EPISODE 53Making Change Stick Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:It’s one thing to institute a change and see some initial success; it’s quite another thing to actually embed that change into your culture. If you are not deliberate about embedding change in your culture, you will constantly be on the “Improvement Hamster Wheel.” If you […]
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EPISODE 52If You Want Everyone Doing The Right Thing The Right way, Don’t Skip This Step!Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:The reason that so many initiatives fizzle out is that leaders go straight from announcing a new initiative to evaluating teachers and skip all the necessary steps in between. Builders know that if you […]
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EPISODE 51How To Get Everyone Off The Sidelines And Actively Engaged In Transformation Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If you haven’t laid the foundation during the Excite, Explore, and Engage stages of the transformation process, then it will be difficult to get all of your teachers to meet the new expectations or make the changes […]
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EPISODE 50You Asked, I Answered! Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If you really want to get ALL your teachers to implement a new district initiative with fidelity, there are 6 things you must do. If you have students who are struggling, there are some creative (and unconventional ways) to help them make huge gains in […]
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EPISODE 493 Things You Must Do to Generate Momentum, Silence Critics, and Disarm Cynics Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Training and resources alone are not enough to fully equip your teachers to act on your new initiative. You need to be intentional about how you plan your professional development if you want to ensure that […]
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EPISODE 48How to Keep Objections From Derailing Your Next Initiative Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If you let them, naysayers and objections can derail your new initiative before it has even had a chance. But, if you nip objections in the bud early, you can keep up your momentum and actually get even MORE buy […]
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EPISODE 47How to Get Teachers Genuinely Excited About Your New Initiative Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Of the six steps in the Transformation Cycle (Excite, Explore, Engage, Expect, Evaluate, Extend) the Excite stage is the most critical and the most neglected step. Assuming you’ve chosen a meaningful initiative, your next step is to introduce it in […]
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EPISODE 46How to Avoid Initiative Fatigue Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Initiative fatigue is what happens when we feel pain, we look for a solution — ANY solution — to alleviate our pain and when it doesn’t work, we grab another one. The problem isn’t that we need a better solution, the problem is that […]
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EPISODE 45Multiply Your Ability to Influence Teacher Behavior With This One Simple TweakBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss: We tend to focus on giving teachers good feedback in order to help them improve. But giving teachers meaningful feedback is only the first step. If you don’t follow up with teachers, all your great feedback will […]
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EPISODE 44How to Create School Core Values with Your Teachers Without Drama and Chaos Biggest 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 and a […]
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