EPISODE 354

What 8 Years of Doing This Podcast Has Taught Me

Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:
  • 100% isn't hard because it's ambitious. It's hard because most people stop once it starts working.
  • Principals don't need more inspiration. They need something that works after the inspiration wears off. 
  • Believing in 100% student success is not enough. What are you going to do about it?
  • People plateau because they confuse their first breakthrough with their final destination. 
  • People don't stop building because they stopped caring. They stop because enthusiasm was never designed to be a long-term operating system.

This month marks eight years of this podcast — and instead of celebrating with a highlight reel, I want to do something more honest: tell you what these eight years have actually changed in me.

I started convinced that the biggest problem in schools was a failure of imagination. What I've learned since is harder, more uncomfortable, and more useful than that.

So, tune in for a very real examination of what I’ve learned, what has surprised me, and where we need to take the work next #LikeABuilder.

Check out these highlights:
  • Why belief in 100% student success is necessary, but never sufficient
  • How to recognize the plateau cycle that quietly undoes even the most promising school breakthroughs
  • What the difference is between a school run on enthusiasm and one built on systems (and why that distinction changes everything)
  • Why the question "can we get there?" is the wrong question (and what to ask instead once you've had a real breakthrough)
  • What eight years of working with real schools has revealed about the gap between reimagining school leadership and making that vision permanent
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