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Insanely innovative ideas for school leadership and principals focused on people, culture, and impact. Lead Learning. Improve Schools. Check out the 3x's per week blog at https://mafost.com

Welcome to the Mafost Mashup reboot - this limited series is for small business owners and dreamers who are ready to bootstrap their way to...

Maintenance pedagogy has it's place and so does subversive pedagogy. What mode does your school need in 2020?

Why must we and when must we say stop? Continue receiving updates at the daily blog https://mafost.com

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1) Correlation 2) Achievement 3) Student Discipline Policy 4) Programs and Initiatives 5) Construct Validity. Get more ideas and tips at htt...

Insanely innovative ideas for school leadership and principals focused on people, culture, and impact. Lead Learning. Improve Schools. Check...

Often change or innovation appears risky to outsiders, but when done right, innovation is a natural part of successful school improvement.

What's Your Next Step? A conversation with Vernon Wright ( https://twitter.com/thewrightleader ) and Matt Foster .

Three What Ifs that could spur creativity in finding solutions for the challenges in your school.

Episode 108 is focused on time management for principals and provides recent research from new principals, a time management tip for power m...

Permission to Struggle. Survival Instincts. The amygdala. These are all tied up in the learning process and the school culture. In this, epi...

Understanding these two pressures can help any principals avoid plateaus and headaches associated with change resistance. Wall building and...

1) I'm sending out the the year in review https://mafost.com/year-in-review-2019/ . 2) Inviting your input on a new project at https://princ...

Clerical Work, Substituting, Intervention, Inner Circle. These are four common missed opportunities and missteps when utilizing the role of...

In this first live episode, typical school vision statements are put to the task of becoming visions. Sign up for the daily blog at https://...

Two Quotes on Gratitude, Special News, and a Thank You. Get the daily blog at mafost.com

These three communication missteps are essential to avoid as a principal and school leader. Your teachers, community, and students depend on...

Clarity and Toxicity, Matt sits with Hal Bowman and discusses real-life experiences with school cultures, including: -Shaping School Culture...

Elisabeth Bostwick is the author of Take the LEAP: Ignite a Culture of Innovation. In this episode she shares actionable ideas related to th...

Principals Mark French, Lauren Higgins, Chris Chappotin, Heather Patterson, Cathy Jacobs, Chris Legleiter, and Jon-Eric Zaier join the episo...

If you're going to lead, there will be tough conversations. But that's not the same thing as tough confrontation. Get the Daily Blog straigh...

Elisabeth Bostwick, Chris Chappotin, Jon-Eric Ziaer, and Chris Legleiter share mistakes they made and lesson they learned from their experie...

Mark French, Heather Patterson, Cathy Jacobs, and Lauren Higgins discussion four lessons. Assumptions. Student Discipline. Letting Go. Relat...

Rational problem-solving doesn't work (most of the time). This episode shares a quick strategy that does. Are We Rational Thinkers? Four Ste...

4 Leadership Tips for Culture Crafting. 4 Management Tips. Questions to evaluate your school culture. Starting points for building trust and...

What idea is held captive by fear? Use this equation to tackle fear.

Tough conversations are an unavoidable part of life. In school leadership, having the right words to say will compound your leadership influ...

Every school leader needs questions. We lead with questions. We learn from questions. Here are 18 questions for school leadership, managemen...

What do World War II, Peter Drucker, and School Principals have in common? That's the guiding question in this brief history of management....

What do the Houston Texans, Stock Market, and School Innovation have in common? Plus, a special invite to go.822tribe.com

In this episode, part 2 of "10 Obstacles and 10 Traits," we look into teacher obstacles 6-10, which are: Upward Mobility Perceived Disconnec...

This is part 1 of 10 obstacles facing your school and 10 leadership traits that will remove those obstacles! Are you ready to level up your...

The emotional labor of teaching - what is it and what can we do about it? Mismanaged and it leads to teacher stress, fatigue, and even burno...

A quick rant on the limitations of academics. Changes are coming to education. Is your school ready?

Fear and Creativity. They feel like opposing forces. Elizabeth Gilbert thinks so - as you'll hear in today's episode. Share your thoughts at...

Actionable ideas for increasing reflective leadership in four different areas. Get the resources at mafost.com/resources and the show notes...

A riff on 4 steps to building shared accountability within your school's culture. Get the Mafost Blog three times per week in your inbox >...

Ever wonder why some teams are wildly successful and others struggle to solve problems? Team problem-solving is not that straightforward - i...

Transform basic back to school principal tasks into vehicles for crafting school culture. In episode 79, we explore: Back to School Letter 2...

How does a school leader or principal build collective efficacy? In this episode of the Mafost Mashup: Floods The Metaphor A Rant on Effecti...

If you’ve sat behind the principal’s desk for more than 6 hours, you know it’s difficult, and in some cases impossible, to stay focused on a...

Problem-Solving on Teams is not as easy as it looks. Teacher teams, school leadership teams, and district leadership teams can get distracte...

Bonus Episode: Saying No This Summer. It really is the only way to open the space for improvement. Why must we say no? How does it benefit t...

What is a blog crawl? This strategy will increase your school leadership network, your professional learning, and your contribution to the p...

This is the single most important strategy to improve learning in any school, and here's a simple 3 step process for scaling A/B Testing (sp...

Now is the time to jump start the next school year. Here are 5 strategies to help you with this, plus bonus ideas from a few friends. School...

In this bonus episode, we briefly look into the planning fallacy and why it makes action so difficult for strategic plans or improvement pla...

It takes more than spreading the narrative, using social media, or creating a "brand" to make change happen in school culture. As a matter o...

Let's get concrete on the topic of empowerment. Here are 6 ways to empower your teachers, teams, and staff members. Download the research fo...

In part 2 of this discussion, we talk about the core concepts and practices in personalized learning, both with and without technology. Seve...