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 […]

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 […]