Why Getting Answers From AI Is Hurting Your Leadership with Bill Renner
Currently in his eleventh year of school administration and his twenty-fifth in education, Bill Renner has run the full course through the R...
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The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast: Leadership Insights | Create Winning Cultures | Focus on the Essential | Lead with Courage & Integrity | Principal Radio | School Administrator | Danny "Sunshine" Bauer
Better Leaders Better Schools is a world-class podcast created for you --the current school administrator, emerging leader, and educational influencer. Each episode Daniel Bauer interviews t...
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20 of 331 episodesWhy Student Behavior Won't Change Until the Adults Do
Student behavior changed when the adults did: 25 discipline calls a day dropped to about one. Here's the adult-first work behind it. School...
How to Make Better Decisions Without More Information with David Samuelson and Mary Call Blanusa
Leading the Alliance for Decision Education's work to make decision science part of core curriculum are David Samuelson, the organization's...
Fred Holmes on Why He's Never Missed a Wednesday Mastermind
Over two decades in Memphis-area schools will teach you how to spot a leader who's still growing. Fred Holmes — known inside the Ruckus Make...
Why Principals Won't Delegate (And What It's Costing Them) with Naphtali Hoff
Dr. Naphtali Hoff trains school leaders and teachers to perform at their best without running themselves into the ground. A former educator...
Why Your Anti-Racist PD Isn't Actually Changing Anything with Dr Abby C. Emerson
She studies why anti-racist professional development in schools so often fails to change how teachers actually treat students — and what wor...
Why the "Conveyor Belt" Career Model Is Failing Kids with Corey Kossack
Building AI tools that replace one-size-fits-all personality tests with real career plans is what got Corey Kossack into K12 education. He's...
Experiential Education: Why Your Lesson Plan Is Failing Students
Phil Brown trains educators to build the kind of learning moments a curriculum can't schedule. As an experiential and adventure education tr...
The Learning Model That Turned a Dropout Into the Class Speaker with Jenny Curtin
Jenny Curtin partners with schools and districts across New England on behalf of the Barr Foundation, where she helps build and scale Transf...
Why Firing Yourself Might Be Your Best Leadership Move
A principal and coach based in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, this episode's guest flips the usual format and turns the mic on Dan...
Why Your Equity Work Isn't Closing the Gap with Zaretta Hammond
Zaretta Hammond has spent her career pushing school leaders past feel-good equity language and into the instructional core, where the real g...
The Real Reason Principals Burn Out (And How to Fix It): Adorable Red Hats with Dan Watt
Running an elementary school in rural British Columbia hasn't stopped this Ruckus Maker from building an indoor worm farm, growing hydroponi...
3 Easy Ways to Build Your Confidence This Summer Before School Starts
Confidence as a principal isn't something you're born with — it's something you build. I've been asking new Mastermind members and Digital D...
The CEO Who Gets 91% Teacher Retention Without Tenure with Pablo Villavicencio
Leading a 25-school network to a 96% graduation rate and 91% staff retention — with zero tenure protection — takes more than good policy. It...
Why Your Tutoring Program Is Quietly Failing Students With Aly Murray
Building a tutoring nonprofit that now serves 25,000 students a year — with a vision to reach millions — required someone who'd lived the ex...
Why Reacting to Student Outbursts Destroys Your Classroom with Adam Wolfsdorf
Adam Wolfsdorf chairs the Humanities Department at Bay Ridge Preparatory in Brooklyn and teaches graduate students at NYU and Wesleyan, draw...
Why Your Neurodivergent Students Are Disappearing with Vanessa Castañeda Gill
She spent six years hiding her autism diagnosis from everyone — peers, friends, even herself. Then she built a neuroscience-backed video gam...
Why Every Student at This College Must Launch a Business- With Jeff Meade
Jeff Meade spent 20 years building companies. Then a friend asked him one question on a hike near Mount Fuji — what makes you happy? — and h...
Why Your Edtech Is Failing Students (And What to Do Instead) with Kris Rockwell
A researcher, Edtech expert, and PhD candidate studying the intersection of AI, learning, and human experience, Kris brings a rare combinati...
How to Turn Around a Failing School: Real-Time Coaching That Works
Eight years ago, Chad Weiden walked into one of South Carolina's most underperforming elementary schools — a campus so low-rated that the st...