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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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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.

 

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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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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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