Episode 168 – Can Assistant Principals Be Builders?

EPISODE 168Can Assistant Principals Be Builders?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:As an assistant principal, you must learn to bloom where you are planted. If you do, you will open up huge opportunities to make a meaningful difference right now in your career and build the skills you need to make an even greater difference […]

Episode 167 – The Problem IS the Solution

EPISODE 167The Problem IS the SolutionBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Bosses tend to make problems go away (or ignore it altogether). That doesn’t actually solve the problem and can actually make problems fester and metastasize.  Leaders look for solutions. The problem is, without really understand the problem, most solutions become temporary bandaids at best […]

Episode 166 – Nobody Cares About Your Why

EPISODE 166Nobody Cares About Your WhyBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We all understand how important it is to start with the why, but what we often get wrong is that we think it means to start with OUR why. Nobody cares about your why.Often, the thing driving teacher overwhelm and burn out is located […]

Episode 165 – You’re Cutting Yourself Short

EPISODE 165You’re Cutting Yourself ShortBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:It’s just as hard to pursue a big goal as a small one.We sell ourselves short when we pursue small goals. If you think it will feel bad missing a big goal, how much worse will it feel missing a small one?When you pursue big goals, […]

Episode 164 – Why you may want to throw away your School Improvement Plan

EPISODE 164Why you may want to throw away your School Improvement PlanBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Most school improvement plans are little more than a work of fiction. They don’t represent the reality of our work and they present goals that are either too low or not meaningful enough to make a real difference […]

Episode 163: How Builders Achieve Their Vision in 3 Years or Less

EPISODE 163How Builders Achieve Their Vision in 3 Years or LessBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If you only focus on tactics, you will perpetually chase shiny objects and never achieve real traction towards your goals.Strategy is not enough. If your strategy is not contextualized in a larger vision, mission, and core values, you’ll stay […]

Episode 162: Are these 3 fears keeping you from achieving your vision for your school this year?

EPISODE 162Are these 3 fears keeping you from achieving your vision for your school this year?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If you don’t believe in your vision for your school, no one else will either.There are 3 big fears that keep us from setting ambitious visions for our schools. Unless you overcome these fears, […]

Episode 161: Summer Rewind: Episode 84 Success is Boring

EPISODE 161Summer Rewind: Success is BoringBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:It may seem as if the road to success is all about the latest and greatest new innovation, but as it turns out, success is much more boring.True success is really about doing the boring stuff consistently and pervasively.Instead of chasing the latest shiny […]

Episode 160 – Summer Rewind: TOLO?

EPISODE 160Summer Rewind: TOLO?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If we really saw our work through the lens of TOLO, there’s a lot of things we’re putting off right now, that we would immediately start doing — and there’s even more that we would STOP doing.Instead of TOLO, many of us are living that TANY […]

Episode 159 – Our Annual Summer Reading List

EPISODE 159Our Annual Summer Reading ListBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:When you are a Builder, you stay open to new ideas and use them to expand your own thinking and make what you are building better.Builders understand that in order to create what Timothy R. Clark calls “psychological safety” they need to ensure that […]