Episode 121 – Feeling Defeated Already?

EPISODE 121Feeling Defeated Already?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:It can be easy to feel overwhelmed in spite of your best intentions. This school year is already off to a rocky start and it can seem as if there is no room for your vision, mission, and core values. But delaying that work is a […]

Episode 120 – Summer Rewind: Six Early Warning Signs of a Toxic School Culture

EPISODE 120Summer Rewind: Six Early Warning Signs of a Toxic School CultureBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:A toxic culture can completely derail any change efforts you want to make, so it is really important to detect and deal with any sign of toxicity first, before you begin your change efforts. Otherwise, that toxic culture […]

Episode 119 – Summer Rewind: Success is Boring

EPISODE 119Summer 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 118 – Summer Rewind: All Money Ain’t Good Money

EPISODE 118Summer Rewind: All Money Ain’t Good MoneyBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We are being asked to make decisions quickly in the face of a crisis, but “All money ain’t good money.”Every decision you make will have short-term trade offs and long-term consequences. If you don’t consider these, you may make a decision you […]

Episode 117 – Summer Rewind: How to Create School Core Values with Your Teachers Without Drama and Chaos

EPISODE 117Summer Rewind: How to Create School Core Values with Your Teachers Without Drama and ChaosBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:You own your vision. You and your staff co-create your mission. Your staff owns your core values. In order for core values to work, everyone must have two things during their creation — a voice […]

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 […]