Episode 19 – Steal My Weekly Team Meeting Agenda

EPISODE 19Steal 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 accountable agenda, […]

Episode 18 – Turning Your Biggest Obstacles into Your Biggest Opportunities

EPISODE 18Turning Your Biggest Obstacles into Your Biggest OpportunitiesBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Buried inside of your biggest obstacles are some of your biggest opportunities this year.Leaders see obstacles as things that are keeping them from their goals. Builders see obstacles as the very thing that will help them achieve their goals.When you adopt […]

Episode 17 – ​​​How To Create Wow Experiences For Your Students And Staff

​EPISODE 17​​​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 for your […]

Episode 16 – ​​From Fighting Fires to Fire Prevention

​EPISODE 16​​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 doing. That’s […]

Episode 15 – ​​5 Traps that Threaten the Success of Your Change Efforts ​This ​Year

​EPISODE 1​5​​5 Traps that Threaten the Success of Your Change 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 ways that we […]

Episode 14 – How to Write Your Strategic Plan Like a Builder

​EPISODE 14How to Write Your Strategic Plan Like a BuilderBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:​​Your SIP plan is a promise that you are making to your students and their families. It’s almost like a guarantee you’re offering that says, if you come into this school, here’s what we can promise you’ll gain from the […]

Episode 13 – ​5 Books You Should Be Reading This Summer

​EPISODE 1​​3​5 Books You Should Be Reading This SummerBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:​​You can learn much from reading books outside of education. In fact, these books can provide unconventional solutions to some of the persistent challenges we face in education.​This year’s list has had a HUGE impact on my own thinking as an […]

Episode 12 – 5 Crucial Mistakes We Often Make When Trying to Support A Struggling Teacher (And what you should be doing instead)

​EPISODE 1​25 Crucial Mistakes We Often Make When Trying to Support A Struggling Teacher (And what you should be doing instead)Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:​The way that most of us were trained to work with struggling teachers is not only wrong, it can actually make the teacher worse and potentially ruin our ability […]

Episode 11 – ​How to Give Difficult Feedback to a Struggling Teacher

EPISODE 11How to Give Difficult Feedback to a Struggling TeacherBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:If a teacher is really struggling, if their classroom is really a mess, then they usually don’t have the ability or capacity to take in a TON of feedback, act on it and make significant improvement by the time you […]

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 […]