Get the book, The IC Toolkit Visit Jim's Website, www.InstructionalCoaching.com Listen to Michael Bungay Stanier on Principal Center Radio About The Author Dr. Jim Knight is Founder and Senior Partner of Instructional Coaching Group (ICG), and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning and instructional coaching. Jim earned his PhD in Education from the University of Kansas, and is the author...
Mar 24, 2025•27 min•Ep. 691
Get the book, Well Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students Visit Erik's website, www.ErikPalmer.net Visit the PVLEGS website, www.PVLEGS.com About The Author Erik Palmer is a professional speaker and educational consultant from Denver, Colorado, whose passion for speaking has been part of every one of his multiple careers. After several years in the business world, he became a teacher, spending 21 years in the classroom, primarily as an English teacher but also as a teacher of math, science, a...
Mar 17, 2025•32 min•Ep. 690
Get the book, Culture Champions: Teachers Supporting a Healthy Classroom Culture Visit Anthony's website, www.newfrontier21.com Follow Anthony on Facebook Connect with Anthony on LinkedIn About The Author Anthony Muhammad, PhD, is an internationally known educational consultant, a former middle and high school principal, and the author or editor of 12 books, including T ransforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division , Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap, and Time for Change: Four Ess...
Mar 10, 2025•27 min•Ep. 689
Get the book, Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, or Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems Visit Mike's website LeadingGreatLearning.com About The Author Mike Anderson is a full time education consultant who works with diverse schools across the United States and beyond. He was a classroom teacher for 15 years and then a Responsive Classroom consultant and developer for 6 years. He is also the author of many books about great te...
Mar 03, 2025•31 min•Ep. 688
Visit the OpenLiteracy Website, www.OpenLiteracy.com About The Author Dr. Sarah Frank is the founder of OpenLiteracy, bringing with her two decades of working in schools and universities. Sarah has worked as a teacher, teacher educator, and professor in elementary schools and universities across the United States including the University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, Duke University, and Wayne State University. She has a Master's in Language and Literacy from Harvard, and a PhD in Liter...
Feb 24, 2025•16 min•Ep. 687
Get the book, Before You Say a Word: A School Leader's Guide to Clear and Compelling Communication Visit Erik's website, www.ErikPalmer.net Visit the PVLEGS website, www.PVLEGS.com About The Author Erik Palmer is a professional speaker and educational consultant from Denver, Colorado, whose passion for speaking has been part of every one of his multiple careers. After several years in the business world, he became a teacher, spending 21 years in the classroom, primarily as an English teacher but...
Feb 17, 2025•26 min•Ep. 686
Visit the Fordham Institute Website, www.FordhamInstitute.org Visit the NAEP Website, www.NCES.ED.Gov/NationsReportCard About The Author Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Executive Editor of Education Next, and research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. An award-winning writer, he is the author of The Diverse Schools Dilemma, editor of the book Education for Upward Mobility, and co-editor of How to Educate an American and Follow the Science to...
Feb 10, 2025•21 min•Ep. 685
Get the book, Meet Every Learner’s Needs: Redesigning Instruction So All Students Can Succeed Visit the Meet Every Learner's Needs website, www.MeetE eryLearnersNeeds.org Visit Robert's website, www.ModernClassrooms.org About The Author Robert Barnett is the co-founder of the Modern Classrooms Project. He has taught math, English, and social studies at the secondary and post-secondary levels in the United States and abroad. He hopes his own children will learn in Modern Classrooms someday. He's ...
Feb 03, 2025•29 min•Ep. 684
Get the book, Rekindle Your Professional Fire: Powerful Habits for Becoming a More Well-Balanced Teacher Listen to Mike's Principal Center Radio interview on his book, Learning to Choose, Choosing to Learn: The Key to Student Motivation and Achievement Visit Mike's website LeadingGreatLearning.com About The Author Mike Anderson of Leading Great Learning is a full time education consultant who has worked with diverse schools across the United States and beyond for more than a decade. He was a cla...
Jan 27, 2025•30 min•Ep. 683
Get the book, What Can I Take Off Your Plate? A Structural—and Sustainable—Approach to Countering Teacher Burnout Visit Lara's Website www.LaraCDonnelly.com Visit Jill's Website www.BeTheLeaderYouDeserve.com About The Author Lara Donnelly, EdD, is a veteran teacher and school counselor in Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky). She is an education consultant, speaker, and author supporting schools and administrators with burnout, family engagement, and multilingual learners with trauma and m...
Jan 20, 2025•24 min•Ep. 682
Get the book, What Is My Value Instructionally to the Teachers I Supervise? Go to the AP and New Principal's Academy YouTube Channel About The Author Baruti Kafele is one of the most sought-after school leadership experts in North America. A highly regarded urban educator in New Jersey for more than 20 years, he was named East Orange School District and Essex County Public Schools Teacher of the Year, and he was a finalist for New Jersey State Teacher of the Year. As a middle and high school pri...
Jan 13, 2025•40 min•Ep. 681
Get the book, Today's Teachers, Tomorrow's Leaders: A Guide to Identifying and Developing Future Administrators Visit Peter's website, www.PeterMarshallConsulting.com About The Author Peter Marshall has more than thirty-five years of experience as an educator. He has served as a teacher, school administrator, and system leader in Ontario, working in leadership and staff development as well as opening a new school. He currently serves as a Solution Tree Assessment Center Associate. This episode o...
Jan 06, 2025•31 min•Ep. 680
Get the book, Rigor for Students with Special Needs Visit Barbara's website www.BarbaraBlackburnOnline.com About The Author Barbara Blackburn, PhD is the author of more than 35 books and a full-time consultant who works with schools around the world to help raise the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. Dr. Blackburn has been repeatedly named to the Top 30 Education Gurus by Global Gurus....
Jan 03, 2025•33 min•Ep. 679
Get the book, The Instructional Leader's Guide to Closing Achievement Gaps: Five Keys for Improving Student Outcomes About The Author Dr. Teresa Hill is a speaker, author, and leader whose work focuses on underserved communities and making the system work for every child. She is devoted to eliminating achievement gaps and ending what she terms “failure as a default”. Her motto is “All children can learn . . . Period.” Dr. Hill began her career teaching thirty-one kindergarten students in Peoria,...
Dec 23, 2024•31 min•Ep. 678
Learn more about Thesify at www.Thesify.ai About The Author Marc-Oliver has a Ph.D in physics but quickly switched to neuroscience to understand how our brain processes information. Before co-founding Thesify, Marc-Oliver was senior group leader at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and before that Principal Scientist at the Honda Research Institute Europe in Germany.
Dec 16, 2024•29 min•Ep. 677
Get the book, Rigor in the 6-12 Math and Science Classroom: A Teacher Toolkit Download the Sample Science Structured Writing Guide Download the Sample Mathematics Structured Writing Guide Download the Flesh It Out Math Handout Download the Flesh It Out Science Handout About The Author Barbara Blackburn, PhD is the author of more than 35 books and a full-time consultant who works with schools around the world to help raise the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students ...
Dec 09, 2024•27 min•Ep. 676
Get the book, How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice Follow Carl on X @C_Hendrick About The Author Carl Hendrick is Professor at Academica University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he translates research findings into practical teaching strategies. He taught English at the secondary level for 18 years, and holds a PhD in education from King's College London. He is the author of three books....
Dec 02, 2024•37 min•Ep. 675
Get the book, AI for School Leaders: 62 Ways To Lighten Your Workload and Focus On What Matters Visit Vickie's website, www.VickieEchols.com About The Author Vickie Echols is a veteran educator who has served as a K-12 and university teacher, elementary principal and district communication director during her career in public education. She currently serves as a school transformation coach for the nonprofit Wellness for Educators. She is the author of AI for School Leaders: 62 Ways To Lighten Yo...
Nov 25, 2024•27 min•Ep. 674
Get the book, Equity-Based Leadership: Leveraging Complexity to Transform School Systems Connect with Joshua on LinkedIn About The Author Dr. Joshua Starr is an experienced educational leader who has served as the Managing Partner of the Center for Model Schools, the CEO of PDK International, and as superintendent in Montgomery County, Maryland and Stamford, Connecticut. He is a graduate of the Harvard Urban Superintendents' program. He is the author of Equity-Based Leadership: Leveraging Comple...
Nov 18, 2024•27 min•Ep. 673
Get the book, Responsibility-Centered Discipline: Keeping Students on the Path of Accountability Visit Larry's Website, www.GivemFive.com About The Author Larry Thompson is the creator of Responsibility-Centered Discipline, as well as Responsibility-Centered Leadership and Responsibility-Centered Parenting. A popular speaker, author, and thought leader, he has worked with thousands of educators, leaders, and parents across the US and internationally. He is a former state principal of the year. T...
Nov 11, 2024•35 min•Ep. 672
Visit Natalie's Website, www.NatalieWexler.com Follow Natalie on X @natwexler About The Author Natalie Wexler is an education journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post. She is the coauthor of The Writing Revolution 2.0 . She is the author of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System and How To Fix It , and the new book, Beyond the Science of Reading, Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning....
Nov 04, 2024•25 min•Ep. 671
Get the book, Scaffolding for Success: Helping Learners Meet Rigorous Expectations Across The Curriculum Visit Barbara's website www.BarbaraBlackburnOnline.com Vote Barbara Blackburn for The Best Global Education Guru 2025 About The Author Barbara Blackburn, PhD is the author of more than 35 books and a full-time consultant who works with schools around the world to help raise the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. Dr. Blackburn has been repeatedly named...
Oct 28, 2024•22 min•Ep. 670
Get the book, The Five Principles of Educator Professionalism: Rebuilding Trust in Schools Follow Dr. Lollar on X @NasonLollar About The Author Dr. Nason Lollar has more than 24 years of experience in the field of education. Nason has served as a high school math and social studies teacher baseball coach an assistant principal and currently as a lead principal and he holds a doctorate In education from William Carey University, and in 2023, he was honored by the Mississippi Association of Second...
Oct 21, 2024•31 min•Ep. 669
Get the book, You're A Teacher Now! What's Next? Visit Alex' Website, www.AlexKajitani.com Visit Tom's Website, www.TomHierck.com About The Author Tom Hierck has been an educator since 1983 in a career that has spanned all grade levels and many roles in public education, including teacher, administrator, district leader, department of education project leader, and executive director. A prolific author and consultant, his expertise in RTI, MTSS, intervention, assessment, and other topics make him...
Oct 14, 2024•28 min•Ep. 668
Get the book, All Clear: Lessons From A Decade of Managing School Crises Visit Chris' Website, www.ChrisJoffe.com About The Author Chris Joffe is the founder of Joffe Emergency Services, where he works with more than 2000 schools across the US, with about 650 employees across 34 states. He served as an EMS first responder, studied paramedicine at UCLA, and holds a Master's in Technology, Business, and Integrated Design from the University of Southern California....
Oct 07, 2024•28 min•Ep. 667
Get the book, Ending the Crisis: Mayo Clinic's Guide to Opioid Addiction and Safe Opioid Use About The Author Dr. Holly Geyer, MD is an Addiction Medicine Specialist at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona and the physician lead of the MCA Opioid Stewardship Program, and chairs the ‘School Training Overdose Preparedness and Intelligence Taskforce’ (STOP-IT), a 60+ member multidisciplinary working group charged with developing a comprehensive and sustainable school opioid overdose preparation plan ...
Sep 30, 2024•24 min•Ep. 666
Get the book, Fixing Education Initiatives in Crisis: 24 Go-to Strategies Visit Jim's Website www.JamesMMarshall.com About The Author James Marshall, PhD is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University, where he serves as the Senior Director for the Ed.D. program in PK-12 School Leadership. With over 200 publications to his credit, Dr. Marshall’s scholarship encompasses a diverse range of works that include empirical research, program evaluation efforts, and policy developme...
Sep 23, 2024•29 min•Ep. 665
Get the book, Just Tell Them: The Art and Science of Explanation Visit Zach's website, www.EducationRickshaw.com Follow Zach on X @mrzachg About The Author Zach Groshell, PhD is a former teacher, author, and consultant who brings the science of learning into schools. He is the host of the Progressively Incorrect podcast, and a frequent presenter at ResearchEd and other conferences around the world. This episode of Principal Center Radio is spo nsored by IXL , the most widely used online learning...
Sep 16, 2024•30 min•Ep. 664
Get the book, Competency-Based Education Ignited: A Transformational Systemwide Approach for Leaders (A critical road map for implementing competency-based learning) Visit the Competency Based Education IGNITED website, www.CBEIgnited.org About The Authors Richard DeLorenzo is an internationally known leader in education and organization restructuring. He is best known for his uniquely comprehensive grassroots approach to reinventing school systems to meet the needs of all learners. He is the au...
Sep 09, 2024•31 min•Ep. 663
Get the book, Embracing MESSY Leadership: How the Experience of 20,000 School Leaders Can Transform You and Your School Visit the BTS Spark Website, www.BTSSpark.org About The Author Alyssa Gallagher co-leads BTS Spark America, helping American and Canadian school leaders to access leadership coaching. Alyssa has broad-ranging experience, serving as teacher, school principal and Assistant Superintendent. Under Alyssa’s guidance, Los Altos School District became a nationally recognised leader in ...
Sep 02, 2024•24 min•Ep. 662
