Episode 116 – Summer Rewind: From fighting fires to fire prevention

EPISODE 116Summer Rewind: From fighting fires to fire preventionBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:You already have a system for everything that you do in school whether you realize it or not. It may be a broken system or a dysfunctional system, but it is a system. All that fire fighting that you are currently […]

Episode 115 – Summer Rewind: 5 Traps that Threaten the Success of Your School Improvement Efforts this year

EPISODE 115Summer Rewind: 5 Traps that Threaten the Success of Your School Improvement Efforts this yearBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Buildership is not a hat you can take on and off when it suits you. In order to be a true Builder, you must meet every challenge, every situation like a Builder.There are several […]

Episode 114 – Summer Rewind: The Secret to Overcoming Burnout

EPISODE 114Summer Rewind: The Secret to Overcoming BurnoutBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:One of the biggest reasons we experience burnout is because we are not doing work that feeds and inspires us.When we operate in our zone of competence, we are just plowing through the work but not deriving any real joy from it. Doing […]

Episode 113 – Summer Rewind: Steal My Weekly Team Meeting Agenda

EPISODE 113Summer Rewind: Steal My Weekly Team Meeting AgendaBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:One of the biggest hidden obstacles keeping you from meeting your school goals this year is how you plan your team meetings.It’s not just how often you meet that counts. What matters is what you do in those meetings. Without an […]

Episode 56 – Makeover Show: The Vision and Mission Statement Edition…

EPISODE 56Makeover Show: The Vision and Mission Statement Edition Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:The purpose of your vision and mission is to drive the work of your school. If you can’t remember your vision or state your mission by memory, there’s a good chance that neither of them are driving anything. Your vision and […]

Episode 55 – Makeover Show: The Core Values Edition…

EPISODE 55Makeover Show: The Core Values Edition Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:The purpose of your core values is to define how we all need to behave if we are going to achieve our ambitious vision and live out our mission for students each day. If your core values don’t make that clear, they are […]

Episode 54 – What got you here won’t get you there…

EPISODE 54What got you here won’t get you there…  Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:The things that made you successful in your old position are not the same things that will make you successful in your new position. The reason that so many of us are exhausted and overwhelmed is that we never learned how […]

Episode 53 – Making Change Stick

EPISODE 53Making Change Stick Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:It’s one thing to institute a change and see some initial success; it’s quite another thing to actually embed that change into your culture. If you are not deliberate about embedding change in your culture, you will constantly be on the “Improvement Hamster Wheel.”  ​If you […]

Episode 43 – The Problem With Your Mission Statement

​EPISODE 43The Problem With Your Mission StatementBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:The purpose of your mission statement is to guide your work as a school. Your mission statement should answer the question: Why are we here? All too often, our mission statements are bloated with “educatorese” that leave them uninspiring and useless. When you use your […]

Episode 42 – Are these 3 fears keeping you from achieving your vision for your school this year?

​EPISODE 42Are These 3 Fears Keeping You From Achieving Your Vision For Your SchoolThis Year?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If you don’t believe in your vision for your school, no one else will either. There are 3 big fears that keep us from setting ambitious visions for our schools. Unless you overcome these fears, […]