EPISODE 357There’s a new kind of teacher: Why everything you know about leadership just changedBiggest 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 […]
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EPISODE 356The Leadership Ceiling: Why Working Harder Isn’t WorkingBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Is your school a graveyard of half-implemented initiatives?Compliance is what happens when people are waiting to be told what to do next.If I’m doing everything I was trained to do… why isn’t it working? That question is the first crack in […]
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EPISODE 355Why this moment in education is differentBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If progress in your school depends on your energy, it won’t survive your exhaustion.Schools are one of the few institutions expected to get stronger… while everything around them is getting more unstable.Schools have always been community institutions. But right now they’re also […]
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EPISODE 354What 8 Years of Doing This Podcast Has Taught MeBiggest 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 […]
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EPISODE 353The Surefire Way to Know If Your Staff Really Believes in 100%Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:A teacher who fills out the paperwork and passes the kid on isn’t doing something wrong — they’re doing exactly what your system trained them to do.If your school only works when everyone feels like it, your […]
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EPISODE 352I hate testing seasonBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Testing season doesn’t reward the schools that work the hardest at the last minute. It rewards the schools that get the clearest about what matters most.Testing Season Mistake #1: When you try to review everything, teachers prioritize differently, students get mixed signals, and nothing gets […]
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EPISODE 351The real danger of the “Compensation Cycle”Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Once you know Tier 1 is broken, the question isn’t whether to fix it. The question is how long students should have to wait while adults figure it out.While you’re out here trying to figure things out on your own, who is […]
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EPISODE 350We’ve been gaslitBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We’ve romanticized student struggle because it lets adults be the hero. But in doing so, we’ve normalized systems that require kids to suffer before they succeed.If you expect struggle to be the norm, you build systems that tolerate it. If you expect turnaround to take years, […]
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EPISODE 349Your school wasn’t built for thisBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We assume results are a function of effort or leadership quality. But in reality, results are a function of our systems.When you try to get outcomes a system wasn’t built for, effort increases but results don’t.When you don’t have the right systems in […]
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EPISODE 348What’s the big deal about vision?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Generic vision = generic school.Does your school vision sound like everyone else’s?If other people’s agendas consistently usurp your vision, you’re leading someone else’s school.If your vision could apply to any school, it’s not really YOUR vision.Could someone read your vision statement and know […]
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