Unshakeable Leadership
Courageous leadership is about sticking to your convictions and maintaining a strong vision. The ability to take action, make decisions and take risks can help you lead the way!
Jul 21, 2025•11 min•Season 6Ep. 292
Urban Principal: Leadership Lessons
Bret Anderson
This podcast is based upon lessons learned in my 31 years of experience in education--21 as a principal. I spent 10 years turning around a high poverty school, and left to start Nebraska's first focus school--a year-round extended day program centered on leadership, technology and communication. It was named by Harvard's One Nation, Indivisible publication as one of the most innovative and successful schools in the country.
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Episodes
Protecting Yourself as a Leader
Leaders must keep a positive mindset while working with those that would take your time and energy. It is important to keep a balance and not become discouraged.
Jul 14, 2025•14 min•Season 6Ep. 291
Leaders Unplug!
A majority of leaders don’t take the time away they need. This episode reviews the need for leaders to unplug and rejuvenate for both physical and mental wellbeing.
Jul 07, 2025•17 min•Season 6Ep. 290
Energize and Reset!
This episode emphasizes an effective leaders ability to take a break, reflect and reset for a new school year.
Jul 01, 2025•12 min•Season 6Ep. 289
Empowerment Rules!
Empowerment can make the difference! Use the strengths, talents and motivation your staff has to supercharge your culture. Empowering your staff can be a way of opening the doors to success!
Jun 23, 2025•13 min•Season 6Ep. 288
Sharing As A Leader
This episode discusses how a leader’s ability to share can enhance transparency and help staff to get the “Big Picture’ view of what is going on.
Jun 16, 2025•17 min•Season 6Ep. 287
Needed Conversations
This is the time of year when many principals are having needed conversations. It could be around performance, class size or budget constraints. It is important to communicate well, be honest and caring when sharing needed decisions.
Jun 09, 2025•14 min•Season 6Ep. 286
Improving The Profession
How do we keep educators? This episode wraps our dive into the book, “Meet Their Needs and They’ll Succeed” by Salome Thomas-EL as we review ways to keep teachers in the profession.
Jun 02, 2025•16 min•Season 6Ep. 285
Supporting Our Students Pt. II
This episode continues our unpacking of the book, “Meet Their Needs and They’ll Succeed by Salome Thomas-EL. We specifically look at joyous, engaging classrooms and after-school support.
May 26, 2025•21 min•Season 6Ep. 284
Supporting Our Students
This episode draws from the recent ASCD book by Salome Thomas-EL “Meet Their Needs and They ‘ll Succeed” and looks at ways to support student success!
May 19, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 283
Warren Buffett on Leadership
This episode looks at some insights from Warren Buffett that translate into effective leadership skills. His habits can help make you a better leader!
May 12, 2025•25 min•Season 6Ep. 282
Leadership Burnout
This episode discusses the significance of creating balance to perform at your best, Leaders need many types of rest in order to remain effective.
May 06, 2025•14 min•Season 6Ep. 281
Leadership Growth
Leaders keep growing! It is important to continue to grow as a leader. What are strategies you can do to maximize your growth?
Apr 28, 2025•9 min•Season 6Ep. 280
Student Differences
This episode looks at the original marshmallow experiment that was testing delayed gratification and the impulsivity of children and whether it predicted adult success.
Apr 21, 2025•16 min•Season 6Ep. 279
Uncertainty
As leaders we can’t see the future . Education is constantly changing and will continue to do so. How do we stay motivated in uncertain times.
Apr 14, 2025•14 min•Season 6Ep. 278
Educational Updates
This episode looks at some recent legislation passed in my state and reviews some good news on SEL and student success! It
Apr 08, 2025•14 min•Season 6Ep. 277
Conflict Advice
Conflict can be valuable. This episode is a good wrap to our previous discussions on challenging conversations and looks at a variety of advice by leaders on conflict.
Mar 31, 2025•13 min•Season 6Ep. 276
Challenging Conversations Pt. II
This episode continues our discussion around addressing challenging conversations with staff and gives tips to assist in making these discussions constructive. If this is done well, leaders can set the tone for a positive culture.
Mar 24, 2025•23 min•Season 6Ep. 275
Challenging Conversations Pt. I
Leaders must continually work with people and it can often be demanding. How do you handle challenging conversations?
Mar 17, 2025•18 min•Season 6Ep. 274
Words of Wisdom
This episode takes from a chapter in my book Urban Principal Leadership Lessons and shares lessons learned in one line statements.
Mar 10, 2025•12 min•Season 6Ep. 273
Practical Principal Tips
This episode is full of practical tips principals can use to assist in building a positive culture and bringing out the best in staff. This translates into retaining teachers through the right support.
Mar 02, 2025•19 min•Season 6Ep. 272
EQ Leaders
This episode highlights the number of leaders in top positions who do not have high emotional intelligence. As we develop as leaders, our EQ relationship skills must increase to cultivate a positive culture.
Feb 24, 2025•23 min•Season 6Ep. 271
Leading With Emotional Intelligence Pt. II
Enhance your leadership with emotional intelligence. This episode dives into the four emotional intelligence skills as described in Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradbury & Jean Greaves.
Feb 17, 2025•13 min•Season 6Ep. 270
Leading With Emotional Intelligence Pt. I
This episode looks at the impact you can have through developing your emotional intelligence as a leader. We look at Daniel Goleman’s work on creating effective, positive leaders.
Feb 10, 2025•17 min•Season 6Ep. 269
The Best Leadership Style
This episode quickly summarizes the many different leadership styles. Daniel Goleman’s six leadership styles are also highlighted as we look to the most positive styles.
Feb 03, 2025•12 min•Season 6Ep. 268
It’s People Pt. II
This episode continues to stress the importance of working with people. As leaders, what are things we can do when building a collaborative culture? We can learn from the tips of the successful CEO, Bill Campbell, and his ability to coach others.
Jan 27, 2025•18 min•Season 6Ep. 267
It’s People
This episode uses different resources to illustrate the importance of people. As leaders we develop a positive culture through taking care of people.
Jan 21, 2025•20 min•Season 6Ep. 266
Leadership Focus
This episode talks about looking at your organization and what you are concentrating on while setting goals to make a hedgehog focus on needed practices.
Jan 13, 2025•14 min
You Got This!
Leaders, are you setting goals and getting ready for the last half of the year? It can often be overwhelming as we think of everything we want to improve. It is important to stay positive and keep moving forward. Your attitude can make a difference as you set the course.
Jan 06, 2025•18 min
Season 5-Year In Reflection
This episode wraps up another successful year and looks at our Spotify wrapped data and growth of our podcast.
Dec 30, 2024•14 min
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