EPISODE 357

There’s a new kind of teacher:
Why everything you know about leadership just changed

Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:
  • The teacher you were trained to lead and the teacher standing in your building right now are not the same person. 
  • You cannot keep asking teachers to compensate for broken systems by working harder and doing more.
  • Belief follows evidence. Which means your job isn't to change their minds. It's to build something worth believing in.
  • The teacher who is skeptical about 100% is not your enemy. Their skepticism is pretty logical if the systems you’ve built haven’t earned their belief yet. 
  • Teachers will go all in — will bring everything, will stay late, will invest deeply, — when the conditions finally justify that level of commitment.

The teacher you were trained to lead and the teacher standing in your building right now are not the same person, and nobody told you that.

That’s why in this episode, I’m  going to show you exactly who the New Teacher is, why the tactics that used to work have stopped working, and what it actually takes to reach a teacher who evaluates authority, interrogates truth, and is no longer defined by the profession the way teachers used to be. It’s not you. It’s not them. It’s that the old playbooks no longer work.

So you can stop blaming yourself, stop blaming your staff, and start building a school worth committing to #LikeABuilder.

Check out these highlights:
  • Who the New Teacher actually is — and why the teacher you were trained to lead and the teacher standing in your building right now are not the same person
  • Why the tactics that used to work with teachers have stopped working — and why it has nothing to do with how hard you're trying
  • What low expectations, resistance, and checking out are actually telling you about the mismatch between your playbook and your people
  • The three ways the New Teacher relates to authority, truth, and the profession itself — and why understanding them changes everything about how you lead
  • How to stop using the right tools for the wrong era and start building a school the New Teacher is actually willing to commit to
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