Episode 249 – How to take things off your plate

EPISODE 249How to take things off your plateBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:You’re doing waaay too much (but you knew that already)You already know what you need to do to achieve 100% success. You’re just too afraid to do it.There’s a difference between randomly taking things off teachers’ plates and strategically focusing on what […]

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Episode 247 – What problem are you trying to solve?

EPISODE 247What problem are you trying to solve?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Often we are so busy pushing this initiative or that program that we lose sight of the problem we were trying to solve in the first place.Builders are stubborn on the vision and flexible on the details. When we get into disputes with […]

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Episode 245 – Yes, but

EPISODE 245Yes, but…Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Holding people accountable is not the same as helping them be accountable. Holding people accountable relies on your chasing, checking, and correcting others. Helping people be accountable means empowering people to take responsibility on their own, even when you’re not checking. True staff alignment doesn’t mean conformity. True […]

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Episode 244 – How to Build True Staff Alignment Part 2

EPISODE 244How to Build True Staff Alignment Part 2Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If YOU are the reason your teachers do the right thing, then the only person truly accountable is YOU.Chasing, checking, and correcting teachers is not only exhausting, it’s totally unnecessary when you have true staff alignment.You cannot create a fully aligned […]

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Episode 243 – How to Build True Staff Alignment Part 1

EPISODE 243How to Build True Staff Alignment Part 1Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:The way that we were trained to give feedback to teachers creates a power imbalance that robs teachers of true ownership over their practice and their results.If your support for teachers doesn’t set them up to be successful without you, it’s […]

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Episode 242 – Are you the bottleneck in your school?

EPISODE 242Are you the bottleneck in your school?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If your school can’t continue to grow without you, then YOU are the bottleneck in your school.When we treat teachers like renters rather than owners, we can’t get mad when they don’t take responsibility for their growth or their outcomes. If the “support” […]

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