Episode 121 – Feeling Defeated Already?

EPISODE 121Feeling Defeated Already?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:It can be easy to feel overwhelmed in spite of your best intentions. This school year is already off to a rocky start and it can seem as if there is no room for your vision, mission, and core values. But delaying that work is a […]

Episode 120 – Summer Rewind: Six Early Warning Signs of a Toxic School Culture

EPISODE 120Summer Rewind: Six Early Warning Signs of a Toxic School CultureBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:A toxic culture can completely derail any change efforts you want to make, so it is really important to detect and deal with any sign of toxicity first, before you begin your change efforts. Otherwise, that toxic culture […]

Episode 119 – Summer Rewind: Success is Boring

EPISODE 119Summer Rewind: Success is BoringBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:It may seem as if the road to success is all about the latest and greatest new innovation, but as it turns out, success is much more boring.True success is really about doing the boring stuff consistently and pervasively.Instead of chasing the latest shiny […]

Episode 118 – Summer Rewind: All Money Ain’t Good Money

EPISODE 118Summer Rewind: All Money Ain’t Good MoneyBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We are being asked to make decisions quickly in the face of a crisis, but “All money ain’t good money.”Every decision you make will have short-term trade offs and long-term consequences. If you don’t consider these, you may make a decision you […]

Episode 112 – Summer Rewind: How To Conduct Student Focus Groups

EPISODE 112Summer Rewind: How To Conduct Student Focus GroupsBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Being a Builder is not just about giving others feedback. Feedback for Builders is a two-way street. That’s why Builders are deliberate about collecting, analyzing, and reflecting on the feedback they get from others and they use this feedback to become better […]

Episode 111 – Summer Rewind: How To Create Wow Experiences For Your Students And Staff

EPISODE 111Summer Rewind: How To Create Wow Experiences For Your Students And StaffBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:“If we recognize how important natural defining moments are, we can shape them — make them more memorable and meaningful.”Wow experiences elevate the ordinary in a way that reinforces your core values and create moments of insight […]

Episode 110 – Summer Rewind: Anchor in the Outcome

EPISODE 110Summer Rewind: Anchor in the OutcomeBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We cannot control how things will go in the weeks ahead, but we can do something that will literally guarantee that the decisions we make now will not come back to haunt us when we enter the new normal.There is a growing divide […]

Episode 109 – Summer Reading List 2021

EPISODE 109Summer Reading List 2021This year’s list is a little different. I just didn’t read that many great books this year. But I did manage to discover 3 non-education books that I think you should be reading this summer and I’m sharing 4 other books that are on MY summer reading list. Hopefully you’ll discover at least […]

Episode 108 – Why Being a Builder Makes You a Bit of a Weirdo

EPISODE 108 Why Being a Builder Makes You a Bit of a WeirdoBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Being a Builder makes you different than everyone else — and that’s a good thing. It means that you expect different results and post different gains. Ultimately it means that you can make a bigger difference in the […]

Episode 107 – How to Plan for the Summer

EPISODE 107 How to Plan for the SummerBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Bosses are planning on doing whatever their district tells them to do this summer. As a result, they will end up complying with district mandates instead of setting up their own schools for success in the fall.Leaders are busy trying to figure out […]