endless energy Ruckus Makers need. * Five step system is to reset the body's healing abilities.

“If you don't put fuel in your car, eventually you get stranded. If you don't take care of your body, if you don't feel your body, if you don't add good nutrition into your tank, eventually one day the breaks will come on and you will have to rest. It will not be pretty. As we all know, ‘either pay for your health now or pay for your illness later.’”

-Andrea Caprio

Andrea Caprio’s Resources & Contact Info: * Wellness Methods * Facebook * FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/beatcravings * Instagram.com * Twitter * Youtube: Wellness Methods - Emotional Eating Expert - * Tiny Habits * Gifts: + Balanced blood sugar kit -Helps you to get more energy, decrease cravings and kickstart a healthier lifestyle even if you have little time. Includes a simple meal plan and my smoothie builder. + Get My Balanced Blood Sugar Kit!

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Cory L. Cain was raised amongst the vast palm trees of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has served as a teacher, lead teacher, dean, department chair, assistant principal, and principal. In these positions, he has focused on communicative approaches to teacher-led professional development, cooperative learning, and data-driven instructional practices and has led the STEM department to record standardized test scores. Previously, he led a teacher-led hiring initiative that he created, based on behavior-based interviewing; developed Yale-based, social emotional training classes for teachers; and has spent the last year helping eradicate educational inequity by becoming a leader in working with educators to envision a new story where the power of personal relationships nurtures academic, social and emotional growth for young people at Wendell Phillips High School in Bronzeville. After spending nearly twenty years working in urban education, focusing on communicative approaches to teacher-led professional development; cooperative learning; data-driven instructional practices; behavior-based interviewing; and Yale-based, social-emotional training classes for teachers, he aspires to serve as a coach that focuses on creating inclusive communities where all people are treated with respect and dignity, where multiple perspectives and experiences are welcome, and where students from all cultures and backgrounds can succeed.

Cory holds a BS in biology; minor in Spanish; and an MBA in marketing from the University of Miami; a Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership from Columbia University, a Certificate in School Management & Leadership from Harvard Business School, a Certificate in School Discipline Reform from Loyola's Law School, and just recently finished his law degree at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law.

In his free time, he enjoys reading, dancing, cooking, music, getting trapped in new TV series, and thinking about what new degree to acquire.

Show Highlights * Rethinking student data in a very data driven system. * Grab the reins of data to be data informed and not data driven. * Implement the student experience to be a data informed leader. * Book recommendations for building solution oriented thinking and equity. * “Street-level”, “Map” and “Satellite” data creates flexibility to change direction towards your goals. * Nobel’s strategy on deciding to become “Antiracist.” * The first step for principals who want to decenter whiteness. * Create an invitation to talk in circles. * An easy way to stop jumping to judgment and be a better observer.

“Data isn't the issue, it's what we do with it.”

-Cory Cain

“I'm not saying we're perfect. We're doing a really good job of teaching ourselves and helping to develop teachers and leaders to use that type of data to make more informed choices when it comes to our staff and students in our community.”

-Cory Cain

Cory Cain’s Resources & Contact Info: * Street Data * Coaching for Equity * Twitter * LinkedIn * Instagram

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

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Eric Barker is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller “Barking Up the Wrong Tree,” which has sold over half a million copies and been translated into 19 languages. It was even the subject of a question on “Jeopardy!” Over 500,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter. His work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Financial Times, and others. Eric is also a sought-after speaker, having given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), and the Olympic Training Center. His new book, “Plays Well with Others,” will be released by HarperCollins in May of 2022.

Show Highlights * Lose the “Poker Face” and be more readable to your community. * The Friendly Journalist Method strategy for detecting lies. * Framework and advice on building belonging * Plays Well With Others for the meaning of life and what we get wrong in relationships. * Power of negotiators in inaccurate perceptions * Get the skeleton key to human relationships * The double edge sword of first impressions

“A mistake we consistently make is we're over confident we can read other people. By the same token we're usually overconfident that people know we're thinking.”

-Eric Barker

Eric Barker’s Resources & Contact Info: * Barking Up the Wrong Tree * Email: eric@bakadesuyo.com * Instagram * Twitter * Buy Eric’s new book Plays Well With Others

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

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Pete Hall is a capacity-builder. Driven to impact others’ lives in a profoundly positive way, he channels his experiences as a school principal, life coach, and small-business owner into manageable lessons for continuous growth, personal improvement, and positive mindset. Tenacious, courageous, and incorruptible, Pete shares his optimism, joy, and practical application of strategies for getting the most out of yourself.

Show Highlights * How to make changes to the systemic structures even when they don’t allow you to?

Advice for educators to nurture and provide a foundation for student goals even when they seem unrealistic.
Tips for Ruckus Makers to do a better job of knowing the people in their learning community.
Chasing the Show inspires you to make a ruckus.
Knowing the conditions that help Ruckus Maker despite resistance.
Make students more than a number or % by adding this focus.
Stray from a regimented structure for meaningful change.
Flexibility creates bigger opportunities for your desired outcomes.

“My number one piece of advice for leaders is to be real and to be honest authentic human beings because you're leading people, you're not leading a school. You're leading the people in the school, and that requires human connection.”

-Pete Hall

Pete Hall’s Resources & Contact Info: * Buy Chasing the Show. * EducationHall * Twitter * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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TaRael Kee is an Assistant Principal at Collinsville High School and currently serving as President of the Illinois School Counselor Association. He recently became a Site-Based Trainer for the American School Counselor Association.

As a former school counselor at Collinsville HighSchool, he utilized data and technology to push the department to become more innovative, efficient, and inclusive.

TaRael is a published author.

He was named the Collinsville School District e-Educator of the Year (2017), recognized by College Board in (2018), received the Lindenwood Alumni Spotlight (2019), and was awarded Illinois School Counselor of the Year (2021). TaRael graduated from Lindenwood University with a specialist degree in Educational Leadership in May 2021.

Show Highlights * Hiring practices for successfully hiring educators of color at your school. * Stop making excuses for a lack of diversity. * How to have very honest conversations with your hiring committee. * Innovative and inclusive approach of bringing talent back to your community. * The Kee to Success, a podcast to give you hope to keep making change. * Create a flipped job fair to hire a diverse and equitable staff. * Provide representation so children see themselves as leaders within the school community. * Create a hub of hope for students to grow curiosity and connection.

“I want every Ruckus Maker to know that they are the person that creates change. You create the change yourself. You have to do things you're not even ready for in order to do it. There's nothing wrong with not being fully ready. There's nothing wrong with you. Get out there and start to make changes every single day.”

TaRael Kee’s Resources & Contact Info: * taraelkee@gmail.com * School Administrator * TaRael Kee - YouTube * Twitter * Instagram * The Kee to Success Podcast

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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James Anderson is an Australian-based international speaker, author and educator who is passionate about helping fellow educators develop students as better learners. Originally a teacher and school leader, for the past 20 years, James has been working with schools to make classrooms more thoughtful places. He challenges teachers to think deeply about their own Mindsets and how their beliefs are communicated to students in often subtle and unintended ways.James’s work combines Growth Mindset with Habits of Mind and Practice to create Learning Agility. He puts the growth back into the Growth Mindset! And, through creating and describing the Mindset Continuum, he provides the cornerstone for effective Growth Mindset interventions. James values the relationships he builds with the schools and teachers he works with, providing the “follow-through” that’s so often lacking in teacher professional development. His speaking, workshops and online resources provide not only the deep understanding required to do this work meaningfully, but also the tools and ongoing support needed to sustain it in your school and make a real difference to student learning outcomes.

James will show you how to create your school-based Growth Mindset Style Guide to ensure your school consistently “nudges” all students towards an increasingly growth-oriented Mindset.

James is a Certified Speaking Professional and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. His previous publications include Succeeding with Habits of Mind, The Agile Learner, The Learning Landscape and The Mindset Continuum, as well as a host of e-books and other teacher resources.His online course, “Transforming Teaching and Learning with Growth Mindsets,” supports thousands of educators in schools around the world. He is an international affiliate of Art Costa and Bena Kallick’s Institute for Habits of Mind and the creator of www.habitsofmind.org.

Show Highlights * Learnership and the Learnership Matrix every Ruckus Maker needs. * Avoid educators working harder than their students. * Common design mistakes school leaders fall into. * Understanding the difference between resilience and being antifragile. to leverage disturbances in an unpredictable future. * Risk of getting busy instead of getting better. * Be aware of the mindset messages and the percentage of faculty actively disengaging their students. * Celebrate natural and created abilities equally to avoid a fixed mindset. * Deliberately make mistakes for effective feedback. * The difference between getting better and getting busy.

“One of my favorite quotes is ‘there is no growth without discomfort.’ If we're going to grow, we need to be comfortable with that feeling of discomfort, knowing that to grow we are going to feel uncomfortable. Seven out of ten uncomfortable, not nine or ten out of uncomfortable, not way off the deep end going, ‘Oh my god, I can't do this’, but uncomfortable enough.”

-James Anderson

James Anderson’s Resources & Contact Info: * www.jamesanderson.com.au * James Anderson * Habits of Mind * Habits of Mind - YouTube * LinkedIn * Twitter * Books James Mentioned + Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind + Antifragile

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

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Stop spinning plates and drinking from the fire hydrant when implementing your vision and mission.
The dangers of the “humblebrag”
Adopt the 3 step Zen recipe for success
Create the school of your dreams with these execution tips
Big mistake school leaders make when leading
Adopt the Apple success strategy to your school
The process to make sustainable strides for your school
Intentionally sit in silence for your best ideas to emerge
Why you need to slow down to discover the best way to speed up

“If you take these three elements to heart, you'll get out of the chaos that most school leaders experience in education and you'll build a simpler, more successful and hopefully more enjoyable school experience.

-Daniel Bauer

Daniel Bauer’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Mastermind Book * Daniel@Betterleadersbettershools.com * LinkedIn * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Corey M. Christman is the winemaker at Bravery Wines, LLC.. He’s a retired Supervisory Special Agent, USAF and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He’s a Doctoral student at Drexel University studying Educational Leadership. He’s a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program, Cornell University, and holds an MBA and BA in Criminal Justice.

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Consulting to assist leaders enact the changes they are facing.
Gain the necessary confidence to move ideas into action
Self-awareness to celebrate the hero in you.
Knowing-Doing Gap, actual practice leadership
Stop trying to engage in critical change from a disengaged viewpoint.
Communication inventory and people skills to improve your team.
FREE SPIRITS-Drink up the lessons that connect leadership to entrepreneurship.
Build a team around your weaknesses for your organization
What it takes to become worthy of history.

“Ideally we want the highest skill set and the culture fit. We want those together, but if we've got to take a culture fit, then maybe somebody has a little less skill set. I'll take that person every day because I can train that person. That person's coachable. Culture starts with town acquisition and not being afraid to go look for that person who's going to complement your team, not just seeking to seek employment.”

-Corey Christman

Corey Christman’s Resources & Contact Info: * Get a FREE 4-pack of Bravery Wines * Email * Bravery Wines + Place Orders-Shop Bravery Wines | Vinoshipper * Facebook/BraveryWines * Instagram/braverywines * Linkedin * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Christine Franklyn is an international speaker, writer and health coach. She is on a mission to help high-performing leaders get out from under the weight of everything that rests on their shoulders and truly shine. She has reverse-engineered the process she used to escape burnout and reclaim her A-Game. This is the foundation of her Power Up Formula.

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Recognize the signs of stress to avoid burnout
Know your worth and maintain a “Think BIG Mindset”
Avoid setting for being put in someone else's box.
Practical advice on how to combat negative health outcomes
Healthy habits designed for busy leaders
A checklist to Double Your Energy
Important steps to listening to your body and focus your values
Why is your mind not trustworthy, but your bodies are?

“I have to start, take stock, and decide how I'm going to make a change. I've seen how crucial it is for clients and the leaders I talked to and worked with. If you don't listen to yourself, if you don't listen to your body, you can end up in a downward spiral.”

-Christine Franklyn

Christine Franklyn’s Resources & Contact Info: * https://bit.ly/energy2022 * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jordan Mareno is a Partnerships Manager at Project Invent, a nonprofit that empowers high school and middle school students to invent technology for community impact. Jordan gravitates towards questions about and celebrations of human purpose, and believes that young people should be given chances — often and early — to wrestle with their own understandings of meaning.

Show Highlights

Energy and ethos leaders desire for their schools.
A pivot point and catalysis for identifying as a Ruckus Maker.
Create community partnerships and design thinking with Project Invent.
A question all students find purpose and meaning in the education system.
Assist students with making a backpack of belonging.
Support teachers who want to make a ruckus get off isolation island.
Unlock talent and push people to believe they are talented.
The value in crosscutting conversations with students and teachers.
Close the distance students feel between the real world and the classroom.

“How old were you when you realized everything was invented? I think everybody has that moment or maybe you don't and those are the unlucky ones. You realize the world was designed and it can be redesigned and redesigned and redesigned and reinvented. We hope our students have that realization early on in their experience with us that everything around them was designed and they actually can be a part of that.”

-Jordan Mareno

Jordan Mareno’s Resources & Contact Info: * Project Invent * LinkedIn * Twitter * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Tanya Sheckley is the Founder and President of UP Academy, a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. UP Academy is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

Inspired by the will, drive, and desire of her daughter, Eliza, who was born in 2009 with cerebral palsy, UP Academy is proving that it’s possible to celebrate differences, change what’s broken in the American education system, and provide all children with a rigorous, well-rounded education.

Tanya also hosts the Rebel Educator podcast, speaks across the country on the future of education, and leads professional development programs for school administrators and educators.

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Champion Project Based Learning with a “changemakers unit”
Every Ruckus Maker needs a Rebel Educator to make a ruckus
Effective marketing and business messaging for school leadership
Up Academy is changing what's broken in the American education system
Stop robbing children of education inside school buildings
Break the free of the 3 Ps that handcuff education
Consistently give students more agency and responsibility to build executive functioning skills
Powerful things a school leader could do to break down the silos
Deep juicy questions to ignite deeper learning
Student agency, inclusion, and equity is at the foundation of integrated experience.

“Try something new, different, innovative and creative. Startle your students with something that they haven't had an opportunity to do before, or a different side of you, they haven't gotten a chance to see or know.”

-Tanya Sheckley

Tanya Sheckley’s Resources & Contact Info: * https://tanyasheckley.com/ * UP Academy * Rebel Educator * Linkedin * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Roseann is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge, LLC, who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health”. FORBES magazine called her, “A thought leader in children’s mental health”. Her work has helped thousands improve the most challenging conditions, such as ADHD, anxiety, OCD, mood, autism, learning disability, Lyme, and PANS/PANDAS using PROVEN holistic therapies such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, and psychotherapy. She is the author of the first ever book on teletherapy activities for child and adolescent therapists, “Teletherapy Toolkit™” and It’s Gonna be OK!™ book and The Get Unstuck Program™, which are resources for parents to improve their child’s symptoms with science-backed solutions.

She is a media personality who has been in/on hundreds of television shows, podcasts, and major publications including Fox, CBS, NBC, Scripps, FORBES, PARENTS, Healthline, BBC, The Washington Post, and New York Times.

She is sought after keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and works with brands to support employee, parent and children’s mental health and educate on solutions to reduce stress and increase resiliency.

Dr. Roseann is a Connecticut Certiﬁed School Psychologist, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Integrative Medicine Mental Health Provider (CMHIMP), and a Board Certiﬁed Neurofeedback Provider (BCN). She is a member of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS). Dr. Roseann serves on the boards of the Northeast Regional Biofeedback Society and is a Lyme Connection Task Force Professional Advisor

Show Highlights * Advice for parents and educators who need to have tough conversations with kids

Teach about the limits of healing
Managing the good stress and the bad stress to see beyond the surface
Shape behaviors with brain based, holistic therapies
Solutions focused on how kids learn and process in the brain
Coping skills to control your stress response to be stress resilient
Mindfulness based activities to regulate our nervous system
Get kids out of fight, flight, or freeze by preparing their nervous system to learn, pay attention, and take action
Stop working backwards in your schools

“We've a community of consciousness, of people that are stressed in a way I've never seen before and they're bringing that to school. Somehow schools have become the fix all for everything, and it shouldn't be. We are a community and you can't over rely on one part in the community. All members have to do their part.

-Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

Dr Roseann Capanna-Hodge’s Resources & Contact Info: * It's Gonna Be Ok: * Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge * LinkedIn * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

It's Gonna Be Ok: Proven Ways to Improve Your Child's Mental Health

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A professional bassist, Gerald J. Leonard offers a unique approach to accomplishing more productivity in the workplace. He is the CEO of Principles of Execution (PofE), a Certified Minority Business Enterprise, Strategic Project Portfolio Management and Culture Change consulting practice with over 20+ years’ experience working with large Federal and State Governments and Multinational Corporations. Past and present clients include Verizon, Center of Medicaid and Medicare, Freddie Mac, Hewlett-Packard (HP), GEICO, and many more.

He is also the author of Workplace Jazz: How to Improvise and Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps To Creating High-Performing Teams.

Show Highlights * The value of having coaches and in the areas you want to go * The “acres of diamonds” lesson * Learn to speak the language of imitation * Deliberate practice is the performance. * Uncover workplace jazz and leave your ego at the door * Music integrates the entire brain and allows you to see the big picture * 3 ideas to naturally improve team dynamics * Develop the pathway and capability to have great scientific and mathematical minds with brain integration.

“High-performing teams are high performers individually, but when they come together they first think of the performance and then they surrender to each other to highlight and motivate and encourage.”

-Gerald Leonard

Gerald Leonard’s Resources & Contact Info: * Connect with Gerald to book your productivity! * Workplace Jazz: How to Improvise * Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps To Creating High-Performing Teams. * LinkedIn * Facebook * Instagram * Twitter * What if Practice is the Performance: Falling In Love with Practice * Gerald J. Leonard| TED Talk

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps to Creating High Performing Teams

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Dr. Efraín Martínez is a father, husband, and the principal of Northwood Middle School in Highland Park, IL. He reflects and interviews luminary figures on his podcast Wisdom & Productivity. His one word is #improvement and he strives to do all he can to make this world better.

Show Highlights * The #1 productivity secret

Set fire to the house to know which door to open for your mental health
Stop being a time traveler to lead and live in the present moment
Develop honest, sincere relationships with emotional intelligence skills.
Motivational leaders touch people with sincere candor
Give yourself permission to take action and choose yourself
Be the first person to buy what you’re selling
Have a “dumping ground” for your ideas
Tweet going down the stairs to have better quality leadership

“When we sanctify something by not talking about it, we are defending it instead of tackling face forward.”

-Dr Efrain Martinez

Dr Efrain Martinez’s Resources & Contact Info: * Wisdom and Productivity: The Podcast * Twitter * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Genein Letford is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and corporate trainer on creative thinking and Intercultural Creativity™. She is the founder of CAFFE Strategies, and has inspired and led many to reconnect to their creative abilities in order to produce innovative ideas for an inclusive workspace.

Show Highlights * The 7-gems of intercultural creativity framework

Redefining creativity in schools.
Stop unintentionally squashing creativity.
A new lens to view effective leadership
Benefits in sitting with ambiguity
Strengthen your cultural competence and multi sensory observational skills.
Be an ability bridge across different cultural groups.

“Cultural competence and the creative growth mindset of the teacher is one of the highest indicators of student success.”

-Genein Letford

“For the next era of thinking and the next future of work, we have to do a better job of really making sure our kids are strong in their ability to stand-in their unique truth.”

-Genein Letford

Genein Letford’s Resources & Contact Info: * LinkedIn * Twitter * Caffe Strategies * The 7-Gems of Intercultural Creativity * I am Creative

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The 7 Gems of Intercultural Creativity®: Connect, Create and Innovate Across Cultural Lines

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Sasha Lipskaia helps her powerful clients get clarity on who they really are, become magnetic to what they desire, and embody their purpose by getting out of their minds and into the truth of their hearts so that they can feel aligned and worthy in their relationships, and their mission in the world.

Over the past 20 years, Sasha's work has integrated a variety of healing modalities, mystical traditions, de-colonial practices, theatrical and movement-based therapeutic art, yogic philosophy, mindset coaching, and sacred sexuality with a focus on guiding her clients' to re-wire their nervous systems while helping them reconnect to the wisdom of their body, and intuition.

Show Highlights * The body is the missing piece of most leadership * Radically trust yourself to be guided by intuition * Feel into the truth of your heart to direct your leadership * Destruction creates an environment you can plant seeds in * Integrate your finding of the Holy Grail on your “hero’s journey” * The path will appear when you choose to honor the mission in your heart * The scariest thing to do is usually the most true. * Find the truth to server what the moment calling for * Be the tree to live as the leader you're looking for

“Your job, my job, the reason we're trained to do it, the reason we practice it is because knowing what question to ask and how to create space for someone to witness their truth, not only witness it, but to allow it to come into the body so they can embody it. To actually trust what it's asking of them.”

Sasha Lipskaia

Sasha Lipskaia’s Resources & Contact Info: * Sasha Lipskaia * Sasha Lipskaia - YouTube * Being Brave with Sasha Lipskaia on Apple Podcast * The Body Keeps the Score * It Didn’t Start With You * LinkedIn * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

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Jason Dropik is an educational leader serving diverse communities with his just cause in creating meaningful and lasting relationships. He has served both Public and Private Schools in and near Milwaukee Wisconsin for over 20 years. Mr. Dropik currently serves as the Head of School at the Indian Community School in Franklin, WI. Dropik believes in the power of diverse collaboration and is also serving as the President of the National Indian Education Association, Wisconsin Association of Environmental Education Board Member, and various professional and community organizations. He is committed to building community, expanding collaborations, and creating student leadership opportunities.

Show Highlights * Build connections amidst challenging times * Frame a sense of gratitude to create a positive impact * Tips to lift your staff to watch amazing things happening EVERY day

Pivotal and foundational acknowledgments required to practice education
Raise capacity within students and communities to acknowledge cultures
Flatten walls to expand your perspective and understanding
Step out of a previous leader’s shadow into your own leadership
Honest and challenging conversations to navigate a path forward with perspectives outside of your own

“The ancestors, those that came before us, talked about living, balance and living in harmony with all of creation, everything around us. How do we slow down enough to be observant of all the gifts that are in front of us? A sense of gratitude has been really helpful through pandemic and changes that exist in schools and communities. Thankfulness and gratitude, it's hard to be upset and to not think about it.”

-Jason Dropik

“There are so many teachings and experiences that American Indian History has provided that were either erased, moved or taken away.”

-Jason Dropik

Jason Dropik’s Resources & Contact Info: * Native-Land.ca * Linkedin * Twitter * Buy Daniel’s latest book: Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Stanley S. Litow is Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he also served as Innovator in Residence and also teaches at Columbia University. He previously served as deputy chancellor of schools for New York City and as president of the IBM Foundation and vice president of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs at IBM. At IBM, he helped create Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), the innovative grade 9 to 14 school connecting school to college to career. He is also co-author of Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career from Teachers College Press. Stan also serves as a Trustee of the State University of New York (SUNY) where he chairs the Academic Affairs Committee.

Show Highlights * Why don't education reforms go to scale? * P-Tech creates a pathway from high school to college to career. * Get past the politics in education. * Education is the bottom line for profitability for all Americans. * A formula that sets up conditions where ALL kids can soar. * An educational resource that can end the economic and cultural divide. * Students determine when they are college ready. * Billion dollar college saving and workplace ready plan. * Take down the silo between school to college for relevant learning.

“All of the assumptions about who can achieve go out the window if you provide students with the right opportunity.”

-Stan Litow

Stan Litow’s Resources & Contact Info: * Breaking Barriers * P-TECH * LinkedIn * Twitter * Buy Daniel’s latest book: Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Robyn Jackson teaches a simple 4 step process that helps you improve teacher will AND skill so that you can achieve your vision for your school with the people you already have. No more waiting for others to get on board before you can reach your goals. No more having your vision be held hostage by the resistant, but vocal few.

With this 4-step process, you don't have to wait to achieve your vision. Listen to her weekly podcast School Leadership Reimagined where you can get immediately actionable strategies to solve your biggest challenges.

Show Highlights * Leadership is dead. Don’t lead and break from the trap. * A model to help translate to your school’s reality. * Set an impactful vision that excites and is crisis proof. * Give yourself permission to inspire and not conform. * Stop settling for little tiny goals with Buildership. * An invitation to step away from an institution that's broken. * Value the 3 constraints you face to create something amazing.

“It doesn't have to be a big framework that you create. Sometimes it's as simple as taking a vision that you have for your school and being brave enough and disciplined enough to articulate it and pursue it. When you do that you can have that same kind of world-changing impact in your school, in the lives of your kids.”

-Robyn Jackson

Robyn Jackson’s Resources & Contact Info: * Stop Leading, Start Building! * Buildership University * Robyn’s website * Linkedin * Facebook * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Stop Leading, Start Building!: Turn Your School into a Success Story with the People and Resources You Already Have

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Randy Weiner has worked in education, ed tech and consulting throughout his career. In 2012, He co- founded and served as the first Chairman of the Board at Urban Montessori Charter School (UMCS) in Oakland, CA—the nation’s first public Montessori, Arts Integration and Design Thinking school. Randy is also a co-founder and the CEO at BrainQuake, a three- time U.S. Department of Education Small Business Innovation Award winner. Along with his Brass Tacks Innovations consulting firm partner, Dr. James Bailey, Randy co-authored “The Daily SEL Leader: A Guided Journal“, published in March 2021 by Corwin Press. A Teach for America alum and father to two daughters, Randy taught for five years in Oakland and Madagascar, and holds two BAs from Middlebury College and an MA in Education from Stanford.

James’ career has encompassed teacher, principal, school turnaround, principal consultant, and superintendent roles spanning Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. As Superintendent in Wyoming, his district was the first member in the state to join the League of Innovative Schools after reform efforts around personalized learning and social-emotional development. In San Antonio, he led the turnaround efforts for the Carpe Diem Schools. His deep-seated commitment to equity and supporting school leaders led to him training as an executive coach and co-founding Brass Tacks Innovations focused on adult SEL development, school redesign, and the use of improvement and implementation science to help all schools and learners meet the demands of our emerging society. He is also an advocate for helping leaders and young people become more self-aware of their social and emotional needs and develop the skills to work with others on a more human level. James has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Innovation, is a prolific publisher and presenter and serves as a core faculty member at Walden University in the areas of educational leadership. He recently had a book published called The Daily SEL Leader: A Guided Journal.

Show Highlights * SEL is not warm, fuzzy or extra. Unpack the misunderstandings of SEL * The “Holy grail of leadership” with 5 minute transformational feedback. * The book you need for being a leader of action. * Identify the “Knowing - Doing Gap.” * Avoid feedback being a “freud experience” for everyone. * Safe spaces are not the goal, intentional, tailored feedback is. * Five minutes to see “everyone is an ocean and not a surface.” * Learn a deliberate daily practice plan to build a leadership playground.

People who are better at leading with social-emotional skills tend to get a lot more impact and influence in their leadership.

-James

James Bailey and Randy Weiner’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Daily SEL Leader: A Guided Journal * Randy Weiner -Twitter * Brass Tacks Innovations * Linkedin-James * James Bailey - Twitter * Brass Tacks Innovations -Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dan Butler serves as the principal of Epworth Elementary School in the Western Dubuque Community School District. Previously, he was the principal of Epworth and Farley Elementary Schools simultaneously for four years focusing on positive relationships with all members of the learning community, high impact instructional techniques, building leadership capacity in others, and establishing successful school cultures. Prior to serving as an administrator, Dan taught third and fifth grades in the Western Dubuque District, as well as serving as a baseball and football coach. In addition to his responsibilities as a building principal, Dan works as an adjunct professor in the Educational Leadership department at the University of Northern Iowa where he earned his doctoral degree.

Dan has received numerous awards and most recently was recognized as a finalist for the School Administrators of Iowa Elementary Principal of the year in 2019 and 2020. He received the University of Northern Iowa Educational Leadership Legacy award in 2018 and was a 2017 bizTimes.biz Rising Star in the Dubuque area. For more than six years, Dan served as a co-moderator of Iowa Educational Chat (#IAedchat), a weekly Twitter forum dedicated to the latest trends in education. He recently published his first book, Permission to be Great and has published various articles to Principal Magazine focused on digital leadership, literacy, productivity, and educator engagement.

Show Highlights * Grant permission to shape the world with this book. * 6 mismatches between educator and the work environment * + Too much to do + A lack of control + ERA: encouragement, recognition, appreciation + Breakdown of community + Lack of fairness + Conflict of values * Common sense is not the same as common practice. * Navigate comprehensive systems and programs to create an atmosphere for people to be great. * A filter to remove what you don’t value off the proverbial education plate. * Promote a genuine interest in every person with two motivational words. * A strength based approach to see kids as the unique individuals they are. * Create ownership, autonomy and avoid micro management. * Know the hill “we” are going to die on to navigate difficult waters.

“We talked about mismatches. The greater the match between worker and work environment, the greater the likelihood of engagements. At the end of the day, all of the concepts, all of the strategies, all of the tactics, included in Permission To Be Great are all about increasing positive culture within your school.”

-Dan Butler

Dan Butler’s Resources & Contact Info: * Permission to be Great * danpbutler.com * Twitter * Instagram * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Eric is an Associate Partner with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). Prior to this, he was a teacher and the award-winning Principal at New Milford High School. Under his leadership, his school became a globally recognized model for innovative practices. Eric oversaw the successful implementation of several sustainable change initiatives that radically transformed the learning culture at his school while increasing achievement.

Show Highlights * Empower students to think disruptively with real world tools to do real world work. * How to lead a culture to establish disruptive thinking in our classrooms? * Future proof education and prep learners for anything vs something. * Avoid misrepresenting equity. * Embrace lessons learned from the pandemic to avoid the most dangerous phase of education.

Results of the best blended pedagogies in the country.
Unleash that greatness in those whom we serve. Tips, tricks and support options to infuse within your school.
Challenge the path less travelled to avoid Siri or Alexa pedagogy.

“When you have a lot of roadblocks to change. I wasn't perfect. I surrounded myself with people that were smarter than me, that were more capable than me, and for the most part I got out of their way, but I gave them feedback and I held everyone accountable, accountable to our kids.”

-Eric Sheninger

Eric Sheninger’s Resources & Contact Info: * International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) * Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms * Linkedin * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future

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Show Highlights * Build IT better with an engaged and flourishing staff.

Be a leader with an abundance of energy and give your staff a “good cold.”
Ask this important question with a high speed complaint session to achieve amazing results.
Live through challenges with perspective, privilege and beauty.
Ruckus Makers can play BIGGER in 2022 to Level Up Leadership.
Be intentional where you’re headed and avoid the 5 mile detour.
8 weeks and 5 steps for a “Principal Success Path” to extend breaks and finish the year strong.
Solve the most important and overlooked topic for leaders with a “Ruckus Maker Mindset” in 90 days.

“Everything flows from how you think.”

-Daniel Bauer

Resources & Contact Info: * The Principal Success Path™ http://betterleadersbetterschools.com/ * Measure What Matters * The First 90 Days:

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

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George Guy Jr George Guy’s “why” is empowerment through equity. George works to create more access and greater opportunities within public PreK-12 spaces as an equity consultant with the Foundation for Educational Administration.

He is also principal of the Rosa International Middle School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Show Highlights * Cast a wider scope of criteria currently in place for equitable change. * Leverage teacher voices by co constructing with them is critical. * The highest level of mathematics indicates your level of success. * Detrack your students to provide access to open doors. * Increase parental understanding for initiatives with a virtual model for families. * Changing staff mindsets begins with early adapters and promoting external resources. * Equity in Action Academy provides four lenses using qualitative data systemic in nature. * Culturally responsive practices for districts and leaders at www.njspa.org.

“When you see people and you don't look at their deficit, but you look at their capacity and you empower them to be creators around their level of agency. The Ruckus Making that you are doing will be lifelong.”

-George Guy Jr.

George Guy Jr’s Resources & Contact Info: * Equity in Action Academy: NJSPA.org * Eradicating Inequality: Reflections for School Leaders to Consider this Academic Year * LinkedIn * Twitter * Best DEI Books for Ruckus Makers + Sawubona Video: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/equitybooks

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Clement Townsend is a former journalist who spent 17 years on TV and told more than 1,000 stories. He now teaches youth how to use their voice and video to tell impactful stories with authenticity and creativity. He has a proven record of teaching youth with a fun and robust program. In addition to learning journalism participants develop in demand skills that can benefit them in any career field they choose.

Now more than ever youth need 21st century skills that can set them up for success in life. If you can click a mouse you can teach your students video journalism. Enrollment is limited so he can ensure teacher satisfaction and student success.

Show Highlights * Be an “Inform impactor” with this framework. * Tips for becoming a broadcasting star. * Meaningful media to inform, inspire, and impact student’s lives. * Everybody needs these communication skills. * How to take a relevant idea and create tangible outcomes? * Valuable, employable, life skills that unlock doors of opportunity. * Master the predominant form of communication. * Bridge the gap to establish student voice with a FREE download. * Broadcasting Career Mentor Program.

“Having students understand the creativity aspect, the outlet to express themselves, to talk about the positive things they see happening in their community or specifically for your audience. Allowing students to showcase the positive things happening in their school with video. It's about really allowing students to connect with their learning, to their everyday life, really trying to bridge the gap.”

-Clement Townsend

Clement Townsend’s Resources & Contact Info: * Video Journalism Pro * How To Become A Broadcasting Star * LinkedIn * Twitter * Instagram * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

How To Become A Broadcasting Star: Your Step By Step Guide

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Julie Warner is an education writer and national and international consultant with a specific focus on educational technology and teacher wellness. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University and worked as a secondary teacher and college professor before stints as an Education Policy Advisor in the U.S. Senate and the White House and later overseeing the teacher issues portfolio within the U.S. Department of Education’s internal think tank. Even as she’s advised on high-level policy decisions in education, she’s always stayed close to the classroom: she’s a National Board Certified Teacher and has published a book on teaching teens with smartphones, co-edited a book on teaching with technology, published several recent articles on classroom teaching for professional journals for teachers, and is a journalist writing about innovative teaching practice.

Her newest book Failure Before Success: Teachers Describe What They Learned from Mistakes brings together accounts from everyone from a world-renowned Finnish education scholar and global policy advisor to distinguished professors of education to veteran teachers with decades of experience working in the complex field of teaching to unpack the process of learning from mistakes and critical incidents in the classroom. Julie works with teachers and school leaders to support technology integration and conducts workshops on how teachers can develop a reflective practice to strengthen their teaching.

Show Highlights * Create more belonging in your class with ease. * Learned how the “education sausage” is made. * Failure Before Success provides practical and relevant mistakes. * Ask parents these simple questions to build meaningful connections. * Systemically, unhealthy expectations promote burnout and dehumanize teachers. * If you’re not able to get plugged into the support systems you will drown. * Understand the professional culture and how to connect with resources.

“I was having to figure out how to teach English as a second language, on-the-fly through the lens of English literature and writing. I made a ton of pedagogical mistakes along the way, and I also didn't have a sense of cultural competence to really understand how to interact with the other teachers and faculty.

-Dr Julie Warner

Julie Warner’s Resources & Contact Info: * Julie M Warner * Twitter * Instagram * Books by Julie Warner * Failure Before Success

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Failure Before Success: Teachers Describe What They Learned from Mistakes

Adolescents’ New Literacies with and through Mobile Phones (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

Negotiating Place and Space through Digital Literacies: Research and Practice (Digital Media and Learning)

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Claire Yvonne Naisbitt is a transition pro having changed her whole life in less than 2 years. She loves deep personal work so she can serve her clients powerfully and go wherever they need and want to go. ClaireYvonne thrives in the land of duality, where we can have humor and be serious, be artistic and scientists, introverted and extroverted, celebrating and integrating our unique wholeness.

Before Coaching, Claire was a Senior Level Leader in the oil and gas industry for over 20 years, where she was responsible for leading teams to solve and deliver complex technical work. She understands the challenges of working in a fast paced, male dominated, demanding technical workplace and has always been drawn to getting the best out of people teams, as Team Lead and through organizational design.

Show Highlights * Never be stuck and bulldoze over your body. * First step is courage for coaching. * Self care is critical to success. * Ignore the brain and follow “gut wisdom”. * 1. physical body's intelligence of knowing, not the head * Trust and tap into “Soul’s wisdom.” * Don’t be a hot frog in the water. * Celebrate and integrate your unique wholeness. * Brave questions you have to ask yourself. * Investing in yourself is not a bill but an investment. * The strongest leaders always have a great team behind them.

“A lot of people will realize if we empty our energy cup, we've run out for everybody else. Whereas if our cups are full, we can be there for our children or the children we're working with or anybody in our lives. For some reason society has it the other way round. If we take care of ourselves, it's selfish, but in that regard we run out of energy in our forties.”

-Claire Yvonne Naisbitt

Full Transcript Available Claire Yvonne Naisbitt’s Resources & Contact Info: * Executive Team Coaching | BrightCatalyst | Claire Hayward * Clairehayward@brightcatalyst.net * The Mindset * LinkedIn

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

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Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Kayla Tucker is the owner of Kayla Elease Coaching Services, LLC, a company that helps female K-12 principals to effectively manage stress and prioritize health and well being without a dependency on time management hacks, exercise, or delegation. As a school psychologist by trade with years of experience in the online wellness space, Kayla is an expert on stress management for school leaders. Using a unique framework that is founded in resilience, biology, and humanistic psychology, she helps school leaders learn how to bounce back from the day-to-day demands with ease while keeping personal sustainability at the forefront.

Show Highlights * Overcome negative impact on leadership and educators mental health. * The biggest myth school leaders believe about the work. * Inventory questions leaders need to ask. * Notice and act on your interest, insights and reflection. * Unspoken culture code in education. * SUCCESS in 3 MONTHS! A service for Women in Leadership. * Lead and leverage live video content. * Framework to keep Longevity in Mind with “Why and What if.” * Make your educators and team crisis and future proof with this framework.

“The most important thing I often tell myself is that we only have things to give when we have enough to give.”

-Kayla Tucker

Full Transcript is Available on the BLBS Website Kayla Tucker’s Resources & Contact Info: * Linkedin * Instagram * Twitter * hello@kaylaelease.com * https://kaylaelease.com * Buy Daniel’s new book: Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader * A Beautiful Constraint * Lead with Longevity program: http://kaylaelease.com/blbs

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business

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Michelle Goldschlag is the Co-founder and CEO of Cultured Kids (CK), a nonprofit organizationthat believes a student’s sense of belonging is the primary catalyst for their success.

Michelle’s entrepreneurial spirit led to two other “failed” businesses before starting CK. Both endeavors, along with her dual degrees in Art & Spanish, strengthened CK’s foundation.

Aside from partnering with schools and community organizations in Northern VA and the Metro Boston area since their 2015 founding, Michelle has provided consulting services for international museums and global organizations like the Holistica Foundation in Brazil.

Michelle’s personal mission is to use her creative gifts and empathy to maximize her impact.

Her lofty professional goals include:

Changing the trajectory of education along with her community impact
Growing a robust and unified donor community that is genuinely valued
Developing the most sought after, kickass volunteer program

Personally, Michelle aspires to:

Shed her fear of failure and stop caring what others think
Learn to love public speaking (currently makes her sick)
Become an author

To Michelle, Cultured Kids is a third child, constantly working its way through new stages of development, inciting sleepless nights, and in constant need of attention & nourishment.

While Michelle loves her job and struggles to draw the line between work and life, during her personal time she can be seen backpacking and hiking with her family all over the country,reading four or more books at a time, and dreaming with reckless abandon.

Show Highlights * Involve yourself in the greatest need for students. * Programs that impact, solve problems and connect for the entire learning community. * The value in CLOSING CIRCLES. * The number one focus in education moving forward. * Facing these fears for unlimited growth. * Engage students' curiosity about themselves and the world with Cultured Kids * Natural and unique ways to promote SEL and embrace cultures.

“Having two children of my own and not being able to afford to travel. I wanted to make sure they were exposed to other perspectives. They were not only seeing cultural diversity around them, but that they were actually learning about different cultures and about how to talk about differences.”

Full Transcript Available Michelle Goldschlag’s Resources & Contact Info: * Cultured Kids * Jacqueline Woodson - books * What Do You Do With an Idea? * Webinar Form: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6169a87f74d564fa09f3f4f4 * Instagram * Facebook * Linkedin * Twitter

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

What Do You Do With an Idea? — New York Times best seller

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Danny Bauer: Chief Ruckus Maker Show Highlights * Remarkable Vision Formula. Three steps to creating a remarkable life or remarkable family in a remarkable school. * Write a vision for “those who read it can run.” * Row a remarkable vision for alignment between teams. * Vision is working towards something much bigger than ourselves. * Create your Bollingen Tower to be in the midst of your true life. * The only way to truly be a top performing Ruckus Maker. * What do you need in your life in leadership to make a remarkable vision?

“When you have a strong vision, it provides incredible clarity about where you're going. It paints a picture that is inspiring. People have to make it come true.”

-Danny Bauer

Full Transcript is Available on the BLBS Website Danny’s Resources & Contact Info: * Buy Daniel’s new book: Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader * David Whyte: Start Close In - Poem * Linkedin * email Daniel@betterleadersbetterschools.com * + Subject line. “I want your help with vision”

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Khalil Graham is an experienced Education leader with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. A visionary leader that creates a safe and effective learning-focused environment for students to enrich their individual growth, enrichment, and goals of life-long learning, setting them up for success in their collegiate journey and life thereafter. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Research, Event Planning, Fundraising, and Program Evaluation. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Doctorate focused in Educational Leadership and Administration, General from Univ. of Kentucky.

Show Highlights * What does it mean to be a futurist in education? * Integrate excellence and create environments that invest in others. * Changemakers who know how to veer. * Excellence defined and steps that lead you there personally and professionally. * Separate excellence and perfection with these principles. * Create a hunger for a growth mindset in your learning community. * Operating mechanisms you need to solidify powerful teams into the systems that you already have. * How to build a student centered critical thinking and advocacy centered environment. * A metrics to evaluate if your habits match your goals.

“Every great education institution should be grounded in love, equity, and excellence.”

-Dr. Khalil Graham

Full Transcript Available On BLBS Website Dr Khalil Graham’s Resources & Contact Info: * ‎Linkedin-Liberty STEAM Charter School * Instagram-libertysteamcharter * Facebook.com/libertysteamcharter * Thanks for the Feedback * Radical Candor * Above the Line

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Revised, Updated)

Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

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Dre “All Day” Baldwin teaches what he learned to help people dominate their game in work and in life. How To Dominate Your Game At Work & In Life (And Avoid Feeling As If You've Wasted Your Talent And Opportunity).

He was a hard-working athlete who had distant dreams of going pro, but he was coming from a small NCAA D3 school, and had no connections to the professional world. To add insult to injury, he couldn't even find an agent to represent him, let alone a professional team to sign with. His career appeared to be over. Most players don't make it pro. It was then he decided to attend an exposure camp -- a job fair for athletes -- which changed his life and sports career. From there things started moving in the right direction.

Ahead of the event, he started showing up to the gym every day and doing my work, even when -- ESPECIALLY when -- he least felt like it. This allowed me to tap into a level of confidence that he didn't even know he had -- which not only helped his performance, but made other people believe in him. His mental toughness sharpened, developing the internal fortitude to push himself when he needed it most.

When all was said and done, he knew his strategy worked when he became a 9-year professional athlete-turned-entrepreneur who has taught his framework to over 73 MILLION business people and athletes worldwide since 2005! He shares his framework for how to dominate any "game” in business, sports and life so you can and avoid feeling as if you've wasted your talent and opportunity.

Show Highlights * Make your leadership and school Youtube famous. * “ Work On Your Game” framework you need to know. * Celebrate “separation day” with the “The Third Day” mindset. * Powerful way of answering people's questions. * Discipline creates the super you. * Stop looking at other people’s plates. * Show up and deliver every single time, regardless of emotion with this. * Motivation is for amateurs. Out last the clock at midnight.

“Nobody is handed leadership. Leadership is taken. In business it is the exact same thing. You have to take initiative, meaning you have to choose an initiative.”

-Dre “All Day” Baldwin

“You're not going to be for everybody and you don't want to be for everybody. As they say, "When you're trying to be for everybody, you're really for nobody." I would tell a school leader to put yourself out there and how you are. Let the people who want to be with you, let them become your audience. They will identify themselves.”

-Dre “All Day” Baldwin

Full Transcript Available Dre Baldwin’s Resources & Contact Info: * ‎Work On Your Game * Work On Your Game with Dre Baldwin Podcasts * Dre "DreAllDay" Baldwin | Speaking * The Third Day * Work On Your Game * Twitter * LinkedIn * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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The Third Day: The Decision That Separates The Pros From The Amateurs

Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life

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Julie Jungalwala is a coach and advisor to school leaders, educational institutions, and foundations whose mission is to shape the future of K–12 education. She has over twenty years’ experience building effective learning environments that unlock human potential and enable organizational culture to adapt and grow during times of change.

She is the founder and executive director of Institute for the Future of Learning, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping transform the 'one size does not fit all' model of education. The Institute works with a diverse range of clients including public schools, independent schools, public charter schools, and educational philanthropic organizations.

Julie is also an instructor at Harvard Extension School where she teaches authentic leadership, change management and strengths-based development.

She graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a master’s degree in Education, specializing in adult development, learning technology and behavioral change. Her book, The Human Side of Changing Education, was published by Corwin Press in 2018.

Show Highlights * Help unlearn the system of education and avoid being a slot in a box. * The leadership task that can’t be ignored. * 3 truths and 5 decisions. * The DNRs leaders need to let go of? * The Reinvention Mandate, avoid a predictable world. * Be a “hospice worker to the old way and a midwife to the new.” * Learned helplessness within the system. * Where is your heart in the work of preparing children for a noble future? * Five questions that unpack and encapsulate what is needed in education.

“Leadership is an extraordinarily lonely endeavor oftentimes. Going through the good times and the bad times you need people that you can call on. It doesn't matter the time of day, they will be there for you and you need to make the call. I would underscore what I've learned so far from those reinvention mandate interviews, nobody should do this work alone. The square squad. Write the name down and call them.”

-Julie Jungalwala

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Julie Jungalwala’s Resources & Contact Info: * Human side of changing education

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Twitter

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The Human Side of Changing Education: How to Lead Change With Clarity, Conviction, and Courage

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G. Richard Shell is a global thought leader and senior faculty member at one of the world’s leading business schools, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Chair of Wharton’s Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, the largest department of its kind in the world. His forthcoming book, The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career addresses an increasingly urgent problem in today’s workplace: standing up for core values such as honesty, fairness, personal dignity, and justice when the pressure is on to look the other way.

Show Highlights * “Changing curriculum in an academic setting is like moving a cemetery.” * Your job as a leader is to find the real reason for behavior. * “Trial balloons” bring out the best work. * What pushes people to silence during tough conversations? * Useful tools to sell compromise as a worthy victory. * The “magic sauce” of negotiations. * Be more effective champions for their values. * Be able to speak truth to power effectively with the power of 2.

“One of the reasons that it worked was because I did my preliminary due diligence, and then I started with two assumptions and they were non-negotiable. One was, we were not going to lead an initiative to make the students learn. The other was, we're not going to lead an initiative to make the faculty change. A program that you design to make the students learn is going to fail because you have to bring students along. Education, the word means, "bring it out of you." It doesn't mean cram it in to you.”

-Richard Shell

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Richard Shell’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career * Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup * Linkedin

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career.

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David Bott is a sought-after speaker, author and education consultant who works with government organisations and some of the world’s leading schools to help guide wellbeing vision and strategy. As an expert in applied wellbeing science, David has supported thousands of educators from hundreds of schools around the world in designing and implementing system-level approaches to wellbeing and cultural change.

David sits on the UAE Government’s Dubai Future Council for Education, is a Director on the PESA (Positive Education Schools Association) board, and has published in academic journals and industry periodicals. David’s bestselling book, 10 Things Schools Get Wrong: And How We Can Get Them Right was published in 2020.

David has led significant projects, partnering with government and non-government organisations, to help support the embedding of wellbeing science in school and community systems in Australia, UAE, and Hong Kong.

David’s current work is informed by his five years as Associate Director at the Institute of Positive Education and his 15 years of practical teaching experience in Australia and the UK where he held senior pastoral and academic leadership positions.

Jared Cooney Horvath (PhD, MEd) is a neuroscientist, educator, and author of Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick. At the crossroads between the laboratory and the classroom, Jared spends most of his time working directly with schools or helping companies, schools and organizations to improve training, education, impact, and engagement.

Show Highlights * “See” the expertise of educators to elevate education. * Adopt Skunkworks and operate at the fringes. * True Moments in teaching distinguish the visible from invisible. * The magic of elite teaching occurs at this intersection. * Education isn’t broken but needs these tweaks on the edges. * What grades say about the world? * The bigger question to ask to truly serve your school. * Accept the mess of education to move forward with respect of the system.

“Let me start by saying, the book is called, 10 Things Schools Get Wrong and How We Can Get Them Right. This is not a book about just criticizing education. It is providing an alternate view and a way to move forward.”

-David Bott

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David Bott and Jared Cooney Horvath’s Resources & Contact Info: * 10 THINGS SCHOOLS GET WRONG * Stop Talking, Start Influencing * David Bott - Linkedin * Twitter * Jared Cooney Horvath-Linkedin * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights From Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick

10 THINGS SCHOOLS GET WRONG (and how we can get them right)

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Vicki Philips is a former teacher. Life-long teacher champion. Avid reader. Lover of geography. Committed to empowering the next generation of solution-seekers, planetary stewards and changemakers.

She is driven by a fierce determination to help all students realize their dreams. Over the past four decades, she has worked at all levels of education to champion students’ rights to a high-quality education, including as a teacher, superintendent of schools, state chief of basic and higher education, nonprofit CEO, and director of K-12 education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

She joined the National Geographic Society in 2019 to lead the organization’s global education strategy, focused on transforming the classroom experience for millions of students and educators. As chief education officer at the National Geographic Society, Vicki Phillips oversees the Society’s education strategy and programs focused on inspiring the next generation of planetary stewards. Phillips has been in education for more than 30 years, and has served as a teacher, state-level policymaker, nonprofit leader, superintendent of schools, chief state school officer, and K-12 education director.

Show Highlights * A weekly tip and challenge to help you thrive. * Memorable insights that have educators showing up differently in the future. * Be a Cosigner to the teacher's needs and how they're experiencing things. * Developing an explorer's mindset and an empowered voice. * Nat Geo provides a door for learners to understand the interconnected world around them. * 90 miles for a global perspective that minimizes inequities between people. * Nat Geo’s superpowers, solutions, and impact around issues we care about. * Find yourself ahead of the curve in your educational career.

“If ever there was a discipline suited to problem solving, it's 21st century kinds of notions around geography. Where you're studying how things came to be and the way they are. You're taking those insights and thinking about what that means for what's happening to the earth and the inhabitants of it. Whether those activities are helpful or harmful and how you could be a part in changing that. It's that ability to think like a geographer that might be one of the most important skills that we can give young people now, along with having an Explorer mindset. Being curious about the world and your place in it.”

“Victory is in the classroom. Victory is where the learners are. You can't claim success if you're not impacting learners. The bond between teachers and learners is so powerful. I always felt that the job that I had as an administrator, whether I was at a school level, a district level, a state level, even when I was acting as a philanthropist, I always felt that it was my job to power that bond. It's the job of principals and district superintendents and others, to make sure that that bond between teachers and students is as powerful as it can be. That's where the magic of learning happens.”

-Vicki Philips

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Vicki Phillips’ Resources & Contact Info: * Nat Geo Education Resources Library: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/ * Linkedin * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Daniel Bauer is an unorthodox Ruckus Maker who has mentored thousands of school leaders through his Better Leaders Better Schools blog, books, podcasts, and powerful coaching experiences.

Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader is a book that reimagines what professional development for school administrators looks like in order to meet the needs of all school leaders who currently feel isolated and overwhelmed.

Show Highlights Daniel Bauer is an unorthodox Ruckus Maker who has mentored thousands of school leaders through his Better Leaders Better Schools blog, books, podcasts, and powerful coaching experiences.

Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader is a book that reimagines what professional development for school administrators looks like in order to meet the needs of all school leaders who currently feel isolated and overwhelmed.

Show Highlights * Tips and a challenge for the Ruckus Makers.

Unorthodox approach to building effective leadership.
Challenge and embrace your own ignorance.
Relieve yourself of the burden of being an expert.
How to make something that scares you a reality?
Be the rock in the water for your community.
Be interested, not interesting.
Know you only have one audience .
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“I love this idea you said ‘I'm going to put myself out there so people can see me learning’ and showing the example of challenging your own ignorance, embracing your own ignorance and being able to say, ‘teach me and bring in people to teach you.’ You've become the lifelong learner, the exemplified lifelong learner and that can be really inspirational to people. You've relieved them of the burden of being the expert. It's really important for leaders.”

-Daniel Bauer

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Daniel Bauer’s Resources & Contact Info: * Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Daniel Bauer is an unorthodox Ruckus Maker who has mentored thousands of school leaders through his Better Leaders Better Schools blog, books, podcasts, and powerful coaching experiences.

Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader is a book that reimagines what professional development for school administrators looks like in order to meet the needs of all school leaders who currently feel isolated and overwhelmed.

Ariel Curry is a writer, editor, and book coach at Ariel Curry Editorial with over 10 years of experience in traditional publishing. As an editor, she enjoys brainstorming and outlining new book ideas, bringing clarity and purpose to prose, and helping authors find resilience in their writing journey. When she’s not working on books, you can find Ariel doing yoga, playing piano, beekeeping, or reading with a glass of wine. She lives in Chattanooga, TN, with her husband and their rescue dogs, Enyo and Tenaya.

Show Highlights * AASA and Corwin welcome a different kind of leadership voice. * A fresh, replicable approach to a stale system. * A masterful ruckus for effective leadership that moves the status quo in Danny’s new book. * Ariel’s gift to elevate the voices of authors. * Proof of efficacy, pizza and fun packed into one spot. * Immediate life and leadership transformation to your environment. * Mastermind inspires and motivates leaders to face hard choices with support.

“A lot of school leadership books are for changing your school in some way. They're about helping your students, which this is, but this is really for you (Ruckus Maker). This is for you as a school leader to become your best version of yourself and that's something that you don't see in a lot of school leadership books that are out there. I've read a ton of them. I've published dozens of them. I know that for a fact this is not a message that you see in a lot of other places.”

-Ariel Curry

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Ariel Curry’s Resources & Contact Info: * Ariel Curry Editorial: Ariel Curry * Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.

Show Highlights * The Better question leaders need to ask. * Develop Horizontal and Vertical development to master constructive criticism. * Change the conversation and focus of leadership to “being.” * Level up with the greatest operating system upgrade you could invest in. * Build awareness of your mental lenses for game changing results. * 3 roles Mindset have to create the foundation of everything we do. * Practical tips to introduce 4 mindset developments with staff. * What to do with disconcerting data that isn’t evaluative. * Captain your ship in the storm with long term focus. * Practical tips to introduce 4 mindsets and manage disconcerting data with staff.

“Most of the talk and the focus around mindsets is on students. While that's important, I might dare say, it's even more important that we focus on mindsets for administrators and for teachers. If they don't have the most positive mindsets, they're going to be limited in their effectiveness to reach and connect with the students and help them to develop the more positive mindsets.”

-Ryan Gottgredson

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Ryan Gottfredson’s Resources & Contact Info: * Success Mindsets: * Individual Support (assessment) * Take a FREE mindset assessment here. * The Learning Landscape: * Ryan Gottfredson: Home * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * Linkedin

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Success Mindsets: Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership

The Learning Landscape: How to Increase Learner Agency and Become a Lifelong Learner

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Joshua Stamper is a middle school Assistant Principal for a North Texas School District, where he's had the amazing opportunity to serve at four campuses in two school districts. Prior to Joshua's current position, he was a classroom art educator and athletic coach working with students in grades 6-8.

In addition to his administrative position, Joshua is a podcaster, author of the upcoming book, Aspire to Lead, leadership coach, education presenter, and Podcast Network Manager for the Teach Better Team.

Show Highlights * ASPIRE model to shift you to the direction you want to go. * Leadership that allows “fish to climb trees.” * Pitfalls that help leaders “level up” and not burn out. * Be a relentless “Office Rat” * Activate everything you do with an identity framework * Feedback you need to build your plan of success and be who you are meant to be. * Trauma-informed practices that translate to being an administrator. * Identify your leadership outreach and control micro moments of leadership.

“I was trying to be as honest as possible. To make it where you want to be, you're going to fail. You're going to have a lot of trials through that process and if you don't dust yourself off and get back up and try again, then obviously you're not going to get where you want to be.”

-Joshua Stamper

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Joshua Stamper’s Resources & Contact Info: * Aspire To Lead

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Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Christine Voigt is a secondary educator and award-winning author from Dallas, Texas. Her background is in English, geography, and life sciences and her specialty is infusing technology across the curriculum. She currently serves as the Director of Curriculum and Instructional Technology at Bishop Dunne Catholic School. She has been recognized at the state and national levels for her contribution to geographic education and has received multiple honors for the books Mapping Our World: GIS in Education and the Our World book series. She holds a Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Science in Computer Education and Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas.

Show Highlights * Tech as a meaningful tool to authenticate personalized learning. Incorporating technology every day despite economical disadvantages and different experiences in the classroom. * Successful shift going paperless or implementing Teach FX with this approach. * A bottom up approach to prepare kids for the future with these tools. * Tips to determine meaningful technology for your teachers and students. * Select technology as methodology and not hardware and software for instruction. * Assert an integrated approach to leadership to make radical changes. * A different approach to learning through typical constraints in education.

“We didn’t want technology to drive the curriculum. We wanted what was best to teach the kids. We wanted the curriculum to drive the technology. A lot of times people were like, ‘We have to go and incorporate all this tech stuff’, but it's not about the technology. It's about what is best for teaching and learning.”

-Christine Voigt

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Christine Voigt’s Resources & Contact Info: * Christine L Voigt: Books * Twitter * LinkedIn * cvoigt@bdcs.org

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Mapping Our World Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 2

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Ann Marie Luce is a proud scholar practitioner who believes that our moral imperative as leaders is to build the capacity of others through service, strengths-based support and coaching. As an educator and school principal Ann Marie has served a variety of communities in Canada, China and the United States. Currently Ann Marie is the Head of School at Kehoe-France Southshore in New Orleans, LA. She has recently completed her Educational Doctorate at Gonzaga University where her research focused on how leaders develop their cultural intelligence to lead in a global context.

Ann Marie believes in pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone and taking risks as demonstrated by her decision to leave a stable career in Ontario to take on the challenge of leading a Canadian International School in Beijing, China.

Having taught and led in diverse school communities in Ontario, China and the USA Ann Marie believes that trust, transparency and collaboration are the keys to success for school leadership. As a leader building relationships and developing people are the highest calling of leadership and offer the greatest impact on student learning.

Show Highlights * Expand opportunities to control burn out, whack-a-mole, and traumatic leadership experiences. * The leadership skill that gets lost in translation. * How to improve the gap in Leadership Cultural Intelligence? * Navigate impact and develop the ability to culturally code switch. * Key components, knowledge, strategy, and action to improve relationships. * Avoid approaching leadership from a deficit lens. * Develop Asset-based thinking, as opposed to deficit-based thinking. * Understand how to lead in a different culture or how culture impacts leadership.

“It's your job to adapt and change and be flexible based on what their cultural norms are, not necessarily what yours are. Those are pieces I learned along the way through my research and experience. How to be a better leader, how to have a deeper understanding of culture, and its impact on my leadership.”

-Dr Ann Marie Luce

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Ann Marie Luce’s Resources & Contact Info: * Leading with Cultural Intelligence * The Culture Map * Compare countries - Hofstede Insights * Twitter * LinkedIn * Instagram

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

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Michele Mattoon is director of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF), an organization that teaches educators how to improve school culture. She’s also president and owner of Coltrain Group, which teaches leadership skills that emphasize collaboration tools (protocols) that foster community and maximize productivity. She has worked with businesses and educational groups around the world, training their employees to work together better. Michele is obsessed with intentionally building healthy, productive communities through the use of specific collaborative structures.

Show Highlights * Experience what it means to be “other” (but not less privileged). * Belonging is mindset growth to connect purpose and relevance. * The len to integrate belonging into the culture. * 3 protocols to ensure everybody has a stake in your success. * The feedback box of chocolates. * How to have honest and difficult conversations without being offensive. * Dive into various learning mindsets with this provocative idea.

“There is no growth mindset without belonging. Communities that we worked with, the teachers who had a strong sense of belonging really took to the work and grew exponentially. A lot of the discussions we had with students became really clear and important. To be able to grow and learn, you have to feel safe.”

-Michele Mattoon

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Michelle Mattoon’s Resources & Contact Info: * National School Reform Faculty – Improving student outcomes through collaboration in Critical Friends Group® * PERTS: Raising Academic Achievement

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Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Hannah Beach is an award-winning educator, author, and keynote speaker. She was recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017 as one of five featured changemakers in Canada. She is the co-author of Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever—And What We Can Do About It (released April 2020). Her best-selling I Can Dance book series—which supports the emotional health of children through movement, play, and expression—won the 2017 GOLD International Moonbeam Children’s Book Award (Books with Music/Theatrical) and has been adopted by multiple English- and French-language school boards across Canada. Hannah received the City of Ottawa’s annual Celebration of People Education Award, which recognized her contributions in developing innovative inclusive programs and resources. As the founder of celebrated experiential discovery programs at Dandelion Dance™ and Tournesol, Hannah has spent over 25 years developing and delivering programs for children and youth. She is a Neufeld course facilitator, delivers professional development services across the country, provides emotional health consulting to schools, and speaks at national and international conferences about the power of bringing more feeling and human connection into the classroom.

Show Highlights * See the emotion behind every challenging behavior. * RECLAIMING our STUDENTS - book and interactive videos. * How to avoid influencing stuck roles or developing a negative identity. * Journaling tips that leave room for the ugly and gratitude to emerge. * Be in their eyes, call kids to who they are in the future. * Powerfully grow goodness by feeling the knowledge. * Teach the “oldest wisdom” to sense humanity. * Lead students to build capacity to see their own gifts, beauty and human connection.

“You don't change when you know something. I might know people are starving, in another part of the world, but I'm not going to do anything about it unless I feel something. We don't change when we know we change when we feel.”

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Hannah Beach’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Facebook * Reclaiming Our Students * Reclaiming Our Students * Hannah Beach * Linkedin

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever―And What We Can Do About It

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FuelEd was founded by Megan Marcus in 2012 on the principle that relationships drive learning. While training as a therapist and serving as a researcher for the book The Social Neuroscience of Education by Dr. Louis Cozolino, Marcus recognized the parallels between the teaching and the counseling professions: both are founded on connection, both could promote human development. She knew she was on to something. Her action: pursue a Master’s degree in Education, Policy, and Management from Harvard University to explore whether elements of therapists’ professional training could be translated for an educational audience. Shortly after graduation, Marcus incorporated FuelEd as a non-profit organization and launched her organization with a three-day pilot training for 10 teachers at Houston’s YES Prep Southwest.

Since then, FuelEd has partnered with over one hundred K-12 schools, organizations, and educator preparation programs across the country to help educators develop the emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and attunement necessary to build secure relationships that drive learning and development.

Show Highlights * Destiny’s story in changing lives with new tools and skills sets to overcome adversity. * Student's behavior is an invitation to consider, not react to. * Tips to avoid promoting disenfranchising systems you wish to eradicate. * How to be a whole leader/whole person with the emotional demands of the job. * Put co-regulation as opposed to self-regulation practices at the center to create an ecosystem of support. * Megan shares Jedi level skill sets of Empathic listening. * Learn how to grow emotional intelligence and secure relationships with Fuel Ed. * Mirror areas you can grow safe emotional intelligence.

“If you have teachers whose cups are full, who are feeling more competent and able to provide that support for the students. Otherwise things come out sideways and you're putting out fires constantly trying to take care of everyone. It's something that creates more efficiency, but it's really hard to get started.”

-Megan Marcus

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Megan Marcus’ Resources & Contact Info: * FuelEd Schools * fueledschools.org/blbs * Twitter * Facebook * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom (The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education)

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Siobhan Davenport is the President & CEO of Crittenton Services of Greater Washington (CSGW). CSGW works in conjunction with schools to close education and achievement gaps for teen girls to feel empowered through a whole-child, whole-community curriculum. In her previous role as Crittenton’s Director of Strategic Partnerships, she built collaborations between schools, nonprofits, and corporations to better meet Crittenton girls’ challenges and launched the Declare Equity for Girls: It’s Time campaign. Siobhan is an inspiration– the daughter of teen parents who has defied every statistic and now leads a nonprofit empowering younger versions of herself. Additionally, Siobhan serves as a commissioner for the Maryland Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism and sits on the Advisory Council for Ascend at the Aspen Institute. Siobhan holds a master’s degree in journalism from American University.

Show Highlights * Understanding barriers that girls face and teaching action advocacy.

Creating safe space and suspending judgment as an intentional move as an organization.
The key to building world class culture with one question.
Reflection for leaders to help navigate and engage at school and at home.
Serve the whole child by suspending judgment with specific staff training.
Evolution of a sacred sister circle-hood. “Meet girls where they are, but don’t let them stay there.”

“Let Teens Lead. As adults, we have wonderful experiences in our lives and we get to a point where we say, ‘Do this, do that, do the other.’ We forget that teens are the experts in their own lives. They come with so much experience and they know what they need, and we can be a support to them and get the services that they need.”

- Siobhan Davenport

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Siobhan Davenport’s Resources & Contact Info: * Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: * Twitter * Instagram * Linkedin

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Diane Willis has worked diligently in education for 32 years, making a difference in the learning lives of students and teachers. She is a veteran leader, serving 24 years in leadership roles in seven different elementary schools.

Diane believes an instructional leader must be present during learning moments to help discover the next best answers. She believes that professional development is within things done, said, discovered, or planned each day.

Show Highlights * Tips to free yourself up to be available to be where it matters. * TeachFX isn’t “one more thing” it is a way to multiply yourself. * Transfer ownership to your students to liberate learning. * Offer high quality, personalized professional development on a daily basis. * PD is every day with these little gems that you elect along the way. * How to be present as a leader with the “next best answers” of the day. * Tips and tricks to not miss moments to support your staff and share goals. * Schedule the day out and share your improvement plan for optimal team effort.

“The thing is just be there in the moment and professional development is at any moment, any time, any day, a question, any activity, if you've got a focus on what matters most at your school, go out and look for that. Once you find it, celebrate it, talk about it, share it, and it will spread like wildfire.”

-Diane Willis

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Diane Willis’ Resources & Contact Info: * LinkedIn

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Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Deena Pierott is an Idea Generator and Social Impact Entrepreneur - Founder of the award-winning and nationally recognized STEM+Arts program for youth of color called iUrban Teen and most recently co-founded and launched Black Women in STEM 2.0. Sought-after diversity strategist and international keynote speaker. I've served on several boards and commissions including a Gubernatorial appointment to the Commission on African American Affairs in the State of Washington.

Honored to be acknowledged by President Barack Obama as a White House Champion of Change for Technology Inclusion and by Ebony Magazine on their Power 100 List.

Experience in designing diversity and equity programs including Employee Resource Groups for various organizations

Featured in the following publications:

Forbes, Inc., Government Technology, Essence Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Black Enterprise, Ebony Magazine, Deliver magazine, Portland Business Journal, Geekwire, Colors of Influence, Neurology Now, the Chicago Tribune and on NPR.

Show Highlights * Engaging your families with these simple, genius tips. * ‘Heart work’ that engages peer-to-peer partnerships between teachers and students to increase value. * Teach students to be better advocates for themselves with two essential questions. * The impact of implicit bias on kids of color. * How to get your school signed up for iUrban Teen. * Ways to advocate for yourself without fear of repercussion or need for a “second self?” * Stopping explicit bias. Ways to respond to both implicit and explicit bias. * Can’t miss conversion on how to share your privilege.

“I want the Ruckus Maker to remember to keep on being that Ruckus Maker. Change doesn't happen by being complicit. Continue having your voice heard when you see change is needed. How do you build up a team of champions around you to create that change? Don't stay average.”

-Deena Pierott

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Deena Pierott’s Resources & Contact Info: * iUrbanTeen * Black Women in STEM 2.0 * Twitter * Instagram * LinkedIn * Deena@iurbanteen.org

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jean Latting, DrPH, LMSW-IPR, is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant with over 20 years of consulting experience in private and public multicultural organizations. Hundreds of clients in leadership roles have benefitted from her practical solutions for building more rewarding, fulfilled lives at work and home.

Over the last few years, an increased emphasis has been placed on building inclusive organizations. Leaders within fifteen industries have aligned with her to develop quantifiable solutions for addressing “elephant-in-the-room issues.”

Jean gained over 35 years of research and teaching experience at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW). Upon retirement, she began consulting and coaching full-time. As President and Founder of Leading Consciously, she challenges her clients to rethink assumptions preventing them from becoming the best they can be as organizations, leaders and individuals.

She grew up on stories of generations of family members rising above adversity and supporting their communities. As a result, her career has followed a similar path toward helping others gain greater insight into the value of an empowered life, agile and resilient leadership, and culturally competent relationships with others.

Jean’s personal philosophy: “Helping people ‘level up’ by maximizing their potential in the workplace, community, and home through self-discovery and by building supportive environments.”

Show Highlights * Living with a hole in the floor teaches empathize. * Advocate for the underserved by challenging mindsets and beliefs of our faculty. * Find the strength to “play chicken” in a room. * Learn “You can’t scare me into silence” when presenting valuable information. * How leaders learn to live out the metaphor and walk a mile leadership * The question that unblocks the skill of empathy. * Tips to get comfortable in uncomfortable conversations about race. * The school of hard knocks helps develop courage to touch the snake. * Actionable tips to get people to change without isolating anyone. * Eliminate systematic barriers that kept parents from coming to the school with a simple knock.

“Everybody needs to know that it's uncomfortable and it's okay. If we want the students to grow and learn, as teachers and educators, if we stay in our comfort zone, we're not role modeling to kids how to do something that's hard. Let's conquer this thing. Let's be role models to kids that even though it's hard work, we can do this thing. It's okay to be uncomfortable. Step one is to acknowledge that and to be willing to bear the discomfort. Step two is to have a rule of non-shaming. If it's an uncomfortable situation, somebody's going to say something horribly offensive and stupid. Those who know that are going to sit around snickering to themselves or cutting eyes at one another. Those who don't know it are going to be oblivious. To praise calling out, I object to. I say, call them into the community.”

-Dr Jean Letting

“Some people literally cannot leave themselves and put themselves in somebody else's shoes.”

-Dr Jean Letting

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Dr Jean Latting’s Resources & Contact Info: * Leading Consciously * Pathfinders

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Jen O’Ryan is the founder of Double Tall Consulting, specializing in Inclusion and Diversity. Leveraging two decades of experience in change management and organizational behavior, she understands the challenges leaders can face in developing a culture of inclusiveness for employees, clients, and consumers.

She is also the author of Inclusive AF: A Field Guide for Accidental Diversity Experts. Designed for anyone thinking about inclusion and diversity, IAF explains how to cultivate a workplace more welcoming for LGBTQ+ individuals – and for everyone else.

Show Highlights * Talk about inclusion and making space safes for your community. * Actionable for the listeners on how you engage in emotional conversations. * Mental hacks and scripts you can do now to spark conversations on gender identity * Think about people in a more progressive lens. * practical tips on how to cultivate a workplace more welcoming for LGBTQ + and hear everyone in your community. * Peel back the fear and initial instincts to get the work done. * Gender is a social construct. Understand the misconceptions. * Helpful feedback for when you put your foot in your mouth.

“The reason that I wrote the book is because there's so many people out there that individually can make a huge difference. They have that spark inside and they want to make the world a better place. The bystander effect is very real. How do you actually interrupt that in a way that's safe in a way that doesn't put somebody in harm?”

-Dr Jen O'Ryan

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Dr Jen O’Ryan’s Resources & Contact Info: * Inclusive AF: A Field Guide for Accidental Diversity Experts

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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DANIEL BAUER is the Chief Ruckus Maker at BETTER LEADERS BETTER SCHOOLS (BLBS). He launched the BLBS Podcast in September 2015. With over one million downloads, the BLBS show is the most influential podcast available for educational leaders. In 2016, he changed how professional development is offered to school leaders through the structure of a mastermind. Since then, Daniel has coached and mentored over 100 school administrators from every continent in the world (except Antarctica of course). In 2017, Daniel launched The School Leadership Series, his second podcast which amplifies the diverse voices in school leadership today. He is the author of The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap, which released as an Amazon #1 new release and his second book, Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader, will be available on September 28, 2021, from Corwin Publishing. Daniel’s JUST CAUSE is “to connect, grow, and mentor every school leader who wants to level up.”

Show Highlights * 5 Day challenge * The biggest problem with creating a powerful school year. * When we don't know where to start. * Avoid creating a mediocre school year in 90 days * Simplify the complexity of school leadership * Unorthodox leadership connects leaders around the world * 5 pillars to the PSP program you need to experience. * Scott’s sticky core value story and other action tips * Have consistently powerful days in a row

“It's not about being the best. I think that's a silly thing to strive for. If you strive to get better every single day, the funny thing is you probably will ultimately become the best. Just improve 1% every day and that will lead to exponential results. To create the best year ever, you need a path, a path that simplifies the complexity of school leadership. When you have a path, all you need to do is take the next step.”

-Daniel Bauer

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Danny Bauer’s Resources & Contact Info: * Join the Principal Success Path! * Pre-order Danny’s new book + (Use the code SUMMER21 for a 25% discount and free shipping in the US). * Powerful Day Course * Infinite * SQUARE SQUAD * Thanks for the Feedback * Radical Candor * Rework * Twitter * LinkedIn * daniel@betterleadersbetterschool.com

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Meghan Gardner is the founder of Guardian Adventures, which provides consultation and development of innovative and educational online and live events, training programs, and STEM programs. Her company specializes in story-based and emotionally immersive experiences where participants are highly engaged and readily transfer their education from the learning environment into practical use. Guardian Adventures also provides curriculum and training development for making education exciting and memorable for adults and employees (including an OSHA training program for corporate lab safety which involves a zombie invasion). Translating High Tech media and Transmedia into In-Person and High Touch experiences are the company's core competencies by developing innovative and educational training or adventures that engage participants in a manner that improves understanding, retention, and transfer.

Meghan is also a STEM Curriculum Designer for ST Unitas (the parent company of The Princeton Review), a story-based adventure designer and staff trainer for Royal Caribbean Cruises (providing onboard educational adventures for their 6 million clients a year), a guest lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and other major universities, and an international speaker on the topic of Immersive Experiences in Education, Learning, and Training for all ages.

In her free time, Meghan mentors women and minority entrepreneurs in the USA and Uganda and volunteers for hospice where she works with terminally ill patients of all ages as well as their families.

Show Highlights * How being a hospice volunteer helped create a non judgmental leadership approach. * Creating emotionally engaging cultural educational experiences. * Masterclass on empathy, listening, and powerful storytelling for leaders to use. * Decision making requires enough time to be uncomfortable with time * Fantasy and games create commonality and open up necessary possibilities for students * How to cause good trouble in the world * Before you can make a ruckus, you've got to create a sense of belonging. * Inspire the idea of challenging what we think. * Decision making is about mistakes and the outcome. Own any outcome.

“One of the hardest things to do is to give that kind of compassionate listening when you are being judged. When the person you're listening to is having a hard time listening to you. It's tough because as a leader, you're in a position of authority. By that very nature, you are the one who has power over them or over the outcome. It can be very challenging when that emotional burden is in your chair because it is upon you to give more compassionate listening. Boy it can feel lonely. There can be days when you're human too, and you just don't want to hear yet another reason why someone thinks you're wrong.”

-Meghan Gardner

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Meghan Gardner’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Catalyst Event: July 15: Integrating Cultural Education into Schools * The Cultural Educator and Diversity & Inclusion Specialist Database * Guard Up's Guardian Adventures & STEM Summer Camps * Culturaled.net * Guardian Adventures * Instagram.com * Twitter * Facebook * Linkedin

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Tom Woelper, Founding Head of School

New England Innovation Academy

Tom has had a distinguished 31-year career in independent education, most recently serving as the Head of School of Far Hills Country Day School in Far Hills, New Jersey. Prior to his tenure at Far Hills, Tom served as the Assistant Head of School and Dean of Academic Life and taught history during his 14 years at The Hotchkiss School. Tom began his career in independent school education as a teaching intern at Groton School and then as a history teacher and Class Dean at The Taft School. Following a sabbatical year from Taft, Tom served as the Head of the Ake Panya International School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He also has served on the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, where he co-chaired the Accreditation Committee.

Show Highlights * Our future is characterized by disruptive technologies * Break the Cellblock Gold Watch model in education to prepare students for the changing world * Human-Centered Design school, iterate, fail fast, and fail forward * Empathy is knowing that socks are more valuable than boots * Putting into practice diversity, equity, and inclusion as cornerstones of your vision * IDEAS will create action and connection * Manage both the stress and the opportunity * Position every member of the school as an educator * Use your campus as a textbook

“To develop an innovator, you need to have a group of people who have diverse backgrounds, experience, and thinking, and by extension, you're looking at diversity in all of its forms. It's visible and it's invisible forms. We know that diverse groups outperform homogenous groups all the time. For us to be successful in our mission and our educational mission, we have to be a diverse school, both in terms of the students and the faculty. Essential to what we're all about, but you can't stop there. Even in our acronym, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Action. Action is the A in social justice. Many schools or institutions stop short of the action, you have to actively dismantle the existing racism. You have to actively examine your own bias. You have to actively think about how you develop a community of diverse learners.”

-Tom Woelper

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Tom Woelper’s Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter.com/twoelper * Twitter.com/HelloNEIA * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Sam was an English teacher, Academic Intervention Specialist, athletic coach, and School Counselor for 21 years and is currently serving as Chief Development Officer at SimpliCollege.com. He is the Author of Choose the Perfect College and Hire Education. The father of five children, his family recently moved from the Philadelphia suburbs to Denver Metro. Sam is the host of the Made to Thrive podcast and is writing Why Aren’t Men Thriving?, which is due out in early 2022.

Show Highlights * History proves Masterminds are transformational systems for achievement * When culture and profession collide * The art of being an aggressive suggester * Don’t miss delivery points of SEL programs and make teachers a dirty pipe * Your leadership values serve McDonalds or Chick-fil-A * Create boundaries that allow people to stay in their lane and you to move faster in yours * A needed paradigm shift for the counselors * Simpli College is a turn key,frictionless entry point into the college conversation for equity and access

“Simpli College says your job as a counselor is to help people create a log-in and that's it. All of a sudden you think about the people who for a long time, unfortunately, school has been about access to school. Most of the school experience is given to those who know the system. Many of our families are first generation and have not had a welcoming school experience as parents. They're not going to pick up the phone and call the counselor and figure out when they can get in and talk about whether even college is a good idea for their kid.”

-Sam Feeney

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Sam Feeney’s Resources & Contact Info: * Simpli College * Choose the Perfect College * Made to Thrive Podcast * Linkedin simplicollege/ * The Infinite Game * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Matt Silverthorne brings 30 years of high school teaching experience with him to Empowered — he introduced the program to its very first classroom in 1991.

Today Matt is the Strategic Growth Director. His job entails inspiring and growing a movement that attracts and motivates Empowered educator customers to become principled social change entrepreneurs.

Show Highlights * "Playing School" pivot to a Ruckus Maker connection to kids * First business we all start is the business of ourselves * Ownership of growth for the entire learning community * Blended methodology connecting students to markets and entrepreneurial thinking * 3D Empowered model to discover innate talents and abilities * The components of the “special sauce” * “Transformational mindset” Turning barriers into opportunities * Connecting Content to our own value * Incentivize behavior and own your choices

“We believe real change happens when we transform the classroom into a deeply experiential environment and we power those experiences with the undeniable power of markets. It means deemphasizing, tests, grades, and material. It doesn't mean deemphasizing their importance. It means deemphasizing those as the outcome in the classroom. Not getting the student to focus on the test, the material, but to focus on their own transformation, their own learning, their own transformation in terms of knowledge and skills. It means shining the spotlight on each individual student, helping each individual student discover, develop and apply their unique gifts.”

-Matt Silverthorne

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Matt Silverthorne’s Resources & Contact Info: * Empowered * Empowered: Home magazine developed just for teachers * YE Academy - Entrepreneurship Education Hub | Youth Entrepreneurs-Our curriculum resources * Teach Everywhere by Youth Entrepreneurs: Home * Twitter * Linkedin * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jeff Becker’s an award-winning school counselor and teacher with a Master's in Secondary Counseling and a second degree in communications- so he's a boots-on-the-ground leader and entrepreneur. Jeff is also an adjunct professor at National University for their Master’s program in Social and Emotional Learning. He's the founder of two revolutionary products that help principals to deliver much-needed SEL to their kids without taxing their teachers. And it looks like something from Netflix, so kids love it.

Show Highlights * Solving the SEL need with 5 minute videos * How to Multiply yourself * Build tension before you unpack solutions * Resources to help students build self-discipline * What it’s like to have a principal that trusts you * Archaic communication promotes the thing you’re going against * As a school leader, you're the biggest bottleneck * Avoid 60 plus hour work weeks for your best year ever

“The thing that keeps me up at night is all of these fires that we're constantly putting out as ed leaders. The more fires we're putting out and jumping around and being reactive, the less we're proactive about the skills that we're given to our children.”

-Jeff Becker

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Jeff Becker’s Resources & Contact Info: * http://www.incontrolsel.com/danny * betterleadersbetterschools.com/challenge-july-2021 * Twitter * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Hilary L. Link, Ph.D., is the first female President of Allegheny College — one of the nation’s oldest and most innovative colleges where multidisciplinary learning breaks the conventional mold. She is a recognized leader, scholar of Italian Language and Literature, and globalist. In more than 20 years of experience across a broad range of institutions, she’s provided students with a cross-disciplinary path to think critically and communicate creatively.

Show Highlights * Value of outside perspectives that shows up in your work * Allegheny’s multi-disciplinary approach forces you to learn into different lenses to be more than one thing * How a leader keeps the institution moving forward without getting caught up in the tyranny of the urgent * Navigating challenges female leaders and mothers faces * Balance strength with accessibility for personal engagement * Drink beer for breakfast to evolve like a 16th century scientist for proper perspective * Take a 2 hour lunch to see the value in human connection * Use a Ruckus Making year of disruptions to own your own agency of change

“One of the interesting things is that people are still trying to sort out as with me as a woman, where the line is between being a strong, determined, authoritative decision maker, but also someone who arrives at those decisions in a very non authoritative way. I like to describe my decision-making process as really iterative and collaborative, but the reality is once I arrive at a decision, I don't change it as long as I know how I got there, why I got there, and I can explain the ‘why’ behind it.”

-Dr Hilary Link

“I believe firmly that the advantage I have had of living outside my country, my cultural context has taught me that there are multiple ways to see the world. Multiple ways to approach everything from how you express yourself, how you say things, how work is organized, how education is organized, so that carries through and drives everything I do. Whether I'm doing that from Boston, where I grew up, or New York City or Rome, or now Meadville, what it's taught me is that you can always take a step to another side and see something from a different angle, and you can often see it differently once you've moved yourself.”

-Dr Hilary Link

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Hillary Link’s Resources & Contact Info: * Mind over Major: Randomizer * Twitter * LinkedIn * Instagram photos and videos

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Joseph Jones is the Superintendent in the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District. A passion to provide all students an incredible and valuable learning experience Dr. Jones started teaching World and US History in 1996. A few short years later he found himself within the ranks of school administration hoping to make a difference on a larger scale. That desire and pursuit continued as he worked as a principal for seven years striving to reach two major goals: One, give teachers the best scenario to perfect and practice their craft; Two, provide students every opportunity to learn in a secure, enriching environment. As a school they made great strides and received various awards and accolades that enabled them to grow even stronger as a school community. Being the first high school in Delaware to receive the academic achievement award for closing the achievement gap was a hallmark of their relentless pursuit. His efforts continue now in a central office role as he oversees assessment and accountability. The combination of precision, best practices, and passion forges his educational ideals and provides a clear path to reaching our goals. Educationally, he believes time spent within the walls of schools has been his best teacher.

Dr. T.J. Vari is the Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Schools and District Operations in the Appoquinimink School District. Dr. Vari is an experienced school administrator and adjunct faculty with a demonstrated history of working in schools and in higher education. Skilled in K-12 education, online learning, literacy, classroom culture, curriculum & instruction, district operations, human resources, change management, and education reform. Strong education professional with an Ed.D focused in Leadership and Innovation from Wilmington University.

Dr. Jones and Dr. Vari, along with Salome Thomas-El are co-authors of the new book: Retention for a Change: Motivate, Inspire, and Energize Your School Culture

Show Highlights * Profit Activators for a Ruckus Maker mindset * The BDA R3 Model will transform for processes * Holistic approach to hiring built on your reputation * Leverage and embrace the easiest tool schools have * 3 Simple solutions for retention accelerators * Avoid being actively disengaged at work * Stop haphazardly hiringLeaders * Shift from the employee mindset towards a membership mindset * Onboarding is critical aspect and a major fail * Technical Tips and quality mentoring

“As a leader, we sometimes become more and more distant from the ground floor and all the work going on. You have to build mechanisms so that you have opportunities to really know what's going on. The last thing you want is to be disenfranchised from the actual work. The distance between the position and the person sometimes is too great and that is what builds disconnect within.”

-Dr Joseph Jones

“We believe deeply in the educational system. We want leaders to have the tools that will build a culture in every school that can make it the best that it can be. It's a ‘law of the lid’, nothing rises above the capacity of the leader. When you build a leader's capacity to do great things, we're going to have great cultures in schools, and that goes down at the student level.”

-Dr TJ Vari

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Dr Joseph Jones and Dr TJ Varia’s Resources & Contact Info: * Building a Winning Team: * Retention for a Change * Blog:theschoolhouse302 * Dr. TJ Vari-LinkedIn * T.J. Vari (@tjvari) · Twitter * Joseph Jones - LinkedIn * Dr. Jones-Twitter

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The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

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ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Retention for a Change: Motivate, Inspire, and Energize Your School Culture

Building A Winning Team: The Power of a Magnetic Reputation and The Need to Recruit Top Talent in Every School

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Formerly a high school English teacher and a new teacher coach in Palo Alto Unified School District (Palo Alto, CA, USA), Jennifer Abrams is currently a communications consultant who works with educators and others on new teacher and employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations and creating identity safe workplaces.

Jennifer’s publications include Having Hard Conversations, The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicate, Collaborate & Create Community, Hard Conversations Unpacked - the Whos, Whens and What Ifs, and Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives. Her newest book is Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work.

Jennifer has been invited to keynote, facilitate and coach worldwide from the USA to Africa, from Asia to Europe, from Australia to South America, and she is honored to have been named one of the “18 Women All K-12 Educators Should Know,” by Education Week’s ‘Finding Common Ground’’ blog.

Show Highlights * The book for leaders to participate in each other's development * Exploration of markers to learn on how to BE and interact with adults * A meaningful verse, pantyhose and a gift for reflective leadership * The scariest thing and the 5 facets to help overcome the fear * Tips on identifying what you stand for and why it matters * Finding bandwidth to deal with disappointment and all the challenges * Exploring The SCARF model and what threatens us about new ideas

“Your development isn't an indulgence. You don't have time not to develop yourself. If you don't, you're not going to have as fruitful a life as a Ruckus Maker, as thoughtful of a life, and you won't live in the world with the same amount of ease.”

-Jennifer Abrams

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Jennifer Abrams’ Resources & Contact Info: * Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work * Dr. David Rock: Home * Jennifer Abrams: Home * Twitter * LinkedIn * Facebook

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Mary Grassa O’Neill

Founding co-lead faculty for the HGSE/HBS Certificate in School Management and Leadership powered by HBS Online.
HGSE Director of the Principals' Center and Managing Director of Programs in Professional Education
First layperson Secretary of Education and Superintendent of Schools in the Archdiocese of Boston (led second-largest school district in Massachusetts - 120 schools and 42,000 students)
Superintendent of Milton, MA Public Schools for 10 years
Earned national recognition as the entrepreneurial turnaround principal of the James P. Timilty Middle School (Roxbury, MA)
Founding member of Massachusetts School Building Authority Board

Monique Burns Thompson:

Co-founder and President of Teach Plus, a national nonprofit that trains excellent, experienced teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues (30,000+ teacher leaders trained) - https://teachplus.org/
Co-founder, President, Chief Curriculum Officer of New Leaders for New Schools, the largest recruiter and trainer of school leaders in the United States. - https://www.newleaders.org/
Consultant with The McKenzie Group (Washington, D.C.)
Special Assistant to the Superintendent of the Philadelphia Public School District
Leadership coach and consultant for 14 Massachusetts charter schools
Marketing and brand management for Quaker Oats Co.

Show Highlights * Destroy what we expect from kids and what they should be learning * A “North Star” will navigate you out of any feelings of failure * Unlock the secret to success for their students with this * Beautiful arranged marriages are needed in every professional toolkit * Importance of inspection to determine the impact of your programs * CSML program merges content and context * Participate in problems of practice to bridge the gap from ideas to real execution * Schools struggle to meet the potential embedded in their organization * Half of all principals have no access to professional development

“I deeply believe that every single person on this planet has superpowers, and it is our job as educators to tap into them and unleash them."

- Monique Burns Thompson

“Leadership is joyful work, empowering others to do their best work. Principals do that with teachers and teachers do that with students and empowering others to educate themselves or to be educated is just one of the most important things we can do in this world. We're building people, we're building the next generation of leaders and educators.”

- Mary Grassa O’Neill

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Mary Grassa O'Neill and Monique Burns Thompson’s Resources & Contact Info: * Mary Grassa O'Neill | Harvard Graduate School of Education * @Mgo565| Twitter * LinkedIn * Harvard Graduate School of Education· Twitter * Professional Ed HGSE · Twitter * Harvard Business School - Executive Education * Harvard Business School Online · Twitter

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Judith W. Umlas is Sr. Vice President, author and trainer at International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL), a global corporate training company. She wrote the ground-breaking books including: The Power of Acknowledgment, Grateful Leadership, Using the Power of Acknowledgment to Engage All Your People and Achieve Superior Results, and You’re Totally Awesome! The Power of Acknowledgment for Kids. In 2016 she founded the Center for Grateful Leadership whose members from around the world are committed to practicing and implementing the Grateful Leadership initiative in their organizations.

Show Highlights * The power of the written word & How Not to Talk to a Pregnant Business Woman * Why feedback matters so much * Avoid the feedback sandwich and establish a strong culture of appreciation instead * Psychological safety engages people in growing the culture * Five Cs framework and tools for every leader * 97.6 chance that you will not do it if you say this * The difference between recognition versus acknowledgement * Celebrating failure and successful mistakes * Acknowledgement is the antidote to bullying

“Make our corporate culture be a culture of appreciation so people feel visible, noticed, appreciated and approved. They know that they exist. They know that they can make a difference.”

- Judy Ulmas

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Judy Ulmas’ Resources & Contact Info: * judy.umlas@iil.com * Grateful Leadership * The Power of Acknowledgment * You’re Totally Awesome * Center for Grateful Leadership * Facebook * Twitter * Youtube * Linkedin * Instagram * The 5 Cs of Acknowledgment

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The Power of Acknowledgment for Kids:YOU'RE TOTALLY AWESOME!

Grateful Leadership: Using the Power of Acknowledgment to Engage All Your People and Achieve Superior Results

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Houston is a speaker, author, and kindness advocate who has spoken at over 600 schools or events internationally. In 2016, he co-founded CharacterStrong - curriculum and training that help teach social and emotional skills. To date, they have worked with over 2500 schools globally serving over 2 million students. In 2019, his face was featured on Lays BBQ chip bags as someone who helps "spread smiles.” In 2020, his first book, Deep Kindness (Simon & Schuster, Tiller Press) was released. His mom is his hero and her best life lesson is to “hug like you mean it.”

Show Highlights * A Woman on the airplane closes the Rhetoric Reality Gap * What it means to be Wonderful * SEL learning and character development * Collective cultural value of kindness and how to practice it * 2 day leadership development conference leaders need * Your To Be List is what distinguishes you * Practical tips on accountability to make actions more impactful * The one question everyone should answer each day * Random acts of kindness doesn’t shift culture in a meaningful way * How do we repeatedly do the things that we want to become

“What we give our time to is what we value. Getting clear about that for ourselves is like a first important step. Then the second step is if we want to make those things, any level of a priority in our life, and it doesn't become about making time, it becomes about protecting time.”

-Houston Kraft

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Houston Kraft’s Resources & Contact Info: * DeepKindness Book

CharacterStrong Administrator's Leadership Conference
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Susie Harder, M.A., CCC-SLP is an experienced clinician who devotes much of her passion to working with children, teens, and adults who stutter. She works in private practice and the school setting to help support children who stutter, trains speech-language pathologists to work more effectively with students who stutter, provides various fluency trainings to school districts across the state, and is also directing the Junior Authors Program platform.

Susie grew up in Central California and completed her Bachelor’s Degree at Fresno State. She earned her Master’s Degree at Northwestern University, rated #2 in the nation for their program. While there, she met Kristin Chmela, M.A., CCC-SLP, BCS-F, an internationally recognized fluency specialist who had a true passion for helping kids who stutter. After graduating, Kristin and Susie have continued to work closely. Susie credits her passion and knowledge for working with people who stutter to Kristin Chmela, her mentor.

Susie has a history of designing and building successful programs. During her time in Fresno Unified School District (2011-2015), Susie designed and piloted a successful framework for a Fluency Consultant role to utilize specialty skills and support SLPs. In 2016, Susie created a private practice focused on supporting children, teens, and adults who stutter. Within her practice, she built a mentoring program for children and teens who stutter to help guide younger children who are experiencing similar challenges. Most recently (2020), following the devastation of the Central California Creek Fire, she decided to write a book to help children who lost homes in the fire. During the process of writing the book, she created a unique platform to reinvent how children connect with literacy and books. Through the Junior Authors Program, children are involved in ongoing votes to help build the book from rough draft to published book on Amazon.

Susie’s love of working with children is evident from the first time you meet her. She cares for each one of the families she works with. She is full of positive energy, encouragement, and is an invaluable resource for anyone she works with.

Show Highlights * Hometown was on fire and out of the ashes a purposeful way to build connection emerged * Tips and tricks to give more voice to your staff * Junior Authors creates an excitement for learning and the ability to cope during life’s crises * How we pass along compliments can be empowering or meaningless * Taking massive action quickly can accomplish more than planning for action * Be a recovering perfectionist for progress * Create opportunities to celebrate * Life feels like the hundred pieces puzzle

“If we can, for ourselves and for our kids, find that Thing that gives us that real inspiration and that true, genuine, ‘I am excited about today because I get to do blank, not I have to do blank, but I get to do blank.’ That really can shift so much of pulling back from the day and kind of move into the launch forward into the day.”

-Susie Harder

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Susie Harder’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Miracle Morning * Junior Authors Program * Twitter * LinkedIn

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8am)

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Dr. Mike Stacy is currently the superintendent at Beechwood Independent Schools in northern Kentucky. (This is his sixth year in this position). During his educational career, he’s had the opportunity to be an administrator at the building level (elementary, middle school, high school) and the district office. During his 20 years as an administrator, he’s enjoyed a lot of different aspects of his work, but coaching principals is what he loves most.

Show Highlights * 3 lessons being a 1st generation college student teaches about leading an entire district * Systematic principal development within the district * How we will get learning get caught up * The right formula of leadership * Getting your students and staff to let their true selves be seen * An underestimated tool in our profession to build relationships * Interview questions that bring out personalities to be able to put into a job. * How to lean into challenge and support new principal growth

“The number one job in all of education, the most important job in all of education is the building level principal. There's no doubt that a teacher impacts a kid more than anyone, but a building level principal impacts every teacher, every student directly.”

-Dr Mike Stacy

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Dr Mike Stacy Resources & Contact Info: * Twitter * Facebook * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Andrew B. Campbell (Dr. ABC) is a graduate of the University of Toronto, with a PhD. in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Diversity. He is presently a Faculty member in the Master of Teaching (MT) Program at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queens University (online). He is an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT) and has been an educator for over 25 years in Jamaica, The Bahamas and Canada.

He has authored two books, “Teachable Moments with DR.ABC: A Spoonful for the Journey, in 2015” and “The Invisible Student in the Jamaican Classroom in 2018.His research and scholarship focus on issues of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Cultural Competency, Education Leadership, 2SLGBTQ+ issues, and Teacher Performance Evaluation. Dr. Campbell continues to present at various peer-reviewed academic conferences across North America and the Caribbean.

He is a workshop facilitator, a motivational speaker and has delivered several Keynotes. Dr. Campbell appreciates fashion, enjoys travelling and meeting new people, and equally finds pleasure in bringing his community together to share a good meal.

Show Highlights * Simple spaces of belonging in schools

Where the magic happens in teaching and learning
Wooden ramps and murals have no place in schools
Lesson that create intruders and not students
Drop the mic moments aren’t as powerful as this next move
The art of storytelling as a pedagogy
Know your power on your journey with including equity, diversity, and inclusion
Your every day, 365 days a year speaker

“Educational leaders have the moral courage to create belonging in our schools and I think that is lacking in a lot of our schools. We don't have leaders who have the moral courage, because guess what, if you're going to create something different, create belonging for people who the system is not created for. You're going to have pushback. A lot of educational leaders need to understand that when they get pushed back you are creating space for people who the institution did not create space for.”

-Dr ABC

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Dr. Andrew B. Campbell’s Resources & Contact Info: * Teachable Moments * The Invisible Student * DR. ABC * Twitter * Instagram * LinkedIn * Empathy Map - Business Model Toolbox * Business Model Generation * How to Be an Antiracist * The Cast * The Person You Mean to Be:

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Teachable Moments With Dr. ABC: A Spoonful for the Journey

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer series)

The Invisible Student in the Jamaican Classroom

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Deivis Pothin (Davis Po-tin) is an international school leader and educator who is passionate about empowering students’ lives through education.

Having worked in schools in the United Kingdom and in Brazil, he has built his expertise in working with teachers, students and parents from different nationalities, ethnic and social backgrounds. Such experiences have helped him to enrich his leadership capacity and to develop an international minded approach to education. He is currently the Head of School at Pueri Domus, a K12 IB bilingual school in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Show Highlights * Massive cultural change at international school * Get 35 year vets to embrace change * International mindedness transforms Brazilian education * Misconceptions of an Introverted leader * Connecting the dots with your leadership style * Relating to staff in their own areas of expertise * Really challenge you staff to learn and to unlearn * The value bilingual education adds to cognition and social, emotional growth * Tips on how to be reflective on yourself and school mission * A simple way to do walkthroughs to measure if the vision is being lived out in your school

“I've learned that public speaking and talking to others is much more about self-esteem than actually being an introvert or an extrovert. Really acknowledging this has helped me to look at myself and to me as a leader. What can I do to promote and to strengthen that has had a positive impact on the way I lead my community.”

-Deivis Pothin

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Deivis Pothin’s Resources & Contact Info: * DEIVIS D. POTHIN * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * Linkedin

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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SANDRA‌ ‌NAGY‌ ‌is‌ ‌a‌ ‌sought‌ ‌after‌ ‌advisor‌ ‌to‌ ‌school‌ ‌leaders‌ ‌around‌ ‌the‌ ‌world.‌ ‌Renowned‌ ‌for‌ ‌her‌ ‌deep‌ ‌expertise‌ ‌in‌ ‌strategic‌ ‌development‌ ‌and‌ ‌education;‌ ‌she‌ ‌works‌ ‌with‌ ‌organizations‌ ‌looking‌ ‌to‌ ‌transform‌ ‌learning.‌ ‌A creative, passionate, and experienced senior professional in the Education technology industry with leadership, change management, product development, learning strategy and execution proficiency.

A driver of innovation who is able to build, motivate and develop high performing strategic teams that deliver outstanding results in changing environments. Her‌ ‌20‌ ‌year‌ ‌career‌ ‌includes‌ ‌leadership‌ ‌roles‌ ‌at‌ ‌Pearson‌ ‌Education,‌ ‌The‌ ‌Learning‌ ‌Partnership‌ ‌and‌ ‌Accenture.‌ ‌She‌ ‌has‌ ‌a‌ ‌M.‌ ‌Ed.‌ ‌from‌ ‌Harvard‌ ‌University‌ ‌and‌ ‌a‌ ‌B.‌ ‌Comm.‌ ‌from‌ ‌McGill‌ ‌University.‌ ‌She‌ ‌is‌ ‌currently‌ ‌the‌ ‌Managing‌ ‌Director‌ ‌at‌ ‌Future‌ ‌Design‌ ‌School‌. ‌ ‌

Show Highlights * 5 trends leaders must address * Entrepreneurial thinking is essential for student’s future success * Moment of incubation. Rethink timetables, scheduling, and assessment * Address mental wellness crisis in schools * What am I going to do with my leadership going forward * What are your takeaways from the pandemic? * Rethink pedagogical approaches in the classroom * Transform education and leverage pandemic learning * Impetus on leaders to think about unconscious bias and create opportunities

“At the core of Future Design School is this notion of developing and cultivating problem solvers, kids who have a flexible, adaptable skill set, and the creative confidence really to tackle whatever comes their way. That's the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit. What you want is kids who look at the world's obstacles as opportunities that they can roll up their sleeves and solve, and that they don't need to wait until they're adults to wrestle with real issues.”

-Sandra Nagy

“If we've seen anything that should be an inspiration for these kids in the last year, it's the fact that we got a vaccine out in eight months. If you don't believe in the power of human ingenuity and what we can do together, collaboratively working to solve a real problem. We don't take that moment to showcase that to kids and what might be possible, then we've missed the moment.”

-Sandra Nagy

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Sandra Nagy’s Resources & Contact Info: * Future Design School * The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias … * Caste * An antiracist education podcast playlist * LinkedIn * Twitter * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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In high school, Michael never realized that he could make a living off of his hobbies. He majored in graphic design in college and those possibilities became a reality. Even today, he is amazed that design is a profession.

Michael’s mantra is: 'Every experience in life can be improved through intentional design', and he strives to make remarkable experiences.

Show Highlights * Boundaries a leader should set when expressing a vision * Navigate unintended blind spots that emerge when you create as a team * Successful collaboration is driven by a loose grip on your ideas * Effective leadership finds the “who” and not the “how” * Cast a vision that drives people to partner with as the best version of themselves * The function of a leader is bringing an idea to life * A plan for leaders to reflect, direct and design

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Michael Smith’s Resources & Contact Info: * Storybook Eyes Children's Book by Michael E. Smith — Kickstarter * Twitter * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

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ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Erin Igoe is currently a high school administrator, forever teacher, mentor, coach, Gen Z mom, and wannabe Dorthea Lange. Erin has 18 years in education (teaching and administration), a project and problem-based learning classroom guru, 3 years as BTSA Support Provider, Districtwide Literacy Lead on CCSS implementation, Restorative Justice/Peer Court Coordinator and Civic Action Project lead teacher.

Erin Igoe is determined to make a difference by helping young people discover how they can too. Erin gets her students a seat at more than just the lunch table, engaging them as changemakers whose voice matters.

Show Highlights * Ruffle your adult feathers to soar * Ruckus teaching with constitutional rights and civic action * A seat at the table makes meaningful impact * Train your students to hold you accountable to lead your mission * The pandemic paradigm shift for this generation * The challenge of making change in high performing schools * “Master” a tremendous opportunity for growth * School’s should collaborate versus compete for better outcomes

“We need to grow each other and that's how you impact kids.

When you see cooperation or collaboration, what you see is tremendous things happening. Competition is fine but competition through cooperation I think is really where it's at. When you just compete, you're othering people. All you're doing is perpetuating what we already have.”

-Erin Igoe

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Erin Igoe’s Resources & Contact Info: * Level Up Join Mastermind * mastermind — Jethro Jones * Will Parker’s Join a Mastermind * Jenn David-Lang Mastermind * The Infinite Game (192 GRAND): Sinek, Simon ... - Amazon.com * Watch I Am | Prime Video - Amazon.com * LinkedIn

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SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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As a nonprofit CEO who is, first and foremost, a husband and father of three, Rob cares deeply about promoting justice and equitable opportunities for all kids to be able fulfill their dreams. After earning his graduate degree focused on U.S. human rights foreign policy, Rob worked on U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs and at other nonprofits that shaped his belief that health is a human right. Rob believes that we have under-invested in kids’ health and well-being and that healthy kids make a better world.

Under his leadership as CEO of Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) since 2008, the organization has grown to become the largest family and school health network of more than 150,000 volunteers and champions serving the health and well-being of 20 million children in 55,000 schools nationwide.

Show Highlights * Leaders you need to surround yourself with to excel * Stop under-investing in kids' health and wellbeing * Cornerstones in building successful family, community, school partnerships * A few concrete steps and tools schools can use to build healthier kids * “Leadership is a team sport” * Develop true partnerships between the district and the learning community * Pride and communication builds necessary engagement

“Teachers can move around. Parents and kids can change all the time, but your policies are what stand the test of time. If you embed in your policies really good practices around the health of the kids then you can move your whole community, all the kids, and future generations. The biggest service over many years to come.”

-Rob Bisceglie

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Rob Bisceglie’s Resources & Contact Info: * Action for Healthy Kids: Home * My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading * WSCC Model * School Health Index * ActionforHealthyKids Twitter * Twitter * LinkedIn * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading (Health Equity in America)

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Lindsay Lyons is an educational consultant who works with teachers and school leaders to inspire educational innovation for racial and gender justice, design curricula grounded in student voice, and build capacity for shared leadership. Lindsay taught in NYC public schools, holds a PhD in Leadership and Change, and is the founder of the educational blog and podcast, Time for Teachership.

Lindsay helps leaders build their adaptive capacity to lead school-wide change grounded in antiracism, inclusion, and stakeholder wellness. This includes helping leaders set up structures for shared leadership that amplifies student, teacher, and family voice through virtual coaching calls and supporting your teachers to design engaging, culturally responsive, project-based curricula through self-paced online courses.

She’s helped hundreds of dedicated leaders and thousands of passionate teachers across the United States and internationally improve their practice and create educational environments in which all students are able to thrive.

Show Highlights * Healing “soul harm” * Teaching for justice and leading for justice * How do we make schools more equitable * The easiest first step for leaders * Five big shared leadership mechanisms * Simple answers and the biggest barrier * Embrace that radical collegiality as a foundation * Family partnership is made easy with this invitation * Essential Self Reports

“Setting up structures for shared leadership ensures that equity and justice initiatives are really sustainable and not just one-time actions.”

-Lindsay Lyons

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Lindsay Lyons’ Resources & Contact Info: * Time for Teachership Blog * Setting Up Shared Leadership Worksheet * Student perceived leadership opportunities: http://bit.ly/SLCBsurvey * Facebook * Instagram * Pinterest * Linkedin * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Dr. Amy Platt is delighted to be the Head of School at the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School. Amy is passionate about excellent instruction and working with teachers to be the talented professionals they are destined to be. Amy holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Toronto. When Amy is not at work she can be found on long-distance bike rides, pondering the larger issues facing education.

Show Highlights * A safe space to iterate, incubate and sometimes vent * Create viable opportunities to stretch and create community * Focus your purpose and live your “why” as a values-based educator * Worthy rivals help you level up * + Collaborators versus seeing others as like competitors * How to leverage and mark the moment * Really know yourself and stand strong as a leader * “Just walk up the dumb escalator” as a way to get unstuck * Master the Mastermind experience

“How do I own that cause and how do I help other people see the work that we're doing as cause worthy? I might be in this work now, but I'm surely not going to finish it. I might be opening this middle school, but if all goes well, it will be my legacy to the next leader to continue to build this middle school.”

-Amy Platt

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Amy Platt’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Infinite Game * When * The Power of Moments * Daring Greatly * Dare to Lead: * Middle-School – Paul Penna * Instagram * Facebook * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

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Kyle Wagner, the founder of Transform Educational Consulting Limited, has always had a bold mission since he became an educator 15+ years ago: Create transformational learning experiences that connect students' interests and passions to issues that matter in the real world. This bold mission has literally taken him around the world. From the design of living museums, model governments, and engaging project-based experiences as a Humanities Teacher in world renowned High Tech High in San Diego; to co-founding student-led programs and schools as a Program Director in China; Kyle has remained true to that mission, and vowed to share it with others.

His book, The Power of Simple, outlines the simple shifts classrooms and schools can make to allow for these experiences, and the conditions required to ensure they have lasting impact. Kyle currently resides in Hong Kong, where through workshops, coaching, courses and bespoke training, he has now empowered over 1,000 forward thinking educators worldwide to create more socially, globally, and emotionally aware citizens through project-based learning.

Show Highlights * 2025 skills have changed and the types of employees needed * Provide the Swiss Army Knife of upskilling for your student’s toolbelt * 12 shifts for student centered classrooms and lasting experience * PBL as a tool for equity * scorecard for teams and Individuals to id areas of strength and growth * Looking outside education can bring rich experiences * A strategy that will increase student performance, student engagement and teacher efficacy * Empower forward-thinking educators to create more socially, globally, and emotionally aware citizens through PBL

“If we honor the fact that these kids are literally that adaptive. They can insert themselves anywhere. They're like chameleons, then what can we do as educators to kind of reflect that both in the experiences we offer them and our dispositions, mindsets to be able to offer them that kind of experience?”

-Kyle Wagner

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Kyle Wagner’s Resources & Contact Info: * Engaging and Empowering Socially Distanced Learners * PBL 12 Shifts Mastermind Accelerator Program * Twitter * LinkedIn * Kyle Wagner * The Power of Simple: * Using Project-Based Learning to Boost Online Engagement

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Craig's experience as a counselor, coach, teacher, and principal set him up perfectly to develop a model of teacher observation focused on building trusting relationships that spark teaching and learning growth. As the author of Trust-Based Observations, Craig is on a mission to change the world of teacher observations to a model of support that fosters risk-taking, innovation, and creativity.

Driven to transform the world of teacher evaluation and observation through Trust-based Observations. When leaders build trust with their teachers such that they feel safe, then those teachers will embrace the vulnerability necessary to take big risks in their practice, the result is teaching and learning growth.

Show Highlights * Master the 20 min observation * Break the feedback observation cycle * Broaden your lens as a novice admin is a veteran move * Dinosaur Instructors make traditional ruckus * Build trust to foster risk-taking, innovation, & growth * Magic happens in reflective conversation * Expand rubric indicators of what effective teaching is * Tips and tricks to build trust during observations * Trust-Based Observation transforms the entire culture

“One, teaching is craft and art. There are a million different ways that you can be a teacher. There's not just one way that you can be a teacher. Two, patience. Take time to get to know your teachers because you will see different elements out of them. You don't want to make a mistake and offer a suggestion on something that might be a strength that you don't realize is.”

-Craig Randall

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Craig Randall’s Resources & Contact Info: * Trust-Based Observations * Trust Based * Twitter * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Trust-Based Observations: Maximizing Teaching and Learning Growth

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Better Leaders Better Schools is launching a new cohort of the mastermind that is just for women.

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In today's bonus conversation, Daniel interviews Karine about why women need a support network.

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Scott L. Steward is an international business owner (musicspool.com and Genius Lab, Inc.), a youth tech educator, podcast co-host (Money, Sex, Gen X), and author (A Book of Stewism's: 31 Ways to Improve Your Life). Scott is squarely focused on preparing young people for jobs that don’t exist yet, especially in the Black and Latinx communities.

Scott has a strong and vast business school education and he wants to share all of his knowledge. He has more than 30 years of business experience from working with fortune 500 companies like Marriott International, MCI Wireless, and Hertz Car Rental. He’s been running his own businesses for more than 30 years.

Scott is a Master Certified, 18-time award winning teacher of Entrepreneurship and Technology. His focus is on preparing the next generation of business owners to generate generational wealth and create global impact.

Show Highlights * Ownership, closed and flexible mindsets * Don’t be a BlockBuster Video School * Be an “unemployable” leader * Actively cognizant of systemic racism * Vital educational confidence = Genius Lab * Change agents challenge what’s on paper with innovation * Breaking economic deficiency in communities * Relationship between business profit, technology and Non-profit

“Remember you play a role in how we guide this next generation of learners. Number one, you are preparing these young people for jobs that don't even exist yet. Keep that in mind. Don't stay in the box.There is no box.”

-Scott L Steward

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Scott Steward’s Resources & Contact Info: * musicspool.com * geniuslabchicago.com * A Book of Stewisms: 31 Ways to Improve Your Life * SCOTT L. STEWARD * Twitter * LinkedIn * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

31 Ways to Improve Your Life: a Book of Stewism's (a Book of Stewism's)

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Dr. Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. began his tenure as the eleventh Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in September 2015. He is the first African American chancellor to lead a non-HBCU in the UNC System.

Chancellor Gilliam brings to UNCG a wealth of experience from a career that spans more than 30 years in higher education. During that time, he was Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs as well as a longtime Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at UCLA, where his research focused on strategic communications, public policy, electoral politics, and racial and ethnic politics.

At UNCG, Dr. Gilliam has not only led the campus to record growth, but has also helped build a solid foundation for a very bright future at the university -- from working with legislators to secure funding for a $105M STEM building; to establishing a Millennial Campus designation, which will create the conditions that will drive growth in areas like health and wellness and the creative and performing arts; to increasing diversity among faculty and administration; and to working with leaders on this campus and beyond on innovative student success initiatives which have been lauded by national foundations and press.

UNC Greensboro is one of the seventeen campuses of The University of North Carolina, the birthplace of public higher education in America. Administered by President Peter Hans and overseen by The UNC Board of Governors, each campus is headed by its own chancellor and Board of Trustees.

The Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina elected Dr. Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., as the eleventh Chancellor of UNC Greensboro (UNCG) on May 22, 2015. Chancellor Gilliam brings to UNCG and the UNC System a wealth of experience from a career that spans more than 30 years in higher education. He took office on September 8, 2015.

During his tenure, UNCG has surpassed a record 20,000 students; grown its endowment, research enterprise, and overall facilities and campus infrastructure; significantly increased its fundraising; and elevated the presence, reputation, and real-world impact of the largest university in the North Carolina Triad region.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gilliam served as Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs for seven years and was a longtime UCLA Professor of Public Policy and Political Science. His research focused on strategic communications, public policy, electoral politics, and racial and ethnic politics. As Dean of UCLA Luskin, Dr. Gilliam shepherded a $50 million naming gift and launched and executed an ambitious strategic plan and capital campaign, establishing the school as a regional leader in addressing and finding solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems.

VISIONARY AND CIVIC LEADER

Dr. Gilliam has not only led UNCG to record growth, but he has also helped build a solid foundation for a very bright future at the university. In his first year at UNCG, Dr. Gilliam worked with board members and key leaders to assure UNCG’s inclusion on the Connect NC bond referendum, which voters ultimately passed, securing $105 million in funding for a new nursing and STEM building. The new building is scheduled to open by Spring 2021. He worked with campus leaders to secure a transformative gift from community leader and philanthropist Tobee Kaplan, who donated $5 million to name the Leonard J. Kaplan Center for Wellness. The gift is only the third of this size in UNCG’s history.

Dr. Gilliam led the effort to secure Millennial Campus designation from its Board of Governors, creating the conditions that will drive growth in areas like health and wellness and the creative and performing arts for years to come on campus and in the broader community.

Dr. Gilliam is a senior fellow with the FrameWorks Institute (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions), where he has contributed to research and training on health care, racial equity, early child development, youth and rural issues, and criminal justice. In 2018, he was named chair of the NCAA Division I Presidential Forum. Additionally, he serves on the boards of the Union Square Campus, Gateway University Research Park, North Carolina Campus Compact, and the FrameWorks Institute, as well as the Executive Committee for the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities.

AWARD-WINNING EDUCATOR

Prior to his appointment as Dean at UCLA, Dr. Gilliam served as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor of Community Partnerships in the University of California system from 2002 to 2008. As Associate Vice Chancellor, he championed UCLA’s civic engagement by supporting engaged scholarship and community collaborations to improve the quality of life for residents of Los Angeles.

Dr. Gilliam is the author of Farther to Go: Readings and Cases in African-American Politics (Harcourt Brace), and his work has been published in many leading academic journals. He is frequently interviewed or cited by national and international news outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Huffington Post, and the BBC.

Dr. Gilliam was honored with the 2015 Upton Sinclair Award by the Liberty Hill Foundation for his renowned work advancing civic engagement and commitment to issues of equity. Twice nominated for UCLA’s Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, he has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grinnell College, and the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and was a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University. In addition, he taught at Columbia University, Fisk University, and — with former Vice President Al Gore — at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2017, Dr. Gilliam was named by Triad Business Journal as one of the region’s Most Admired CEOs — a group of top executives recognized for exceptional leadership in business, and for their philanthropic endeavors.

Dr. Gilliam received his B.A. from Drake University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa. Dr. Gilliam has been married for 26 years to Jacquelean (“Jacquie”) Gilliam, most recently the Executive Director of Scholarships & Student Support Initiatives and Campus-Wide Initiatives at UCLA and now a philanthropic consultant and active community volunteer and leader. They are parents to Ariel Gilliam and Franklin D. “Trey” Gilliam, III.

Show Highlight * Results of the Great turnaround of Moss Street Partnership * How to lead without the built in advantages * Integrated Student Success Model is #1 in NC using these essential questions * Inclusive Excellence- More access doesn’t mean less quality * Discipline and creativity can coexist with this leadership attribute * Improve the life chances for children by teaching the art of being a student * Tips to block out the noise and pressure to bend to the mean * Avoid toxic inefficient teachers by hiring these 3 attributes

“I turned to one of my staff members and I said, "these kids just don't have a chance in hell." By that I meant their life chances were so daunting and it was so disheartening because it didn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be that way. It's all about the society's will. The public's will to invest in the education of a chosen people and understand that long term sustainability of the society is going to rest on how we educate and take care of the next generations.”

-Chancellor Franklin Gilliam Jr.

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Chancellor Franklin Gilliam Jr’s Resources & Contact Info: * TwitterGilliam (@UNCGChancellor) * Social Media Directory - University Communications * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Sharla Stevens transform schools into anti-racist, thriving institutions for academic excellence and social justice! She develops school leaders to bring out the best in students of color and help deter white students from sustaining or embracing white supremacy. Your school will be transformed for the better as a result of her coaching. Schedule a call and explore possibilities.

Show Highlights * Historical context of the opportunity gap vs the achievement gap * Blind spots of racism embedded in the culture of your school * Address the racist elephant in the room with Sharla’s 5 step playbook * Create spaces that “see” black and brown students experience and pain * Promote students to take agency and advocate on their behalf is essential education * Create a ruckus and break ALL traditions * Put your budget where your commitment is * Hire those who know how to clean the dirty draws

“It's important for us to understand what our kids are trying to navigate and make sense of. For us to do our best, to speak to it, regardless of how uncomfortable we are. The only wrong way to do this work is not to do it. We need to understand that mistakes will be made. It's good for us to be humble about that because people like humility. We don't want perfection. We don't want you to be perfect. We can't see ourselves in perfection, but when people make mistakes and are able to take ownership of that mistake and then just learn from it, that's how we learn and grow. Yes, mistakes will be made, but we need to see the pain of our students, the trauma of our students, and then also do our best to facilitate opportunities for joy.”

- Sharla Stevens

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Sharla Stevens’ Resources & Contact Info: * healingracisminschools@gmail.com * Schedule a call with Sharla to make an anti-racism action plan for the school year here: https://calendly.com/healingracism/30min?month=2021-02 * Playbook-for-the-white-anti-racist-educator-5-steps-towards-antiracism * Sharla Stevens and The Ancestors - | Facebook * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jen is a local here in Atlanta (an "ATLien") where she is on a mission to make education humanizing and equitable for ALL learners. Shortly after earning her BS.Ed. at UGA, Jen’s fire for student-centered learning was ignited on a year-long adventure in New Zealand. There she taught in a progressive public charter school, trained in student-directed and inquiry-based learning strategies, and began partnering with students to help them take ownership of their educational journeys. She brought those learnings back to the US where she helped found and later led a small private school to meet the needs of neurodiverse students in innovative ways. As her passion for both leadership and educational equity grew, she went on to earn a M.Ed. in Urban Teacher Leadership and an Ed.S. in Educational Leadership from Georgia State University.

After a decade of teaching, coaching educators, and leading in both the private and public school sectors, Jen recently took the leap into her latest endeavor as a Co-Creator, aspiring to close equity gaps in the classroom by making great professional development more accessible for all educators. Co-CreatED.org is the first marketplace platform in the PD industry, connecting school leaders directly with professional development providers, so they can easily book the trainings their teachers need.

Show Highlights * Educator activism is embed into the fabric of what you do

Thrive in adversity with the pandemic pivot
Make high quality education a reality with a Trust License
The BIG building questions you need to ask to move progress forward.
Candid conversation about a female in a male dominated industry
Everybody needs a Wolf pack to reconceptualize self-care
Co-create is not a buzzword but a foundation in the learning journey

“That's an interesting way to put it. I've never heard it framed around boredom and that humans can be attracted to the next shiny thing, like go after the exciting thing. Sometimes the most impactful thing we can do is small, consistent actions steadily over time. And that's not sexy. That's not the thing you get excited about, but it's effective.”

-Jen Owen

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Jen Owen’s Resources & Contact Info: * @CoCreated404 * CO-CREATED - The Co-CreatED PD Marketplace 1.0 * LinkedIn

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SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jonathan C. W. Jones is a seasoned award winning educator and founder of Ideation4, working with educators, schools, districts, nonprofit professionals and under resourced communities through grant workshops, coaching, consulting and innovation. Currently he’s working on a philanthropic innovation called UpLIFT, dedicated to celebrating black male educators in the USA.

Show Highlights * Turning ideas into reality. Be a catalyst for change

Hurdles black male educators face
UpLIFT your black male teacher with this cohort
Systems and organization to combat racist undertones
How school leaders can uncover or discover that "Jonathan" within their community
Practical ideas for a Ruckus Makers to take action on racial unrest
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“Students that fly under the radar have more to offer than what they're necessarily showing. Openness to see students outside of their grade that they may currently have, or consistently showing. See them more as a whole student. Yes, their grade is a reflection to some extent of who they are, but it's not who they are completely.”

-Jonathan C. W. Jones

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Jonathan C.W. Jones’ Resources & Contact Info: * UpLIFT Magazine: https://amzn.to/3ovJAzV * Website: https://www.ideation4.com/ * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram * Linkedin * Radical Candor

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Emily Alexander is a Partner at Thomas, Alexander, Forrester & Sorensen LLP, a law firm in Venice, CA. She also has served as the Board Chair at New Roads School for the last 6 years. New Roads is an independent school in Los Angeles dedicated to authentic diversity and inclusion.

Show Highlights * Build true authentically diverse and inclusive schools * Navigate the unknown with courage to embark on what is best * Yield the power of silence and find your authentic voice * Create “Meaningful Access” not just on paper, but actually in how you live and education. * Process the way men and women communicate * Tips for women in leadership to expand awareness * Avoid the old-fashioned dream of diversity * Build a robust professional development program for your faculty

“I think we're lucky to have a community that believes that diverse, true diversity is not just a moral good, but an educational imperative. There's a lot of research now about how diverse groups make better decisions and companies. It's now that research is now starting to include educational settings.”

-Emily Alexander

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Emily Alexander’s Resources & Contact Info: * New Roads School | Home

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Citizen of the world yet Québécois and Canadian at heart, Philippe Caron-Auget is an international educator who has worked in Switzerland, Czech Republic, Qatar, France, Gabon, Cameron, and Nigeria. Over the course of his seven years spent in Tunisia, he embarked on his leadership journey. Risk-taker, inquirer, and adept at vulnerability, he’s been inspired by Michael Fullan, Patrick Lencioni, Rick Wormeli, Elena Aguilar, and Benjamin Zander. In 2018, Philippe joined a world-class team of fierce and resilient Blue Terriers at the International School of Boston, where he now serves as Secondary School Director.

Show Highlights * Trust comes with time * Critical ways to disconnect from the intense demand of leadership each month * leveraging compassion and empathy to influence leadership * Detractors will become your strongest allies * A sign of a strong leader and what you need to be exposed to early * Sentences that really change the course of your life * Practice mindfulness to support your strategic strategies

“We cannot demand trust. It's not something that can be required or demanded. If you're going to stand in front of a group and say, I need you to trust me on this that cannot be done on the first day, the first week one could argue the first year when people see your patterns, if you are consistent in your approach and the way you communicate in the way you are present, visible and the way you handle difficult, difficult conversations, issues as they arise, then trust will come.”

-Philippe Caron-Audet

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Philippe’sResources & Contact Info: * Facebook * Instagram * LinkedIn

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Would you start a business with someone you’ve only met in person once and talked to for about 5 minutes?

Spotlight Trust co-founders Lisa Lambert of Rule Number Six and Rick Kitagawa of Kaiju Coaching did. That’s the power of trust.

Lisa and Rick first met while working remotely as leadership coaches (later head coaches) in Seth Godin’s altMBA. They had the chance to very briefly meet in-person in New York City, but collaborating on Spotlight Trust wasn’t even a seed of an idea at the time.

They later had the chance to work more closely together (remotely) on several initiatives within the Akimbo Workshops and recognized the value in uniting each other’s different perspectives and experiences to tackle a recurring theme in both their paths and one that felt more important than ever: trust.

Bringing deep leadership experience in their own respective fields and having coached thousands of leaders around the world independently as well as through the altMBA other Akimbo Workshops, Lisa and Rick took the leap to co-found Spotlight Trust in late 2019. Spotlight Trust combines their forces and insights to bring a practical framework for developing trust to leaders and the organizations and communities that rely on those leaders.

Rick Kitagawa brings his creative entrepreneurial background, out-of-the-box thinking, and executive coaching experience and mixes it with his experience of teaching and designing curricula at the university level to the Spotlight Trust. His ability to unlock the leadership potential in people is only matched by his open mind, his flair for the dramatic, and his love of monsters and mythical creatures.

Lisa Lambert brings her experience leading special projects and strategic communications on the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation as well as her award-winning facilitation skills to Spotlight Trust. Her ability to navigate complexity, catalyze collaboration, and transform organizations is only matched by her thoughtfulness, her passion for adventure, and love for her two puppers, Bebop and Rocksteady.

Show Highlights * Measuring Trust and the importance of belonging * Avoid thinking your building trust and other pitfalls * Trust Framework: Five facets of trust in 3D * Uncertain times reveals your leadership and provides opportunities to co-create the future * Know the difference between checking in and checking up on people * Spotlight Trust future proofs your organization. * Questions behind the questions illuminate what you need to be working on at a very practical, measurable level.

“There's a lot of leaders that are maybe centering around a norm of politeness that's getting in the way from having these really important conversations around a shared purpose. Around where we're seeking to go together. I would really encourage the leaders. It's not about being polite, it's about being kind, and that kind comes in being direct, being respectful, but sharing that feedback with others, engaging in those conversations, and building that path pathway forward together, and also being really gracious and receiving feedback.”

-Lisa Lambert

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Rick and Lisa’s Resources & Contact Info: * Home - Spotlight Trust™ | Spotlight Trust™ | The future is trust * In Trust podcast * Trustedleaderlab.com * Linkedin * Instagram * Facebook * Twitter

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Maureen O’Shaughnessy, EdD, is a career educational activist with over 30 years of transforming learning in schools to better serve all students.

She is the founding director of Leadership Preparatory Academy, a nonprofit progressive micro-school in Washington State. With a master’s degree in educational administration and a doctorate degree in educational leadership, she has an extensive understanding of the components needed to transform the education system.

Dr. O’Shaughnessy is the author of Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids: A Step-by-Step Process that Empowers Frustrated Parents to Innovate Education and has served as head of school and principal internationally in countries such as Kuwait, Hungary, and Ecuador. Weaving in a strong emphasis on service and leadership at each school, she has been an educational change agent across the globe. And now as founder of Education Evolution, she aims to disrupt the education climate as we know it to help ensure each child is seen, heard and valued and met where they are academically, socially and emotionally.

Show Highlights * Mental health must trump any academic gains this year * Benefits and challenges of running a micro-school * How to avoid copping out when the shoe doesn’t fit your school * Kindred spirits are your windows of opportunity. Find them, make it official and support them despite uncomfortable colleagues. * Valuing outcomes and not requirements * Indicators that determine if students are thriving and not surviving

“Our kids are not thriving. And what's the purpose of high school? What's the purpose of school at all, if we're not loving up these kids and then if they're not going out and thriving and loving up the world. We're seeing more hate crimes or seeing more serial murders. School could be a part of helping kids thrive and it's not happening often enough.

Being human is one of the best gifts we can give our teachers and it gives them permission to be human too.”

-Maureen O'Shaughnessy

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Maureen O'Shaughnessy Resources & Contact Info: * Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids. * ‎Education Evolution on Apple Podcasts * Education Evolution | Alternative Education Podcast & Teaching Resources * Micro-School Coalition: Welcome to MSC * Education and Micro-School Consulting and Growth Strategies

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Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

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SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules.

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids: A Step-by-Step Process that Empowers Frustrated Parents to Innovate Education

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Curtis Zimmerman has worked two decades as a keynote speaker and consultant, he’s had the honor of developing deep relationships with companies including Kroger, Proctor and Gamble, McDonald’s, Coca Cola, Duke Energy, Bacardi and Universal Orlando Resorts—along with The United States Air Force and hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide. He also loves working with non-profit organizations and teachers and faculty to give back to the people who have had the biggest impact on his life.

If you're tired of boring virtual conversations and you're ready to get your people excited and invigorated, give him a call. Currently, he is taking all of his experience and putting it together to bring something that nobody else is doing through a hybrid virtual keynote that he’s been sharing with corporations, universities, and school districts. Think TED meets Zoom Meetings! Let's make your next virtual meeting memorable.

Show Highlights * “Brag on it” and more useful tools for leadership * Take 1-dimensional Zoom and turn it into a 3-dimensional experience * How to weave Zany and Fun into opportunities while we lead * Resume vs Real-a-me * Join the Virtual School Assembly * Find and feed the passion of your learning community * Fail successfully * Figure out how to make a ruckus in your style * Doing the activity is different than explaining the activity

“I may not be the best dancer in the world, but it doesn't matter. I'm enjoying myself. My passion is breathing into my dancing and that's what I want to see. Not your technique, your passion, because passion supersedes natural ability. I want my kids to be passionate. I want my staff to be passionate. I can teach you anything. But the passion that you bring is what really drives the momentum into whatever learning you have...I encourage everyone that's listening to think about how am I going to create a ruckus during my next interaction in my way, in my style.”

-Curtis Zimmerman

“Failing is an event, not a person. The only way you're going to learn to juggle is if you're willing to drop the ball”

-Curtis Zimmerman

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Curtis Zimmerman’s Resources & Contact Info: * Virtual School Assembly * Life at Performance Level * The Next 24 Hours Podcast * Curtis Zimmerman * LinkedIn * Twitter * Facebook

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules.

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Dr. Vernita Glenn-White is the CEO of Glenn-White Global Solutions and Founder of Empowered Educators Academy © , a company that empowers educators, leaders, and trainers to reach their next level by using their voice and influence to create their own platforms and pathways! Dr. Vernita is a former K-12 mathematics educator, Academic Instructional Coach, and served as a District Specialist for the Office of School Transformation. Dr. Vernita has been an advisor and strategist for leaders from Principals to Superintendents to Universities. Dr. Vernita has used her skills to transition into higher education as a college professor, a national speaker, published author and world traveler. Dr. Vernita now uses her K-20 experience of combining personal empowerment with professional development to shift the perspective of what it means to educate for transformation and impact the training and development industry at a higher level!

Show Highlights * Form boundaries and saying “no” * The dangers in making assumptions * Unpacking everybody's biases to grow emotional intelligence * Three dynamics of Ed leadership (Educational Leadership) * What a leader needs to do outside of being the manager * Leadership content knowledge * Dig into culturally responsive curriculums, leadership and next steps * The blur the lines between social justice and multicultural education

“The first thing I say before you can lead your staff, you need to sit down and identify any bias or your cultural phrase because we all have them. I don't know where we got this from that it is bad to have a bias. We all have them. It's just, what are you doing with it when it comes up, that's where the problem starts.”

-Dr. Vanita Glenn-White

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Dr. Vernita Glenn-White Resources & Contact Info: * Peace and Justice Institute | Valencia College * "21 essential habits of empowered and influential leaders" http://drvernitafreegift.com/ * Dr. V–Empowering Educators * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules.

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Alexs has had a diverse career bringing an innovative eye and heart to the areas of education, literature, business and race. He is an award winning author and a passionate proponent for the renovation of the American public education system by infusing our schools with a focus on the innocence and goodness of their marginalized students, especially students of color. This theme, above all others is interwoven in all of his literary works as well as his consultative efforts with public and private organizations.

Given an opportunity–one that few writers, scholars and intellectuals are given–to bring an idea that emanated from theoretical work into actual practice, he created the innovative and successful Innocent Classroom™. It brings common sense, empathy, redemptive energy and honesty together and into the classroom.

His dynamic approach to working with teachers, an approach that enables us to ultimately understand and empathize more effectively with our students, has been honed through more than fifteen years as a energetic and passionate professor. And the professional and effective presentation of his work belies experience in the private sector.

But at the core of this work is a deep belief that our children can be given a quality education in spite of the dire realities both within schools and in the world around them.

Show Highlights * Eliminate racial stereotypes in schools through authentic relationships * Powerful Pivot moments that matter * Practical changes to make help to “free” your learning community * Get children to drop involuntary stereotypes that construct their realities * Find the source of behavior with strategies to embrace and engage the child * Alexs provides a powerful way to “see your children for the first time.” * Avoid common adult phrase that misrepresent a child * “The only valid resistance to Innocent Classroom is if you don't care.”

“I think first of all, it's recognizing that our children are burdened in an enormous way with the negative ideas, iconography, narrative, and images that they're confronted with. And that is bestowed on them as they walk out into the world all the time. One of the first things that we do with educators in our training is to ask them, what does America tell you about students of color, who are sitting in your class? And that list? I mean, we were just asking for one word adjectives at that point. And that list is a horrible, horrible list. Even the positive things don't look good in that list.”

-Alexs Pate

“I'm saying in the case of young kids of color, you're not looking at the real problem. The real problem is almost wholly contained in that child's life. That child came to you with challenges, and then I'm suggesting the American culture has put on them. Your job is to sort of sweep all that away and find that true child. What happens is when a teacher sees a child's goodness, they're good. The thing for which all else has done, they see something different. They see a desire to be cared for. They'd see a desire to feel connected. They see a desire to feel like I belong somewhere to be seen or to be heard, to feel safe.”

-Alexs Pate

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Alexs Pate’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Innocent Classroom * Innocent Classroom * Twitter * Facebook * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules.

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color

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Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson is an educational and racial equity strategist that is deeply committed to the studies of culture; innovation; equity and adult development. Since earning her master’s degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Brandeis University, and her doctorate from Harvard’s Educational Leadership Doctorate (Ed.L.D.), Dr. Amante-Jackson has honed her knowledge to transform organizations, nonprofits and schools on issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Dr. Amante-Jackson currently serves as the President/Founder of The Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP) and DCCP (DEEP Corporate Consulting Partners) where she supports superintendents, teachers, principals, non profit leaders, corporations, commercial real estate and boards to achieve equitable culture and to systematically dismantle oppression. Additionally, Dr. Amante-Jackson serves at the Tri-Chair to the RIDES Project, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. With RIDES, Dr. Amante-Jackson supports systemic and school based cultural change and coaching for districts, nationally.

Show Highlights * The gap between diversity and inclusion is as wide as the Grand Canyon, but a bridge exists * Proven frameworks, roadmaps and data to measure impact paired with implicit bias training * Make your learning community feel championed for and communicate areas of marginalization they experience * “Belonging” is actually the sweet spot for this pandemic * Sit successfully in the uncertainty with these practical tools that work both virtually and in person * Diversity, belonging, inclusion, and equity, DBIE has to be the table and you sit everything on top of * Why urgency with the absence of competency is harmful

“Belonging is the greatest thing that closes the gap. Please know that gap didn't arrive in one school year and it's not going to go away in one school year. Your commitment to belonging will continue to bring your community together, which is what you will need to close the gap one day to do culturally responsive teaching. “

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Dr Darnisa Amante-Jackson’s Resources & Contact Info: * What's in a Name? – School Reform Initiative * Disruptive Equity Education Project

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David Price, OBE, is a global thought leader, learning futurist and author, specialising in how organisations learn, innovate and make themselves fit for the future.

He is a highly sought-after public speaker, entertaining and educating audiences around the world, in business, education and the public sector. His most recent book, OPEN: How We'll Work, Live And Learn In The Future has been an Amazon best-seller since its publication and has recently been translated into Russian.

David is also a highly experienced trainer, having spent 20 years running workshops and masterclasses in people development, organisational learning, innovation strategies, as well as a host of training events for schools, colleges and universities.

In 2009, he was awarded the OBE for services to education, by Her Majesty The Queen.

He consults and advises corporations, governments and education leaders on preparing for future shifts in work, leisure and the digitally connected world. He is passionate about helping people fulfill their true potential, most notably by tackling the global epidemic of disengagement - in the workplace, and in formal education.

As a former professional musician, and a native of Jarrow in the North-East of England, David is used to travelling to find work, spending two-thirds of the year on the road. When he isn't moving, he's to be found in Leeds, in the UK.

Show Highlights * “Playing without the music” can transform learning opportunities and unleash the gifts of your students * Communities are outperforming bureaucracies:Foster innovation because innovation comes from the users and * Don’t inadvertently snuff out the inherent creativity because of poor leadership. Be brave enough to create a culture about autonomy and agency * Rethink learning so it develops a pedagogy of agency * Automatic competition impedes open collaboration and innovation in a community

“I think with COVID, it's really heightened the need, now that people have to be creative, to make things, whether that's sourdough bread or craft beer, there is something in us, which is now coming to the fore. The really interesting part of it now, partly through necessity because sadly, a lot of people in the UK are losing their jobs and they're thinking, well, what should I do? ... we need to prepare our young people as much to be kind of entrepreneurs.”

“One is how do we create an internal culture for educators so that they feel that they can be creative. Part two is how do we create the right kind of culture and environment for our students so that they feel that it isn't about getting the right answer, but it's about being, being creative and making and producing things.”

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Tristan White is the founder & CEO of The Physio Co, a unique healthcare business that ranked #1 on BRW’s list of Australia’s 50 Best Places to Work in 2014. The Physio Co has ranked as one of Australia’s 50 Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years (2009-2018), along with being named one of the Best Workplaces in Asia from 2015-2018. Tristan believes we spend such a huge part of our lives working that we have to find a way to enjoy it. In his book Culture is Everything: The Story and System of a Start-Up that Became Australia’s Best Place to Work, Tristan shares his 19-step system for building a great place to work. His approach is simple, centered around 4 basic pillars: Discover the Core, Document the Future, Execute Relentlessly, and Show More Love. Tristan loves to share what he’s learned along his entrepreneurial journey, and he does just that through his podcast, Thing Big, Act Small, as well as from the stage. A captivating keynote speaker, Tristan shares his insight with audiences at conferences and corporate events around the globe.

Show Highlights * Culture is something that can be systemized. 19 steps that build a great place to work and learn * The best ways to motivate your team towards your desired culture * If you want to build a strong foundation, start with the harder work * The courage to forfeit funding will build world-class culture that supports your mission * Join a perfect club for leaders who are forever growing and applying themselves to become the best versions of themselves * Person centered approach engages a better service to help motivate people to set and smash meaningful goals

“‘Show love’ is as simple as it sounds, but don't be a manager or leader that manages by catching people, doing something wrong and only speaking to people when they're not quite living up to expectations. We need to be leaders that catch people doing something right, recognize it, tell the story, acknowledge people in the moment.”

-Tristan White

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Tristan White’s Resources & Contact Info: * Think Big Act Small * Culture is Everything * LinkedIn * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram * Linktree * www.tristanwhite.com.au * tristanwhite.com.au * tristan.white

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David Brazer (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Director of Professional Learning at TeachFX. Formerly Associate Professor and Director of Leadership Degree Programs in the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, Brazer continues to design courses and teach in the Stanford EdLEADers online professional development program for executive level education leaders. Brazer’s theory development and empirical research on strategic decision making, leadership, teacher learning, and organizational design have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Brazer is the lead author of Leading schools to learn, grow, and thrive: Using theory to strengthen practice, second author (with Robert G. Smith) of Striving for Equity: District Leadership for Narrowing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps (2016, Harvard Education Press), and second author (with Scott Bauer) of Using Research to Lead School Improvement: Turning Evidence into Action (2012, Sage Publications).

Show Highlight * Eliminate the honors track to push equity, excellence and provide more school wide resources * Avoid programs that pretend to be college prep and create enriching learning experiences * Provide meaningful courses intended to be workplace preparatory * Put your career on the line for vital programs for your students * Teach Fx helps avoid limited snapshot knowledge of teaching and learning in your building * Teach FX provides actionable feedback that is specific enough to make immediate improvements towards instructional goals. * Teaching and learning as both effective and cognitive

“We wanted every student who came to Los Altos High School to feel as though he or she belonged in that community. We did everything we could to make sure that the campus was a welcoming place for everyone and that starts with basic safety, but it also starts with valuing all kids. I tried to do that on a personal level by meeting kids, by knowing their names. These are typical things that I think high school principals really work toward, but I also try to find a project for myself every year where I would work with a small number of students.”

-David Brazer

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David Brazer’s Resources & Contact Info: * Striving for Equity

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Striving for Equity: District Leadership for Narrowing the Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

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With over 10 years of progressive leadership experience in the development and oversight of academic programs, policies, and initiatives to promote student growth and achievement, I am an educational administration professional with expertise in equity-centered educational leadership.

Through my leadership, I have increased teacher retention to 100%, decreased chronic absenteeism to under 10%, reduced referrals by 70%, lowered behavioral infractions by 15%, and reduced disproportionality on every academic data metric for all subgroups.

Although I’m proud of how far I have come so far, I am currently working on earning my Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education with an emphasis in human rights and critical race theory - my work is just getting started.

Show Highlights * Proactive leaders look at adaptive challenges to anticipate consequences down the road to truly fix problems * Shared success for female leaders of color with an emergency thread * Not always having the answer is the right answer for service leadership * When in doubt, talk to kids, kids are capable of being a part of every conversation that has to do with school * Focus a less on data and more on community building by co-creating protocols for advocates on PLCs and scores will skyrocket * Pivot focuses on creating a culturally and linguistically sustaining teaching environment, not just the pedagogy, but retaining * Ashley shares how Teach FX gives ownership with 10K the impact on reflective, impactful teaching

“Teachers are not always considered professionals in the way that they are in other fields. I think it's important for us to kind of reclaim the fact that teaching is a complex art and science that's unlike any other role. I know teachers are professionals and they should be able to drive their development in the same way that you would in the tech field or any other field.”

“I'm just really excited about moving into a position where I can be supporting white folks in equity work. I think there's a lot of people who are focused on equity work in urban spaces. It can often feel like you're in an echo chamber where you're saying things to people who agree with you already, and you're deepening each other's understanding, but there's something really interesting to me about doing this work in a primarily white space and thinking about the power of cultivating a generation of co-conspirators who truly understand the history of our country, truly understand the dismantling work that's ahead of us and are equipped to execute that dismantling work. I think that's really powerful.”

-Ashley Gutierrez

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Ashlee Gutierrez’s Resources & Contact Info: * Second-Order Thinking: Forget the Immediate to Focus on the Future * LinkedIn * Equity

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Mariana Aguilar leads the Research team at education technology company, GoGuardian. In her role, she seeks to understand the relationship between the digital learning experience and student outcomes. Mariana began her career in education as a Teach for America corps member teaching 3rd grade in South LA. Since then, she has worked with various education non-profits including Murmuration and Citizens of the World Los Angeles. In addition to her time spent in education, Mariana brings both political and business expertise from her time serving as an elected official on the Del Rey Neighborhood Council and as a Consultant at Deloitte. Mariana earned her B.A. in Social Science with an emphasis in Psychology from USC, and an M.A. in Urban Education with an emphasis in Digital Learning from Loyola Marymount University.

Show Highlights * Lessons on building networks when introducing complex projects * The Whale Project that produces solutions to concrete problems and highlights your purpose * Your network is bigger than you think. Tips to expand and create more powerful partnerships * Why questions that peel back the layers of understanding to drive meaningful change * Build the ultimate personalized learning platform to transformal learning questions with Go Guardian * The key to Including stakeholders to be a part of the solution making process

“The most important message to get across is that change starts with you. Whether you're a student or a teacher or a school leader, an administrator, counselor, parent, picking up your child from school, we all have the opportunity to shape the world around us... This is a call to action.”

-Mariana Aguilar

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It all started when…

The Conrad Foundation honors the legacy of Apollo 12 astronaut, Charles “Pete” Conrad, and his four-decade passion for innovation and entrepreneurship. Pete spent 20 years as a U.S. Navy Test Pilot and NASA Astronaut. In November 1969, he became the third man to walk on the Moon. After many years as an aerospace explorer, Pete’s entrepreneurial spirit took flight. He founded four companies devoted to the commercialization of space travel. Unfortunately, Pete’s pursuits were cut short with his passing in 1999.

Nancy Conrad, Pete’s wife, shared his passion for inspiring future explorers, often working hand-in-hand with him prior to his death to launch his numerous commercial space businesses. In his passing, Nancy knew she wanted to keep Pete’s spirit for innovation and entrepreneurship alive, but targeted to the next generation of explorers. 15 years ago, this former high school teacher launched the Conrad Foundation and its flagship program, the Conrad Challenge, encouraging students to Get Your Genius On™. Since then, she has become a recognized leader in transformative education, testifying before the U.S. Congress and speaking at global conferences. She is dedicated to energizing and engaging students in STEM fields through unique entrepreneurial opportunities.

Going into our 15th year, the Conrad Foundation continues to be the only organization of its kind whose programs combine science and technology-based education, innovation and entrepreneurship to inspire solutions for achieving global sustainability.

Show Highlights * Give your students an invitation to design the future * The “No box” toolbox organic framework of innovation and entrepreneurship * The Conrad Challenge will change the direction of lives * How education can become diplomacy promoting peace * “Pull Education” changes the way students learn * Create authentic humans with opportunities for Geeky to Chic stardom * Opportunity to create commercially viable products that solve global & local challenges for students

“My belief is that they see the world very much like the astronauts did when, when the astronauts went back to earth and saw this fragile blue planet. This blue marble suspended in a black velvet sky, there were no borders. There were no boundaries and it's fragile. These young people that work with us from around the world. It has been from Australia to Zimbabwe and everything in between. They see the world that same way. They connect with each other across countries, cities, states, socioeconomic levels, genders. They are a community of young humans that are very much tuned into the fragility of the planet.”

-Nancy Conrad

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Nancy Conrad’s Resources & Contact Info: * Conrad Foundation — Conrad Challenge * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * LinkedIn

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For over 25 years, Paige Kinnaird has been a leader in the education space, from advocating for early childhood education to supporting educators and school leaders improvement in their own professional practices. Her greatest joy comes from contributing in a manner that adds value to the community, nurturing relationships, and fostering growth. Always making a ruckus.

Show Highlights * Red bookshelves changes literacy and opportunity in children's lives * Meeting people where they are by removing these obstacles * The ripple effect of a small idea on hundreds of thousands families * The small things we forget to do in education that impact families in a profound way * Flexibility, organic growth, and the voice of different individuals from the community are essential ingredients for programs built to last * Purple cows will set a tone of collaboration and comradery

“I just think we made it a welcoming environment, but without a lot of expectations you could do with it, what you wanted. I think the biggest part was that literacy and books transcends all other barriers that we have in our communities. It doesn't matter if you're from this side of the tracks or that side of the tracks or what school you go to or who your mom is or where your dad works. Literacy and reading is something that everyone enjoys or could enjoy and sees value in.I think that's one of the main differences for this project because all the people that are part of it still realize one, the importance of reading and two, that it's just the simple things that can bring joy to a child.”

-Paige Kinnaird

“What I saw as high quality professional development, the conversations, the books we read and discussed, which I love the books that you choose for us, because it takes us in a different direction than just the books that we normally read as administrators about education. But that connection piece at a deeper level, with members of your group, that, that was something I wasn't expecting, but I'm very thankful for that.”

-Paige Kinnaird

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Richard Milner IV is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. He has secondary appointments in Peabody’s Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations and the Department of Sociology in Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science.

Milner is a researcher, scholar and leader of urban education and teacher education. Centering on equity and diversity, he has spent hundreds of hours observing teachers’ practices and interviewing educators and students in urban schools about micro-level policies that shape students’ opportunities to learn. He examines the social context of classrooms and schools and looks at ways in which teachers talk (particularly about race) influences student learning, identity and development.

His research in urban schools and his book, “’These Kids are out of Control:’ Why We Must Reimagine Classroom Management,” (Corwin Press, 2018) has influenced designs and practices of teacher education courses and programs. To improve relational, curricular, assessment and instructional practices, school districts across the United States and beyond draw on his recommendations to support students of color, those who live below the poverty line, and those whose first language is not English.

To date, Milner has contributed significantly to the field of education in four interconnected ways:

Milner has advanced conceptual and empirical understandings of what he calls “opportunity gaps.” The term stands in contrast to the more generally used “achievement gap” as a means of explaining and disrupting disparities between students.
Specifically, he has introduced an Opportunity Gap Framework as a tool to describe the ways in which Black students continue to experience individual, structural and systemic inequity in classrooms and schools across the United States. Researchers have adopted the Opportunity Gap Framework as an analytic frame to explain aspects of their research. In addition, practitioners have drawn from the framework to develop and/or revise teacher education programs, courses and professional development in schools and districts.
The framework has been developed from empirical case studies he has conducted over the past 18 years.
The Opportunity Gap Framework is described and explained in his award-winning book, “Start Where You are, But Don’t Stay There” (Harvard Education Press, 2010). The book represents years of research and development efforts and is widely read in teacher education programs and school districts across the United States.
Milner has constructed a Researcher Positionality Framework to challenge and support researchers in designing and enacting studies and programs of research that recognize, name and work through what he describes as dangers “seen, unseen, and unforeseen” in studying race and culture in education science. Published in the journal, Educational Researcher (2007), the framework has been adapted across disciplines including nursing and health sciences as an essential element to conducting research.
Milner (with colleagues Lori Delale O’Connor, Adam Alvarez and Ira Murray) has developed a survey, the Teachers Race Talk Survey, one of the first survey instruments focused on teachers’ reported beliefs about race and discourse. The survey attempts to capture teachers’ reported beliefs about the role and importance of race in classroom talk and learning.
Researchers interested in capturing the relationship between race and classroom talk, particularly focused on race, have found the survey useful as it is being adapted and adopted for studies across the field of education.
Because the survey is designed for open- as well as closed-ended responses, researchers are able to triangulate, nuance and disrupt participants’, pre- and in-serve teachers’ responses.
Implications from his research about race and poverty in schools and classrooms are outlined in his book, “Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms” (Harvard Education Press, 2015).
In an effort to build synergy between and among empirical studies and conceptual arguments in and related to urban education, Milner has called for and advanced stronger conceptual and definitional work of urban education. He described and conceptualized three sites of urban education that other researchers use to make sense of and describe urban contexts:
urban characteristic,
urban emergent, and
urban intensive.

Bringing together leading scholars of urban education in the edited volume, “Handbook of Urban Education” (2014), Milner and co-editor Kofi Lomotey have attempted to describe and discuss what urban education is, what we know about it (empirically and theoretically), how we know what we know about urban education, and what other knowledge, as a field, is important for us to study in order to advance policy, research, theory and practice in urban education.

Show Highlights * Authentic vulnerable moment break barriers * Will you knock down walls so students get the education they deserve? * Relationship building and cultivation has to be essential throughout for sustainability * Ethnic matching-showcase the differences that make a difference * Help teachers build their toolkit, their repository to be responsive in all spaces * Opportunity centered connections and teaching. See them beyond the walls

“We have to as educators, we have to be our authentic selves. Young people don't need you to be more of who they are. They need you to be the best of who you are in order to compliment and advance their identity spaces, their exposure to different kinds of things. They need you to be anti-racist. They need you to be pro people, pro equity, projustice. Those are the things that matter to young people, more than the other pieces. When you don't come from the same community, when you don't share the same background there are concrete, really transformative ways to build those links, to build those relationships.”

-Rich Milner

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Rich Milner’s Resources & Contact Info: * H. Richard Milner: Books - Amazon.com * Twitter * Facebook * LinkedIn * rich.milner@vanderbilt.edu

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Eric Leroy Adams was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn on September 1, 1960, the fourth of six children for his mother Dorothy, a house cleaner and cook, and his father Leroy, a butcher. Growing up in a working-class household in South Jamaica, Queens, Eric showed an early interest in computers, but was drawn to public service at the early age of 15 after he and his brother were beaten badly by police officers; the violent encounter would later motivate him to pursue a career in law enforcement, a decision reinforced by mentors like Reverend Herbert Daughtry and Jitu Weusi.

Following a public school journey capped by his graduation from Bayside High School, Eric went on to earn an Associate in Arts degree in data processing from the New York City College of Technology, a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Marist College. Eric paid his way through his collegiate studies through a number of jobs, including work in the mailroom of an accounting firm, as a mechanic, and as a clerk in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office.

Eric graduated from the New York City Police Academy in 1984 as one of the highest-ranked students in his class. After initially serving with the New York City Transit Police Department, he was transferred to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) with the merging of the city’s police forces. During the course of his 22-year law enforcement career, Eric served in the 94th Precinct (Greenpoint), 88th Precinct (Clinton Hill and Fort Greene), and the 6th Precinct (Greenwich Village and West Village), where he retired at the rank of captain. As a member of New York’s Finest, Eric made the kind of life-and-death decisions that reflect insight, expertise, and poise under fire, earning him a reputation for going above and beyond the call of duty.

In 1995, Eric co-founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, an advocacy group that rose to nationwide prominence speaking out against police brutality, racial profiling, and departmental diversity. He also served at one time as president of the Grand Council of Guardians, a statewide fraternal society for African-Americans in law enforcement. Through leadership roles in these organizations, Eric helped raise thousands of dollars for worthy causes across New York City.

Eric was elected to the first of four terms in the New York State Senate in 2006, where he represented a diverse range of neighborhoods across brownstone and central Brooklyn. During his tenure in the State Legislature, he chaired both the Veterans, Homeland Security, and Military Affairs Committee and the Racing, Gaming, and Wagering Committee. In 2013, Brooklynites elected Eric as the first person of color to serve as their borough president; he is currently serving his second term as Brooklyn’s chief executive.

In 2016, Eric was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Having lost vision in his left eye and suffering from nerve damage in his hands and feet, he went against the initial recommendations of his doctors and pursued a whole-food, plant-based diet. Within three months, Eric reversed his diabetes diagnosis, and he has subsequently been able to impact the health of countless New Yorkers facing chronic diseases, including his own mother.

Eric lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he has resided for more than 20 years. He enjoys biking through his neighborhood, meditating, and exploring new cultures through travel. Eric is the proud father of Jordan, an aspiring filmmaker and graduate of American University.

Show Highlights * The garbage we use to fuel our children * 70% of 12 year olds have early signs of heart disease * The opportunity to get on top of what our children are eating to protect their futures * Plant based diets can change your life in 2 months * Bring the “spice” to your lunchroom and start the healing process for children * Steps to bring healthy eating to your learning community by creating an entire educational experience

“Education should be more than just academics. There should be an opportunity to give children skills that will make them successful in life. There is no better skill in how to take care of yourself and be a healthy person. Your health will make the greatest impact on the quality of your life. And that is why we really focus on that.”

--Eric Adams

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Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

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Tracey A. Benson, Ed.L.D., is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is a former public school teacher, middle school assistant principal, and high school principal. Dr. Benson received his Ed.L.D. in Education Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Masters of School Administration from UNC-Chapel Hill.

He is the co-author of Unconscious Bias in Schools. Tracey is the also the Founder of the Anti-Racist Leadership Institute.

Show Highlights * Interrupt racial biases in school districts with substantive change. * Racism is really inspiring. A Global Awakening of Consciousness * The secret sauce to the Anti-Racist Leadership Institute * Address phobias and separate the concept of bad white people * Climb the ladder to get over anti-racism phobias * You are the right person to implement change if you can say “racism” * We are so afraid to talk about racism that we actually never talk about it.

“They realize that there's a lot of barriers that they have and hurdles they have to overcome in order to implement their plan. I am there side by side, coaching individuals, to the cognitive aspects, meaning that getting over the fear and trepidation about actually implementing things and saying the word, race and racism within the school district, and then also adjusting their client as they implement so that they can realize change.”

--Dr. Tracey A. Benson

Full TranscriptTracey Benson Transcript Tracey Benson’s Resources & Contact Info: * Unconscious Bias in Schools * Tracey B Consulting * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-leaders-better-schools- * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/school-leadership-series * Twitter * Linkedin * Facebook

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Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism

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Jethro Jones, 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, is a former principal in Fairbanks, Alaska, and host of Transformative Principal, where he interviews principals, leaders, and influencers who help improve K-12 education throughout the world. He is also the founder of Transformative Leadership Summit and author of the new book, SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves! Available at http://schoolx.me

Show Highlights * Steps to empathize and design education for the individual and not the masses * From failure to success with the Design Thinking Process * A big social experiment you need to try * Systems level solutions for year to year personalized transformation * Learn to Lose interest on initiatives that don’t fit your visions focus * Questions to ask about your Covid-19 plan for your learning community * Having an overarching vision people can rally behind to share leadership

“You need to take care of yourself because you matter as a human being first and foremost, but also you need to get yourself in order. If you are running around, putting out fires every single day, then you're not going to be able to make any meaningful change because all you're doing is reacting. You've got to be proactive and stop putting out fires all the time and start leading.”

-Jethro Jones

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SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves

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Kevin Schaefer is currently the Director of Program Support for the Supporting Inclusive Practices (SIP) project at the El Dorado County/Charter SELPAs. In this role, Mr. Schaefer works diligently to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities by providing high-quality leadership and support to the California Department of Education and Districts throughout the state that focuses on creating enabling least restrictive environments that honor the diversity of learners across general and special education settings.

Show Highlights * Create equitable outcomes by dismantling the educational instructional toolbox * Stop the cycle of failure for students with IEPs and 504S * Honoring the variability of learners in classrooms takes major self reflection and hard core PD * The epiphany of Time to Thrive conference * How we falsely blame students for not progressing as he or she should * PD to address the adult response to components of the systems that create unsafe learning environment * Practical steps to actually build connections with LGTBQ students and staff

“We do a lot of work with universal design for learning and the idea is that we don't look at students as disabled. We look at the environment, we look at the curriculum as disabled, and then we mitigate potential barriers in the environment and in the curriculum to allow all students to access the instruction.”

-Ken Schafer

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Rex Miller is a futurist by training. He began his career as a project manager in the architecture and construction department for Southwestern Bell now AT&T, in 1978. He has spent decades helping organizations leverage their environments as a catalyst to healthy cultures and clear missions.

Rex turns hopelessly stuck situations into transformation and growth.He is among a rare group of proven practitioners that also have a deep academic foundation. He is an award winning author and trained in Improv Comedy and uses these techniques to enhance workshop experiences.

This breadth of experience is why leaders chose Rex to move the needle.

Show Highlights * “Tackling wicked problems” * The pit bull trait that will hold you up when the world is upside down * SEL is educating the brain in the heart. How schools prepare mental health and SEL needs. * Pandemic reinvention is an adventure * 50% teachers burnout * Form a barn raising strategy for peer to peer support * Co-create the future for the kids with a 21st century education, not a 19th century education

“It amazes me that we don’t take better care of our teachers and lay the foundation of our nation. Close to 50% of teachers burn out before 5 years.

“WICKED” problem if a superintendent spends $1 on teachers it is seen as taking $1 away from kids.”

-Rex Miller

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Rex’s Resources & Contact Info: * Whole: What teachers need to help students thrive * Humanizing the education machine.

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Humanizing the Education Machine: How to Create Schools That Turn Disengaged Kids Into Inspired Learners

WHOLE: What Teachers Need to Help Students Thrive

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Dr. Jeremiah Newell is the founder and CEO of MAEF Public Charter Schools, which has opened the first public charter school in the state of Alabama. He has previously taught middle and high school, led innovative secondary school models for disconnected youth, directed secondary school turnaround efforts, and served as a Harvard Fellow for the Rhode Island Department of Education.

He believes transforming public education is one of the most important issues of our time. He is committed to being a part of the solution and wants to learn from and partner with colleagues of all backgrounds to use our collective imagination, ingenuity, and perseverance to give young people their best possible start to adulthood.

Show Highlights * Use the fire in your belly to ignite change * Earn currency with young people for a responsive learning environment * Vision without action is a hallucination * Unpacking competency based learning models * Replace the traditional role of a counselor with intensive therapeutic counseling * The questions you need to ask for innovative, equitable education * Education is a communal process

“As an educator, we have a responsibility to create the holding environment for young people to make change. That doesn't mean directing them to what that change should be. It's literally creating a space where they can learn and grow.”

-Jeremian

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My experience in education includes 16 years teaching high school social studies, 6 years as a high school Assistant Principal, and I am now in my 5th year as Principal at Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, California. I have always been drawn to public education and see it as part of the larger project that includes protecting our democracy and breaking down economic and social barriers that are embedded in our society and the educational system.

Show Highlights * A public school truly free from fees for students and parents * Pilot your great ideas for relevant data * Develop a faculty mindset regarding rigorous courses * Curriculum that pushes depth of learning for all students * The internal conversation every Ruckus Maker needs to have * How to move through discomfort for more equitable outcomes * Why Tracey has used Organize Binder for the past 10 years

“You have to think about all of the different things that kids are dealing with when you're coming up with ideas on how to help them. If there are some kids left out, then we have to think again. How can we really have Student X access all of the things that we're trying to offer. I think that for a long time it's been okay for students to be left out as long as most of your students are doing okay.”

-Tracey**

Full TranscriptTracey Runeare Transcript Tracey Runeare’s Resources & Contact Info: * Opening Doors: * Harbor High School - Santa Cruz, California - CA | GreatSchools * truneare@sccs.net

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Opening Doors: An Implementation Template for Cultural Proficiency

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Manuel Colon is the Chief Academic Officer in the Anaheim Union HIgh School District. He has been instrumental in the implementation of the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), which has been highlighted as a model in California. In addition, his work with building partnerships has created one of the most comprehensive promise initiatives in the state. Moreover, Mr. Colon has presented at local, state, and national conferences. He received his bachelor’s degree from U.C.Santa Cruz in Language and Culture, a master’s degree in Education from Stanford University, and a master’s degree Administration from UCLA. Mr. Colon has been in education twenty-eight years as a teacher, program specialist, assistant principal, junior high school principal, high school principal and Assistant Superintendent. Mr. colon has received multiple individual awards including the Apple of Gold Award in Excellence in Teaching from the HIspanic Education Endowment Fund, California State Administrator of the Year for Valuing Diversity from the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), Campbell UHSC Teacher of the Year, and the LaBoskey Award in Teacher Education from Stanford University. Mr. Colon has also published the following:L Nichols, Patricia. C and Colon, Manuel 2000. “Spanish literacy and the academic success of Latino high school students: Code Switching as a classroom resource. “ Foreign Language Annals 33: 498-511. Garcia, Eugene and Colon, Manuel. 1995. Interactive journals in bilingual classrooms: An analysis of language transition. Discourse Process 19, 39-56. Poem published in teaching tools video for Spanish textbook. !Dime! Pasaporte al mundo 21. D.C. Health, 1994. Finally, Mr Colon has been married for twenty-six years and has a son and a daughter.

Show Highlights * Change the mindset of those in education to ensure what we say is in the best interest of children * A simple question has the ability to change the trajectory of lives * You fail the future with bias behavior that corrupts your best intentions * Keep equity at the forefront of all decision * How to successfully build the capacity of your staff without a budget * Manuel shares how Teach Fx has been a transformative tool of learning for his teachers

“Shift the culture of the campus, everything starts to fall into place. Achievement falls into place, discipline falls into place. All of these other pieces fall into place. You build a really strong system of shared systemness with your staff.”

-Manuel Colon

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Jaime Casap is the Chief Education Evangelist at Google. Jaime evangelizes the potential of digitalization as an enabling capability in pursuit of promoting inquiry-based learning models. Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation into our education policies and practices.

In addition to his role at Google, Jaime serves as an advisor to dozens of organizations focused on learning, skill development, and the future of work. He is the coauthor of “Our First Talk About Poverty,” as a way to talk to children about poverty. Jaime helped launch the Phoenix Coding Academy, a public high school in Phoenix, AZ, focused on computer science as part of an inquiry-based learning model. He teaches a 10th-grade communication class at the school. He also guest lectures at Arizona State University.

He speaks on education, digitalization, innovation, generation z, and the future of work at events around the world.

Show Highlights * Reality distortion field. Lean into your voice * Helping students use their life experiences and circumstances as a competitive advantage. * Vision isn’t good enough without these action items * It is the time of the Ruckus Maker. Are you taking advantage? * The biggest risk in hiring. How to “future proof” your schools. * Moving students from a consumer, to more critical thinker, and designer by teaching them how technology functions * Curriculum that creates influencers that can actually change the system

“I don't like talking about education, being broken as it's something that needs to be fixed. That's just too negative for me. I want to start with, what does the system need to look like for the future that we face and how do we take the best ideas that we've been able to build in education?”

-Jaime Casap

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Jaime Casap’s Resources & Contact Info: * Jaime Casap - YouTube * On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty * Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * LinkedIn

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

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On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty (The World Around Us, 1)

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Nancy Frey is a professor at San Diego State University in Educational Leadership where she focuses on policies and practices in literacy and school leadership. Nancy is also a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College, an award-winning open-enrollment public school in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego that she co-founded in 2007. For nearly 3 decades, Nancy has dedicated her work to the knowledge and skills teachers and school leaders need to help students attain their goals and aspirations. Nancy just released The Distance Learning Playbook with co-authors Doug Fisher and John Hattie.

Show Highlights * Win the school year by using these plays from Nancy’s playbook * How to pivot in a pandemic or any other crisis * Tips to build, maintain and foster relationships when we're at a distance * The loss of learning in times of crisis is counterintuitive * Why national test scores increase during times of crisis * This isn't crisis teaching. Create cohesion and consistency with these scheduling strategies * Future proofing students

“What I want a Ruckus Maker to remember is that our job is to be a Ruckus Maker. As educators, I think that we sort of have a self concept that we maintain the status quo. Now more than ever, we need to disrupt. We need to innovate. Schooling has needed to be innovated for a long time. This is our chance.”

-Nancy Frey

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Nancy Frey’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Distance Learning Playbook * Twitter * Facebook * LinkedIn

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Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting

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Dr. Lori McEwen helps educators create classrooms and communities of deep and joyful learning.

Lori has served educators, students and families as a leader in urban, suburban and charter environments and as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and professor. Some of her proudest achievements include providing leadership, vision and strategic direction for meaningful change--including the creation of personalized, mastery-focused high schools.

Lori is skilled at helping partners explore what’s possible in classrooms and schools by asking tons of questions, providing lots of readings, supporting risk-taking and making sure there’s laughter along the way.

Show Highlights * How to develop and lean on your gut instincts * The importance of a lengthy interview process when hiring * Lori provides valuable resources to support the mastery movement * The first steps to building a framework so students can be masters of their learning. * Why you can’t cheat on authentic assessments * Rigorous and social, emotional learning are not mutually exclusive, but inclusive * Lori’s favorite strategies to fill the 3 buckets that ensure deep and joyful learning

“The better that you and I can communicate with one another, the better we can collaborate. Once we have a great collaboration, we can get to this place of synergy. This idea that the room is smarter than any individual in the room. We can construct meaning to get to that higher level of creativity together because we're riffing off each other.”

-Lori McEwen

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Lori McEwen’s Resources & Contact Info: * The Grid Method * Fair Isn't Always Equal, * Thomas R. Guskey * Never Work Harder Than Your Students * Core SEL Competencies - casel * Lori McEwen: Home * Twitter * LinkedIn

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Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
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You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching

Fair Isn't Always Equal, 2nd edition: Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom

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Clayton Reedie is the current Director for the Campbelltown Principal’s Network in Sydney, the equivalent of a District Superintendent in the United States.

He began as a teacher in 1991 and from there earned early promotion to Executive Teacher, Assistant Principal and then Deputy Principal. Clayton’s first Principalship was at Mount Hunter, a small country school of 58 students. Further principal positions followed at Chipping Norton, Hinchinbrook and finally at Dalmeny Public School.

In 2019, Clayton left the school-based role to become a Principal (School Leadership) a position which centred on providing support and professional development to principals and school leadership teams. Earlier this year he was successful in being promoted into his current role of Director.

Clayton was honoured to be elected by his peers to lead the Liverpool Primary Principals’ Association as President for three years from 2011 to 2014 and in 2016 he was awarded a full scholarship to study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Clayton lives in south-western Sydney and his greatest love is spending time with his wife, Nikki, and five boys aged 6, 13, 16, 19 and 22. They entertain, enlighten, love and give… but most of all keep him very much grounded in reality.

Show Highlights * The original Ruckus Maker’s framework to open doors of trust that turns challenging parents into biggest supporters * Avoid being closed minded to life changing opportunities * Heart shifts are needed instead of mind shifts in the school of life. * Only 12.5% of people are capable of change without these supports * 90% of complaints come because of these two factors * The pitfalls of quoting policy to your learning community * How to share data, warts and all with parents to create curriculum allies

"We need a heart shift before a mind shift." And that's because when people connect with an idea, emotionally, they're moved to action. There's no amount of numbers or logic that can change what somebody thinks, but if they can put themselves in somebody else's shoes, just for a moment, maybe just maybe they'll have an epiphany and want to do what is right.

Clayton Reedie

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Clayton Reedie’s Resources & Contact Info: * Dual Capacity Building Framework * Everything Is Fcked: A Book about Hope * The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: * Twitter * LinkedIn

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Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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Erika began her career as a special education teacher in the West-Linn Wilsonville School district. When her family relocated to Southern Oregon, she was fortunate to work in Medford as a special education TOSA, supporting the work of the Special Education Department for the district. She worked at Ashland High School for seven years, three as assistant principal, and the last four as principal. She look forward working alongside the staff and community at Griffin Creek in supporting every student to learn, grow and thrive.

Show Highlights * Make solid decisions with the 3 Word Wise strategy to anchor yourself and your staff to your beliefs * Erika shares useful tools and why you should join the GO Community to transform your leadership * Lower the barriers for students to come forward with a sound protective policy on harassment * Be empathetic in challenging situations. It’s not personal, it’s uncomfortable. * Essential training for staff members to ensure they’re doing everything legally and morally for children in and out of the school building. * Overcome first year fears as an administrator to bring difficult issues to light. Hear Ericka’s district plan on training, reporting and investigating * Erika’s tips for the learning community when presented with critical information, who to go to, and how to make unbiased decisions.

“Wisdom is just recognizing that I am not going to be the smartest person in the room.The collective is always more powerful than the individual person. And so what information do I need? What wisdom do I need to gather from others?”

-Erika Bare

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Erika Bare’s Resources & Contact Info: * 2020-2021 Mastermind Book Reading List * Ashland School District Sexual Harassment Plan * https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/go * erika.bare@medford.k12.or.us

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

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Lori Villanueva has been in education for 25 years, starting as a high school Biology, Music and AVID Teacher, and now serves as Superintendent in a rural district of 4500 in sunny central California. She keeps kids at the center of her decisions, and loves working with educators to provide kids what they need to grow and thrive.

Show Highlights * The importance of getting early wins as a leader. Especially facing reopening. * How a Ruckus Maker builds an under radar network of resources for her school * Planting a tree can inspire the district to invest in the look and feel of a school * A principal who finds solutions to “no” is a powerful resource for transformation. * How one principal turned her school into a hub of essential services for the learning community. * The questions Lori asks her principals to get what they need for students * Lori provides effective teacher recruitment strategies for rural areas to get top tier teachers * Lori shares 2 reasons Organized Binders is an essential tool she has used in all her schools

“I didn't come into this profession to help the superintendent look good. I didn't come into this profession for the glamour of the money. I came for kids. When I feel that kids need something and I feel that it's the proper and right thing to do I will move forward taking action and I can sleep really well at night.”

-Lori Villanueva

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Lori Villanueva’s Resources & Contact Info: * https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/attracting-great-teachers/ * Business Model Generation: * Twitter

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Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
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You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

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School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

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Fran McGreevy has over 45 years of experience in education. He has served as a high school teacher and building administrator for 30 years and as a middle school principal for 13 years. He is currently President of “Root-Ed – Leadership and Learning”. Fran has led numerous staff development classes at the building, district and college levels. He has received several awards/recognitions for his service as delineated in the attached Curriculum Vitae. He is passionate about the value of the person and how that plays out in organizations and schools.

Show Highlights * A bold statement from a principal “I'm done checking on you” * One question to ask your staff to create a snowball effect of risk takers on a shared mission * Recognition tips that take the pressure of time way * How to push through turmoil and fires when you have something really worthwhile to offer * Fran shares 2 stories on how to listen and what to listen to and maximizing opportunity * Fran teaches what fascinates everyone in the educational system * How to create a bold atmosphere of engagement

“Ideas are life changing. Thoughts can be life changing. The change usually is from the inside the outside. You don't change people from the outside. It is from the inside.”

-Fran McGreevy

Full Transcript Fran McGreevy Transcript Fran McGreevy’s Resources & Contact Info: * Curriculum Vitae * Root-Ed Leadership and Learning * Linkedin

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Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
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You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

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Nick Hoover is a school leader in Delaware who has a real passion for leadership and learning. He wants to change the world one person at a time. One student, one teacher, one leader at a time. This passion has led Nick, along with his brother, to start a leadership development company called We CLIMB You CLIMB.

His greatest passion though is being a father. He has seen his knack for helping others, leading others and self-improvement get passed on to his daughter. And he can think of nothing more important.

Show Highlights * Hear how to follow the footsteps of a giant and carve your path of success. * How to determine the expiration date on your core values? * When parents recite the school new values to you * Brand your school’s values with intentional messaging * Nick’s gives a master class on feedback. Get his framework to track trends and score your school’s learning goals. * The 4 fs of evaluations and observations. Get Nick’s observational tips to have your hand on the pulse of every class. * You climb. We climb. Leadership that’s meant to change the world.

“I'll probably never go without being in a Mastermind. The rest of my life. It's been a great way to connect with leaders. Sometimes I say like minded people, but I'm careful to say that because it's like minded individuals in terms of people who are striving to get better and who want to improve, but it's not like minded people in terms of diversity. We have a diverse group of people and the way they think, and that's really important in the support and challenge.”

-Nick Hoover

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Nick Hoover’s Resources & Contact Info: * Nick Hoover - Meredith Middle School

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Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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David Hardy is a systems-level transformation leader specializing in improving some of the most inequitable school systems across the country. David’s life-long mission is to help create equitable school systems for kids across the United States. For the past 17 years, David has had the opportunity to guide children in the toughest circumstances to reach high levels of achievement, lead teams who create a culture of achievement, and drive systems change at some of the most underperforming districts in the country. David understands the impact that authentic leadership, effective governance, and equitable operations has on improving outcomes for kids, and seeks innovative ways to help leaders create meaningful change. He supports school and district leaders as they navigate the challenges that impede the progress for kids within urban school districts. He is driven to provide creative solutions for school and district leaders who seek to authentically build coalitions of support centered around kids, and desire to live in inclusive organizations that understand the importance and power of diversity

Show Highlights * There are two types of leaders that promote change. Which leader are you? * The urgency for school leaders to provide students impactful initiatives immediately * Everyone needs a Deshaun to fuel you to rise above the status quo * A brilliant way to lead teams with this first activity for meetings to create a powerful moment * If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again? David’s process to navigate tensions and sleep well every night * People don't want lip service, they want your service as a leader. How to balance your word and your integrity. * 3 Trends in leadership that affect school performance in every district * The loudest silence surrounding students * How the pandemic has given us an opportunity to reimagine our school systems. Get to the roots and backbone of how schools function. * Nurture your learning community like plants in the appropriate fishbowl

“I look at that child's face, I look at that child's name and realize that they don't have 12 to 13 years for us to get better. They don't have over a decade of time for us to figure out what we need to do as adults. I feel we as adults need to get out of the way so that our kids can progress at a rate in which they're needed.”

-David Hardy, Jr.

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David Hardy Jr’s Resources & Contact Info: * Made By Change

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Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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Kirsten Richert is an innovation expert who works with leaders on transformational efforts. Kirsten teaches design thinking, communication, and innovation at a number of colleges in the greater NYC area. Her teaching draws upon her experience in three core disciplines: business management, ideation methodology, and facilitation.

She received her undergraduate degree in social science from Hampshire college, her master’s degree in social studies education from Teachers College at Columbia University, and her training in innovation and facilitation methods from SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking) and ToP(Technology of Participation).

Formerly vice president of product management and marketing at Pearson, the world’s leading educational publisher, Kirsten oversaw the creation of breakthrough “digital-first” K-12 curriculum. Trained as a corporate on-call innovation coach, she’s helped teams plan new efforts, generate ideas, and execute on strategies.

Now, as an innovation catalyst, Kirsten guides change efforts for organizations, especially in the areas of education and human development. She is particularly interested in organizations that integrate the arts into their work towards social change, such as the Alliance for Arts and Health New Jersey, Real Beauty: Uncovered, and The Barat Foundation.

Jeff Ikler is director of Quetico Career and Leadership Coaching, a firm dedicated to helping individuals overcome career issues and leaders develop sustained changes in their leadership practices and organizations. He received his certificate in coaching from the Coach Training Institute, a firm recognized as one of the leading coach-training organizations in the world. His approach blends data-driven coaching and consulting informed by working for more than thirty-five years in the corporate world.

Jeff holds a master’s in the teaching of history, along with a bachelor’s in history, form the University of Illinois. He taught high school history in Maywood and Batavia, Illinois, for seven years. Like Kirsten, he is a certified innovation facilitator using the SIT(Systematic inventive thinking) process.

He is a former executive vice president at Pearson Learning where he directed the development of test-and technology-based products for all disciplines. He finished his career at Pearson by leading the development of its multidimensional Leadership Development program for school administrators, working closely with authors Lyle Kirtman to support change in school districts and nonprofit organizations.

Jeff and Kirsten also cohost Getting Unstuck-Shift for Impact, a podcast that helps individuals and organizations identify and overcome obstacles that stand in the way of implementing changes that lead towards achieving desired results and impact.

Show Highlights * A perfect to start to the school year with this innovation exercise * Ruckus Makers need to ask who else needs to come to the table and how are you forming the dialogue? * Why you need the perspective of detractors first * Kirsten and Jeff build out the proper mindset to get you Unstuck as a leader * Arc model’s 3 steps to implementing successful change * Innovation needs to benefit who we serve and not a profit line.

“When you're running a complex change initiative, there has to be some vulnerability. You have to be able to say, I don't have all the answers here. I need to bring in people who might have the answers.”

-Jeff Ikler

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Kirsten Richert & Jeff Ikler’s Resources & Contact Info: * Shifting * ‎Getting Unstuck: Podcast * Purple Cow * www.queticocoaching.com * Kirsten • Instagram * Jeff Ikler • Instagram * Kirsten- Twitter * Jeff - Twitter * Kirsten Richert-Facebook * Jeff Ikler | Facebook * Kirsten | LinkedIn * Jeff - LinkedIn

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Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Shifting: How School Leaders Can Create a Culture of Change

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Anthony Kim is a Corwin Press bestselling author, with publications including The New Team Habits, The New School Rules, and The Personalized Learning Playbook. His writing ranges the topics of the future of work, leadership and team motivation, improving the way we work, and innovation in systems-based approaches to organizations and school design. Anthony believes that how we work is the key determinant to the success of any organization.

In addition to his writing, Anthony is the founder and CEO of Education Elements, a trusted partner and consultant to over 1,000 schools nationwide. Anthony has been the founder of several companies across multiple industries, including online education, ecommerce, and concerts and events.

Anthony began his career in education by helping higher education institutions with technology projects and data. Shortly thereafter he moved into K-12 education with an emphasis in online learning with a company he founded, Provost Systems. Hebuilt virtual schools that included SIS, CMS and a portals for administrators, teachers, students and parents to use on a daily basis. Their success was quickly realized and were purchased by Edison Schools in 2008. After two years of serving Edison Schools as EVP of Online and assisting in the launch of Provost Academy he left to begin Education Elements in 2010.

Little did he know that his architecture degree and experience would play such a critical role in shaping his approach to education. He believes that learning environments and school designs need to be open and flexible so that teachers, the true designers of learning, can successfully create the best possible learning conditions for students.

Education has always been a part of him. As a young boy raised by a single mom, he never forgot the value his mother placed on education and how it shapes the person you become in the future.

Show Highlights * Establish habits of participation with the Check In Strategy * Create an authentic interview by using a Crisis Improv * How a well intended letter can change the trajectory of your life * The pitfalls of sassy emails. Sound more human and less formulaic. * What long term deposits look like in establishing partnerships * Power in words, Anthony shares his motivational mantra * You can't out swim the ocean. Streamline the work and put the least amount of effort for the most amount of progress.

“While I don't teach students, I think my purpose has always been to teach adults and bring ideas from all industries to help us make a better education system.”

-Anthony Kim

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Anthony’s Resources & Contact Info: * The NEW Team Habits: * The NEW School Rules: * Personalized Learning Playbook: * Education Elements * anthonx.us * Twitter * LinkedIn

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

The NEW Team Habits: A Guide to the New School Rules

The NEW School Rules: 6 Vital Practices for Thriving and Responsive Schools

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Jeanne is a former middle school teacher, department chair, and school leader and the founder of the New Teacher Masterminds - a transformational virtual PLC network that connects and empowers new teachers across the country. Her mission is to provide new teachers the support they need to thrive during their first years of teaching.

Show Highlights * New teachers thrive with these 5 steps * Create future Ruckus Makers with the Teacher Mastermind * New teachers are failing and need a seat at this table * How a Ruckus Maker trains new teachers to avoid pitfalls * Individualized teacher workshops * Personalized PD without adding to teacher workload * Motivate, support, and amplify your teacher’s strengths

“Masterminds, not only is it an opportunity for them to receive help, but it's also an opportunity for them to own their own expertise and realize that they really do have some awesome ideas and they really do know what they're doing.”

-Jeanne Wolz

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Jeanne’s Resources & Contact Info: * Download 10 Common Pitfalls of New Teacher Programs - and How to Overcome Them * Teacher Off Duty * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram * LinkedIn * teacheroffduty@gmail.com

Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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BLBS will be producing a series of special Black Lives Matter episodes focused on what leaders can do to fight racism in education.

Thank you Afrika Afeni-Mills for collaborating on this project.

You can follow Afrika here on Twitter.

If you are ready to really roll up your sleeves and learn how to fight racism in education, apply to the mastermind.

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Martha Dunagin Saunders is the sixth President of the University of West Florida. In her 30-plus years in higher education, she has served in academic and leadership roles at universities in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin and Mississippi. Her area of academic expertise is in public relations and crisis communication for which she has won numerous awards, including two Public Relations Society of America’s coveted Silver Anvils.

Saunders led the University of West Florida to its status as a top-performing public university with the third-highest score in the Florida Board of Governors performance metrics. She established the UWF Innovation Institute, Center for Cybersecurity and the Office of Equity and Diversity. She oversaw the reorganization of the institution’s colleges, and under her guidance, UWF established two new named colleges–the Usha Kundu M.D. College of Health and the Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering.

Saunders’ vision for UWF is for it to grow beyond its beginnings as a regional comprehensive university and be seen as a leader in innovation and cutting edge academic programs. She plans to build on the University’s strengths and its undergraduate traditions while creating programs that will attract the faculty and research funding needed to make the leap to the next level.

As an entrepreneurial leader, Saunders is passionate about creating innovative solutions to deal with the dynamic challenges facing higher education. As a change maker, she drives action behind these solutions to propel higher education into the future.

Show Highlights * Martha shares how to be an authentic leader. * How honest advice can make a profound impact. * Ways to recognize and reward top teachers * 2 questions that will capture the essence of your school to help with teacher retention and recruitment * Martha’s advice on not letting intitivitives break your bank and zap all your energy * Lead with a “Frontier spirit” * Leadership teams need balance to compliment your vision

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“I read it in a book recently and it said, ‘if something scares you get closer.’ I think I would put that on every school because we pull away from things we don't understand. And that's true in every field. If we don't understand something, we back off from it and we often deprive ourselves of some real growth. So I think that's a rather provocative statement.”

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Martha’s Resources & Contact Info: * erin@idgroupbranding.com * uwf.edu/offices/president * Twitter * Facebook * LinkedIn

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Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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BLBS will be producing a series of special Black Lives Matter episodes focused on what leaders can do to fight racism in education.

Thank you Dr. Sheldon Eakins for collaborating on this project.

Sheldon has a podcast Leading Equity you should also subscribe to.

If you are ready to really roll up your sleeves and learn how to fight racism in education, apply to the mastermind.

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Scott Seider is an applied developmental psychologist whose research focuses on the role of schools in supporting adolescents’ civic development. He has reported on this work in more than 70 academic publications including Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice (Harvard Education Press, 2020). Findings from this five-year study of youth critical consciousness development have also been published in academic journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Research on Adolescence.

As a core faculty member in the Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology department at the Lynch School, Dr. Seider teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on adolescent development. He also serves on advisory boards for a number of different youth-serving organizations including EL (Expeditionary Learning) Education, the Journal of Adolescent Research, and the Center for Parent & Teen Communication.

Prior to joining the Boston College faculty, Dr. Seider worked as a teacher-educator at Boston University and as an English teacher in the Boston Public Schools and Westwood Public Schools.

Daren Graves is currently the director of the Urban Master's Program at Simmons College. As a teacher educator, he is committed to preparing teachers who see urban youth as assets in the teaching and learning process. His research interest involves the interplay of school culture and racial identity on the academic performance of Black adolescents. Graves' research has given him an understanding of the issues that Boston-area youth face inside and outside of their school environments. Graves previously served as assistant director at Simmons College Upward Bound in Boston, where he helped coordinate the academic and college preparation components of this federally funded after-school and summer program.

Show Highlights * Recognize systems of oppression in your school * Stop controlling bodies in your building and form partnerships * Identifies uplifting practices for engaging young people * Links between critical consciousness and academic achievement * Create project based learning that transforms the entire community * Tips on redefining good teaching

We need people to be critically conscious in order to go out and reduce oppression within their communities and to transform society.

-Scott Seider

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Scott and Daren’s Resources & Contact Info: * Schooling for Critical Consciousness:

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Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice

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Angela Kelly Robeck is a best-selling author and certified life coach for school leaders. She helps site and district leaders navigate the mental and emotional demands of the job. A former teacher, coach, principal and district administrator, Angela deeply understands the toll of school leadership and it is her mission to empower leaders through the use of effective mindset tools.

Show Highlights * STEAR your personal and professional lives into one human * Live the work you want to lead to eliminate fear * Stop carrying the weight of leadership alone * Become an observant leader and not an emotional one * Holding people accountable is fun!! Inspiring mutually accountable partners * How to get to the root of the problem * Write your own leadership story-Empowered Principal Mastermind

“We are so so busy being busy that we don't believe that it's possible to stop and reflect and take the time to think about what's even driving our actions.”

-Angela

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Angela’s Resources & Contact Info: * Empowered Principle as a free download https://amzn.to/2TvBpWs * Angela Kelly Coaching: Home

Angela Kelly Robeck – The Life Coach School
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Looking for more? * Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap * Join “The Mastermind” * Read the latest on the blog

Show Sponsors ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

The Empowered Principal: The School Leader’s Alternative to Career Burnout

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Rick earned a bachelor’s degree in adolescent education/social studies from Fredonia State University in New York. He has a master’s degree in adolescent education from Oneonta State College, also in New York. He earned a certificate of advanced studies in educational leadership from Binghamton University in New York.

He was a middle and high school teacher in upstate New York for eight years before coming to Charlotte. He completed his principal residency at Albemarle Road Elementary through New Leaders and spent three years as an assistant principal at Shamrock Gardens Elementary. In all, he has been in education for 14 years, two of those as a school principal.

His educational philosophy is this: No significant learning will take place without strong relationships between the student, teacher and family. Our role as a school is to build, engage, and enhance these relationships. With these relationships in place, we must provide unique learning experiences that allow students to create authentic representations of their learning and share them with a diverse audience.

He is also the proud father of a son, Lincoln, who will be a CMS kindergartner next year!

Show Highlights * Avoid getting burned by the “little fires” and other disruptors to your schedule * The Who? What? Where? When? Why? And How” to linking personal and professional scheduling * How to find your Frodo and Gandalf accountability partner * Tips to steal time and maximize your minutes for an ideal week. * What matters has to be public. Learn why leaders shouldn’t plan in isolation. * Backward design planning creates your ideal leadership schedule

“Everybody wants to be more focused but I think in the end I don't know how many different task managers or to-do list apps that I've downloaded or tried. In the end it's not about the app, it's about the actual habits. You've got to build the habits and that's what I'm trying to do. How do I build those habits versus how do I find the tool that's going to fix it all because there's not a tool that's going to solve it.”

Rick Mohrein

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Rick’s Contact Info: * Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools * Twitter * Facebook * frederickw.mohrien@cms.k12.nc.us.

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Robyn Jackson is a former high school teacher and middle school administrator. She is the founder and president of Mindsteps Inc., a professional development firm for teachers and administrators that provides workshops and materials designed to help any teacher reach every student.

Jackson is the author of Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching, The Differentiation Workbook, and The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers, as well as the how-to guides in the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series.

Show Highlights * Learn Robyn’s practice on how to take the first steps towards your true calling * Ensure you have the right “why” so you're driven by the right intentions * When your brain is fresh, your brain tells you the truth * Create a bold vision with 100% impact * How to write a vision and mission to fit you and your district * Reimagine traditional school leadership. Go from being a boss to a leader using Robyn’s Builders lab * Why you need to find your zone of genius and operate on the edges

“One of the reasons I love this concept of being a Ruckus Maker, it's I think more of us should be making a ruckus. Education is in trouble. More of us should be making a ruckus about how we're teaching students, how we are running schools, how we're building schools, but instead we're just kind of blindly following a path and a model that no longer serves us.”

-Robyn

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Dr. Tracey A. Benson is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a former public school teacher, middle school assistant principal, and high school principal.

Show Highlights * Journey on a racial awakening with Tracey * Addressing the color of punishment in the continuum of learning * How to have a color rich school with concrete solutions * Investigate your own behavior and coded language to shape racially literate young people * How leaders can put out fires of unconscious bias? * Tracey’s equitable solutions to improving academic achievement for students of color * Learn to track patterns and blind spots of racial disparity and ingested bias

“I was subconsciously teaching them that they have privilege and that they were above the rules. They would get upset because they had privilege and when someone has privilege, equity feels like oppression.”

Dr. Tracey Benson

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Jazz Rose is the founder of J and C Education & Academy. He started in 2004 teaching PE in primary schools. Following demand, Jazz has grown a team of specialist PE, Music, French, Spanish, Art and Drama teachers committed to embedding a passion for learning, empowering learners to develop confidence, creativity and critical thinking, developing the whole child; improving schools and enriching communities.

Show Highlights * Justified risks 3 column scenario checklist. * J and C Education energizes your teachers and students with essential time and skills * Teach children to be flexible and adaptive in an ever changing and evolving society * Get on your toes to be successful * Effective techniques that teachers can use to really engage children and unlock hidden potential * How to channel the energy of students mislabeled as bad behavior * Find the juices of cross-curricular/Integrated learning with confidence

“When children develop a passion for learning, they can learn anything and when they can learn anything, they can perform better at anything. The theme of continuous improvement is about always getting better no matter where you're at.”

-Jazz Rose

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Sachin Chaudhry is an Ashoka Fellow - The ChangeMaker and the Founder/CEO of TrustCircle. Sachin also serves as a Global Advisor for the 'Movement for Global Mental Health.’ Sachin has started a global wellbeing movement via TrustCircle with a focus on Social Emotional Learning, Prevention & Early Intervention. Sachin envisions a world where Social-Emotional Learning is a core to our education system.

Show Highlights * Sachin’s transformational pilgrimage of pain * Find opportunity in every crisis. * How a modern school leader creates a space of reflection for the learning community * Understanding the roots of risk, not just the symptoms * Trust Circle’s 3 Ps that inspire targeted productive actions * Tools that create a bridge connecting students with themselves and inspiring them to seek out help from trusted adults * You are never alone. Trust Circle’s technology connects people during the Covid-19 pandemic

“...priority would be for me to empower the administrators because administrators are the engine of the school and the administrators have the power and the influence to inspire change.”

-Sachin Chaudhry

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Sachin Chaudhry Resources & Contact Info: * How TrustCirlce can foster wellbeing amidst COVID-19 * TrustCircle Overview Document

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Amy Platt is delighted to be the Head of School at the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School. Amy is passionate about excellent instruction and working with teachers to be the talented professionals they are destined to be. Amy holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Toronto. When Amy is not at work she can be found on long-distance bike rides, pondering the larger issues facing education.

3 Big Ideas * Education is better with ice cream * Challenge will make you better * Everybody needs a mantra

Show highlights * The cornerstone of what you're building is formed around knowing your vision, mission AND values. * Learn how Amy overcame feeling sidelined as a leader * Amy shares leadership principles, mental endurance and benefits of creativity * Go at the big hills in life and in leadership if you expect growth and strength * Amy tells how the Mastermind community transforms leadership

“I just want the Ruckus Maker to know that they can take any mundane moment and make it powerful if they really use the factors that are there to help transform moments.”

-Amy Platt

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Amy’s Resources: * Decision Journal * Braving the Wilderness * Daring Greatly * The Power of Moments * LinkedIn * Decision Journal

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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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Chris has been an educator in Massachusetts for 19 years and just finished his 11th year as a building administrator. He is currently the Principal of Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in Whitman, Massachusetts.

He’s passionate about continuous improvement and the idea that success is not a destination, but a process. A teacher centered Principal whose believes the importance of a positive work environment, continuous growth, and a healthy family work life integration can be seen in the multiple presentations and workshops he has given for the Massachusetts School Administrators Association (MSAA), Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE), Massachusetts Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (MASCD), the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP); and participation in the Better Leaders Better Schools Mastermind group.

He was most recently described by a past Superintendent as being “…wholly invested in the success of the school…a creative problem-solver who is able to deliberate yet be decisive, be creative yet accountable…calm and clear-headed even under the most trying of times…has built a strong collaborative and collegial school culture…he is a positive influence on teachers, teaching, and learning.” He blogs and vlog on a weekly basis as a way to reflect on my progress, share his story, and get others to think about different perspectives. His overarching goal is to positively model continuous improvement in all facets of life by being purposeful, acting with integrity, and building character.

Show highlights * The Goldielocks approach to communication with your staff * 20% is 100% communication success. * Why you don’t need all the people rowing the boat to make it go * How to lead when you lack empathy or fail to see other people's perceptions * Promote school wide initiatives without manipulation or coercion * Leverage social media and your network to promote values and vision * Pose the perfect question to resistors * Is your staff is telling you “I don't feel safe or I don't understand”

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Chris’s Resources: * Twitter * DrCSJones.blog * LinkedIn

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Ben Owens worked as an engineer for 20 years before becoming a STEM teacher for 11 years at a wall-to-wall PBL school in rural Appalachia. He founded the non-profit, Open Way Learning, and now works to help schools create the cultural conditions for localized, learner-centered innovation. Ben is also the co-author of Open Up, Education!

Show Highlights * Ben explains why "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" * How a tiny school in rural Appalachia became one of the most innovative schools on the planet * Ben shows you how to leverage the talents and skills of your community * How to flip the script and harness innovation with “open way learning” * Ben shares a perfect embodiment of living a shared vision from students in Cambodia * Learn how to teach true problem solving and critical thinking students will mimic for the rest of their lives * How to find that true North and be a difference maker

“Recognize that there are a lot of educators who have operated in the system. They have seen stories like this and just realized that the mountain they perceive they would have to climb in order to create that type of culture is so huge. They're often left with where do I even begin? And I think that's a pragmatic reality. My response is begin somewhere. The saying, ‘the best time to plant a tree was, 20 years ago and the second best time is today’. So let's start planting that tree today.”

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Ben’s Resources & Contact Info * Ben's Book * LinkedIn * Twitter

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Open Up, Education!: How Open Way Learning Can Transform Schools

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Teru Clavel is a comparative education expert who has shared her insights on education and globalization on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, The TODAY Show, CBS This Morning, and others. Teru earned a master’s degree in Global and International Education and a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies. She spent over a decade as an education journalist and college consultant while raising her three children in the public schools of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and California and returned with her family to her hometown, New York City, in 2018.

Show Highlights * Teru’s journey on creating a family unit with values that are dependent on everybody appreciating one another * Teru’s plan on how to solve massive attrition and recruitment dilemmas * Teru pulls apart what it means to practice and respect social-emotional values * Why your EQ is much more important than your IQ * Teru shares how to move past the labels and challenges facing women * Learn ritual practices in Asia that create a level of inherent respect and build mental acuity, stamina, and grit * Create hand in hand learning between parents and the school with mandatory parent involvement * An overabundance of technology requires educators to be the police of technology and not the gardeners of knowledge. * Dancing poop is education done right 💩

“Don't give up. Just don't give up because I think now more than ever this country needs leaders who are advocating on behalf of our children because I think it's not No Child Left Behind. I feel like all our kids are getting left behind right now. With all that's going on politically in this country, kids with so much technology in their hands, they are seeing it all and I don't think they have any idea how to make sense of it and it's our responsibility to look out for them because the world that they are going to be going into is a world that we are creating for them and I don't think it's going to be an easy place.”

-Teru Clavel

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World Class: One Mother's Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children

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Joshua is a middle school administrator in North Texas. After graduating college with a Fine Arts degree and working in the graphic design field for a number of years, Joshua returned to school to attain his teaching certificate. Joshua worked as an Art teacher and coached at the middle school level for 6 years. Inspired to affect change at the campus level and in education, Joshua completed his Masters in Educational Administration, and he has spent the past 7 years as a middle school administrator. In addition to being an administrator, Joshua is the creator and host of Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast. The podcast is designed to help those who are looking to build their leadership capacity by providing an opportunity to learn from the most experienced and accomplished educational leaders.

Joshua is passionate about reconciliation and believes that working together creates an environment that fosters innovation and growth, yielding both academic and social success. Utilizing restorative practices guides Joshua in building healthy relationships and community at his school.

Joshua and his wife, Leslie, became foster parents in 2011, and had the privilege of adopting three of their five children. Joshua is trained in trauma-informed practices for meeting the emotional, social and behavioral needs of children who have been through adverse childhood experiences, which Joshua also applies to his role as an administrator.

Show Highlights * Use Joshua’s tools to break the box: Overcoming stigmas, labels, and bias in education * Learn how leaders are made in the art room and on the field * Student success is impacted by movement and creativity. Hear Joshua’s tips and resources for connecting the body to the brain * Create an immense impact in 30 seconds * Joshua shares how good leaders find solutions by pushing boundaries and challenge the status quo * How to avoid a structure of fear and find a system that is better for the emotional stability of your learning community with restorative practices * Working with aspiring leaders will help hone your passion and enhance instructional practices

“Unfortunately, a lot of our students don't know how to act socially, but also how to reflect and to change that behavior. Their behavior is a language really. If we're able to understand that language, it helps us better as educators. My goal is to have our teachers, everyone that we hire, whoever's in my building to make sure that we are hitting the social emotional needs of our students just as much as we're doing the academic, because if one is lacking, the other one can't thrive.”

-Joshua Stamper

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Joshua’s Resources & Contact Info: * Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast - Home * Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast by Joshua Stamper * Joshua Stamper (@Joshua__Stamper) * Joshua Stamper (@joshua__stamper) * Hanlon's Razor: Are Your Coworkers Evil or Just Dumb?

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Today's show is a bonus episode on vision, deep work, and focus.

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David Rendall has made it his life’s mission to be hilarious and helpful. He’s a standup comedian with a doctorate in management. A class clown-turned- leadership professor who went from disrupting classes to teaching classes to disrupt companies and conferences around the world. After being criticized and punished his whole life for being hyperactive, David now channels his frantic energy to compete in Ironman triathlons and ultramarathons.

David has a doctorate in organizational leadership, as well as a graduate degree in psychology. He is the author of four books on leadership and discovering our strengths through our weaknesses. Welcome to the show, David!

Show Highlights * The lesson David learned being spanked in 8th grade at school * What it’s like always being in trouble in school * How turn weaknesses into strengths * How educators can reframe their experiences with “difficult” students * Why you’ll wish you heard this story sooner * The differences between weakness + trauma / stubbornness + persistence

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David Rendall Resources & Contact Info: * The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness * The Freak Factor for Kids * Website * Twitter * Facebook * LinkedIn * Email

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The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness

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Robert Schaefer, Ph.D., Vice President of Client Services, has been with Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc. since 2005 as an Organizational Development (OD) consultant, executive coach, leadership development expert, statistical analyst, research scholar, workshop facilitator, and training systems designer. Robert is a renowned expert in the assessment and diagnostic debrief of ability-based emotional intelligence, individual and team conflict styles, and the impact of mood and emotions in the workplace.

Read more about Robert here.

Show Highlights * How are you showing up? Robert reveals how leaders regulate the emotional experience for teachers and students. * Robert shares how to overcome the dog eat dog culture and climate to win over incredibly hard to work with individuals. * Don’t take it personally, but use it personally. Sharpen the saw by exercising constant, continual self-improvement. * Robert explains how emotional reactive triggers are influencing the goals we take into our interactions. * Robert’s essentials to consider when creating emotional lessons to shift our own moods to co-regulate with the learning community. * Make your interactions a place of sanctuary and you prime everyone to absorb new information and retain the wisdom you're offering. * Robert explains how to model emotional hygiene. The impact the status quo of our emotional state is actually bringing to the classroom or to the board room.

“No matter what you do as a leader, you are never going to catch 100% of people in your influence net. It is a two-way street to dance and that dance requires a partnership. You can only show up authentic, genuine, earnest, honest. Demonstrate, continue to model what you want to see in others and take that constant assessment.”

-Robert Schaefer

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Meaningful Alignment: Mastering Emotionally Intelligent Interactions at Work and in Life

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Cale Birk is a District Principal of Innovation in British Columbia, co-author and imagineer of "PLC 2.0 - Collaborating for Impact in Today's Schools", "The PLC 2.0 Toolkit" and "Changing Change Using Learner-Centered Design". As a former Principal of a model professional learning community school and high school educator, Cale helps districts and schools answer the question "What is our observable impact?", the visible changes in practice at the classroom level that make the difference for students.

Having worked with organizations across Canada, the United States, Asia and Australia, Cale uses his background in project-based learning, Instructional Rounds and Visible Thinking strategies to design interactive learning experiences and professional development sessions with ready-to-use tools and protocols that teachers and administrators can take away to make their collaborative work have the observable impact where it matters the most--in classrooms with kids.

In addition to writing "PLC 2.0 - Collaborating for Impact in Today's Schools", "The PLC 2.0 Toolkit" and "Changing Change Using Learner-Centered Design", he has has written articles for Education Canada, the British Columbia Principals and Vice-Principals Association, the North American Association of Secondary Principals, and given podcasts on leadership, learner-centered design and parent engagement.

Show Highlights * Suffering from “solution-itis” * The power of using silence as a leader * Human-centered leadership. Avoid doing things to people but with them. * Defeating the imposter syndrome * Resistant people help you clarify your thinking * The only question you need as a school admin: What is the impact going to be in the classroom?

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Cale Birk Resources & Contact Info: * Cale’s book, PLC 2.0 * Twitter * Website

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PLC 2.0: Collaborating for Observable Impact in Today's Schools (includes PLC 2.0 Toolkit)

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Chris Rothwell is the Director of Education for Microsoft UK. He oversees a team that helps to deliver Microsoft’s vision to empower every student and educator to achieve more, helping them make the most of technology to save time and increase the impact of teaching and learning.

Show Highlights * Ways to gain access and embed meaningful technology the entire learning community is excited about to drastically impact growth * Finding a balance of mixing the physical environment and digital environment to expand learning to make content more accessible and inclusive to meet diverse learning needs. * Create clarity by implementing small steps with big rewards * Build habits about effective coaching that empowers people * Prioritizing important areas to support the same mission

“It's absolutely about customers and that amplification of the things that people are incredible at and how do we get technology to help them be even more incredible in that combination of technology plus people and creativity and it's not about dehumanizing, but it's absolutely about amplifying the human impact.”

Chris Rothwell

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Chris Rothwell Resources & Contact Info: * Microsoft Educator Center – a training and resource hub for educators https://education.microsoft.com/en-us

Microsoft in Education webpage https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education
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Rohin Shahi studies computer science at Duke University. After noticing that many people wrongly assume Gen Zers are just younger millennials, he wrote The Z Factor: How to Lead Gen Z to Workplace Success, a book that provides a simple approach to bridging generational gaps and helping Gen Z grow and thrive in the workplace.

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3 Reasons to Listen * Generation Z is entering the workforce -- will your school be prepared? * Mentorship and purpose-driven work matters (more than you think) * A surprising answer to how a Gen Zer would build his dream school

Rohin Shahi Resources & Contact Info: * The Z Factor (Rohin’s book)

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The Z Factor: How to Lead Gen Z to Workplace Success

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Dave Burgess is the New York Times Best-Selling author of Teach Like a PIRATE, co-author of P is for PIRATE, and the president of Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. which delivers powerful, inspirational, and innovative books, keynotes, and professional development.

He specializes in teaching hard-to-reach, hard-to-motivate students with techniques that incorporate showmanship and creativity. At a recent ceremony in Washington, D.C., he was awarded the BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences.

Dave delivers the ultimate professional development experience for your teachers that is perfect for all circumstances from truly inspirational opening keynotes to full-day hands-on workshops. It is a high-energy, interactive, and entertaining experience that will leave your staff unbelievably inspired, motivated, and with the practical skills to dramatically increase student engagement.

You can read more about Dave here.

Show Highlights * Disrupting the publishing industry * The “snowball” theory to creating cultural change in school * How to use social media to connect and community build * Running a business with a laptop and kitchen table * Are you creating a place for people to come together? * The importance of spreading your message * You can’t announce change from the podium

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Dave Burgess Resources & Contact Info: * REGISTER for the DBC Pirate Con this June 12-14, 2020 * Dave’s website * Dave’s Twitter * DBC Books

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David built the world’s largest coaching business coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. He now coaches high performing executives, entrepreneurs, teams, and even prison inmates, to create amazing results and deep connection. One tough conversation at a time.

Show Highlights * How to let go of resentment and bitterness you’ve been carrying for years * Naming fears as a way for moving past them * The tough conversation blueprint * The hardest conversations are often the ones we have with ourselves * Role-playing specific principal challenges * Preparing for difficult conversations

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David Wood Resources & Contact Info: Get your four-step tough conversation blueprint here: Playforreal.life

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Oleg Lougheed’s start in life was inauspicious. At 9 years old, he relinquished his parents' rights and entered the Russian orphanage. At 12 years old, he decided to be adopted into a new family, in a new country, halfway across the world, to start a new life. At 24 years old, he began his journey of helping others live the life they have always dreamed of, despite their hardships and misfortunes by allowing them to recognize the uniqueness and worth within their own story.

Show Highlights * How to break free from society and live a life that fulfills you. * There is no blueprint to life or leadership. * Not allowing the past to define the future. * The more you are willing to push yourself, the more you are able to grow. * Not letting your story define you. It’s important to also realize that many people have similar stories. * The power of sharing your story and how to approach vulnerability

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Oleg Lougheed Resources & Contact Info: * Overcoming Odds Twitter * Oleg’s Twitter * Website

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Jonathan Levi is a serial entrepreneur, published author, and keynote speaker born and raised in Silicon Valley. Since 2014, Jonathan leads SuperHuman Enterprises, which produces the SuperHuman Academy Podcast; the bestselling "Become a SuperLearner®” book; and offers online courses through SuperHuman Academy® and Branding You™ Academy training portals. His latest book, The Only Skill That Matters details his own journey and the techniques that anyone can use to learn faster.

3 Big Ideas * Career criteria list * How to train like an Olympian * How to improve learning and memory

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Jonathan Levi Resources: * The Only Skill That Matters

Personal website & portfolio: http://jle.vi
Online courses & podcast - self-improvement: https://superhumanacademy.com
Online courses - content creation: http://brandingyou.academy
Facebook: http://fb.com/jonlevi
Twitter: http://twitter.com/entreprenewer
YouTube: http://jle.vi/youtube
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LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jonathanlevi

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The Only Skill that Matters: The Proven Methodology to Read Faster, Remember More, and Become a SuperLearner

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Today, my guests need no introduction … I am honored to host Kim Marshall (of “The Marshall Memo) and Jenn David-Lang (of the Main Idea) to discuss their new book, The Best of the Marshall Memo.

Show Highlights * The importance of finding gaps and filling them * Being good doesn’t mean that’s what you do best * The unexpected benefit of writing The Marshall Memo * Why Kim considers himself an “accidental educator.” * The research behind tough conversations * The research on teacher evaluation

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Resources & Contact Info: * The Best of the Marshall Memo * Email Kim for a free chapter here * Kim’s website * Jenn’s website * Jenn on Twitter

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The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching and Learning

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Today’s podcast is a special episode where host, Daniel Bauer, shares a handful of tips to designing a powerful 2020.

Leaders are also invited to join the “productivity sprint,” a special 3 month program connecting leaders to each other hoping to be more focused and productive in Q1 of 2020.

Leap into 2020 and enroll in the sprint here: https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/productivity-sprint/

3 Big Ideas * Ideal Week * Miracle Morning * Daily Huddles

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Chris Legleiter is a middle school principal with 23 years of experience in education, with 12 of those being an administrator. Chris has a lead learner focus on helping others to collectively grow and learn from each other. He serves his school community by building relationships, being student centered and modeling the way.

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Over the past two decades (since she was in college) Jennifer has sculpted groundbreaking campaigns around youth empowerment, employment and entrepreneurship, bringing educational, government and corporate stakeholders together to impact millions. Author of the New York Times Bestseller Secrets of the Young & Successful, Kushell is an advisor to leading global youth organizations, a delegate of several State Department led entrepreneurship missions, and a Youth Advisor at the UN. Building Exploring Your Potential is part of a lifelong quest to ensure no driven young person lacks access to opportunity to achieve their potential.

Students are intimately coached through Exploring Your Potential™ by Jennifer, who offers context, explains the relevance of key topics, and inspires action every step of the way.

Jennifer Kushell Resources * Her book * Her personal website * Exploring your potential website * Jennifer on Twitter

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Secrets of the Young & Successful: How to Get Everything You Want Without Waiting a Lifetime by Jennifer Kushell (2003-04-29)

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

It’s December, half of the 2019 school year has come and gone and I bet I could predict one thing you're feeling right now, tired! You've been putting in a lot of work and I hope, ruckus maker, that you’ve seen the fruit of your labor. Jethro Jones joins the show from the Transformative Principal. We are going to talk about avoiding burnout and personalized communication.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points

Meet Jethro Jones
Burnout
Never give up
Power of Motivation
Five steps improvement plan
Approach to understand people
Mastermind
Advice to make a difference

Key Milestones of the Episodes

[03:55] Getting to know Jethro

[05:09] The story involving burnout

[08:23] Importance of not giving up

[10:40] How to motivate others

[17:08] How to impact on others

[18:20] Five steps to single Focus School Improvement plan

[26:55] What is Mastermind

[29:01] One thing for ruckus makers to remember

Key Quotes

“Burnout can happen at any time.”
“When a leader gets better. Everybody wins.”
“I think that's a really great way to approach this because you have to know them and you have to know what makes them tick and what I found is the things that make people really happy or really sad are the things that are most important to them because most teachers are just going to come and say this is what I need to make me happy and successful.”
“If you're not at the level right now, then don't feel like you're not doing the best that you can.”
“If you get the right people in the room-magic is created as a result.”
“Remember the power that you have to affect people's lives for good.”

About Our Guest

Jethro Jones, 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, is a principal in Fairbanks, Alaska, and host of Transformative Principal, where he interviews principals, leaders, and influencers who help improve K-12 education throughout the world. Jethro is a leading consultant for principals through masterminds and helps schools create school improvement plans that actually work.

Resources

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

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Get the right people on the bus: We have all heard a million times, but it is worth saying again, “Get the right people on the bus”. It is a Hidden Jim Collins’ gem in his book “Good to Great”. He discusses how important it is to have the right people in your organization. So you really need to think about it, figure out who you need in what positions and then you need to act on it. It's one thing to just think about it, but you do need to act on it. So make sure that you are getting the right people on your bus.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

Nobody is born with ownership and resilience. It is a muscle one needs to build. How do you go about building the resilience and ownership? In today’s episode, we are joined by Winston Clement. He will be taking us through the process of developing the ownership and resilience muscle.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points

Introduction of Winston Clement
The victim mentality
Managing change, stress and mental health
The power of having a morning routine
How does Winston measure success?
Winston’s dream school

Key Milestones of the Episodes

[04:56] Getting to know Winston

[08:21] Dealing with the victim mentality

[12:46] Managing change, stress and mental health

[14:47] Stepping out of the comfort zone and being proactive

[19:14] What keeps Winston in check?

[20:13] Importance of a morning routine

[25:08] How does Winston measure success?

[31:57] What message would Winston have on a school marquee?

[34:56] Winston’s dream school

Key Quotes

“Your dreams start before you're ready.”
“People crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who actually do.”
“You almost have to be a little bit crazy to believe that you can do something so audacious.”
“It’s no longer about Winston it’s about the impact and hopefully, my journey of leaving this world a better place.”
“Be creative and find ways to win even when those causes are not dealt in your favor.”
“We are always seeking ways to develop and not getting comfortable, which I believe is almost the enemy of progress.”
“It feels good to be the big baby when things don't go your way because now you have all the attention.”

About Our Guest

Winston Clement is a speaker and trainer, empowering audiences worldwide to break through their own barriers. Winston's mission is to inspire 1 billion people to enlist their full human potential. In 2018 he delivered a TEDx talk titled, your limitations are an illusion. They had a massive impact. Mine.

Contact Winston at: work@winstonclemente.com

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Take pictures. Make sure you have somebody with you, whether it be a student or a staff member or somebody you can rely on to take pictures. It's so important because you need to capture those memories with the kids and you need to be able to have something in a file somewhere when it's time to do celebrations or for graduation that you could put together a video slideshow quickly.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

As a new principal you are trying to figure out just who you are. What your leadership voice is, and the footprint and legacy that you'll leave behind. How do you start to make change happen? How do you gain the trust, credibility and build relationships that you'll need to take the school to the next level?

In today’s episode, our guest Heather Bell Williams is one of our ruckus makers who has a better idea about how to do this, how she would build her dream school and building leadership in teachers.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points

Introduction to Heather
Footsteps of principals
Inviting people for change
Community innovation
How would you build your dream school?
Building leadership in teachers
Message for self-awareness
Top three priorities
Advice to make a difference

Key Milestones of the Episodes

[04:27] Introduction to Heather

[05:13] Following the footsteps

[10:25] Inviting people to the change

[13:12] Aha moments

[19:00] Community Innovation

[24:55] Building leadership

[29:19] Pre-testing and post-testing

[30:10] Heather’s message

[31:53] Heather’s top three priorities

[33:09] Advice from Heather

Key Quotes

“The amazing gift to give your kids to just give them unfiltered undivided attention and pour into their lives.”
“How can we make some subtle shifts to add value to these kids’ lives and continue to help them and push them?”
“You're not limited by any resources. You're only limitations your imagination.”
“I look back on my journey here in this building so much of a thing so many of the things that we had to overcome.”

About Our Guest

Heather is a Chief Ruckus maker of a small school in St. Stephen, New Brunswick where she and her husband have lived for 20 years. They have raised two great sons with a focus on community engagement. She is most proud of the summer intervention camp, on-site daycare, and the employment of a family coordinator whose sole job is to get kids to school.

Resources

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Tip of the Week

Training, Mentoring and Leading Students: Be a principal that trains, mentors and leads a group of students. This will put you back in touch with the kids and with some of the things in the classroom. Putting yourself in position and sharing your knowledge with students build relationships quicker than you'll ever imagine.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

In today’s episode, our guest Robert Breyer is one of our ruckus makers who will share his story with you. He has served as a classroom teacher and administrator for the past fourteen years. He has some brilliant ideas about business and to execute his plans he has launched a podcast.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points

Introduction to Robert
Starting of Podcast business
Importance of building confidence
Leaving comfort zone
Making an emotional connection
AP to the principal transformation
Importance of learning
Take away from the conversation

Key Milestones of the Episodes

[05:32] Introduction to Robert Breyer

[07:16] Starting of podcast

[13:28] Aha moments

[18:36] AP to Principal

[23:50] Importance of building confidence

[26:08] Gift for Ruckus Maker

[33:30] Leaving comfort zone

[36:49] First book of Daniel

[43:41] Story for the Ruckus maker

[45:58] Demand of the business

[47:55] Take away from the conversation

Key Quotes

“Isolation is the number one enemy of excellence and isolation is also a choice.”
“Don't try to do everything for everybody.”
“You don't have to do it alone.”
“People will reveal what they need and why they need.”
“People see themselves in the stories you tell.”
“Leadership is service or if you're interested in business. That's just solving somebody's challenge.”
“I'm looking at different ways to go to separate myself from others because there's a lot of people already doing this type of business. How do I make myself stand out?”

About Our Guest

Robert Breyer has served as a classroom teacher and administrator for the past 14 years. He was selected to the first Sandhills Leadership Academy class, which is a selective process to prepare a cadre of highly effective school leaders for high needs schools These experiences have shaped Robert into a reflective and effective school leader who sets the example for his peers, teachers, and students.

Robert is also the host of the Guiding Principals podcast.

Resources

Story Driven

The Right Story

The Compelling Communicator

The Story Skills Workshop

Join the mastermind

Guiding Principals Podcast

Tip of the Week

Honoring Students: Follow the universities and honor your students with Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude and Cum Laude. Get them ready for college. I've seen a school district do this and it was amazing because there are no questions asked about students weighted GPA’s and courses they took. A student has to have a certain GPA and above to be at Magna, Summa and Cum Laude. It’s just a brilliant introduction to honoring deserving students and moving away from tradition.

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The Right Story: A brief guide to changing the world

Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are

The Compelling Communicator: Mastering the Art and Science of Exceptional Presentation Design

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

In today’s episode, our guest Orly Friedman is one of our ruckus makers who will share her experience with you. She is the founder of a new K-8 school with a focus on developing a sense of urgency in all students.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points

Introduction to Orly Friedman
The story of Orly
Building of efficient system for teachers
Red bridge vs traditional schools
Importance of grades
Training of staff with OKRs
Top three priorities
Advice for Ruckus makers

Key Milestones of the Episodes

[00:14] Introduction of Orly Friedman

[04:14] Orly’s Story

[05:29] Making of school

[12:20] Utilizing staff in different ways

[15:51] How do grades put a stop to learning?

[20:47] Orly’s learning

[23:25] Example of a student or teacher’s goal

[26:10] Training staff with OKRs

[27:42] Top three priorities for building and school

[29:59] Advice from Orly

Key Quotes

“Once you are like the coach Mentor role the way that their day is scheduled is one-on-one meetings students.”
“In traditional schools all of the structures and systems are really designed to reward compliance.”
“We know what motivates the adults and the same thing is true for kids, so you can give students mastery, autonomy, purpose and meaningful relationship. They are going to love coming to school and that’s true for students and teachers.”

About Our Guest

Orly Friedman is the founder of Red bridge, a new K-8 school marching in San Francisco in September 2020. The focus of the school is developing a sense of agency in all students previously or they spent five years teaching Elementary School in Washington DC. She moved to California to get her MBA at Stanford after which she joined the founding team of Khan Lab School and work there for 4 years as head of lower school.

Resources

Twitter

Website

One World School House

Measure What Matters

Blog post on OKRs

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

What would you do if you walked into the doctor's office for what you thought was possibly kidney stones and instead the doctor looked at you in the eyes and said you have cancer. What would be your next step?

In today’s episode, our guest Aubrey Patterson is one of our ruckus makers who will share his with you. He’s a cancer survivor and wanted to do something in education and set up an example.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points

Introduction to Aubrey
The story of Aubrey
How to face challenges in life
Simplify, Amplify and Clarify
About Management
Things that build you up
Top three priorities
Advice to make a difference

Key Milestones of the Episodes

[03:55] Introduction to Aubrey Patterson

[05:34] Aubrey’s Story

[12:44] Concrete idea to face challenges in life

[13:56] The message

[19:28] Example to understand the message

[21:52] What things build you up

[27:16] Top three priorities

[28:58] Advice from Aubrey to Ruckus makers

Key Quotes

“If you don't change direction, you might just end up where you're headed.”
“I always want students to feel significant. I want the families, parents and teachers-every adult in the building to feel significant. Not just today, but always”
“The best way to become a stronger leader is to try to build leadership in others.”
“Amazing teachers grow our leaders”.
“To make a difference trust your gut.”

About Our Guest

Aubrey has been a teacher, principal, and superintendent in a high performing school district in Western Canada.

Aubrey co-created Nohea Leadership to help EDUleaders use of technology to capture great ideas, recapture time and build exceptionally open and positive learning cultures. Nohea’s easily adaptable systems use three distinct stages that fall in succession like dominoes: simplifi, clarifi and amplifi.

Tip of the Week

Start with the end in mind. What is the result that you are watching for the end of the year? You want to win, you want those kids to win, you want that achievement score to go up, and you want those kids to master skills. So, always start with the end in mind.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

Do you have a dream of writing and publishing a book, but you do not go how to about it? Everyone has a book inside them. The problem is how to transform it into reality.

In today’s episode, our guest Caleb is one of our ruckus makers who thinks he has a book inside him. Danny coaches Caleb on how to find the book within and the process of how to write and publish his book.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points * Introduction to Caleb * Finding the time to write * Brainstorming your book topic * Dealing with Imposter Syndrome * Developing your audience and identity * Finding a publisher and presenting your book * Understanding self-publishing * Caleb's next step

Key Milestones of the Episodes [00:35] Introduction to Caleb Bonjour

[07:27] Committing and setting time aside for writing

[11:35] Brainstorming your book topic

[17:43] imposter syndrome and how to deal with it

[20:48] Developing your audience and identity

[25:11] Pitching a publisher

[28:20] Understanding self-publishing

[31:46] Caleb's next step

Key Quotes 1. “You can't please everyone.” 2. “Humans are imperfect beings, so we do make mistakes.” 3. “Amazing educators take the opportunity to write a book and tell their story or shared some of their knowledge and wisdom.” 4. “You need to write a bunch of garbage to get to the goal.” 5. “Your job is to create the content.” 6. “What sets successful people apart from others - even though we all have that inner critic - is that they act professionally...” 7. “You get more creative control if you're self-publish.”

Key Resources 1. James Woosley

Jennifer Harshman

About Our Guest Caleb Bonjour is a fun loving educator that strives to be a lifelong learner. He has an amazing, supportive wife Amanda, a talkative and rambunctious five-year-old son Lincoln, and a 3 year old daughter McKinley. They also have three great dogs, Milo (an American Bulldog), Willow (a Cocker Spaniel), and Rosie (A Fox Red Labrador that is training to be a therapy dog for schools). Caleb loves being with his family, watching and playing sports, listening to many varieties of music, and learning more and more leadership and education on a daily basis.

Caleb strives to be the best educator he can be through studying best practices and constantly changing or adapting his practices to reach all students and staff. He has taught and coached with Pella Community Schools and Grundy Center Community Schools and is in his second administrative position as Principal of Cardinal Elementary in the Maquoketa Community School District.

Tip of the Week Loosen up: Stop taking yourself too seriously. Humans are imperfect beings, so we do make mistakes. Sometimes we trip, we might spill our coffee on ourselves. You need to laugh at yourself and tell people those kind of stories.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

Imagine a 10-year-old student is invited to your staff meeting, and he stands courageously in front of 60 to 80 adults. His task to present the data which he's researched and collected on staff implementation of a new aspect of a student-designed curriculum. The results are that only half the staff is implementing with fidelity, and the student challenges the team to level up their game.

You are probably wondering how you can give your students such a voice. Our guest today tells us how she has managed to empower the students' voice in her school. Listen in, get inspired, and learn.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points * The birth of student voice empowerment in Melissa's school * Challenges and setbacks when children are given so much voice * Negative and positive impacts of student voice empowerment * Implementing student voice empowerment * Melissa's dream school

Key Milestones of the Episodes [03:01] Tip of the week.

[04:52] Melissa Clark's Introduction

[08:08] How Melissa started the student voice empowerment

[13:25] Challenges and setbacks when students are given so much voice

[16:58] Positive impacts from a student's voice

[23:24] Everything is about learning

[28:57] Melissa's top three priorities for her dream school

Key Quotes 1. "The secret to improving our impact and to really make the change as leaders is to ask students what they need." 2. "As teachers that we underestimate the power of a child." 3. "We discovered that the secret was to improve our impact as classroom teachers and to simply ask students what they need." 4. "Student voice could go so much further than just making a difference in classroom practice. They're actually the untapped change agents within a school as well."

Key Resources Pivot (online platform for student voice)

About Our Guest Melissa Clarke is a Principal and coach who has worked in primary schools for the last 20 years. Melissa believes strongly in providing teachers with ‘permission’ to try innovative practice and believes through coaching and personalised professional learning staff will be empowered to be the best they can be while ensuring all teachers are on a journey of ongoing improvement. Her interests include high quality literacy teaching in the classroom, visible learning and the activation of student voice to empower learners. Melissa has taught all grades from K-6 and worked with students from a range of backgrounds and support needs.

Tip of the Week Be the best at one thing: Be really darn good at one thing. Be an expert in that. Find what you're passionate about, be an expert in that and then hire others to be good at other things or empower your assistants to be good at the other things that you as a leader need to be active and an expert in at least one thing plus one to hire others.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

Did you know that you can borrow ideas from other industries and implement them in your schools? Some people have tried, and they have succeeded.

One of those people is Maria Piccolo Mattoon, who happens to be our guest today.

She is the first person from the Learning Community to be interviewed on the show. Maria is a board member at Birla public school in Qatar.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points * Maria’s introduction * Learning from other industries and implementing in schools * OODA Loop * How are promotions done at Birla School? * Retaining top talents * Happiness KPIs * Importance of partnership building with the local community * Maria’s dream school

Key Milestones of the Episodes [03:50] Tip of the Week

[06:07] Maria’s introduction

[07:47] Implementing ideas borrowed from other industries

[09:27] OODA loop reflection technique

[10:31] The department of capacity building

[12:07] How are promotions done at Birla School?

[13:05] Pitfalls to avoid when promoting from within

[14:13] The secret to retaining top talent

[17:57] Happiness KPIs

[21:17] What is the most important thing when creating local partnerships?

[25:06] Maria’s dream school

Key Quotes 1. “The person with the fewest blind spots wins.” 2. “You need to go to bed early, make yourself do it. You will be more productive during the day, and you will get more things done. At six o’clock, you should shut it off.” 3. “From being in a variety of industries, you expose yourself to a variety of risk profiles.” 4. “Our team is like a family.” 5. “We invest in our people’s professional development and growth and advancement for all of them, all members of our team across all levels.” 6. “We like to look at unusual places to see what insights can be gleaned from there as well.” 7. “Our life is only limited by our own imagination, not the imagination of others.” 8. “We have an amazing generation, and they can do really great things if they can imagine that act based on their own imagination and what they want for their own life.” 9. ” Children are so different and so unique, and it’d be nice to cater to all of them. “

Key Resources 1. Zero to One by Peter Thiel 2. OODA Loop 3. Steve Francis Website

About Our Guest Maria Pakalomattom is a Board member at Birla Public School, a private school with over 7500 students in Qatar. She has led various initiatives at the school covering the strategic, academic, operational and financial aspects. Maria has investments in ventures across sectors as an entrepreneur, but education is her favorite. Maria studied at Columbia University, where she focused on finance and entrepreneurship.

Tip of the Week Go to bed early. Just like eating right and exercising, there is immense value in getting appropriate rest. I make terrible decisions when I’m tired and i’m no fun to be around. I love Michael Hyatt’s post on the importance of rest.

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As a school head, you can't make ruckus sitting in your office with the four walls surrounding you and all the business of public education happening out in the school. Our guest today, Andy Lindsay tell us how he built himself a mobile office which ended up as a learning inspiration for an autistic student in the school.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points 1. What is a mobile office? 2. The development and advancement of Andy’s mobile office 3. The unintended consequences of the mobile office 4. Andy’s communication system between him and the teachers 5. What is the French fries challenge

Key Milestones of the Episodes [03:50] Andy’s introduction

[05:25] What’s a mobile office?

[06:08] Development and advancement of Andy’s mobile office

[09:44] The unintended consequences of the mobile office

[13:11] The communication system

[17:01] The French fries challenge

[22:33] Danny’s ideal stuff profile

[29:06] Danny’s top three priorities for his dream school

Key Quotes 1. “Isolation is the number one enemy of excellence and it is also a choice.” 2. “Sometimes we exist in a vacuum of natural talent and that will only get us so far.” 3. “Effective school leaders need to connect with others that can help them accelerate their growth and pass their knowledge on to as well.” 4. “You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” 5. “You can't make ruckus sitting in your office with the four walls surrounding you and all the business of public education happening out in the school.” 6. “There are so many neat opportunities out there that are not in textbooks, but they're real.” 7. “Helpful teachers have to be helpful by nature.” 8. “Passion will lead you to success more than a desire for money.” 9. “I can inspire their passion, but they've got to have it in the corner to begin with.” 10. “We cannot be inflexible in any way. Flexibility has to be part of our part of everyday life for us.”

Key Resources 1. School Leadership Reimagined Podcast- Robyn Jackson 2. School Leadership Series with Daniel Bauer

About Our Guest Andy Lindsey has worked in public education for 22 years as a teacher, coach, tech leader, mentor association leader and Dean of Students. For the past five years, Andy has served as an assistant principal, he has won statewide awards in Michigan as a first year teacher, social studies teacher and as an assistant principal. His secret sauce is passion for learning, leadership and kids.

Tip of the Week Network! Sometimes we exist in a vacuum of natural talent and that will only get us so far. So effective school leaders need to connect with others that can help them accelerate their growth and pass their knowledge on to as well.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

Why is career advancement for women more difficult than it is for men? What can women do to fight the bias at workplaces?

People put you into buckets based on who they perceive you to be. Women have had it all rough. Their ambitions and competence get questioned all the time. For instance, how can she deliver at work yet she has a baby to nurture? How can she be so ambitious?

Our guests today are here to help us understand how we can fight bias at workplaces. According to our guests, it all begins with demonstrating confidence, even when you are not confident.

Women are very often perceived as too weak, too sweet, too nice to be effective. If they’re very effective, then they’re considered to be unpleasant and unlikeable.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points * How to deal with stereotyping that comes from transitioning from a smaller firm to a larger firm * Where do we begin the journey of being comfortable to talk about our accomplishments? * How can we enroll men in the bias conversation, and how can we get them to invest in the needed change? * Goldilocks dilemma

Key Milestones of the Episodes [03:22] Transitioning from a smaller firm to a larger firm. How to deal with the stereotyping

[06:26] Talking about our accomplishments

[07:42] How can we engage men in the conversation against bias?

[11:10] Goldilocks dilemma

Key Quotes 1. “The way we present ourselves gives other people an idea of who we are.” 2. “The balance between communal and agentic behaviors is dependent on the ability to manage the impressions that you create that other people have of you.”

Key Resources 1. Website 2. Twitter 3. It's Not You It's the Workplace: Women's Conflict at Work and the Bias that Built It by Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris

About Our Guest Andie Kramer and Al Harris are married practicing lawyers. They have been mentoring women and speaking and writing about gender communication for more than 30 years. Andie and Al offer women unique, balanced, and highly practical advice they can use to prevent gender biases from slowing or derailing their careers.

Join the BLBS Mastermind What kind of leader makes a good mastermind member? Danny asks members that he already serves and this it what they said about their peers:

Mastermind members are supportive, wise and not afraid to kick your butt! ~Eileen, Deputy Head of Schools in China

Courageous, risk takers and learners are how I describe my mastermind peers. ~Chris, VP in Canada

Mastermind members are generous, driven and are never satisfied with the status quo. ~Melody, Principal in Kentucky

If that sounds like you or people you want to surround yourself with apply today at https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind/

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Tip of the Week Be Consistent: Consistency leads to trust. Make sure you are doing what you say you are going to do each day. Follow through and be consistent with your teachers. Your authentic leadership depends on it. People love a leader who they trust.

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What is Courage? How can you lead with Courage?

Today we are honored to have Amanda Valenzuela on the show. Amanda will tell us what it takes to lead with Courage. According to our guest, Courage is asking that pesky question that you don’t want to ask at the end of the admin meeting because you know, it needs to be asked. How often do you hold back on something just because you think it doesn’t matter, but deep inside, you know you need to ask?

Amanda takes us through how she leads with Courage.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points * Amanda’s introduction * Courage * Leading with Courage * How to find a voice

Key Milestones of the Episodes [01:22] Amanda’s introduction

[09:14] What is Courage?

[10:57] Leading with Courage

[19:09] Finding your voice

[28:51] Amanda’s top 3 priorities

Key Quotes 1. “When you’re on your path, the universe will conspire to help you.” 2. “If you are going to find your voice and you’re going to be willing to share your voice, you have to like yourself, and you have to believe that other people like you and or that what you have to say matters or no one’s going to listen to you.” 3. “As a woman, there’s no reason I can’t do anything that anyone else does.” 4. “You just can’t be worried about being popular all the time.” 5. “If you’re going to hold back, then there’s no way that your team can trust you.” 6. “Courage is asking that pesky question that you don’t want to ask at the end of the admin meeting because you know, it needs to be asked.”

Key Resources 1. Dare to Lead- Brenae Brown’s 2. The Conrad Challenge

About Our Guest Amanda Valenzuela, native of Southern California, is the Upper School Coordinator and the Languages Department Head. She completed her undergraduate studies at California State University, Fullerton in Spanish Linguistics and Literature, and her graduate studies at UCLA, where she earned a Masters in Spanish and Ph.D. Candidacy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. As a school leader, she credits the NAIS Diversity Leadership Institute (DLI) for building her capacity to support equitable and inclusive educational practices at ESLA. During the 2019-2020 school year, Amanda is teaching Global Citizenship Through the Lens of Recent Spanish Cinema and AP Spanish Language and Culture. Amanda is also a 2019-2020 Leadership and Design Fellow (L+D) and a contributor to California World Language Project (CWLP) & the California Global Education Project. Amanda loves surfing, hiking, motorcycles, and storytelling.

Tip of the Week Build a team: As you develop relationships within the organization take note of everyone’s strengths. Build your team on complimentary pieces. In fact, build the team to bolster your weaknesses as a leader. Do you have a school improvement team, a leadership team, or a data team? Effective school leaders build teams that can support their efforts.

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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.

Do you know students can advise you in ways that you cannot imagine? Dr. Marcus Campbell tells us how his students helped him come up with the dress code for the school. Additionally, Dr. Campbell tells us how his school changed the status quo and got more students to the AP classes regardless of their race.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com

Key Talking Points * How Marcus implemented dressing code in his school * Race vs. Gender * Breaking the status quo of the AP classes * Being a better decision maker

Key Milestones of the Episodes [05:10] The history of dress codes

[06:15] Adopting the Oregon chapter

[10:59] What shift happened to the dress code?

[17:02] Access and equity to AP classes

[24:47] How Marcus makes decisions

[27:41] Self-care

Key Quotes 1. “There's nothing worse than being inconsistent.” 2. “If you say you're going to do something, follow through.” 3. “Authentic leadership is a leader’s ability to lead with their mind their heart and their feet.” 4. “If learning is our focus, let's focus on the learning and leave the dressing.” 5. “Do what you have to do when you have to do it regardless of how you feel.”

Key Resources Frederick Douglas by Dr. David Blight

About Our Guest Dr. Campbell earned his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at National College of Education, National Louis University in the fall of 2015.

Marcus Campbell also serves as the Assistant Superintendent/Principal at ETHS since 2013. In this role, he serves as the educational leader and chief administrator of all school operations at Evanston Township High School and is responsible for implementing and managing the policies, regulations, and procedures of the Board of Education to ensure that all students are educated and supported in a safe, equitable, culturally relevant and student-centered learning environment.