Episode 261 – Rewind: Student Focus Group

EPISODE 261Rewind: Student Focus GroupBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Being a Builder is not just about giving others feedback. Feedback for Builders is a two-way street. That’s why Builders are deliberate about collecting, analyzing, and reflecting on the feedback they get from others and they use this feedback to become better Builders.Student Focus Groups […]

Episode 260 – 5 Ways to Guarantee Failure

EPISODE 2605 Ways to Guarantee FailureBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We tend to focus on what we cannot control and ignore all the things we can control. If we just optimized all the stuff we can control, we wouldn’t have to worry about the stuff we can’t control.Instead of trying to change people, ask […]

Episode 259 – Four Battle-Tested Interview Questions to Help you Find and Hire Master Teachers

EPISODE 259Rewind: Four 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 interviews is to suss out […]

Episode 258 – Why you should be conducting Exit Interviews

EPISODE 258Why you should be conducting Exit InterviewsBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Want to know what teachers really think of you? Try talking to a teacher who is leaving. An Exit Interview is a powerful way to provide closure for you and for any teacher who is leaving, so why don’t more principals do them?Exit […]

Episode 257 – Here’s why you’re feeling overwhelmed

EPISODE 257Here’s why you’re feeling overwhelmedBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Are you working ON your school or IN your school?The reason we feel overwhelmed is because we’re carrying around unmade decisions. Next school year is being built right now. If you wait until the summer to work on your school, it’s really too late. If you […]

Episode 256 – Why Some Teachers Resist Your Support (and what you can do about it)

EPISODE 256Why Some Teachers Resist Your Support (and what you can do about it)Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:We tend to feed what we need. In other words, we often offer teachers the support WE would want if we were in their shoes rather than the support they actually need.The way we were trained […]

Episode 255 – How to Make Your PD More Powerful

EPISODE 255How to Make Your PD More PowerfulBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:The purpose of feedback is to let someone know how far away they are from your vision, mission, and core values and what ONE thing they need to do next in order to close that gap. If your PD doesn’t change teacher practice, […]

Episode 254 – Three Ways to Tell if Someone is Really a Builder

EPISODE 254The cheat code to successBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:3 Ways to tell if someone is truly a Builder — The Bigness of their vision, the Length of their time horizons, and the Quality of the problems they solve. When it comes to solving problems Bosses focus on tactics, Leaders focus on strategies, and […]

Episode 253 – The cheat code to success

EPISODE 253The cheat code to successBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:A mediocre plan executed consistently will outperform a stellar plan done inconsistently.Instead of looking for the next big thing, just get better at what’s already working.You can’t just duct tape initiatives together and hope that they will work. Most of your plans would have succeeded […]

Episode 252 – How to Solve Information Overload

EPISODE 252How to Solve Information OverloadBiggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss:Asking the right question is more important than finding the right answer.What problem that if you solved it, would make all your other problems insignificant or irrelevant?Treat new information like eating fish — Eat the meat. Spit out the bones.You probably don’t need any […]