EPISODE 45

Multiply Your Ability to Influence Teacher Behavior With This One Simple Tweak

Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:
  •  We tend to focus on giving teachers good feedback in order to help them improve. But giving teachers meaningful feedback is only the first step. If you don’t follow up with teachers, all your great feedback will be in vain. 
  • When teachers aren’t performing, leaders resort to writing the teacher up, putting the teacher on a performance plan, or proving an avalanche of feedback and support. However, Builder’s know that those tools don’t work. In fact, Builders know that there are only four things you can do to actually impact teacher behavior and performance.  
  • You may already be practicing the four disciplines of Buildership, but there is a simple tweak you can make that will exponentially multiply your effectiveness. 


Sometimes when you are working to help teachers improve, it can feel like for every step you take forward, you take two steps back.

You try to give teachers good feedback, you provide great professional development and coaching, but sometimes, teachers still don’t improve. When teachers aren’t performing, leaders resort to writing the teacher up, putting the teacher on a performance plan, or proving an avalanche of feedback and support.

However, Builder’s know that those tools don’t work. In fact, Builders know that there are only four things you can do to actually impact teacher behavior and performance.

I call these four things, the Four Disciplines of Buildership. Chances are, you’re probably already practicing some or all of these four disciplines already, but on today’s episode, you’ll discover a simple tweak you can make that will exponentially magnify your effectiveness. 

Tune in to this episode find out how to multiply your effectiveness with teachers #LikeABuilder.

Check out these highlights:

  • Book Update!  
  • How I discovered this simple tweak that helped me help teachers make significant improvements year over year.  
  • The only four ways you can improve teacher performance and influence teacher behavior. 
  • Why feedback alone is not enough. 
  • How support without accountability will usually backfire. 
  • Why you shouldn’t jump to accountability first. 
  • How improving your culture is only the first step. 
  • Why practicing all four disciplines is like pouring gasoline on a tiny fire. 
  • How one principal found a way to consistently practice all four disciplines and how you can too.  
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