Episode 116 – Summer Rewind: From fighting fires to fire prevention

EPISODE 116Summer Rewind: From fighting fires to fire preventionBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:You already have a system for everything that you do in school whether you realize it or not. It may be a broken system or a dysfunctional system, but it is a system. All that fire fighting that you are currently […]

Episode 115 – Summer Rewind: 5 Traps that Threaten the Success of Your School Improvement Efforts this year

EPISODE 115Summer Rewind: 5 Traps that Threaten the Success of Your School Improvement Efforts this yearBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Buildership is not a hat you can take on and off when it suits you. In order to be a true Builder, you must meet every challenge, every situation like a Builder.There are several […]

Episode 114 – Summer Rewind: The Secret to Overcoming Burnout

EPISODE 114Summer Rewind: The Secret to Overcoming BurnoutBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:One of the biggest reasons we experience burnout is because we are not doing work that feeds and inspires us.When we operate in our zone of competence, we are just plowing through the work but not deriving any real joy from it. Doing […]

Episode 113 – Summer Rewind: Steal My Weekly Team Meeting Agenda

EPISODE 113Summer Rewind: Steal My Weekly Team Meeting AgendaBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:One of the biggest hidden obstacles keeping you from meeting your school goals this year is how you plan your team meetings.It’s not just how often you meet that counts. What matters is what you do in those meetings. Without an […]

Episode 112 – Summer Rewind: How To Conduct Student Focus Groups

EPISODE 112Summer Rewind: How To Conduct Student Focus GroupsBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Being a Builder is not just about giving others feedback. Feedback for Builders is a two-way street. That’s why Builders are deliberate about collecting, analyzing, and reflecting on the feedback they get from others and they use this feedback to become better […]

Episode 111 – Summer Rewind: How To Create Wow Experiences For Your Students And Staff

EPISODE 111Summer Rewind: How To Create Wow Experiences For Your Students And StaffBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:“If we recognize how important natural defining moments are, we can shape them — make them more memorable and meaningful.”Wow experiences elevate the ordinary in a way that reinforces your core values and create moments of insight […]

Episode 110 – Summer Rewind: Anchor in the Outcome

EPISODE 110Summer Rewind: Anchor in the OutcomeBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We cannot control how things will go in the weeks ahead, but we can do something that will literally guarantee that the decisions we make now will not come back to haunt us when we enter the new normal.There is a growing divide […]

Episode 109 – Summer Reading List 2021

EPISODE 109Summer Reading List 2021This year’s list is a little different. I just didn’t read that many great books this year. But I did manage to discover 3 non-education books that I think you should be reading this summer and I’m sharing 4 other books that are on MY summer reading list. Hopefully you’ll discover at least […]

Episode 108 – Why Being a Builder Makes You a Bit of a Weirdo

EPISODE 108 Why Being a Builder Makes You a Bit of a WeirdoBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Being a Builder makes you different than everyone else — and that’s a good thing. It means that you expect different results and post different gains. Ultimately it means that you can make a bigger difference in the […]

Episode 107 – How to Plan for the Summer

EPISODE 107 How to Plan for the SummerBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Bosses are planning on doing whatever their district tells them to do this summer. As a result, they will end up complying with district mandates instead of setting up their own schools for success in the fall.Leaders are busy trying to figure out […]