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The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast with Daniel Bauer

The BETTER LEADERS BETTER SCHOOLS podcast is in the TOP 0.5% most downloaded shows of over 2 million podcasts across the world. The BLBS show was created for RUCKUS MAKERS in education -- those out-of-the-box school leaders making change happen. Launched in 2015, this category-defining podcast in educational leadership has helped over 1 MILLION leaders LEVEL UP. Each week host DANIEL BAUER has a conversation with a leadership expert and invites you to listen in. Turn your commute, chores, or workout into professional development and then GO MAKE A RUCKUS! BLBS is the #1 downloaded podcast for school leaders.
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Mar 15, 2023

 

Lauren Cikara is the Director of K-12 Initiatives at Active Minds. Prior to that, she worked for the Colorado School of Public Health School recruiting schools to participate in the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey (HKCS), Colorado’s Youth Risk Behaviour Survey (YRBS), and Smart Source. She is a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusive school board policies and ensures the work she is a part of has an equitable and intersectional lens.

 

 

Show Highlights

  • Must hear student campaigns that expand the generational lens surrounding mental health. 

  • Peer to peer approach for mental health education school’s can easily adopt. 

  • Active Academy students create policies that take control of their mental health. 

  • Build a student coalition for moving through the system.

  • Be a “youth champion” to provide life skills, support and tools to children.

  • Change the conversations and destigmatize mental health with this next step.

  • Rethink your learning environment with “Stressless Weeks.” 

 

“For the students, I would say speak your truth and say it louder for people in the back. We don't sometimes listen to the stories that our youth are telling us, their experiences and how they advocate for their lived experience. For the youth champions, the adult stakeholders, listen to students.”

-Lauren Cikara

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

 

Lauren’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

Mar 8, 2023

 

 

Hailing from Canada’s Capital region, Loop pedal violist, composer, and educator Kathryn Patricia Cobbler has crafted a singular niche in improvisation and classical performance. Bringing creativity to concert halls, schools, and community venues, her work as a performing artist, composer, educator, and speaker centers around multidisciplinary collaborations that both hold space for and tell the life stories of audiences and communities

 

 

Show Highlights

  • Approach your work with co-creation and innovation using this unique framework with your entire learning community.

  • The powerful question you need to ask and the workshop you need to support the answers.

  • Put your own oxygen mask on 1st because you're the catalyst of your school. 

  • Lean into and invite students to be a part of the narrative and own the direction of where the project or the task at hand goes. 

  • Connect your vision with a loop pedal to engage your community spaces where people are actually active and doing life together. 

  • Unleashed Igniting Creativity Through Art and Sound,helps students have a stake in creating something that's unique to themselves.

  • Promote student voices and diversity into crafting the lessons they can connect with. 



“We learn as we go and for us to be able to mirror what we admire, then we'll start to see the culture and the change that we want in our communities.”

-Kathryn Patricia Cobbler



Get the episode transcript here!!

 

Show’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

Mar 1, 2023

 

 

Show Highlights

  • Tips to boost your confidence to avoid imposter syndrome. 

  • Every leader needs a “Jar of Awesome" to capture the results you create.

  • Learn your default response when it comes to facing obstacles, challenges, and failures.

  • No Wasted Experience, you need to invest in yourself.

  • Accomplishing anything of massive value in your life takes a strong mindset. 

  • Modify “A principal's lunch” to optimize your performance. 

  • Complete “The Input Audit”, “Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool” and the “Square Squad”  to direct your mindset to focus on the fundamentals. 

 

“A crazy stat, a hundred percent of our members agree that the Mastermind is an essential part of how they grow themselves in terms of professional development and leadership. And so that's really important to know. The Mastermind totally works.”

-Daniel

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

 

Show’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

Feb 28, 2023

How to solve the crisis in education

 

Stanley Litow is a Professor at Duke, Trustee of the State University of NY and  columnist at Barron's. He previously served as President of the IBM Foundation, Deputy Schools Chancellor for New York City, Founder and head of Interface and Executive Director the Urban Corps. He organized and led 3 National Education Summits, served on two Presidential Commissions and helped found PTECH schools

 

 

Show Highlights

 

  • Solutions to the crisis that education is facing as a cause of the pandemic. 

  • Unpack the demands leaders are facing from the decline in the achievement rates, high school graduation, college enrollment and teacher recruitment and retention. 

  • The essential step to addressing student achievement.

  •  The P TECH program provides a clear pathway from school to college, to career. 

  • Be part of the solution at the upcoming National Summit on Pathways from School to College to Career in Washington DC this March. 

  • Overcome the doomsday data facing education leaders.

  • The big tent approach for Ruckus Makers to make systemic change.

 

 

“The one thing I would say is, and having been Deputy Chancellor of schools in New York City, the largest school system in the United States, worked in the private sector, worked for a mayor back in the day, worked in the non-for-profit community At this juncture, I don't think that there's an issue that's more significant and important than education, but it can't only be solved by educators. This is something that we need to get every American involved in. And not just to say what could we do, but give them a very concrete and specific agenda where our investment and it's gonna take an investment, but done in an innovative, creative and different kinds of ways can produce real meaningful change. And I think it is definitely possible.”

-Stan Litow

Episode’s Resources & Contact Info:

  • Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools 

  • Twitter

  •  LinkedIn

  • Facebook

  • Stanley Litow

  • Link to the event here: https://nationalpathwaysinitiative.org

    • The 2023 National Pathways Initiative Summit will be designed and structured to advance a clear vision for a new educational system that will incorporate a fundamental shift in the paradigm that has long guided U.S. education and enhance the pathways from the classroom, to college to a career.

    • To bring this initiative to life and marshal the support of federal policymakers, we are forming a diverse National Pathways Coalition composed of prominent leaders in sectors vital to this effort, including business, education, government, the civil rights community, nonprofits and students and young adults.

 

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

Feb 22, 2023

Road To Awesome

Darrin Peppard is a leadership expert focused on organizational culture and climate, and coaching growing emerging leaders. Darrin is the author of the book Road to Awesome: Empower, Lead, Change the Game. He is also the host of the Leaning into Leadership podcast. As a ‘recovering high school principal’, Darrin shares strategies and lessons learned and effective from over 25 years in public education to help leaders to be more effective and positively impact the world around them.

 

 

Show Highlights

  • Transform a toxic culture by honestly investigating your own experience to avoid creating expectations that push people to be compliant.
  • Simple and effective practical tips for schools to show that they see, hear, and love their students.
  • Leadership coaching stops you from being a firefighter and starts you on a path towards ensuring you can go and do that work. 
  • Focus on 3 primary tenets to travel the Road to Awesome with 6 things that are important to leaders.
  • Leaning into Leadership will help you create a culture of celebration.
  • Stop looking for the “red cars” in your school and start training your mind to look for the great things in your school.
  • Nurture your relationships and stop pretending to listen and build systems that can be delegated. 

 

“As a school leader, as the principal, my really biggest job was to grow and coach everybody else in that school, grow and coach my teachers, grow and coach my leaders, grow and coach my support staff so that we were doing everything we could for kids.”

-Darrin Peppard

 

Get the episode Transcript here!!

 

Darrin’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

Feb 15, 2023

The Leadership Optimization Compass 

 

Show Highlights

  • Operating at your personal best consistently every day next year for your campus with this tool. 
  • Learn the four parts to The Leadership Optimization Compass framework. 
  • Unplug in Denver with a stripped down personalized approach to achieving your leadership goals. 
  • If you wanna create bigger results for your campus, you need to network to implement the best practices that move you.
  • A mental model all leaders need to have a healthy life on and off campus. 
  • 15 choices all the best Ruckus Makers make in order to optimize their performance. 
  • No Wasted Experience Tool to learn from the biggest mistakes you make as a leader and turn them into a growth mindset sort and leverage point.

 

Get your episode transcript here!!

 

Show’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

Feb 8, 2023

 

Bryan Miltenberg is the proud principal of Aquebogue Elementary School in Riverhead, New York. He's been a teacher, dean, and middle school assistant principal, and has presented and published on topics including school climate and culture, instructional technology, self-aware leadership, inclusivity, time management, and co-teaching partnerships. Against all logic, he remains a suffering lifelong Mets and Jets fan.

 

Show Highlights

  • Establish transformational belonging at your school by avoiding these misunderstandings.
  • The different mechanisms Bryan put in place to understand the rapid changes occurring in his school to understand what people were experiencing. 
  • We all have an “eyes problem.” Build something inclusive with tips to increase teacher retention.
  • Tips to build a pipeline that attracts culturally and linguistically diverse candidates to see your school as a place that they wanna be. 
  • Create a Punk concert environment for your students to connect with their learning community.
  • Take the Michael Jordan and Brene Brown approach to adversity and harsh feedback. 
  • Leaders need to play the long game by balancing the tension between urgent and significant.

 

I tell that story, not to say that it's radical to have a greeter or to have a bilingual person, but because it's symbolic of what we're trying to do in terms of telling kids, families and staff, we accept you as you are. We're gonna make the adjustments that we need to make to support you rather than force you to do something you may not be able to do yet.”

-Bryan Miltenberg

 

 

Get the episode transcript!!

 

Bryan’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

Feb 5, 2023

 

 

 

Show Highlights

  • The one decision that's going to change everything for you with this simple strategy regarding culture.
  • Stop blaming students for failures and get organized as a professional learning community.
  • The survey you need to overcome your blind spots to ensure you are celebrating your entire learning community. 
  • Epic Live Mastermind event in Denver this summer with a brand new framework, “Leadership Optimization Compass.” 
  • Hire you mom to accelerate nurturing and belonging in your school.

 

Get the episode transcript here!! 

 

Show’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb 1, 2023

Culture to the Max

 

Dr. Shontoria Walker is a graduate from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas with a degree in Professional Leadership with an emphasis in Literacy. Her research focuses on using culturally relevant pedagogy to influence literacy achievement for middle school Black Male Students based on her experiences as a former 8th grade English teacher at an all-boys preparatory academy. She has also served on the Texas Teacher Advisory Board, a Teach Plus Policy Fellow as well as a Senior Policy Fellow with Teach Plus Texas from 2014-2019. During her time and beyond she has advocated for educational policy laws that directly impacted the classroom as well as contributed to policy briefings for the revision of The Every Student Succeeds Act and national policy reports such as If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How To Disrupt Teacher Turnover and more recently To Be Who We are: Black Teachers on Creating Affirming School Cultures.

 

 

Show Highlights

 

  • 8 minutes you must hear if you believe in tapping into cultural responsiveness in your schools.
  • Do something different with your teacher prep to provide a voice to your new teachers with learning opportunities, not just survival techniques.
  • Stop putting a bandaid on students falling through the cracks and give them authentic engagement opportunities.
  • Tips to create culturally relevant content that transfers ownership of understanding to provide opportunity to make meaning from the complex process.
  • 4 domains to form strong community partnerships and responsive teaching to achieve Culture to the Max.
  • “Real Talk Friday” gives students the opportunity to elevate their voices and actually see each other.
  • Not classroom management, but culture management.
  • Gaps in preparing teachers for their students and building connections that transforms the learning process. 

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

 

 

Shontoria Walker’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 31, 2023

 

 

Born in Scotland and raised around the world, Kirsten is a truly global thinker.  Her educational training spans Scotland, USA, Australia and more. 

 

After 27 years of international education experience across 7 countries and leadership positions in 5 schools, she now works as an independent consultant, creating individually tailored PD for schools, developing online learning events and coaching educators. 



Kirsten founded one of the most popular educator PLNs on Facebook, where 120,000 global educators share resources, support and inspire one another – the Global Educator Collective

 

Show Highlights

  • RSVP to your invitation to join a free event for educators and leaders all over the world with resources to transform your schools.
  • Unleash your Leadership potential by  utilizing these 4 domains and go from Aspiration to Action.
  •  Stop Stealing Dreams, tell the story of your school,  and face epic challenges for leadership in a global community of Ruckus Makers bootcamp.
  • Unpack shared resources from case studies that engage your whole community (DEIJ, how to be responsive to trauma, how to implement a gifted and talented, how to develop a school with the community, how to develop a teacher growth program and more).
  • Be human first  and level up communication. 
  • Global insights for the Ruckus Maker that will benefit their leadership. 

 

“ I always say human first amongst everything, amongst all of our differences. Whether it's ‘social economical’, cultural or experiential, whatever it is. The one thing is we are human first. Instead of looking for what is different, look for what you have in common. Look for where you can make connections and always understand that you are capable of making that connection. If you just pause, if you just pause and just for one second, imagine that you are that other person and what they're feeling.”

-Kirsten Durward

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

Kirsten’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

Jan 25, 2023

Dr. Steven Weber is the Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning. He brings more than 20 years of experience to the district having previously served as the Executive Director for Curriculum and Instruction with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (NC). During his career, he has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, director of secondary, and executive director of curriculum and instruction. Weber’s professional experience includes serving as a curriculum director with the Arkansas Department of Education and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

 

Weber serves on the Executive Cabinet for Fayetteville Public Schools and provides leadership by working with teachers, administrators, and staff. He works with teachers from each of the district’s sixteen schools to review programs, develop curriculum, and analyze district inputs and outputs. Weber leads the Office of Teaching and Learning and works with building principals to support continuous improvement. His areas of leadership include academic achievement, instructional strategies, formative assessment, leadership development, professional learning, continuous improvement, and collaborating with families to support students.

 

 

Show Highlights

 

  • Burning a bridge with a parent helped to create strategies to build empathy and respect with people we don’t agree with.
  • Tips to navigate the turbulent waters between confidence and the imposter syndrome.
  • Leadership is about customer service.
  • Prioritize dialogue and conversation over conflict and disrespect when facing highly energized people.
  • Steven’s instructional leadership program that builds a pipeline for leaders. 
  • Schools are in a service industry.  Make sure your first touch point is a welcoming experience. 
  • The message you need to remember when communicating to an audience. 

 

 

“As a community, we should embrace our schools, embrace our teachers and our principals. We should embrace the positive impact that a school can have on a community. We don't need to destroy our schools through public rhetoric, but we do need to have conversation and dialogue. And that dialogue is hard to have at a school board meeting, which is only designed for public comments.”

-Steven Weber

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

Steven Weber’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

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Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

Jan 18, 2023

 

 

Ryan Steuer is the founder of Magnify Learning, a Project Based Learning professional development organization. Prior to founding Magnify Learning, Ryan was an engineer for a Fortune 50 company, an eighth-grade English teacher, and a missionary. He shares his educational leadership insights on YouTube and on the PBL Simplified podcast.

 

Show Highlights

  • The adventures and life learning from RV education.
  • Bridging the gap to connect the dot between essential concepts and real world experiences for students.
  • Wake up kids with relevant and authentic learning with these tips on how to create a PBL curriculum.
  • The importance of having a WHY behind student learning to identify standards learned and transferred.
  • Ryan shares a story of failing at PBL and why it is critical to have students in on the unit planning process. 
  • The benefits of  a Mastermind “is you get somebody that knows the work enough to like slam your foot down on the pedal to really move your work farther.”  
  • PBL Simplified, has a proven 6-step process directed at supporting leaders in motivating staff and maneuvering through the creative constraints.

 

 

Ryan Steur’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

Jan 11, 2023

 

 

Mitch doesn't teach teachers how to teach. He teaches teachers how to set students up for success. He can teach teachers how to deliver content - He is good at it, but that’s not where he adds value for your school or district. 

 

As you know, unless students develop a solid foundation for learning it does not matter how great your teachers deliver content, or how emergent the technology, or even how engaging a lesson might be. When students hone executive functioning skills, teachers’ efforts to deliver content find fertile ground and everyone succeeds.

 

Mitch has a black belt in creating fertile ground for learning. He shows teachers how to equip students with executive functioning skills. It is possible for teachers to engage the most disengaged or disinterested students and set them up for success in school and life. That is his superpower.

 

 

Show Highlights

 

  • Classroom routines to teach executive functions.
  • The FREE 5-Part Webinar Series you must attend to cultivate executive functions for your learning community.
  • 3 keys to teaching executive functioning skills
  • The best learning is at school, not at home.
  • Invest more in teaching your students executive function skills to provide a foundation for success. 
  • The skills we take for granted.
  • Accessing your “Working Memory.” 

 

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

Mitch Weather’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

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Jan 10, 2023

 

Show Highlights

 

  • School transformation and really leveraging curiosity and intentional design.
  • Turn critics into cheerleaders with the “Can If mental model” 
  • Use the nine propelling questions to leverage the constraints and do something powerful within your school.
  • Use your leadership superpowers and tools and follow the map your biggest critics provide. 
  • Create opportunity and rewards for your community by
    1. leveraging the knowledge and expertise of your parent community. 
    2. removing X, which will allow us to get to y. 
  • Access essential tools by joining the Principal Success Path like the Decision Making Journal. 



Get the episode transcript here!!

 

 

Episode Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

Jan 4, 2023
In this special episode, Chief Ruckus Maker, Danny Bauer teaches the Principal Success Formula™.

This episode is in-depth. Much deeper than a usual show. We recommend you listen to this one with a notebook, so you can follow along and do the work Danny had leaders do when he taught this live.

The four parts of the Principal Success Formula™ are:
  • LEVEL UP your mindset so that you are an even more magnetic, impactful, and effective leader …
  • Learn how to use intentional design to create an even more welcoming and inclusive environment …
  • Follow the “clues” left by remarkable leaders that you can use to create the school culture of your dreams!
  • Absorb and practice the foundational actions that Ruckus Makers take to consistently create results you’ll be proud of …
And if you'd like to work with us to implement this framework consistently, we invite you to apply to the fourth cohort of The Principal Success Path™.

We're getting started January 15.

Apply today here: https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/principalsuccesspath/

Read my best-selling book!
Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.
 
Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!
Apply to the Mastermind
The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

Apply to the mastermind today!
SHOW SPONSORS:
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX
Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS
 
ORGANIZED BINDER
Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC
Dec 28, 2022

 

 

Dr. Decoteau J. Irby’s life work focuses on creating and sustaining organizations that contribute to Black people’s self-determined well-being, development, and positive life outcomes. He is an Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is the author Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press) and the picture book Magical Black Tears: A Protest Story (Derute Consulting Cooperative).

 

Show Highlights

 

  • Parallels between live performance and leadership to overcome the plateaus of learning.
  • Relationships with mistakes and failure create more equitable schools for all our students.
  • Redefine mistakes to take the pressure off and create a better performance.
  • Strengthening the conditions of your school community requires an important commitment.
  • Create transformative experiences between a teacher, a student by connecting the learning process to how we facilitate learning. 
  • Racial equity breakthroughs and how they act as indicators of progress.
  • Break from the status quo most schools are built around and stop celebrating false positives. 

 

“I think that leaders should be really mindful to seek out coaching, to seek out opportunities to learn. I try to give myself a major learning opportunity about every seven years. And that might mean, enrolling myself into a leadership training program that has nothing to do with my work.”

-Dr Decoteau Irby

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

 

 

Dr Decoteau Irby’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

Dec 21, 2022

 

Shannon Buerk is the Founder and CEO of engage2learn, a leading provider of Education Intelligence through smart professional learning, job-embedded coaching, and related technology solutions since 2011. Educator turned entrepreneur, she has emerged as a thought leader on educational leadership, organizational culture, and systems thinking. Buerk recently published Connect the Dots: Utilizing Education Intelligence to Accelerate Growth, Retain Talent, and Optimize Outcomes.

 

Show Highlights

 

  • Convert PD from a burden to a benefit. Tips to redesign PD for your staff.
  • Connect the Dots with an elegant solution to measure what you really value. 
  • Create a growth-based system to provide measurable educator growth and avoid random feedback.
  • Teachers are the talent you need to focus on. Generate support for educator growth to lead to student growth.
  • Evidence-based recognition is a critical and complete game changer. 
  • A Ruckus Maker perspective about teacher prep programs, certification, and evaluation. 
  • Understanding learning styles, how the brain works to truly engage all learners. 

 

 

“What's not working, which includes one size fits all PD. It's easy enough to say ‘differentiate’ and it's very difficult to do in terms of systems. The first step is looking at the system as more competency based.”

-Shannon Buerk

 

“The idea of evidence-based recognition and evidence-based feedback based on evidence of practice is what can truly change the culture. It puts the agency back in the professional's hands and you're saying, ‘Here's a piece of evidence of practice that I'd like feedback on,’ and they're giving feedback.” 

-Shannon Buerk

Get the episode transcript here!!

Shannon Buerk’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

Dec 14, 2022

 

 

Will Jawando is an attorney, an activist, a community leader, and a councilmember in Montgomery County, Maryland, a diverse community of more than one million residents. Called “the progressive leader we need” by the late congressman John Lewis, Jawando has worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Sherrod Brown, and President Barack Obama. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post and The Root and on BET.com, and his work has been featured in The New York Times and New York magazine and on NPR, NBC News, and MTV. He regularly appears on CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets.

 

Show Highlights

 

  • The key for Ruckus Makers who want to cause good trouble in their school.
  • Relationships with black men and boys have a superhuman power to combat structural racism and inequity.
  • Policies, strategies and your role in creating more equitable schools. 
  • Knowing the difference between a Decision kid versus Destination kid  to provide encouragement to call out their gifts. 
  • The 1% zone factors that are devastating black boys in this country..
  • We all need these relationships to thrive.
  • When you get smacked in the face when you're trying to do something good, don't give up.

 

“At the bottom of that totem pole were black men. Intentionality was put in to tell us in the world at large, who and what we are, which most of which was negative. We're still counteracting that. We all need to work to do that. But when you have the presence of engaged black men in the lives of black boys and men, I personally can attest that it has a superhuman power.”

-Will Jawando

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

 

Will Jawando’s Resources & Contact Info:




Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

Dec 7, 2022

Dr. CJ Lowery, is the Assistant Superintendent in Rockport-Fulton Texas.  He has a background with inner-city and rural Title 1 schools as a teacher and principal.  CJ believes that education is not a job, it’s a mission field.  This mission field requires strong relationships, data, and collaboration for success. “It’s not who you know, but who you were good to.”

 

Show Highlights

 

  • Ruckus Makers need to embrace the tension of veteran teachers while amplifying the talent of novice teachers.
  • "Who you know, is not nearly as important as who you're good to.” 
  • Restaurants and bars are the best places to find top teaching talent.
  • Education is not a job, it's a mission field that requires 3 ingredients  for success. 
  • Have the mind and the heart of a child and encourage people to fill your leadership gaps.
  • The growl you need to hear to know you are pushing your school in the right direction. 
  • One thing that lawmakers are moving the right direction for teachers.
  • Leaders need to understand how to lead people who are risk averse.

 

 

“Good leaders wanna find some common ground to say, ‘Hey you're seeing something I didn't see.’ It’s either I have a blind spot or a gap somewhere that now I can evaluate and hopefully make it better for you.”

-Dr CJ Lowery

 

Get the episode transcript here!!

Dr. CJ Lowery’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

Dec 1, 2022

 

 

Show Highlights

Today we are talking about a topic I love -- MARGIN

 

So many of my peers in the education space think that there isn't enough time. That's simply not true.

 

The problem is that not everyone -- including me -- utilizes time effectively 100% of the time.

 

I pride myself on telling you how it is.

 

When I do use my time effectively I get so much done and realize there is an actual ABUNDANCE of time.

 

Today I share both the concepts and the practical HOW TO DO IT …

 

If you are interested in creating more MARGIN in your calendar, listen up and take action.

 

Even better, join the Maximize Your Margin Challenge kicking off on December 5th.

 

More than 150 school leaders have signed up.

 

You can sign up too. It's 100% free and over 6-days, I've planned a workshop that will help you create more margin so you can live and lead on your own terms.

 

Get access now: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/margin

 

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

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Dec 1, 2022

Show Highlights

 

  • It’s not about outcomes, it’s about good judgment. 
  • Immediately results in building consistency and trust with your team.
  • Batching tasks will maximize your time and focus.  Stop switching and multitasking your to-do list. 
  • A system and a process for principals to lean into your genius.
  • Alignment is key. How aligned are all the things that happen within your school?

 

Get the episode Transcript here!!

Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

Nov 30, 2022

Crafting The Culture

 

Jeff Zoul, is a lifelong teacher, learner, and leader. During Jeff’s distinguished career in education he has served in a variety of roles, including Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning in Illinois. Jeff also served as a teacher and coach in the State of Georgia for many years before moving into school administration. Jeff has been recognized as a local Teacher of the Year and as an outstanding principal in the State of Georgia. He is the author/co-author of more than a dozen books. Jeff has earned several degrees, including his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts and his doctoral degree from the University of Alabama. In his spare time, Jeff enjoys running and has completed over a dozen marathons.

 

Show Highlights

 

    • Are you a Play- It-safe Principal?  
    • Traditions that kill culture. 
    • Culture is made in micro moments of 30 seconds at a time, get the daily cultural devotional to reflection on what matters most for your community. 
  • Relationship building tools that transform small things into grand.
  • “Start before you’re ready” is the only way to make a relevant ruckus.
  • Why you want to hear push back and how you create a respectful, right way, right time, right place environment.
  • Innovate inside and out of the box you create for teaching.
  • A dangerous measuring stick you need to create a good measuring bar for students.
  • Dismantling 3 status quo operations in education that haven't met the moment.  



Relationship building. It's the small things that can mean a lot. I try my very best but It's hard, but my personal mission is to improve the life, in some small way, of every person with whom I have a meaningful interaction. That's my mission and I hope that I can do that.”

-Jeff Zoul

 

Jeff Zoul’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nov 25, 2022

3 Ways To Build An Even Better Culture

 

 

 

Show Highlights

 

  • Create the right energy for your school with tips on relationship building and culture.
  • You may be what’s getting in the way of the culture you want to create. 
  • Separating emergencies vs distractions with the demands on your time.
  • Moments that erode culture in your community.  
  • Tips to have critical conversations to increase value.
  • Invest in a staff relationship management system/tool (CRM).
  • Set up your priorities with meaning, value and satisfaction with the 10 x advantage.
  • Separate your school from all the other schools in the neighborhood, in the district, in the state, the city, the state, the nation. 

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.

 

TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.

 

From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.

 

Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS

 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

Nov 16, 2022

Rebecca Rolland is the author of The Art of Talking with Children (HarperOne, March 2022). She is a national certified speech-language pathologist and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Boston with her family.

 

 

Show Highlights

    • The power of language transforms with music.
    • A framework to access what lights people up.
    • Build resilience by micro moments and through everyday conversations. 
    • Question starters used to create meaningful conversations.
    • Seven key areas  to The Art of Talking with Children.  
  • Help students draw on their natural resilience and raise their awareness about themselves.
  • Counteract bias and help students celebrate the differences among others.

 

“The idea is to be creative about what you wanna get across, about the curriculum, about your overall goals, and about how you can bridge those goals with the goals or interests of your students. Rather than saying, ‘I'm going to sit here and wait for students to come to me.’ How do you create that equal bridge where students are coming with their interests, you're coming with your goals and interests, how do you actually meet in the middle?" 

-Rebecca Rolland




Get the episode transcript here!!

Rebecca Rolland’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

Nov 9, 2022

MARK C. CROWLEY is a recognized visionary in workplace management, engagement, and culture. When the first edition of his book, Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century, was published over a decade ago, many business leaders were slow to embrace it and misinterpreted its title as being synonymous with soft, weak, and ineffective management. Today, his pioneering philosophy on heart-led leadership has launched a global movement and Forbes Magazine has called his ideas “visionary” and “the blueprint for the future of workplace leadership.” As an educational resource, the first edition of Lead From The Heart has been taught in nine universities. Now, Crowley has released a new edition of Lead From The Heart (August 23, 2022), updated and revised to address the needs of those managing Gen Z and Millennial employees, supported by the latest global research on employee engagement.

 

Show Highlights

    • Lead from the Heart to let your experience influence your work.
    • How negative feedback can be the catalyst to keep you connected to approaching the “hard sells” of leadership. 
  • Mark shares his process on how to stay committed to your vision.
  • Take this first tiny first step to build a foundation for developing heart-centered leadership that will transform your school and impact the value you create for others.
  • You need a “mirror moment” and a key ingredient to build the right team to empower your learning community.  Mark tells you how.
  • The formula for a competitive advantage, a leadership edge, and to take your school to the next level. 

 

“I believe when I'm supporting people the way that I was, I made people feel safe. I made people feel appreciated. I found out what they wanted to learn. I knew about their families. I knew about their dreams. I supported them in unique ways and made people feel that I love them, cared about them, and they wanted to work hard for me.”

-Mark Crowley

 

Get the episode Transcript here!!

Mark Crowley’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Apply to the Mastermind

The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders. 

 

100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

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