Your staff may not be as aligned as you think

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 principals who had already written their 100% Visions and built their school improvement plans around them. But when I covered their vision with ...  Show more

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, and genuinely want students to succeed. But good people can still operate from different beliefs about what matters, which students can suc ...  Show more

Feel like you're just being thorough? Focused on quality? Clear about your expectations? You might call it leadership, but to your team, it might feel like control. So what happens when your high standards start getting in the way of growth? In this raw coaching episode—part one ...  Show more

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Today's episode is inspired by a lot of different emails I've gotten from teachers about a wide range of problems with administrators. Some of these teachers feel like their principals place too much emphasis on testing and try to standardize te ...

If you are associated with any social media then you know you can’t spend any time scrolling without seeing how burned out teachers. You also know what a toll it is taking on leaders to create a culture that combats the negative narrative of being an educator. The truth is, as ...

Are you feeling overwhelmed in your role as a school counselor, perpetually stuck in a cycle where the better your perform, the more you're given to do? You could be caught in a cycle of role dysfunction, and you're definitely not alone. 

This episode is a h ...