Five for Friday July 10-14, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of July 10-14, 2023.
Jul 14, 2023•6 min•Ep. 142
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Something we do together with Dr. Helen Kelly
What if I could give you three strategies to magically prevent burnout? Do I have your attention? Full disclosure – I don’t have three strategies, because burnout isn’t about you. It’s about something bigger. And you can’t prevent burnout. It requires something greater. Sounds a bit confusing? Playfulness aside, today we are looking at something essential to everyone listening. We are going to talk about burnout, but I promise you this will be a unique conversation and something different from t...
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 141
Five for Friday July 3-7, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of July 3-7, 2023.
Jul 07, 2023•9 min•Ep. 140
The difference between good and great leaders with Darrin Peppard
One of my favorite books is Jim Collins’ Good to Great – a book about what separates great companies from good ones. Collins’ book focuses on organizations, so what about leaders? What separates a great assistant principal from a good one? If you aren’t at the level of leadership you’d like to be, how do you get to being awesome? Today’s guest will help us take a few important steps on that journey down the road to awesome!
Jul 04, 2023•55 min•Ep. 139
Five for Friday June 26-30, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of June 26-30, 2023.
Jun 30, 2023•9 min•Ep. 138
Making Mandates Motivating with Mike Anderson
We are in an era where teacher and school lead autonomy is under a lot of pressure. It is becoming common practice, especially at the elementary level, for teachers to be handed a tightly structured curriculum and scripted teaching package and told “do this.” We even hear the term “teacher-proof” being used to refer to the idea that anyone, even a struggling teacher, can do this program. On the other end, we have mandatory evaluation processes that, while well-intentioned, concentrate time and a...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 137
Five for Friday June 19-23, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of June 19-23, 2023.
Jun 23, 2023•8 min•Ep. 136
Retribution Versus Restoration with AJ Crabill
In behavioral psychology, a punishment is defined as any change that reduces the likelihood of a behavior occurring again. Retribution is defined as legal revenge, with something being taken or inflicted upon someone else for a wrong. Let’s be honest, we mix these terms up a lot. Students can only act in the ways that they have learned, and only cope using the strategies they have. What if there was another way to “do discipline”? One that didn’t chew up half your day and that actually did decre...
Jun 20, 2023•51 min•Ep. 135
Five for Friday June 12-6, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of June 12-6, 2023.
Jun 16, 2023•7 min•Ep. 134
Deeper Learning with Dr. Sarah Fine
One of the most common laments I hear from school leaders involves the lack of student engagement present in so many classrooms. What drives engagement isn’t activities, its learning – deeper learning. But what is deeper learning, and how do we help teachers learn about it and implement it? I hope you are ready as we go deep into deeper learning on today’s episode.
Jun 13, 2023•52 min•Ep. 133
Five for Friday June 4-9, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of June 4-9, 2023.
Jun 09, 2023•16 min•Ep. 132
New to the game?
I’ve been hearing from a number of people who are getting ready to be brand new assistant principals in the fall and I have been thinking about the most critical things for them to do during the summer and the first few weeks of school. Of course, you need to build relationships and learn how your school does all the paperwork, and you need to get familiar with your policies. Your new principals and district leaders will help you with all of that. For my suggestions, I wanted to get away from th...
Jun 06, 2023•8 min•Ep. 131
Five for Friday May 29 – June 2, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of May 29 – June 2, 2023. I’m going to go completely out of order today and just work through the overall theme which was about solving problems. In today’s episode we will touch on the six dimensions of organizations, the role of leadership, change processes, and an example of identifying root problems. This episode will tie together several of my key conceptual frameworks in more detail than the emails did, ...
Jun 02, 2023•18 min•Ep. 130
*Secrets* of Teacher Retention with Dr. Luke Simmering
Last fall I offered a five-page guide on ten activities to support new teachers during the first two- weeks of school. The activities were designed to achieve three goals: ● Create a trusting relationship with the teacher ● Lay the foundations for a well-managed classroom ● Provide curricular guidance Today’s guest has been doing some remarkable work using a high-quality teacher satisfaction survey to identify keys to teacher retention. What really stands out to me is that he can provide distric...
May 30, 2023•39 min•Ep. 129
Five for Friday May 22-26, 2023
Last Friday I began with a shoutout to Soupman2545 for leaving a review and helping me improve the show. It felt good to begin the show with a thank you so I’m going to begin doing this regularly on Fridays. Today I want to acknowledge the daily email readers and podcast listeners who responded to last week’s challenge to identify the band associated with the titles of each daily email’s subject line.
May 26, 2023•15 min•Ep. 128
Pause, breathe, flourish with William D Parker
I know… you don’t have time to pause, you barely have time to breathe, and you are saving flourishing for summer. You are too busy with all the tasks, and taking care of everyone else. Except for being in this moment, and, right now, this is the only moment that matters because it is the only moment you have. And I am so glad you are here, and today’s very special guest is going to help both you and I make the time to pause, to breathe, and to flourish.
May 23, 2023•49 min•Ep. 127
Five for Friday May 15-20, 2023
If you listened to Tuesday’s incredible show with Tequilla Lamar, you noticed something new – music! Mara and Collin have been suggesting for some time that we needed to add a few musical transitions, but I have been dragging my feet until I read a recent review of the show. Shout out to soupman2545, who left a review that began glowingly… “I am going to be an AP next year and have already begun using ideas from content in this podcast to improve my practice and increase my capacity in my curren...
May 19, 2023•12 min•Ep. 126
Are you worthy? With Tequila Lamar
Let’s face it, you aren’t cut out for this job. You are in over your head, and soon everyone will discover it! What were you even thinking? You can’t help your teachers grow. You should never have done this, and you will certainly never make it to the next level. Ouch – such terrible thoughts! There is a diagnosis for this kind of negative thinking and it is called imposter syndrome – the feeling that, despite everything you have achieved, you are somehow not fit to do the job you are doing. If ...
May 16, 2023•41 min•Ep. 125
Five for Friday May 8-12, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of May 8-12, 2023. Celebrations: Garden planted out! New AP (1 & 2) mentoring program progress!
May 12, 2023•14 min•Ep. 124
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with Dr. Jacque Jacobs and Dr. Kevin O’Gorman, May 9, 2023
That my friends is a musical introduction to today’s theme – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. We aren’t talking about spaghetti westerns, but rather a valuable process to help school leaders get an honest snapshot of what is working, what’s not working, and most importantly what to do about it. My guests are two incredible educational leaders and human beings and you’ll be tapping into over 100 years of leadership experience in today’s show.
May 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 123
Five for Friday May 1-5, 2023
Today we will begin with the end. There are many big and complex problems we need to solve, but the process will be slow and require great effort. In contrast, there are small quality-of-life improvements we can make that are simple and yield immediate results. We looked at three this week: Get rid of things that aren’t essential Produce a minimally viable version as quickly and simply as possible Let your colleagues know how glad you are that they are here today!...
May 05, 2023•16 min•Ep. 122
10 Simple Steps to a Better School
Back in episode 44 I shared the story that drives me in which I talked about Kelli, an assistant principal who was overwhelmed with discipline. I visited her around 10:00 o'clock on a spring morning in her rural elementary school and she already had seven office referrals. When I asked Kelli how many of those referrals reflected teacher problems more than kid problems she said five. The bad news was that there were five kids getting in trouble who shouldn't be getting in trouble and that Kelli w...
May 02, 2023•33 min•Ep. 121
Five for Friday April 24-28, 2023
If you get my daily email, you already know that this week’s messages involved me going head-to-head with ChatGPT on the topic of creating a positive organizational culture. What I didn’t have space to discuss in the emails is how we can use the framework of the six dimensions of organizations to help provide a more coherent understanding of organizational culture. So today’s five for Friday will be substantially different from the weeks emails and will give you some important things to think ab...
Apr 28, 2023•18 min•Ep. 120
It is simpler than you think!
At the beginning of this school year, North Carolina embarked on a two-year, $90-million journey to train every elementary and teachers and administrator in a program called LETRS, which aligns to Science of Reading standards, a research-based approach to teaching reading. The training focuses on building a knowledge base about how students learn to read, as opposed to being a collection of strategies. This knowledge base comes at a steep price – about 160 hours of study and training in order to...
Apr 25, 2023•23 min•Ep. 119
Five for Friday April 17-21, 2023
Famous leadership theorist and author John Maxwell said, “leadership s influence, nothing less, nothing more.” Is that it? Is that really all leadership is?
Apr 21, 2023•8 min•Ep. 118
Crisis Prevention with Dr. Kevin Mabie
When I say “People before Purpose” what do I actually mean? When I say the silver bullet -the one truly magical solution – is to build relationships, what does that look like? Today we will unpack two relationship forms. Congenial relationships are based on personal connections, while collegial relationships are based on professional connections. We will dig deeper into each of these and into how to lead when teachers are in crisis.
Apr 18, 2023•53 min•Ep. 117
Five for Friday April 10-14, 2023
Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of April 10-14, 2023.
Apr 14, 2023•12 min•Ep. 116
All the Answers Are Already in the Room with Dr. Tiffany Brunson
Saying that great leaders are great listeners has almost become cliché. Listening is one of those things that sounds simple, but which can be challenging to execute – especially when all the craziness is happening. Part of the challenge is that listening requires presence – full presence. I’m going to ask you for something special today. Today, as you listen to this podcast, don’t just listen. Really listen. What’s the difference? You are about to find out!
Apr 11, 2023•50 min•Ep. 115
Five for Friday April 3-7, 2023
If I can’t do everything, doesn’t that mean that I choose what does get done – and what doesn’t? And if I’m choosing, do my choices reflect my values? These three ideas make up my three epiphanies: I can’t do everything Therefore, I choose what gets done And my choices do – or should – reflect my values Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of April 3-7, 2023.
Apr 07, 2023•10 min•Ep. 114
Trust-Based Observations with Craig Randall Part 2, 4/4/2023
You’ve heard me talk about the flywheel. It is the process of providing professional development, following it up with targeted observations, and using observation data to drive the next round of professional development. As with so many things, while the concept is simple, execution is difficult. The flywheel will look different in different schools, and today’s guest shares with us a highly developed and coherent version of the flywheel. I guarantee that you will leave today’s conversation wit...
Apr 04, 2023•28 min•Ep. 113
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