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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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Aug 26, 2020

Jaime Casap is the Chief Education Evangelist at Google. Jaime evangelizes the potential of digitalization as an enabling capability in pursuit of promoting inquiry-based learning models. Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation into our education policies and practices.

In addition to his role at Google, Jaime serves as an advisor to dozens of organizations focused on learning, skill development, and the future of work. He is the coauthor of “Our First Talk About Poverty,” as a way to talk to children about poverty. Jaime helped launch the Phoenix Coding Academy, a public high school in Phoenix, AZ, focused on computer science as part of an inquiry-based learning model. He teaches a 10th-grade communication class at the school. He also guest lectures at Arizona State University.

He speaks on education, digitalization, innovation, generation z, and the future of work at events around the world. 

 

Show Highlights

  • Reality distortion field.  Lean into your voice
  • Helping students use their life experiences and circumstances as a competitive advantage. 
  • Vision isn’t good enough without these action items 
  • It is the time of the Ruckus Maker. Are you taking advantage?
  • The biggest risk in hiring.  How to “future proof” your schools.
  • Moving students from a consumer, to more critical thinker, and designer by teaching them how technology functions
  • Curriculum that creates influencers that can actually change the system

“I don't like talking about education, being broken as it's something that needs to be fixed. That's just too negative for me. I want to start with, what does the system need to look like for the future that we face and how do we take the best ideas that we've been able to build in education?”

-Jaime Casap

 

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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.

 

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Aug 21, 2020

Nancy Frey is a professor at San Diego State University in Educational Leadership where she focuses on policies and practices in literacy and school leadership. Nancy is also a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College, an award-winning open-enrollment public school in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego that she co-founded in 2007. For nearly 3 decades, Nancy has dedicated her work to the knowledge and skills teachers and school leaders need to help students attain their goals and aspirations. Nancy just released The Distance Learning Playbook with co-authors Doug Fisher and John Hattie.  

 

Show Highlights

  • Win the school year by using these plays from Nancy’s playbook
  • How to pivot in a pandemic or any other crisis
  • Tips to build, maintain and foster relationships when we're at a distance
  • The loss of learning in times of crisis is counterintuitive
  • Why national test scores increase during times of crisis
  • This isn't crisis teaching. Create cohesion and consistency with these scheduling strategies
  • Future proofing students

“What I want a Ruckus Maker to remember is that our job is to be a Ruckus Maker. As educators, I think that we sort of have a self concept that we maintain the status quo. Now more than ever, we need to disrupt. We need to innovate. Schooling has needed to be innovated for a long time. This is our chance.” 

-Nancy Frey



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  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

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.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Aug 19, 2020

Dr. Lori McEwen helps educators create classrooms and communities of deep and joyful learning. 

Lori has served educators, students and families as a leader in urban, suburban and charter environments and as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and professor.  Some of her proudest achievements include providing leadership, vision and strategic direction for meaningful change--including the creation of personalized, mastery-focused high schools. 

Lori is skilled at helping partners explore what’s possible in classrooms and schools by asking tons of questions, providing lots of readings, supporting risk-taking and making sure there’s laughter along the way. 

 

Show Highlights

  • How to develop and lean on your gut instincts
  • The importance of a lengthy interview process when hiring 
  • Lori provides valuable resources to support the mastery movement
  • The first steps to building a framework so students can be masters of their learning. 
  • Why you can’t cheat on authentic assessments 
  • Rigorous and social, emotional learning are not mutually exclusive, but inclusive 
  • Lori’s favorite strategies to fill the 3 buckets that ensure deep and joyful learning

“The better that you and I can communicate with one another, the better we can collaborate. Once we have a great collaboration, we can get to this place of synergy. This idea that the room is smarter than any individual in the room. We can construct meaning to get to that higher level of creativity together because we're riffing off each other.”

-Lori McEwen



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ORGANIZED BINDER

  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

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.

 

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Aug 12, 2020

Clayton Reedie is the current Director for the Campbelltown Principal’s Network in Sydney, the equivalent of a District Superintendent in the United States.

He began as a teacher in 1991 and from there earned early promotion to Executive Teacher, Assistant Principal and then Deputy Principal. Clayton’s first Principalship was at Mount Hunter, a small country school of 58 students. Further principal positions followed at Chipping Norton, Hinchinbrook and finally at Dalmeny Public School.

In 2019, Clayton left the school-based role to become a Principal (School Leadership) a position which centred on providing support and professional development to principals and school leadership teams. Earlier this year he was successful in being promoted into his current role of Director.

Clayton was honoured to be elected by his peers to lead the Liverpool Primary Principals’ Association as President for three years from 2011 to 2014 and in 2016 he was awarded a full scholarship to study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Clayton lives in south-western Sydney and his greatest love is spending time with his wife, Nikki, and five boys aged 6, 13, 16, 19 and 22. They entertain, enlighten, love and give… but most of all keep him very much grounded in reality.

 

Show Highlights

  • The original Ruckus Maker’s framework to open doors of trust that turns challenging parents into biggest supporters
  • Avoid being closed minded to life changing opportunities
  • Heart shifts are needed instead of mind shifts in the school of life.
  • Only 12.5% of people are capable of change without these supports
  • 90% of complaints come because of these two factors
  • The pitfalls of quoting policy to your learning community
  • How to share data, warts and all with parents to create curriculum allies

"We need a heart shift before a mind shift." And that's because when people connect with an idea, emotionally, they're moved to action. There's no amount of numbers or logic that can change what somebody thinks, but if they can put themselves in somebody else's shoes, just for a moment, maybe just maybe they'll have an epiphany and want to do what is right.

- Clayton Reedie

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

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.

 

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC



Aug 5, 2020

Erika began her career as a special education teacher in the West-Linn Wilsonville School district. When her family relocated to Southern Oregon, she was fortunate to work in Medford as a special education TOSA, supporting the work of the Special Education Department for the district. She worked at Ashland High School for seven years, three as assistant principal, and the last four as principal. She look forward working alongside the staff and community at Griffin Creek in supporting every student to learn, grow and thrive.

Show Highlights

  • Make solid decisions with the 3 Word Wise strategy to anchor yourself and your staff to your beliefs
  • Erika shares useful tools and why you should join the GO Community to transform your leadership 
  • Lower the barriers for students to come forward with a sound protective policy on harassment
  • Be empathetic in challenging situations. It’s not personal, it’s uncomfortable. 
  • Essential training for staff members to ensure they’re doing everything legally and morally for children in and out of the school building. 
  • Overcome first year fears as an administrator to bring difficult issues to light. Hear Ericka’s district plan on training, reporting and investigating
  • Erika’s tips for the learning community when presented with critical information, who to go to, and how to make unbiased decisions. 

“Wisdom is just recognizing that I am not going to be the smartest person in the room.The collective is always more powerful than the individual person. And so what information do I need? What wisdom do I need to gather from others?”

 -Erika Bare

 

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A First Year Principal Takes on Sexual Harassment (1)

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

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.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

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