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 155 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 […]

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 […]