When was the last time things were going well in your school?
Things are finally going smoothly in your school. The new systems are working. The fires have died down. And instead of enjoying it, you're...
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School Leadership Reimagined
Tired of school change efforts that stall, or worse, never get off the ground? If you’re a principal, assistant principal, or instructional coach who is ready have a transformative impact on...
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20 of 124 episodesWhy the moles keep showing up
What if the five different staff problems you're dealing with right now… aren't actually five different problems? One team is pushing back....
Why Your Best School Improvement Strategies Still Aren't Working Together
What if all the strategies you're using are good…and they're still not going to get you the result you want? Most principals have been train...
What to Do When Staff Push Back on Something You Thought Everyone Agreed To
You stood in front of your staff, shared the vision, and watched everyone nod. So why does it feel like nobody actually agreed to anything?...
Why does this work keep coming back to you?
I don't know if this has started happening to you yet this school year, but I'm willing to bet it has. Something you thought you had already...
Is Your 100% Vision Just Last Year's Plan With a New Number?
Is your 100% Vision actually running your school, or just sitting on top of the same plan you had last year? I sat down with a group of prin...
Your Staff Can Be Wonderful and Still Not Be Aligned
Your staff can be wonderful—and still not be fully aligned. That doesn't mean you have a bad team. Your teachers may care deeply, work hard,...
Why Principals Have to Keep Repeating Themselves
If you're forwarding the same email for the third time, repeating the same announcement in every staff meeting, or getting on the PA system...
Your Teachers Don't Need More PD. They Need Implementation.
A principal brought her beginning-of-the-year PD plan to BU Office Hours recently. Earlier in the summer, she had introduced her teachers to...
The Budget Changed. Your Vision Didn't.
Principals are constantly told to "do more with less." But doing the same work with fewer people, less money, less time, and less support is...
Your Staff Doesn't Have to Agree to Be Aligned
If every staff disagreement eventually lands in your office, you may not have a staff-conflict problem. You may have a home-base problem. In...
The Danger of Making Your Vision "More Realistic"
This week on The 100% Principal Podcast, Robyn Jackson unpacks a pattern she caught in three separate conversations this week: school leader...
Everything's Sexy in August | Why Your Vision Keeps Fading By November
A principal built a vision with her staff at Bootcamp. A year later, they could still recite it word for word — but nothing else about the s...
Your Biggest Accountability Problem Isn't Your Staff
Your accountability problem probably isn't your staff. It's every process you've built without asking one question: what is this actually te...
But My Staff
Do you have a vision for your school but secretly doubt your teachers will get there with you? You're not alone — and you're not wrong to fe...
You're Trying to Fix Staff Problems With the Wrong Tools
Are you beating yourself up because you just don't have enough time, bandwidth, or follow-through to finally get your staff aligned? What if...
Why Removing Underperforming Teachers Won't Save Your School
A principal recently told me she'd "almost gotten rid of her duds." Just a few more underperforming teachers out, she said, and her school w...
Why AI Keeps Disappointing Principals (And what to do instead)
Every principal I know is starting to play around with AI, using it to write faster, produce more, get more off their plate. And most of the...
5 Books Every Principal Should Read This Summer (None of Them Are About Schools)
Every year I step completely outside education and bring back five books that have nothing to do with schools — and everything to do with bu...
The Only Permission You Need
You already have a vision for your school. You have probably had it for years. The problem is not that you cannot see it. The problem is tha...