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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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Jun 1, 2022

Julie Stern is a global consultant and author: Julie has nearly two decades experience facilitating adult learning, and feels lucky to partner with educators to take their practice to the next level. She is a four-time, best-selling author of Learning That Transfers, Visible Learning for Social Studies, The On-Your-Feet-Guide to Learning Transfer, and Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary and Secondary.

Show Highlights

    • Tips to move beyond capacity and dig deep into the reserves.
    • Ideas to honor educators,students and leader’s wellbeing and still improve their craft.
    • How to find the intersection of professional development and well being?
    • Say Goodbye to being overwhelmed with a 7-day reset and Time Audit for Teachers
  • Stop dividing equally to move past topical level learning in your school.
  • Find your most essential elements in 3 words
  • Build excitement and momentum for your staff by asking 2 questions.
  • ACT, to transfer and facilitate learning that is contagious.
  • Solution surveys to eliminate time constraints for teachers in your building.



“How many of us have thought I got nothing left? Many of us have broken and many teachers are leaving the profession. Many leaders are leaving the profession, which breaks my heart. My passion is the intersection of how do we get better while not maintaining our well being, our own personal well being. My life's work is: how do we update teaching and learning to prepare kids for an ever-changing world while we still are healthy.”

-Julie Stern

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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

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.

 

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May 25, 2022

Andrea Caprio is a Master Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach who helps busy professionals take back their power from yoyo dieting and overeating with proven tools and simple lifestyle hacks! It is Andrea's mission to help others free themselves from self-sabotage and unhealthy habits so they can live a fulfilling and confident life.

Show Highlights

  • What goes into a healthy detox?
  • Stop limiting your mindsets regarding  health and nutrition
  • Relearn healthy habits to rewire your lifestyle. 
  • Mason jar planning is the key to overcoming challenges. 
  • The Food Freedom Formula provides a roadmap to healthy habits.
  • Free gift and discovery you need to hear about.
  • Free yourselves from self sabotage and unhealthy habits 
  • Easy next steps for endless energy Ruckus Makers need. 
  • Five step system is to reset the body's healing abilities.

“If you don't put fuel in your car, eventually you get stranded. If you don't take care of your body, if you don't feel your body, if you don't add good nutrition into your tank, eventually one day the breaks will come on and you will have to rest. It will not be pretty. As we all know, ‘either pay for your health now or pay for your illness later.’”

-Andrea Caprio

 

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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

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.

 

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May 18, 2022

Cory L. Cain was raised amongst the vast palm trees of  Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has served as a teacher, lead teacher, dean, department chair, assistant principal, and principal.  In these positions,  he has focused on communicative approaches to teacher-led professional development, cooperative learning, and data-driven instructional practices and has led the STEM department to record standardized test scores. Previously, he led a teacher-led hiring initiative that he created, based on behavior-based interviewing; developed Yale-based, social emotional training classes for teachers; and has spent the last year helping eradicate educational inequity by becoming a leader in working with educators to envision a new story where the power of personal relationships nurtures academic, social and emotional growth for young people at Wendell Phillips High School in Bronzeville. After spending nearly twenty years working in urban education, focusing on communicative approaches to teacher-led professional development; cooperative learning; data-driven instructional practices; behavior-based interviewing; and Yale-based, social-emotional training classes for teachers, he aspires to serve as a coach that focuses on creating inclusive communities where all people are treated with respect and dignity, where multiple perspectives and experiences are welcome, and where students from all cultures and backgrounds can succeed.  

Cory holds a BS in biology; minor in Spanish;  and an MBA in marketing from the University of Miami;  a Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership from Columbia University, a Certificate in School Management & Leadership from Harvard Business School, a Certificate in School Discipline Reform from Loyola's Law School, and just recently finished his law degree  at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law.

In his free time, he enjoys reading, dancing, cooking, music, getting trapped in new TV series, and thinking about what new degree to acquire.  

 

Show Highlights

  • Rethinking student data in a very data driven system.
  • Grab the reins of data to be data informed and not data driven.
  • Implement the student experience to be a data informed leader.  
  • Book recommendations for building solution oriented thinking and equity.
  • “Street-level”, “Map” and “Satellite” data creates flexibility to change direction towards your goals. 
  • Nobel’s strategy on deciding to become “Antiracist.” 
  • The first step for principals who want to decenter whiteness.
  • Create an invitation to talk in circles. 
  • An easy way to stop jumping to judgment and be a better observer.

“Data isn't the issue, it's what we do with it.”

-Cory Cain 

 

“I'm not saying we're perfect. We're doing a really good job of teaching ourselves and helping to develop teachers and leaders to use that type of data to make more informed choices when it comes to our staff and students in our community.”

-Cory Cain 

 

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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

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.

 

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May 16, 2022

Eric Barker is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller “Barking Up the Wrong Tree,” which has sold over half a million copies and been translated into 19 languages. It was even the subject of a question on “Jeopardy!” Over 500,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter. His work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Financial Times, and others. Eric is also a sought-after speaker, having given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), and the Olympic Training Center. His new book, “Plays Well with Others,” will be released by HarperCollins in May of 2022.

Show Highlights

  • Lose the “Poker Face” and be more readable to your community.
  • The Friendly Journalist Method strategy for detecting lies.
  • Framework and advice on building belonging 
  • Plays Well With Others  for the meaning of life and what we get wrong in relationships. 
  • Power of negotiators in inaccurate perceptions
  • Get the skeleton key to human relationships 
  • The double edge sword of first impressions 

“A mistake we consistently make is we're over confident we can read other people. By the same token we're usually overconfident that people know we're thinking.”

-Eric Barker

 

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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

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.

 

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May 11, 2022

Pete Hall is a capacity-builder. Driven to impact others’ lives in a profoundly positive way, he channels his experiences as a school principal, life coach, and small-business owner into manageable lessons for continuous growth, personal improvement, and positive mindset. Tenacious, courageous, and incorruptible, Pete shares his optimism, joy, and practical application of strategies for getting the most out of yourself.

Show Highlights

  • How to make changes to the systemic structures even when they don’t allow you to?
  • Advice for educators to nurture and provide a foundation for student goals even when they seem unrealistic.
  • Tips for Ruckus Makers to do a better job of knowing the people in their learning community.
  •  Chasing the Show inspires you to make a ruckus.
  •  Knowing the conditions that help Ruckus Maker despite resistance.
  • Make students more than a number or % by adding this focus.
  • Stray from a regimented structure for meaningful change.
  • Flexibility creates bigger opportunities for your desired outcomes.

“My number one piece of advice for leaders is to be real and to be honest authentic human beings because you're leading people, you're not leading a school. You're leading the people in the school, and that requires human connection.”

-Pete Hall

 

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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

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

May 4, 2022

TaRael Kee is an Assistant Principal at Collinsville High School and currently serving as President of the Illinois School Counselor Association. He recently became a Site-Based Trainer for the American School Counselor Association.  

As a former school counselor at Collinsville HighSchool, he utilized data and technology to push the department to become more innovative, efficient, and inclusive.  

TaRael is a published author.  

He was named the Collinsville School District e-Educator of the Year (2017),  recognized by College Board in (2018), received the Lindenwood Alumni Spotlight (2019), and was awarded Illinois School Counselor of the Year (2021).  TaRael graduated from Lindenwood University with a specialist degree in Educational Leadership in May 2021.

Show Highlights

  • Hiring practices for successfully hiring educators of color at your school.
  • Stop making excuses for a lack of diversity.
  • How to have very honest conversations with your hiring committee. 
  • Innovative and inclusive approach of bringing talent back to your community. 
  • The Kee to Success, a podcast to give you hope to keep making change.
  • Create a flipped  job fair to hire a diverse and equitable staff.
  • Provide representation so children see themselves as leaders within the school community.
  •  Create a hub of hope for students to grow curiosity and connection. 

“I want every Ruckus Maker to know that they are the person that creates change. You create the change yourself. You have to do things you're not even ready for in order to do it. There's nothing wrong with not being fully ready. There's nothing wrong with you. Get out there and start to make changes every single day.”

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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

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

Apr 27, 2022

James Anderson is an Australian-based international speaker, author and educator who is passionate about helping fellow educators develop students as better learners. Originally a teacher and school leader, for the past 20 years, James has been working with schools to make classrooms more thoughtful places. He challenges teachers to think deeply about their own Mindsets and how their beliefs are communicated to students in often subtle and unintended ways.James’s work combines Growth Mindset with Habits of Mind and Practice to create Learning Agility. He puts the growth back into the Growth Mindset! And, through creating and describing the Mindset Continuum, he provides the cornerstone for effective Growth Mindset interventions. James values the relationships he builds with the schools and teachers he works with, providing the “follow-through” that’s so often lacking in teacher professional development. His speaking, workshops and online resources provide not only the deep understanding required to do this work meaningfully, but also the tools and ongoing support needed to sustain it in your school and make a real difference to student learning outcomes.

James will show you how to create your school-based Growth Mindset Style Guide to ensure your school consistently “nudges” all students towards an increasingly growth-oriented Mindset.

James is a Certified Speaking Professional and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. His previous publications include Succeeding with Habits of Mind, The Agile Learner, The Learning Landscape and The Mindset Continuum, as well as a host of e-books and other teacher resources.His online course, “Transforming Teaching and Learning with Growth Mindsets,” supports thousands of educators in schools around the world. He is an international affiliate of Art Costa and Bena Kallick’s Institute for Habits of Mind and the creator of www.habitsofmind.org.

Show Highlights

  • Learnership and the Learnership Matrix every Ruckus Maker needs.
  • Avoid educators working harder than their students.
  • Common design mistakes school leaders fall into.
  • Understanding the difference between resilience and being antifragile. to leverage disturbances in an unpredictable future. 
  • Risk of getting busy instead of getting better.
  • Be aware  of the mindset messages and the percentage of faculty actively disengaging their students. 
  • Celebrate natural and created abilities equally to avoid a fixed mindset.
  • Deliberately make mistakes for effective feedback.
  • The difference between getting better and getting busy.

“One of my favorite quotes is ‘there is no growth without discomfort.’ If we're going to grow, we need to be comfortable with that feeling of discomfort, knowing that to grow we are going to feel uncomfortable. Seven out of ten uncomfortable, not nine or ten out of uncomfortable, not way off the deep end going, ‘Oh my god, I can't do this’, but uncomfortable enough.”

-James Anderson

 

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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

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

Apr 25, 2022

Show Highlights

  • Stop spinning plates and drinking from the fire hydrant when implementing your vision and mission.
  • The dangers of the “humblebrag” 
  • Adopt the 3 step Zen recipe for success
  • Create the school of your dreams with these execution tips
  • Big mistake school leaders make when leading
  • Adopt the Apple success strategy to your school  
  • The process to make sustainable strides for your school 
  • Intentionally sit in silence for your best ideas to emerge 
  • Why you need to slow down to discover the best way to speed up

 

“If you take these three elements to heart, you'll get out of the chaos that most school leaders experience in education and you'll build a simpler, more successful and hopefully more enjoyable school experience.

-Daniel Bauer



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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

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

Apr 20, 2022

Corey M. Christman is the winemaker at Bravery Wines, LLC..  He’s a retired Supervisory Special Agent, USAF and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He’s a Doctoral student at Drexel University studying Educational Leadership. He’s a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program, Cornell University, and holds an MBA  and BA in Criminal Justice.  

 

Show Highlights

  • Consulting to assist leaders enact the changes they are facing.
  • Gain the necessary confidence to move ideas into action
  • Self-awareness to celebrate the hero in you.
  • Knowing-Doing Gap,  actual practice leadership
  • Stop trying to engage in critical change from a disengaged viewpoint.
  • Communication inventory and people skills to improve your team.
  • FREE SPIRITS-Drink up the lessons that connect leadership to entrepreneurship.
  • Build a team around your weaknesses for your organization
  • What it takes to become worthy of history.

“Ideally we want the highest skill set and the culture fit. We want those together, but if we've got to take a culture fit, then maybe somebody has a little less skill set. I'll take that person every day because I can train that person. That person's coachable. Culture starts with town acquisition and not being afraid to go look for that person who's going to complement your team, not just seeking to seek employment.”

-Corey Christman



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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

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

Apr 13, 2022

Christine Franklyn is an international speaker, writer and health coach. She is on a mission to help high-performing leaders get out from under the weight of everything that rests on their shoulders and truly shine. She has reverse-engineered the process she used to escape burnout and reclaim her A-Game. This is the foundation of her Power Up Formula.

Show Highlights

  • Recognize the signs of stress to avoid burnout
  • Know your worth and maintain a “Think BIG Mindset” 
  • Avoid setting for being put in someone else's box.
  • Practical advice on how to combat negative health outcomes 
  • Healthy habits designed for busy leaders
  • A checklist to Double Your Energy
  • Important steps to listening to your body and focus your values
  • Why is your mind not trustworthy, but your bodies are? 

“I have to start, take stock, and decide how I'm going to make a change. I've seen how crucial it is for clients and the leaders  I talked to and worked with. If you don't listen to yourself, if you don't listen to your body, you can end up in a downward spiral.”

-Christine Franklyn

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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

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

Apr 6, 2022

Jordan Mareno is a Partnerships Manager at Project Invent, a nonprofit that empowers high school and middle school students to invent technology for community impact. Jordan gravitates towards questions about and celebrations of human purpose, and believes that young people should be given chances — often and early — to wrestle with their own understandings of meaning.

 

Show Highlights

  • Energy and ethos leaders desire for their schools. 
  • A pivot point and catalysis for identifying as a Ruckus Maker. 
  • Create community partnerships and design thinking with Project Invent.
  • A question all students find purpose and meaning in the education system.
  • Assist students with making a backpack of belonging.
  • Support teachers who want to make a ruckus get off isolation island.
  • Unlock talent and push people to believe they are talented.
  • The value in crosscutting conversations with students and teachers.
  • Close the distance students feel between the real world and the classroom.

 

“How old were you when you realized everything was invented? I think everybody has that moment or maybe you don't and those are the unlucky ones. You realize the world was designed and it can be redesigned and redesigned and redesigned and reinvented. We hope our students have that realization early on in their experience with us that everything around them was designed and they actually can be a part of that.”

-Jordan Mareno

 

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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

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

Mar 30, 2022

Tanya Sheckley is the Founder and President of UP Academy, a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. UP Academy is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

Inspired by the will, drive, and desire of her daughter, Eliza, who was born in 2009 with cerebral palsy, UP Academy is proving that it’s possible to celebrate differences, change what’s broken in the American education system, and provide all children with a rigorous, well-rounded education.

Tanya also hosts the Rebel Educator podcast, speaks across the country on the future of education, and leads professional development programs for school administrators and educators. 

 

Show Highlights

  • Champion Project Based Learning with a “changemakers unit”
  • Every Ruckus Maker needs a Rebel Educator to make a ruckus 
  • Effective marketing and business messaging for school leadership 
  • Up Academy is changing what's broken in the American education system
  • Stop robbing children of education inside school buildings
  • Break the free of the 3 Ps that handcuff education
  • Consistently give students more agency and responsibility to build executive functioning skills
  • Powerful things a school leader could do to break down the silos
  • Deep juicy questions to ignite deeper learning 
  • Student agency, inclusion, and equity is at the foundation of  integrated experience.

“Try something new, different, innovative and creative. Startle your students with something that they haven't had an opportunity to do before, or a different side of you,  they haven't gotten a chance to see or know.”

-Tanya Sheckley

 

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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.

 

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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Mar 23, 2022
Dr. Roseann is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge, LLC, who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health”. FORBES magazine called her, “A thought leader in children’s mental health”. Her work has helped thousands improve the most challenging conditions, such as ADHD, anxiety, OCD, mood, autism, learning disability, Lyme, and PANS/PANDAS using PROVEN holistic therapies such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, and psychotherapy.

She is the author of the first ever book on teletherapy activities for child and adolescent therapists, “Teletherapy Toolkit™” and It’s Gonna be OK!™ book and The Get Unstuck Program™, which are resources for parents to improve their child’s symptoms with science-backed solutions.

She is a media personality who has been in/on hundreds of television shows, podcasts, and major publications including Fox, CBS, NBC, Scripps, FORBES, PARENTS, Healthline, BBC, The Washington Post, and New York Times.

She is sought after keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and works with brands to support employee, parent and children’s mental health and educate on solutions to reduce stress and increase resiliency.

Dr. Roseann is a Connecticut Certified School Psychologist, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Integrative Medicine Mental Health Provider (CMHIMP), and a Board Certified Neurofeedback Provider (BCN). She is a member of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS). Dr. Roseann serves on the boards of the Northeast Regional Biofeedback Society and is a Lyme Connection Task Force Professional Advisor

Show Highlights

  • Advice for parents and educators who need to have tough conversations with kids
  • Teach about the limits of healing
  • Managing the good stress and the bad stress to see beyond the surface
  • Shape behaviors with brain based, holistic therapies
  • Solutions focused on how kids learn and process in the brain
  • Coping skills to control your stress response to be stress resilient 
  • Mindfulness based activities to regulate our nervous system
  • Get kids out of  fight, flight, or freeze by preparing their nervous system to learn, pay attention, and take action
  •  Stop working backwards in your schools

“We've a community of consciousness, of people that are stressed in a way I've never seen before and they're bringing that to school. Somehow schools have become the fix all for everything, and it shouldn't be. We are a community and you can't over rely on one part in the community. All members have to do their part. 

-Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

 

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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.

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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Mar 16, 2022

A professional bassist, Gerald J. Leonard offers a unique approach to accomplishing more productivity in the workplace. He is the CEO of Principles of Execution (PofE), a Certified Minority Business Enterprise, Strategic Project Portfolio Management and Culture Change consulting practice with over 20+ years’ experience working with large Federal and State Governments and Multinational Corporations. Past and present clients include Verizon, Center of Medicaid and Medicare, Freddie Mac, Hewlett-Packard (HP), GEICO, and many more. 

He is also the author of Workplace Jazz: How to Improvise and Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps To Creating High-Performing Teams.

 

Show Highlights

  • The value of having coaches and in the areas you want to go 
  • The “acres of diamonds” lesson
  • Learn to speak the language of imitation
  • Deliberate practice is the performance. 
  • Uncover workplace jazz and leave your ego at the door
  • Music integrates the entire brain and allows you to see the big picture
  • 3 ideas to naturally improve team dynamics
  • Develop the pathway and capability to have great scientific and mathematical minds with brain integration. 

“High-performing teams are high performers individually, but when they come together they first think of the performance and then they surrender to each other to highlight and motivate and encourage.”

-Gerald Leonard

 

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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

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.

 

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Mar 9, 2022

Dr. Efraín Martínez is a father, husband, and the principal of Northwood Middle School in Highland Park, IL. He reflects and interviews luminary figures on his podcast Wisdom & Productivity. His one word is #improvement and he strives to do all he can to make this world better.

Show Highlights

  • The #1 productivity secret

 

  • ​​Set fire to the house to know which door to open for your mental health 
  • Stop being a time traveler to lead and live in the present moment 
  • Develop honest, sincere relationships with emotional intelligence skills.
  • Motivational leaders touch people with sincere candor
  • Give yourself permission to take action and choose yourself 
  •  Be the first person to buy what you’re selling
  •  Have a “dumping ground” for your ideas
  • Tweet going down the stairs to have better quality leadership

 

 

“When we sanctify something by not talking about it, we are defending it instead of tackling face forward.”

-Dr Efrain Martinez 

 

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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

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.

 

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Mar 2, 2022

Genein Letford is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and corporate trainer on creative thinking and Intercultural Creativity™. She is the founder of CAFFE Strategies, and has inspired and led many to reconnect to their creative abilities in order to produce innovative ideas for an inclusive workspace.

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  • The 7-gems of intercultural creativity framework
  • Redefining creativity in schools.
  • Stop unintentionally squashing creativity. 
  •  A new lens to view effective leadership
  • Benefits in sitting with ambiguity 
  • Strengthen your cultural competence and multi sensory observational skills. 
  • Be an ability bridge across different cultural groups.

 

 

“Cultural competence and the creative growth mindset of the teacher is one of the highest indicators of student success.”

-Genein Letford

 

“For the next era of thinking and the next future of work, we have to do a better job of really making sure our kids are strong in their ability to stand-in their unique truth.”

-Genein Letford


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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

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.

 

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Feb 24, 2022

Sasha Lipskaia helps her powerful clients get clarity on who they really are, become magnetic to what they desire, and embody their purpose by getting out of their minds and into the truth of their hearts so that they can feel aligned and worthy in their relationships, and their mission in the world.

Over the past 20 years, Sasha's work has integrated a variety of healing modalities, mystical traditions, de-colonial practices, theatrical and movement-based therapeutic art, yogic philosophy, mindset coaching, and sacred sexuality with a focus on guiding her clients' to re-wire their nervous systems while helping them reconnect to the wisdom of their body, and intuition.

 

Show Highlights

  • The body is the missing piece of most leadership
  • Radically trust yourself to be guided by intuition
  • Feel into the truth of your heart to direct your leadership 
  • Destruction creates an environment you can plant seeds in
  • Integrate your finding of the Holy Grail on your “hero’s journey”
  • The path will appear when you choose to honor the mission in your heart 
  • The scariest thing to do is usually the most true.
  • Find the truth to server what the moment calling for
  • Be the tree to live as the leader you're looking for 

“Your job, my job, the reason we're trained to do it, the reason we practice it is because knowing what question to ask and how to create space for someone to witness their truth, not only witness it, but to allow it to come into the body so they can embody it. To actually trust what it's asking of them.”

- Sasha Lipskaia 

 

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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

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.

 

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Feb 16, 2022

Jason Dropik is an educational leader serving diverse communities with his just cause in creating meaningful and lasting relationships. He has served both Public and Private Schools in and near Milwaukee Wisconsin for over 20 years. Mr. Dropik currently serves as the Head of School at the Indian Community School in Franklin, WI. Dropik believes in the power of diverse collaboration and is also serving as the President of the National Indian Education Association, Wisconsin Association of Environmental Education Board Member, and various professional and community organizations. He is committed to building community, expanding collaborations, and creating student leadership opportunities.

Show Highlights

  • Build connections amidst challenging times
  • Frame a sense of gratitude to create a positive impact
  • Tips to lift your staff to watch amazing things happening EVERY day
  • Pivotal and foundational acknowledgments required to practice education
  • Raise capacity within students and communities to acknowledge cultures 
  • Flatten walls to expand your perspective and understanding
  •  Step out of a previous leader’s shadow into your own leadership
  • Honest and challenging conversations to navigate a path forward with perspectives outside of your own

 

“The ancestors, those that came before us, talked about living, balance and living in harmony with all of creation, everything around us. How do we slow down enough to be observant of all the gifts that are in front of us? A sense of gratitude has been really helpful through pandemic and changes that exist in schools and communities. Thankfulness and gratitude, it's hard to be upset and to not think about it.”

-Jason Dropik



“There are so many teachings and experiences that American Indian History has provided that were either erased, moved or taken away.” 

-Jason Dropik

 

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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.

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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Feb 9, 2022

Stanley S. Litow is Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he also served as Innovator in Residence and also teaches at Columbia University. He previously served as deputy chancellor of schools for New York City and as president of the IBM Foundation and vice president of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs at IBM. At IBM, he helped create Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), the innovative grade 9 to 14 school connecting school to college to career. He is also co-author of Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career from Teachers College Press. Stan also serves as a Trustee of the State University of New York (SUNY) where he chairs the Academic Affairs Committee. 

Show Highlights

  • Why don't education reforms go to scale?
  • P-Tech creates a pathway from high school to college to career. 
  • Get past the politics in education.
  • Education is the bottom line for profitability for all Americans.
  • A formula that sets up conditions where ALL kids can soar. 
  • An educational resource that can end the economic and cultural divide.
  • Students determine when they are college ready.
  • Billion dollar college saving and workplace ready plan. 
  • Take down the silo between school to college for relevant learning. 


“All of the assumptions about who can achieve go out the window if you provide students with the right opportunity.”

-Stan Litow

 

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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

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.

 

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Feb 3, 2022

Robyn Jackson teaches a simple 4 step process that helps you improve teacher will AND skill so that you can achieve your vision for your school with the people you already have. No more waiting for others to get on board before you can reach your goals. No more having your vision be held hostage by the resistant, but vocal few.

With this 4-step process, you don't have to wait to achieve your vision. Listen to her weekly podcast School Leadership Reimagined where you can get immediately actionable strategies to solve your biggest challenges.

 

Show Highlights

  • Leadership is dead. Don’t lead and break from the trap.
  • A  model to help translate to your school’s reality.
  • Set an impactful vision that excites and is crisis proof. 
  • Give yourself permission to inspire and not conform. 
  • Stop settling for little tiny goals with Buildership. 
  • An invitation to step away from an institution that's broken.
  • Value the 3 constraints you face to create something amazing.

“It doesn't have to be a big framework that you create. Sometimes it's as simple as taking a vision that you have for your school and being brave enough and disciplined enough to articulate it and pursue it. When you do that you can have that same kind of world-changing impact in your school, in the lives of your kids.”

-Robyn Jackson

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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

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.

 

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Jan 27, 2022

Randy Weiner has worked in education, ed tech and consulting throughout his career. In 2012, He co- founded and served as the first Chairman of the Board at Urban Montessori Charter School (UMCS) in Oakland, CA—the nation’s first public Montessori, Arts Integration and Design Thinking school. Randy is also a co-founder and the CEO at BrainQuake, a three- time U.S. Department of Education Small Business Innovation Award winner.   Along with his Brass Tacks Innovations consulting firm partner, Dr. James Bailey, Randy co-authored “The Daily SEL Leader: A Guided Journal“, published in March 2021 by Corwin Press. A Teach for America alum and father to two daughters, Randy taught for five years in Oakland and Madagascar, and holds two BAs from Middlebury College and an MA in Education from Stanford.

James’ career has encompassed teacher, principal, school turnaround, principal consultant, and superintendent roles spanning Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. As Superintendent in Wyoming,  his district was the first member in the state to join the League of Innovative Schools after reform efforts around personalized learning and social-emotional development. In San Antonio, he led the turnaround efforts for the Carpe Diem Schools. His deep-seated commitment to equity and supporting school leaders led to him training as an executive coach and co-founding Brass Tacks Innovations focused on adult SEL development, school redesign, and the use of improvement and implementation science to help all schools and learners meet the demands of our emerging society.  He is also an advocate for helping leaders and young people become more self-aware of their social and emotional needs and develop the skills to work with others on a more human level. James has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Innovation, is a prolific publisher and presenter and serves as a core faculty member at Walden University in the areas of educational leadership. He recently had a book published called The Daily SEL Leader: A Guided Journal.

Show Highlights

  • SEL is not  warm, fuzzy or extra. Unpack the misunderstandings of SEL
  • The “Holy grail of leadership”  with 5 minute transformational feedback.
  •  The book you need for being a leader of action.
  • Identify the “Knowing - Doing Gap.”
  • Avoid feedback being a “freud experience” for everyone. 
  • Safe spaces are not the goal, intentional, tailored feedback is. 
  • Five minutes to see “everyone is an ocean and not a surface.”
  • Learn a deliberate daily practice plan to build a leadership playground. 

People who are better at leading with social-emotional skills tend to get a lot more impact and influence in their leadership.

-James 

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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.

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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Jan 19, 2022

Dan Butler  serves as the principal of Epworth Elementary School in the Western Dubuque Community School District. Previously, he was the principal of Epworth and Farley Elementary Schools simultaneously for four years focusing on positive relationships with all members of the learning community, high impact instructional techniques, building leadership capacity in others, and establishing successful school cultures. Prior to serving as an administrator, Dan taught third and fifth grades in the Western Dubuque District, as well as serving as a baseball and football coach. In addition to his responsibilities as a building principal, Dan works as an adjunct professor in the Educational Leadership department at the University of Northern Iowa where he earned his doctoral degree.

Dan has received numerous awards and most recently was recognized as a finalist for the School Administrators of Iowa Elementary Principal of the year in 2019 and 2020. He received the University of Northern Iowa Educational Leadership Legacy award in 2018 and was a 2017 bizTimes.biz Rising Star in the Dubuque area. For more than six years, Dan served as a co-moderator of Iowa Educational Chat (#IAedchat), a weekly Twitter forum dedicated to the latest trends in education. He recently published his first book, Permission to be Great and has published various articles to Principal Magazine focused on digital leadership, literacy, productivity, and educator engagement

 

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  • Grant permission to shape the world with this book. 
  • 6 mismatches between educator and the work environment
    • Too much to do
    • A lack of control
    • ERA: encouragement, recognition, appreciation
    • Breakdown of community
    • Lack of fairness
    • Conflict of values
  • Common sense is not the same as common practice.
  • Navigate comprehensive systems and programs to create an atmosphere for people to be great.
  • A filter to remove what you don’t value off the proverbial education plate. 
  • Promote a genuine interest in every person with two motivational words.
  • A strength based approach to see kids as the unique individuals they are. 
  • Create ownership, autonomy and avoid micro management. 
  • Know the hill “we” are going to die on to navigate difficult waters.

“We talked about mismatches. The greater the match between worker and work environment, the greater the likelihood of engagements. At the end of the day, all of the concepts, all of the strategies, all of the tactics, included in Permission To Be Great are all about increasing positive culture within your school.”

-Dan Butler

 

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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.

 

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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Jan 12, 2022

Eric is an Associate Partner with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). Prior to this, he was a teacher and the award-winning Principal at New Milford High School. Under his leadership, his school became a globally recognized model for innovative practices. Eric oversaw the successful implementation of several sustainable change initiatives that radically transformed the learning culture at his school while increasing achievement. 

Show Highlights

  • Empower students to think disruptively with real world tools to do real world work. 
  • How to lead a culture to establish disruptive thinking in our classrooms?
  • Future proof education and prep learners for anything vs something.
  • Avoid misrepresenting equity.
  • Embrace lessons learned from the pandemic to avoid the most dangerous phase of education.

 

  • Results of the best blended pedagogies in the country. 
  • Unleash that greatness in those whom we serve. Tips, tricks and support options to infuse within your school.
  • Challenge the path less travelled to avoid Siri or Alexa pedagogy. 

 









“When you have a lot of roadblocks to change. I wasn't perfect. I surrounded myself with people that were smarter than me, that were more capable than me, and for the most part I got out of their way, but I gave them feedback and I held everyone accountable, accountable to our kids.”

-Eric Sheninger

 

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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

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.

 

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Jan 5, 2022

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  • Build IT better with an engaged and flourishing staff.

 

  • Be a leader with an abundance of energy and give your staff a “good cold.”
  • Ask this important question with a high speed complaint session to achieve amazing results. 
  • Live through challenges with perspective,  privilege and beauty. 
  • Ruckus Makers can play BIGGER  in 2022 to Level Up Leadership. 
  • Be intentional where you’re headed and avoid the 5 mile detour.
  • 8 weeks and 5 steps for a “Principal Success Path” to extend breaks and finish the year strong. 
  • Solve the most important and overlooked topic for leaders with a “Ruckus Maker Mindset” in 90 days.

 

 

“Everything flows from how you think.”

-Daniel Bauer

 

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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

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.

 

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Dec 29, 2021

George Guy Jr George Guy’s “why” is empowerment through equity.  George works to create more access and greater opportunities within public PreK-12 spaces as an equity consultant with the Foundation for Educational Administration.  

He is also principal of the Rosa International Middle School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.  

 

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  • Cast a wider scope of criteria currently in place for equitable change. 
  • Leverage teacher voices by co constructing with them is critical.
  • The highest level of mathematics indicates your level of success. 
  • Detrack your students to provide access to open doors.
  • Increase parental understanding for initiatives with a virtual model for families. 
  • Changing staff mindsets begins with early adapters and promoting external resources. 
  • Equity in Action Academy provides four lenses using qualitative data systemic in nature.
  • Culturally responsive practices for districts and leaders at www.njspa.org.

 

“When you see people and you don't look at their deficit, but you look at their capacity and you empower them to be creators around their level of agency. The Ruckus Making that you are doing will be lifelong.”

-George Guy Jr.

 

George Guy Jr’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Looking for more?

 

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.

 

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