EPISODE 266Summer Success Series Pt. 2: How to Get UnstuckBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Sometimes the reason you’re stuck is not because you don’t have the skills to get unstuck. The reason you’re stuck is because you refuse to use them.How many times have you had everything you needed to be successful, but been […]
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EPISODE 265Summer Success Series Pt. 1: The #1 Thing Standing Between You and SuccessBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We overestimate how much other people block our dreams and underestimate how much we self-sabotage.If you don’t believe in you, how can you expect anyone else to?We often talk ourselves out of success not because we […]
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EPISODE 264The ONE thing you must do at the end of the school yearBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If you never take time to learn lessons from the previous school year, you’ll make many of the same mistakes next school year.We don’t spend enough time examining what we need to STOP doing before we […]
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EPISODE 263The Annual Summer Reading ListBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:There are essentially two ways we can show up in any situation. We can either launch into self-protection (blame, avoidance, denial, rationalization, judgment) or we can regulate our emotions so that we can think and behave intentionally. (curtesy of Annie Hyman Pratt).“Teams are temporary. […]
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EPISODE 262The Ultimate Guide to Attracting, Interviewing, and Onboarding Your Next APBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:What is it about your school that would make someone WANT to work there?All too often, we work hard to recruit someone to work in our school and then abandon them once they’re hired.How you onboard someone to […]
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EPISODE 261Rewind: Student Focus GroupBiggest 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 Builders.Student Focus Groups […]
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EPISODE 2605 Ways to Guarantee FailureBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We tend to focus on what we cannot control and ignore all the things we can control. If we just optimized all the stuff we can control, we wouldn’t have to worry about the stuff we can’t control.Instead of trying to change people, ask […]
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EPISODE 259Rewind: Four Battle-Tested Interview Questions to Help you Find and Hire Master TeachersBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Most people hire for skill and fire for will. That means that you should be using your interview process not just to determine teacher skill; The more powerful way to use interviews is to suss out […]
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EPISODE 258Why you should be conducting Exit InterviewsBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Want to know what teachers really think of you? Try talking to a teacher who is leaving. An Exit Interview is a powerful way to provide closure for you and for any teacher who is leaving, so why don’t more principals do them?Exit […]
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EPISODE 257Here’s why you’re feeling overwhelmedBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Are you working ON your school or IN your school?The reason we feel overwhelmed is because we’re carrying around unmade decisions. Next school year is being built right now. If you wait until the summer to work on your school, it’s really too late. If you […]
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