Episode 10 – Four Battle-Tested Interview Questions to Help you Find and Hire Master Teachers

EPISODE 10Four Battle-Tested Interview Questions to Help you Find and Hire Master TeachersBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Most people hire for skill and fire for will. That means that you should be using your interview process not just to determine teacher skill; The more powerful way to use interview is to suss out teacher […]

Episode 9 – ​​What are Your School’s REAL Core Values?

EPISODE 9What are Your School’s REAL Core Values?Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Your Core Values are a largely under-used but powerful secret weapon to help you not only build trust with your teachers, parents, and students in a way that makes everyone immediately more accountable.Turning your Core Values into non-negotiables is a simple process, […]

Episode 8 – ​How to Detoxify Your School Culture

EPISODE 8How to Detoxify Your School CultureBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Culture, any culture, is simply a collection of organizational habits. That means that if your culture is toxic, it means that you have a collection of toxic habits that have taken over. If you want to change your culture, simply change the organizational […]

Episode 7 – 6 Early Warning Signs your School Culture is Turning Toxic

EPISODE 76 Early Warning Signs That Your School Culture Is Turning ToxicBiggest 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 6 – How Your Will Driver May Be Unintentionally De-Motivating Teachers And What You Can Do About It

​EPISODE ​​6How Your Will Driver May Be Unintentionally De-Motivating Teachers And What You Can Do About ItBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:​​​All of us has a Dominant Will Driver. If you don’t recognize and understand your Dominant Will Driver, it can seriously undermine your ability to motivate and influence those you serve.​​​Once you understand […]

Episode 5 – ​​​The ​Most Powerful Way to Motivate Anybody

EPISODE 5The Most Powerful Way to Motivate AnybodyBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:There is another secret weapon you can use not only to get yourself out of judgment, but to help you understand where a teacher is coming from and how to shape the way you deal with that teacher so that you can […]

Episode 4 – ​​​The Antidote to Judgement

​EPISODE 4​​​The Antidote to JudgementBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:​If you are judging anyone, you cannot influence them.​The antidote to judgment is curiosity.​There are specific things you can be curious about and a great way to remember them is to remember the VIBES acronym where V=Values, I=Identifiers, B=Beliefs, E=Emotional Triggers, and S=Stated or Secret […]

Episode 3 – ​​4 Conversations You Can Use to Hold Teachers Accountable

4 Conversations You Can Use to Hold Teachers AccountableBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:When a teacher violates an agreement Bosses issue mandates and threats, Leaders try to convince or cajole people to change, but Builders have a strategic conversation that gets to the root of the problem and secures a firm commitment from teachers […]

Episode 2 – 6 Steps to Achieve Transformative Results Next School Year (And why NOW is the perfect time to start!)

6 Steps to to Achieve Transformative Results Next School Year (And why NOW is the perfect time to start!)Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:You cannot afford to wait until the summer to develop your strategic plan for the coming school year. Why? After, all you’ve got a lot going on at the moment and you […]

Episode 1 – ​BOSSES, LEADERS, BUILDERS

EPISODE 1: BOSSES, LEADERS, BUILDERSBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Our schools don’t need any more “leaders” who are created by organizations to maintain organizational status quo; Our schools need BUILDERS who are ready to There are actually 3 kinds of school administrators or instructional leaders — bosses, leaders, and BUILDERS and here’s the difference in […]