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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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Jul 27, 2022

Mark's passion is to release untapped leadership potential in people. So much leadership is wasted when the world defines leadership too narrowly. Mark's work helps people to better understand themselves and grow to be comfortable leading out of who they are. Mark has worked as a High School Teacher, Chairman of a youth charity and Youth Pastor and now runs a leadership consultancy called Leaderfull (leader-full.co.uk), focussing most of his time in schools and colleges. He lives in the UK with his wife and young family and loves to explore the great outdoors.

 

Show Highlights

  • Avoid the leadership stereotype and invite more participants to the leadership table.
  • What to do  when you hear someone say “I’m not a leader.”
  • Stop wasting leadership potential and release untapped leadership with these tips.
  • Development pathway that connects the students and the principal.
  • The small things that make the most effective leaders.
  • Discover the “leadership” in every member of your learning community.
  • Take responsibility to lead out of your blindspots to be a much more authentic leader.
  •  You don't have to lead from the front to be an effective



Leadership is about influence, not about position. We can all have a positive influence on other people. Leadership is inherently relational.  I really define leadership as having a positive influence on other people through relationships.”

-Mark Herbert

 

117: Mark Herbert Transcript

Mark Herbert’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

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

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp”

The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

 

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

 

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind

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

 

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

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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

 

TEACHFX

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

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

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

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

 

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Jul 20, 2022

Afrika Afeni Mills is an Education Consultant and the author of Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students, available for pre-order through Corwin Press. She works with colleagues, teachers, coaches, and administrators to develop and sustain student-centered learning experiences that are diverse, inclusive, and equitable. Afrika has been featured on podcasts, blogs, delivered keynote addresses, and facilitated sessions at conferences across the United States. Afrika believes that all educators can be motivated, engaged, dynamic practitioners and leaders when provided with the support needed to create student-centered, anti-bias, anti-racist, culturally responsive learning environments that inspire wonder and creativity and nurture diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion.

Show Highlights

  • Avoid surface diversity in various spaces in leadership structures and decision makers.
  • How a Black Woman talk to White Educators and White students about bias and racism?
  • Every leader needs braided rope and Marigolds. 
  • Navigate the imposter syndrome of doing this work with an essential book, Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students
  • The importance of educators doing their own racial identity work to help students grow their perspective of the world.
  • Words of encouragement for educators who want to do this work but understand the political reality and challenge of championing this work?
  • The critical difference between family/community involvement and family and community partnership.
  • Invest in unpacking competing priorities for educators to engage in  deep learning and conversation.



“Let's be in this together, let's support one another because we have important work to do. We are well suited to the task. We just have to make sure that we stay the course.”

-Afrika Afeni Mills



Afrika Afeni Mills’ Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

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

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp”

The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

 

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

 

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind

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

 

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

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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

 

TEACHFX

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

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

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

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

 

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Jul 18, 2022

Leading Equity In Your Schools 

Sheldon L. Eakins, Ph.D. is the Founder of the Leading Equity Center and host of the Leading Equity Podcast. He is also the author of Leading Equity: Becoming an Advocate for All Students. With over 11 years in education, he has served as a teacher, principal, and Director of Special Education. 

Dr. Eakins has a passion for helping educators accomplish equitable practices in their schools. He has earned a B.S. degree in Social Science Education, an M.S. degree in Educational Leadership, and a Ph.D. in K-12 Education. 

Show Highlights

  • The downfall of having an equity checklist. 
  • The book that takes you on a resourceful  journey for learning to make changes at your school and systems. 
  • Finding your voice comes through understanding your identity in challenging situations.
  • Avoid doing harm with strategies and approaches for having conversations that are difficult for you. 
  • Practical, empathic, and very doable relationship building strategies and advice.
  • Equity is not limited to just race. All schools have room for growth in understanding the reality and not the idea of equity.
  •  Recognize the process, exclusions, and tradition necessary for generating buy-in from your staff.
  • Embrace unique opposition to create authentic experiences for your stakeholders.



Bonus: Leading Equity In Your School Transcript 

 

Sheldon L. Eakins’ Resources & Contact Info:

 

 

Read my latest book!

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

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp”

The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

 

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

 

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind

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

 

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

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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

 

TEACHFX

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

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

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

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

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jul 13, 2022

Title: Your Mess Your Message

Dr. Donna Marie Cozine helps overworked and exhausted Educational Leaders on the verge of burnout increase their work-life balance, so they can lead their organizations AND live the life they DESERVE! She is a leader, author, speaker, podcast host, and executive coach.

Dr Cozine has been featured in Authority Magazine, Principal Magazine, The Rochester Beacon, Medium, Connections with Evan Dawson, WHAM 13 Rochester NY, WXXI News Rochester, NY, and various national and international podcasts. 

 

 

Show Highlights

  • “Your mess is the message” is a model on how to pivot to see obstacles as opportunities.
  • Effectively leading with accessible boundaries to avoid being overwhelmed and burnt out.
  • Free resources you need as a leader!!
  •  Create a backwards map to support your top priorities with boundaries with “The Driver’s Method.”
  • Don't go for the best solution, go for the next best solution. Go pass the knee jerk reaction of planning.
  • Connect with those you serve to pull you through the hard times by overcoming this fear. 
  • It’s not about ego but to extend yourself by asking these questions.

 

“I'm really proud of what I've accomplished. I know that what I've accomplished will be there well beyond me and that's true leadership. Creating something that will be there after you've left.” 

-Donna Marie Cozine

Dr Donna Marie Cozine’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

Read my latest book!

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

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp”

The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

 

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

 

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind

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

 

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

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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

 

TEACHFX

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

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

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

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

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jul 11, 2022
As a chronically late student, Daniel Bauer once told his Chemistry teacher a fib about saving an entire girl scout troop from a burning building to get out of a tardy.

Daniel is not sure if it was the very made up story, the very real cookie he offered his teacher, or a combination of both that got him out of a detention that day …

That experience taught him it pays to develop your storytelling skills.

Daniel has been telling stories since then, most recently on the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast, ranked in the TOP 0.5% of 3 million global podcasts, and via his latest book, Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader, co-published by Corwin and the National School Superintendents Association (AASA).

His mission is “to connect, grow, and mentor every school leader who wants to level up.”

Show Highlights

  • Common problems facing school leaders
  • The Principal Success Path™ promise -- become a better leader in 5-weeks or less 
  • Parkinson's Law 
  • Why is NOW the best time to join? 
  • The 4 Steps in The Principal Success Path™
  • What former leaders said about the program ...
  • What are the 13 projects?
  • What is the weekly cadence?
  • How much time will this take?
  • How much does it cost?
  • What is the Ruckus Maker Guarantee

Special bonus 

4 x 15 minute "laser" coaching sessions with Danny himself!

Note: This is for the first TEN leaders who apply and are accepted into the program. To be eligible -- write LASER COACH SESSIONS in the "Anything Else" section of the application.
 

Become a better leader in 5-weeks or less ...

Apply today ===> https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/principalsuccesspath/ 

Question? Call/Text?WhatsApp Danny at +1-312-788-7595 or daniel@betterleadersbetterschools.com
Jul 6, 2022

Title: Improve Your Culture With For Belonging

 

Dr. Susie Wise is a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and the social sectors. She coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship. Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school and co-created Liberatory Design.

 

 

Show Highlights

  • Stop redesigning a bad situation.
  • Create roles and scenarios that invite people to contribute in an authentic way.
  • Activities to safely unearth memories of not belonging to avoid retraumatization for learning communities.
  • Why is it fundamental for school leaders to care about creating belonging?
  • A threshold exercise designed for concrete listening. 
  • Know the 3 dimensional levels to pay attention to at critical junctures with staff, students and parents. 
  • Simple Interventions for students to support their success and avoid shut down.
  • Redesign a back to school ritual to interrupt some of the traditional power dynamics in a school.
  • The “assumption storm” analytic tool for generating ideas you need to know. 

 

“Having an identity as a learner is fundamental to getting to learn anything else. As a school leader, as an educator, cultivating a sense of belonging is kind of a job one.Safety first, but the next job is belonging. They go hand in hand. They're next to each other on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, in fact.”

-Dr. Susie Wise

Dr Susie Wise’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

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

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp”

The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

 

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

 

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind

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

 

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

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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

 

TEACHFX

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

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

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

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

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

Jul 1, 2022

Title: How to Use Storytelling To Address the (In)Equity in Education 

 

Max Freedman is a reporter, producer, and co-host of School Colors. He created School Colors with Mark Winston Griffith, a veteran community organizer and the editor of Brooklyn Deep. After four years of research and reporting, the first season premiered in 2019 to critical acclaim. He is thrilled to publish Season 2 through NPR's Code Switch.Freedman is also one of the creators of Unsettled, a long-running independent podcast about Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. For Unsettled, he most recently reported and produced "The Birthday Party," an immersive narrative series about Palestinian-Jewish solidarity work in the occupied West Bank. In the early weeks of COVID-19, he produced Making the Call, a weekly show about medical ethics and the pandemic for Endeavor Content. 

 

Before becoming a journalist, Freedman was a facilitator with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, adjunct faculty at Pratt Institute and a senior educator at the New-York Historical Society, where he created an enrichment program for grades 4-8 using musicals to teach American history.He holds a B.A. in theater from Northwestern University, and an M.S. in design and urban ecologies from Parsons School of Design. His work on School Colors Season 2 was supported by the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University.

 

Mark Winston Griffith is the creator, host and writer of School Colors along with Max Freedman. Griffith is a third-generation resident of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Until April 2022, he was the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, a Black-led community organizing group based in Central Brooklyn that he co-founded in 2011. His parents' organizing in Central Brooklyn and authorship of a report on Community School District 16 inspired him to co-create School Colors.

 

While at Brooklyn Movement Center, Griffith created Brooklyn Deep, a citizen journalism initiative that chronicles neighborhood change in Central Brooklyn. He has served as an adjunct professor of urban reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and has been a board member of The City news site, City Limits Magazine and Free Speech TV.

 

Griffith is an enthusiastic parent of two teenage boys and has navigated the public, private and charter school systems.

 

Show Highlights

  • The power of storytelling as a vehicle for making change happen.
  • Looking through a leadership lens of equity and inequity that exists in our educational system. 
  • Gain a keen sense of how race and gentrification impacts the conversation about education.
  • Be a curious leader by engaging in “real conversations” to avoid ill-conceived assumptions.
  • Examples of how the schools are conditioned by external forces.
  • Stories of principal development and the benefit of community resources.
  • The dangers of perception, zone preference and how it impacts families.



“We spend so much time in School Colors thinking about the problems, looking at what's going wrong and the barriers. To be quite frank, we don't spend enough time with kids and the very subject of the things that we're talking about. In spending that little time with those kids, it brought home to me what this was all about in the first place. These are not subjects or like broken people. These are vibrant human beings.”

-Mark Winston Griffith




Max Freedman & Mark Winston Griffith’s Resources & Contact Info:

Read my latest book!

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

 

Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!

Join the “Back to School Boot Camp”

The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.

 

In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.

 

Join the challenge today!

Apply to the Mastermind

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

 

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

 

Apply to the mastermind today!

 

SHOW SPONSORS:

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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

 

TEACHFX

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

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

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

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

 

Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC

 

 

 

 

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