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Sep 28, 2022

Al Kingsley is the CEO of NetSupport and Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust

As well as his CEO and Chair roles, Al is an FED Co-chair of two groups, Chair of the BESA EdTech Group,  member of Forbes Technology Council, and chairs his regional Employment and Skills Board. He’s a well-known face in EdTech speaking internationally; the author of “My Secret #EdTech Diary” and co-author of “A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education”.

 

 

Show Highlights

  • Interesting ideas on how to roll out and adopt technology
  • Create a school that's actually responsive to community needs.
  • Be a firm believer in lifelong learning and become an Edu sponge. 
  • Reevaluating how to effectively label, measure and validate high performing schools.
  • The misalignment between high stakes tests and student performance. 
  • How to be a school responsive to the students and the community you’re in front of needs?
  • Stop buying technology that  doesn't deliver and adopt a strong digital vision within your school or district.



Al Kingsley Transcript




“I think that that love of learning really comes down to inquisitiveness and that sense of actually, the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know.”

 

“The one thing I want every child to leave school with is a love of learning and a passion to learn more. Not a sense of ``I've got through that and never again.’”

-Al Kingsley




Al Kingsley’s Resources & Contact Info:

  • Websites – 

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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Sep 27, 2022

Bonus: Best Seller Show Notes

 

Show Highlights

  •  Creating reality from your dreams comes from feeling it in the moment to unlock success.
  • Five things Danny’s learned from achieving bestseller status!!
  • Positive visualization is essential to guide the steps you take towards manifesting your goals to the world. 
  • Don't hide the failures. Talk about what you've learned regarding the failures.
  • Embracing that there's not just one way of doing life.
  • Being risky and being vulnerable is the way to be authentic in what you hope to achieve.
  • Ruckus Maker Event in January!! Go to betterleadersbetterschools.com/Costa Rica, view the video explaining the event and join the waitlist.



“A key question for you, whatever you're trying to achieve in life,  whether that's as a school leader or putting a book out there, whatever that project is, how are you taking 100% of responsibility to achieve the goal that you want to achieve?”

-Chief Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Sep 21, 2022

Christina Hidek is a recovering attorney, and current Professional Organizer and certified PTO volunteer nerd. She founded PTO Answers 5 years ago to help empower parents to improve their child’s educational experience and school community through PTA/PTO involvement.  She’s been an active PTO leader for the past 12 years and hosts the vibrant 7500+ member PTA/PTO Super Star Leaders Facebook Group. When she’s not volunteering, you can find her in her garden, cheering on her boys at their hockey games, or walking the family dogs.

Show Highlights

  • Encourage your PTOs to be on a first name basis with the superintendent.
  • Tactics to create a culture that identifies problems with solutions when voicing feedback. 
  • Social media “Needs to be jazzier” to effectively generate attention towards the great stuff happening in your school.
  • PTA / PTO are circuit breakers for teacher retention and selling your school to the community. 
  • Approaches when forming a new relationship or transforming a negative relationship with the PTA/PTO.  
  • Effective ways school leaders increase parent involvement.
  • “I’m going to look for you on Tuesday” is a powerful phrase you need to master to create connection. 



“The game has changed most drastically for public school leaders and for public school districts because they need to really be selling their school. It's not just that you're going to worry about educating the kids, coming up with a curriculum and all that kind of stuff. No, you have to go and sell your school to get the community kids to come to your school.”

-Christina Hidek

Christina Hidek’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

 

 

125: Christina Hidek Show Notes

 

Sep 14, 2022

Sarah Saint, advises and litigates on behalf of public and private educational institutions and school boards on an array of education law issues, including special education and disability issues, civil rights laws and tort claims. She has a particular focus on diversity and civil rights issues, including issues related to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and religion.

Show Highlights

    • Tips for districts to create more inclusive settings that connect with trans kids.
    • Navigate serving both very liberal and very conservative districts to approach how to create psychological safe places for learning communities. 
    • Learn to identify the importance of when a person is ready to be supported by the school system by” letting the process in” instead of “coming out.”
  • Avoid these assumptions or myths about transgender children.
  • Stop allowing your students and staff to wear “costumes” at school with ways to help them shed the layers and be their authentic self.
  • Learn how to take the first step in creating a space dedicated to showing your school is safe.  
    • If you care about the survival of children they should not be the one to open the doors and demand to be heard or demand to be allowed to be authentic.
  • You need to care about the “third spaces” in your community and not just the 1st and 2nd spaces. 



“When you are authentic, you create authenticity in others. They feel safer to be authentic with you. When you are not afraid to say when you're wrong, when you're not afraid to make wonders. People feel safer in that relationship.”

-Sarah Saint  



Sarah Saint Transcript

 

Sarah Saint’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

 

 

Sep 7, 2022

LaTonya Wilkins, Founder of The Change Coaches, Latonya, and her team, build cultures of belonging through customized coaching and consulting services.

 

A sought-after keynote speaker, she has inspired audiences all over the world, and was featured on a list of most inclusive HR influences in 2019. Her book, Leading Below the Surface, features her revolutionary signature concept of 'Below the Surface Leadership.' About creating psychologically safe relationships across differences, and empowering underrepresented employees to feel valued, heard, and engaged.

Show Highlights

    • Why LaTonya HATES Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
    • The magic sauce missing from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
    • The issue with school leaders having real empathy instead of sympathy. 
    • Demystify the myths leaders believe around being “nice” or “kind” to redefine archetypes of leadership.
  • Lead Below the Surface to throw out dominant leadership standards.
  • Build  a continuum of psychological safety where intersectional identities can bring their entire selves to work. 
  • Throw out the agenda with tips to access empathy through observing eyes and listening ears.



It's not diversity and inclusion. It has never been anything separate. If an organization is trying to make it separate, I question what they're trying to do there. It’s really a part of culture. It’s really a part of how you develop people. It's really part of structures and systems on how you run your organization?”

-LaTonya Wilkins

 

123: LaTonya Wilkins Transcript

LaTonya Wilkins’ 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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