Five for Friday Outline Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of December 12-16, 2022. Imagine setting a leadership intention at the beginning of each day. That’s what many readers of the daily email do. For some, it has become a ritual: Pour a cup of coffee, o...
Dec 16, 2022•12 min•Ep. 84
Show Notes, Episode 83: The APs Journey with Maria Werner About this show: Are you stuck in the gravitational pull of the black hole of urgency? Or maybe, you are figuring out some ways to escape that force and move towards being a more strategic leader. Or, perhaps, you have already figured it out. Depending on where you are in the journey, today's show will offer you a chance to see a path forward or to reflect on how far you have come. Or maybe both! We will do this by reliving our guest’s jo...
Dec 13, 2022•48 min•Ep. 83
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of December 5-9, 2022.
Dec 09, 2022•18 min•Ep. 82
Assistant Principal Podcast Content Episode Outline Show title and release date: What’s your problem? December 6, 2022 Show Description: What do (a) too many discipline referrals, (b) a poor teacher, and (c) an overflowing car line have in common? The answer is not that they are all problems. In fact, they are all symptoms. And they are all things that plenty of people will have stock answers for. Put them in ISS, put them on an action plan, redo your parking lot. And if we are stuck in urgent m...
Dec 06, 2022•27 min•Ep. 81
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of November 28-December 2, 2022.
Dec 02, 2022•18 min•Ep. 80
Assistant Principal Exceleration Show Notes, Episode 79: Just be visible About this show: “Can Every School Succeed?” That’s a big question and I’m not sure about the answer. I do know that every school can get better. Is that enough? Again, I don’t know. But I do know someone who does and he is our guest on the show today! Notable Quotes David: You know, great teachers, equal happy teachers. I've worked with some teachers that were struggling to find their place. And they had bogged down in a l...
Nov 29, 2022•36 min•Ep. 79
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of November 21-25, 2022. Imagine setting a leadership intention at the beginning of each day. That’s what many readers of the daily email do. For some, it has become a ritual: Pour a cup of coffee, open your email, read the...
Nov 25, 2022•11 min•Ep. 78
Assistant Principal Podcast Content Episode Outline Show title and release date: November 22, 2022 Show Description: Last episode we looked at the flywheel through the lens of normative, or group, professional development. Remember, the flywheel refers to a set of practices that, when executed over and over again, build positive momentum that improves the organization and leads to fulfillment of the purpose. In a school, this translates to supporting teacher growth by providing professional deve...
Nov 22, 2022•23 min•Ep. 77
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of November 14-18, 2022. Imagine setting a leadership intention at the beginning of each day. That’s what many readers of the daily email do. For some, it has become a ritual: Pour a cup of coffee, open your email, read the...
Nov 18, 2022•11 min•Ep. 76
2022-11-15_75_The Flywheel Part 1_FINAL audio 00:12 : Leadership really is a journey. Oftentimes, we begin that journey by being sucked into the black hole of urgency. And then we're able to start to break away from that pole of that urgent gravity by implementing some strategically reactive processes. And eventually those processes give us the time and the ability to move into that phase of strategic leadership. That's that journey is actually the topic of this week's daily emails. So if you're...
Nov 15, 2022•27 min•Ep. 75
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of November 7-11.
Nov 11, 2022•15 min•Ep. 74
Assistant Principal Podcast Content Episode Outline Show title and release date: Show Description: "Those sessions do nothing for me" This was a quote from a teacher about some PD and it was shared by an admin seeking feedback on a social media site. More specifically, the teacher was commenting on a mandatory PD session. The situation and large amount of often conflicting advice got me to thinking. Are there a couple of core principles that should drive professional development? Show Intro Hell...
Nov 08, 2022•12 min•Ep. 73
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of October 31-Nov. 4, 2022. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you’ll find some added value here and if you don’t already subscribe you can find a link on my home page at frederickbuskey.com. Many re...
Nov 04, 2022•14 min•Ep. 72
Show Notes, Episode 71: Restorative Practices with Josh Stamper About this show: Change starts from within. That was the title of episode 20, in which we talked with Doctor Gabby Grant about introducing restorative practices into your school. Before taking external action, we need to take internal action and examine and reform our own attitudes and perspectives about things like discipline, punishment and justice. Today, we'll dig into what that journey might look like and where it might lead. N...
Nov 01, 2022•44 min•Ep. 71
Assistant Principal Podcast Five for Friday Template Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host this week, Mara Buskey and if you don’t already know me, I am the Inclusion Strategist with Strategic Leadership Consulting, as well as Frederick’s daughter. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of October 24th-28th, 2022. If...
Oct 28, 2022•9 min•Ep. 70
Assistant Principal Podcast Content Episode Outline Show title and release date: October 25, 2022 Show Description: Every teacher should have a procedure for beginning class. Most opening class procedures share some common elements:· What to do with materials· How or when to sit down· Getting started on bell work or an activator I’ve been teaching procedures for about twenty years, but this summer I made one small tweak in my format that promises to pay big dividends. Show Intro Hello colleagues...
Oct 25, 2022•11 min•Ep. 69
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of October 22-28, 2022. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you’ll find some added value here and if you don’t already subscribe you can find a link on my home page at frederickbuskey.com. Many reader...
Oct 22, 2022•11 min•Ep. 68
Show Notes, Episode 67: Blooming Where You Are Planted with Robyn Jackon About this show: “As an assistant principal, you must learn to bloom where you are planted. If you do, you will open up huge opportunities to make a meaningful difference right now in your career and build the skills you need to make an even greater difference once you become a principal.” These aren’t my wise words. They were first spoken by Dr. Robyn Jackson, addressing a common concern of assistant principals: How do you...
Oct 18, 2022•54 min•Ep. 67
2022-10-21_68_Five for Friday Final Audio Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast I'm your host, Frederick Busky. The goal of this podcast is to improve life and leadership for assistant principals. Today's episode of five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of October seventeenth through twenty first. With a caveat. Although we did indeed publish these emails this week, they are actually repeats from our list of greatest hits. This week as well...
Oct 14, 2022•15 min•Ep. 66
Have you ever popped into a classroom, just to see what’s going on, and have the teacher stop the lesson and begin explaining to you what they are doing? Or have them continue teaching but give that look of, “what are you doing in my classroom?” Or, after one of these pop-ins, had the teacher run to you after class and want to know if you thought they did okay? None of these things is helpful, and they stem from a common problem – the inadequate language of classroom observations.
Oct 11, 2022•17 min•Ep. 65
Today's episode of five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of October 3rd through seventh twenty, twenty two. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you'll find some added value here. And if you don't already subscribe, you can find a link on my homepage at frederickbuskey.com Many readers like to begin their mornings by reading the email and setting a leadership intention for the day.
Oct 07, 2022•12 min•Ep. 64
Show Notes, Episode 63: Productive Disruption with Dr. Mary Hemphill About this show: Ship is sinking (may 26, 2022, Ep 28) The teacher shortage is not going awayThe academic setbacks from COVID will ripple through our schools for ten yearsContinued trauma has exacerbated already challenging mental health issues among our students, their families, and even our teachers. Politics – enough said. The only thing that’s constant is change. Organizations have this strange property in which they are al...
Oct 04, 2022•44 min•Ep. 63
2022-09-27_62_Five for Friday_FINAL AUDIO 00:01 Hello colleagues, and welcome to the Assistant Principal podcast. I'm your host, Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to improve life and leadership for assistant principals. Today's episode of five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of September twenty sixth through thirtieth twenty twenty two. If you already get my daily emails, then I hope you'll find some added value here. And if you don't already subscribe,...
Sep 30, 2022•11 min•Ep. 62
Show Description: How did your to-do list go today?How about yesterday?How will it go tomorrow?If you missed last week’s webinar on escaping the black hole of urgency, you may still be focused on the to-do list. I won’t recap the entire webinar here, but I will pull a couple of highlights. Show Intro Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. This is ...
Sep 27, 2022•12 min•Ep. 61
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of September 19-23, 2022. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you’ll find some added value here and if you don’t already subscribe you can find a link on my home page at frederickbuskey.com. Many read...
Sep 23, 2022•9 min•Ep. 60
Assistant Principal Podcast Content Episode Outline Show title and release date: 9/20/22 Show Description: Everything has a cost. That cost can be easily measured in time, money, and attention. But the larger and more important cost is opportunity cost. Opportunity cost reflects what we could have done with the time, money, and attention that we spent on doing whatever we did. Because our schools have unlimited needs, everything we do displaces something else that we could have done. The key to ...
Sep 20, 2022•15 min•Ep. 59
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Sep 16, 2022•10 min•Ep. 58
Show Notes, Episode 58: Supporting New Teachers with John Schembari About this show: We all know how critical it is to support new teachers, but do we actually know how to support them? Today we answer four questions: What do we mean when we say “new teacher?” How can APs build collaborative relationships with new teachers? What specific actions can we take to meet the personal and professional needs of early career teachers and How do we fit those actions into the crazy days of the assistant pr...
Sep 13, 2022•59 min•Ep. 57
Monday: Relationships in the workplace take three basic forms: · Congenial: people share a social bond · Pragmatic: people share a professional bond · Collegial: people share professional and social bonds The problem with congenial relationships is that while they make people happy, they don’t help us achieve the organizational purpose. The problem with pragmatic relationships is that they only work well for some people. Collegial relationships thus have two elements – professional and social. T...
Sep 09, 2022•14 min•Ep. 56
Show Notes, Episode 55: The Black Hole of Urgency For many of us, our goals – our dreams – of leadership revolve around helping others: · By helping them gain skills, · By aligning systems so their work is easier and less frustrating, · By increasing opportunities, · And by building powerful collegial relationships. But those goals, dreams, intentions, slip away from us as we get sucked into the pull of the urgent. You are working harder trying to manage your time and be more efficient, but it's...
Sep 06, 2022•17 min•Ep. 55
