Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.
As a new principal you are trying to figure out just who you are. What your leadership voice is, and the footprint and legacy that you'll leave behind. How do you start to make change happen? How do you gain the trust, credibility and build relationships that you'll need to take the school to the next level?
In today’s episode, our guest Heather Bell Williams is one of our ruckus makers who has a better idea about how to do this, how she would build her dream school and building leadership in teachers.
We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com
Key Talking Points
Key Milestones of the Episodes
[04:27] Introduction to Heather
[05:13] Following the footsteps
[10:25] Inviting people to the change
[13:12] Aha moments
[19:00] Community Innovation
[24:55] Building leadership
[29:19] Pre-testing and post-testing
[30:10] Heather’s message
[31:53] Heather’s top three priorities
[33:09] Advice from Heather
Key Quotes
About Our Guest
Heather is a Chief Ruckus maker of a small school in St. Stephen, New Brunswick where she and her husband have lived for 20 years. They have raised two great sons with a focus on community engagement. She is most proud of the summer intervention camp, on-site daycare, and the employment of a family coordinator whose sole job is to get kids to school.
Resources
Tip of the Week
Training, Mentoring and Leading Students: Be a principal that trains, mentors and leads a group of students. This will put you back in touch with the kids and with some of the things in the classroom. Putting yourself in position and sharing your knowledge with students build relationships quicker than you'll ever imagine.
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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.
In today’s episode, our guest Robert Breyer is one of our ruckus makers who will share his story with you. He has served as a classroom teacher and administrator for the past fourteen years. He has some brilliant ideas about business and to execute his plans he has launched a podcast.
We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com
Key Talking Points
Key Milestones of the Episodes
[05:32] Introduction to Robert Breyer
[07:16] Starting of podcast
[13:28] Aha moments
[18:36] AP to Principal
[23:50] Importance of building confidence
[26:08] Gift for Ruckus Maker
[33:30] Leaving comfort zone
[36:49] First book of Daniel
[43:41] Story for the Ruckus maker
[45:58] Demand of the business
[47:55] Take away from the conversation
Key Quotes
About Our Guest
Robert Breyer has served as a classroom teacher and administrator for the past 14 years. He was selected to the first Sandhills Leadership Academy class, which is a selective process to prepare a cadre of highly effective school leaders for high needs schools These experiences have shaped Robert into a reflective and effective school leader who sets the example for his peers, teachers, and students.
Robert is also the host of the Guiding Principals podcast.
Resources
Tip of the Week
Honoring Students: Follow the universities and honor your students with Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude and Cum Laude. Get them ready for college. I've seen a school district do this and it was amazing because there are no questions asked about students weighted GPA’s and courses they took. A student has to have a certain GPA and above to be at Magna, Summa and Cum Laude. It’s just a brilliant introduction to honoring deserving students and moving away from tradition.
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Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.
In today’s episode, our guest Orly Friedman is one of our ruckus makers who will share her experience with you. She is the founder of a new K-8 school with a focus on developing a sense of urgency in all students.
We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com
Key Talking Points
Key Milestones of the Episodes
[00:14] Introduction of Orly Friedman
[04:14] Orly’s Story
[05:29] Making of school
[12:20] Utilizing staff in different ways
[15:51] How do grades put a stop to learning?
[20:47] Orly’s learning
[23:25] Example of a student or teacher’s goal
[26:10] Training staff with OKRs
[27:42] Top three priorities for building and school
[29:59] Advice from Orly
Key Quotes
About Our Guest
Orly Friedman is the founder of Red bridge, a new K-8 school marching in San Francisco in September 2020. The focus of the school is developing a sense of agency in all students previously or they spent five years teaching Elementary School in Washington DC. She moved to California to get her MBA at Stanford after which she joined the founding team of Khan Lab School and work there for 4 years as head of lower school.
Resources
Show Some Love
Website :: Twitter :: LinkedIn
SHOW SPONSORS
You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/
Copyright © 2019 Better Leaders Better Schools
Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.
What would you do if you walked into the doctor's office for what you thought was possibly kidney stones and instead the doctor looked at you in the eyes and said you have cancer. What would be your next step?
In today’s episode, our guest Aubrey Patterson is one of our ruckus makers who will share his with you. He’s a cancer survivor and wanted to do something in education and set up an example.
We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com
Key Talking Points
Key Milestones of the Episodes
[03:55] Introduction to Aubrey Patterson
[05:34] Aubrey’s Story
[12:44] Concrete idea to face challenges in life
[13:56] The message
[19:28] Example to understand the message
[21:52] What things build you up
[27:16] Top three priorities
[28:58] Advice from Aubrey to Ruckus makers
Key Quotes
About Our Guest
Aubrey has been a teacher, principal, and superintendent in a high performing school district in Western Canada.
Aubrey co-created Nohea Leadership to help EDUleaders use of technology to capture great ideas, recapture time and build exceptionally open and positive learning cultures. Nohea’s easily adaptable systems use three distinct stages that fall in succession like dominoes: simplifi, clarifi and amplifi.
Tip of the Week
Start with the end in mind. What is the result that you are watching for the end of the year? You want to win, you want those kids to win, you want that achievement score to go up, and you want those kids to master skills. So, always start with the end in mind.
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Copyright © 2019 Better Leaders Better Schools
Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up.
Do you have a dream of writing and publishing a book, but you do not go how to about it? Everyone has a book inside them. The problem is how to transform it into reality.
In today’s episode, our guest Caleb is one of our ruckus makers who thinks he has a book inside him. Danny coaches Caleb on how to find the book within and the process of how to write and publish his book.
We hope you enjoy the podcast. All the highlights, resources, and next steps can be found below. Listen to the full episode here and learn more at betterleadersbetterschools.com
[00:35] Introduction to Caleb Bonjour
[07:27] Committing and setting time aside for writing
[11:35] Brainstorming your book topic
[17:43] imposter syndrome and how to deal with it
[20:48] Developing your audience and identity
[25:11] Pitching a publisher
[28:20] Understanding self-publishing
[31:46] Caleb's next step
Caleb Bonjour is a fun loving educator that strives to be a lifelong learner. He has an amazing, supportive wife Amanda, a talkative and rambunctious five-year-old son Lincoln, and a 3 year old daughter McKinley. They also have three great dogs, Milo (an American Bulldog), Willow (a Cocker Spaniel), and Rosie (A Fox Red Labrador that is training to be a therapy dog for schools). Caleb loves being with his family, watching and playing sports, listening to many varieties of music, and learning more and more leadership and education on a daily basis.
Caleb strives to be the best educator he can be through studying best practices and constantly changing or adapting his practices to reach all students and staff. He has taught and coached with Pella Community Schools and Grundy Center Community Schools and is in his second administrative position as Principal of Cardinal Elementary in the Maquoketa Community School District.
Loosen up: Stop taking yourself too seriously. Humans are imperfect beings, so we do make mistakes. Sometimes we trip, we might spill our coffee on ourselves. You need to laugh at yourself and tell people those kind of stories.
You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/
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