Dean J Fusto just wanted an easy place to find his resources... Now the President of Brandon Hall School, Dean not only shares his giant curation of school-related resources for free at Teach Learn Lead, but this "Leadership Fanatic" provides fantastic practical advice for school leaders in this episode and a few heart-warming stories!! Dean's insights will help you be a "better" leader!

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2:45 Education: The perfect marriage between loving to learn and loving to serve
4:00 Genuine "More to learn" mindset
4:15 It's about being better but not best
4:30 Have a visibility plan
5:00 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins
5:15 Leaders need to be nimble
6:00 Be a good listener and take notes
7:45 If you lose the ability to connect in ways that are meaningful - you've sort of lost your soul
8:15 It is critical to have unity of purpose -  Galvanize around a vision
10:00 GREAT THANKSGIVING STORY
11:45 Leadership is complicated & multifaceted 
13:00 Teach Learn Lead
16:00 Life long learning
17:15 I try to make anything a story worthy that I can learn from
18:15 Experience cannot be a solo proposition
20:00 You've got to go into leadership roles with your eyes and heart wide open
21:00 FACING CHALLENGE HEAD-ON
22:30 Success Chats - 1 on 1 conversation with every student
23:30 How can we be more responsive to our kids?
24:45 Every single child should be heard - have a positive mentor - and be connected to someone in the school
25:00 Every student should be encouraged to dream
26:45 School leaders are in a position to change students limiting beliefs
27:00 CRYING OVER SHARK TANK
28:00 There is a great opportunity for reinvention
28:30 How can schools combat becoming  too impersonal or too disconnected
30:00 Take time to write a personal note when you hear something positive about a teacher
32:00 Avoid "Purpose or Mission Drift"

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Chief Rukus Maker at Better Leaders Better Schools Daniel Bauer - absolutely PACKS this episode with smart, practical advice and resources for school leaders who are seeking to LEVEL-UP! Daniel's "5 Levers of Leadership" alone are worth the listen!

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7:00 5 Levers of Leadership
- Gift yourself a deep work block once per week
- Fighting distraction by going old school
- Be intentional with technology
- See yourself in 3D - Do it, Delete it or Defer it
- Invest in developing emotional intelligence - Create more results and get paid more
7:30 Deep Work by Cal Newport
12:00 What is it worth to you to experience abundance in your wealth, health & relationships
12:00 TalentSmart - Emotional Intelligence 2.0
12:45 75% of leaders allow emotions to drive their decisions
14:15 Invest, Learn & Teach
14:30 The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly
15:15 Everybody wakes up each day with some kind of dream
16:00 YouTube video: The Dream Manager
18:15 STREAKS
19:00 Share non-school related info with your staff & parents
19:00 Share your failures in public
20:45 School leaders need to stop trying to please everybody
21:15 Seth Godin
21:30 Austin Kleon - Steal Like an Artist
23:45 Purple Cow
25:30 There's a weight & responsibility to school leadership
28:15 The number one enemy to excellence is isolation
28:45 Simon Sinek - Just Cause
29:00 My just cause is to connect, grow & mentor every school leader who wants to level up
30:00 We need to make it easier and more attractive to be an educator
32:30 MASTERMIND: UNLOCKING TALENT WITHIN EVERY SCHOOL LEADER

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The students (and staff) at North Star Elementary are greatly impacted by their Principal's unrelenting positivity. Karin Jakubowski has now expanded that impact by introducing the Educational Impact Academy - resources for parents and educators to aid in flipping the behavior of kids and students! This powerful conversation is a must-listen if you have anything to do with students!!

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5:20 I got into education to be the leader I never had
8:00 Importance of relationships
9:00 Your attitude is your choice
11:00 Why do substitutes love our school
12:00 Power of the Principal
13:00 A school that teachers love to come to
13:15 Value people for who they are
15:30 Life long learning is challenging
16:00 Gleen, Get & Go
16:45 Momnicient Podcast
18:30 Mental concerns for students
19:15 Everyone needs a personal guidance counselor
19:30 Mindfulness coach for students
20:00 Mindful Schools
21:45 Educators are not mental health experts but we deal with it everyday
22:15 Mindfulness with Dr J - YouTube
23:30 Dr. J. Stuart Ablon - Think:Kids
24:00 Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Ross W. Greene PhD
24:30 Elevator tone of voice
24:30 I believe every kid that does something wrong already feels bad
24:45 What's up with that?
25:30 Dr. Gloria Gold - Behind every behavior is a story
26:15 Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids
26:45 Even prisoners get to eat lunch
28:15 Connection before correction
29:00 Building trust with kids
31:30 A kid's bad behavior does not have to put them on a trajectory to be a bad kid
33:30 Treat every person in your building with the same level of respect
34:00 Collaborative management style
36:00 In our room together - we can do amazing and great things
39:00 Three recesses a day in Elementary School
40:15 Raising Compassionate and Confident Kids with Author Heather Shumaker
40:15 It's OK to Go up the Slide: Renegade Rules for Raising Confident and Creative Kids by Heather Shumaker
42:45 Find something that will fuel you because you are only going to output the best when you are at your best
43:30 Educational Impact Academy
46:00 Best advice for in-person conferences with parents

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Mike Cobb - Head of School at All Saints Episcopal School looks at all things differently than most with the intent of AUTHENTIC LEARNING.  This episode is packed full of great innovations that you can use at your school today!

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Intentional Innovation: Time, Space, & Talent (Part 1)
Intentional Innovation: Time, Space, & Talent (Part 2)

3:00 The Oakridge School
3:15 Karate Kid approach to learning school
4:30 Tap into our inner child
4:30 What can I do today that would have inspired me as a young adult
4:45 Give students a sense that this matters and give them ownership and agency
5:45 You have to believe that the work we are doing is important
6:00 Passion, Ponderings and Practice
6:30 The Enneagram Personality Test
7:45 I challenge any educator - If you are not an optimist then you are in the wrong business
8:00 I believe that the students in my care can go higher and further than the students that were in my care yesterday
8:15 Brené Brown
9:15 A learning space is a teacher
9:30 Loris Malaguzzi
11:45 Legacy by James Kerr
12:30 A leader is not defined by a title, it is defined by action
12:30 Know, Grow and then Let Go
13:45 What is your one audacious dream?
15:30 "Last Friday" Professional Development
16:30 Traditional PL can sometimes have traditional results that we don't want
17:00 Teacher Leader Cohort
17:30 We should be practitioners of what we do
18:00 Network
19:30 Take away the high risk of leadership
20:15 What is the current situation in your passions, heart & abilities?
21:15 Mount Vernon School
21:15 Parish Episcopal School
23:00 Find those things that have meaning
23:30 What is it about education that feeds you?
27:00 My moonshot for schools is that our kids understand why they are going to school every day; they can apply the knowledge they learn today - tomorrow; and they feel they have ownership and what that means for them in the future
27:30 Schools need to teach relevancy
28:30 Authentic Learning & Student Agency are my two moonshots for education
30:00 You're not really teaching it if you can't make it relevant or you should not be teaching it
30:30 Do you have students waiting at the door in the morning? Do you have to tell students to go home after school? If not, you're not doing it right.
31:15 Do you students decide what is taught and what are the outcomes of that?
33:45 Outcomes are the really important part
34:00 Parents, Students, Administrators - You have the power to make your school a better place

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Danny Song the Head of School at Believe Memphis Academy CS provides a wealth of practical advice on leading a school to a true community and fantastic insight for aspiring school leaders! (Full Disclosure: Danny provides sooo much great content that the show notes don't do this episode justice)

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3:30 School was a really pivotal and important place where I found community
4:00 I found the ability to tell stories really compelling
4:30 Memphis Teacher Residency
6:00 Achievement Gap - Education Week
7:00 Education is a civil rights and social justice issue
10:00 Three primary factors contributing to the "Opportunity Gap": Zip Code, Household Income and Skin Color
18:00 What does it take to drive student achievement and move student learning?
18:15 A school leader needs to be relentless and dogged about the talent in your building
19:00 Good to Great by Jim Collins
19:30 Failure is a necessary part of growth
21:30 Does the school culture give the students the feeling that "This place makes me feel smarter every day."?
23:45 Mindset by Carol Dweck
24:00 The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
25:30 Radical Candor by Kim Scott
26:15 Chalkbeat
26:45 I intentionally seek out mentors who can help me with my blindspots
28:15 Simon Sinek
29:15 Maintain your Humility, your Grind, your Hard Work Ethic and NEVER lose sight of your love for the children
29:45 The deeper your love for children - the better school leader you'll be
32:00 When you see a community of people rally around this mission it's like magic!
41:15 If you believe you can be a school leader - know that you can!
42:00 Faith is knowing that you are on a team even when you don't know all the players
42:30 If you are fighting for kids, if you are fighting for justice, if you are fighting for equity - thanks for letting me be on your team.
43:00 Jesus died for you and would have done it even if you were the only person on earth

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Tom Woelper is a Founding Head of School at New England Innovation Academy. Tom shares great insight on how his team is creating a different kind of school to prepare students to face a future they want to shape!

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New England Innovation Academy on Twitter - @HelloNEIA

5:15 The Best Leaders Are The Ones Who Empower Their Team
8:00 If you don't listen, If you don't empower - you're not going to be successful
9:45 Lawrenceville School
10:30 Schools get caught in a cultural inertia of what they have been
11:00 Schools are bad at math
12:00 What should school look like now?
12:45 Putting time tables on everything a school does
13:45 Taft School
14:00 Teachers College, Columbia University
14:15 Friendship Highway
14:15 American Pacific International School
16:30 The Hotchkiss School
18:00  Matthew Kressy - MIT Professional Education
18:15 Human-Centered Design
18:15 Graduate innovators who can be the change they want to see in the world
19:00 Stanford d.school
19:15 Try to understand the needs of others with great empathy
19:30 You don't come in as an"expert" and presume that you know what's best for them
20:00 Failure and Fail Forward
21:00 How Sesame Street philosophy can help your school
23:00 Recruiting students with just an idea
27:45 Hechinger Report - Declining Birth Rates
28:15 Have the humility to know you are wrong
29:00 New Jersey Association of Independent Schools
29:45 Be curious, expand your experiences,
31:15 Don't lose sight of why you are in education
35:15 Getting out of your comfort zone

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We would like to send a sincere THANK YOU to all educators, guests and listeners of the podcast. We hope that we bring value to you and please know that your efforts are greatly appreciated!!!

2:45 E1 Farrell Thomas
4:30 E2 Brian O'Connell
7:00 E3 Tom Darlow
9:00 E4 Aubrey Bursch
11:30 E5 Dr. Kina Mallard
14:30 E6 Eric Jones
17:45 E7 Michael Hardiman
19:15 E8 Karine Myers

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Karine Myers started "teaching" at the age of 8 in her basement. Now Supervisor of Leadership Development at Frederick County Public Schools, she has seen education from MANY viewpoints. Karine's passion for learning has not dimmed through career setbacks and pivots and now appears to be at its brightest!

Karine on Twitter - @fcpskarinemyers

2:45 Holton Arms Creative Summer
3:15 Dickinson College
3:30 Gettysburg College
6:30 A leader has nothing to do with your title - It has to do with the influence that you have
12:30 It's really about the learner and the learner can take on so many different views
14:00 Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
14:45 I see success when we focus on servant leadership tenents
17:30 Stop, Pause, Think before making the next decision
18:45 We cannot provide professional learning that is "one and done" because the position is not static
20:15 When we see a growth-minded leader that's what comes to pass in the school building
20:15 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
22:00 Remember to put your own air mask on first
27:00 There are a lot of leadership needs that are beyond instructional
33:00 Do things that are scary so that you can grow
33:45 What can I learn from the experience or failure
34:30 Put the right frame of mind on something and you keep pushing forward
35:00 Be open to feedback. If you're not getting it, seek it out
37:30 Educational Leadership
37:45 Learning Forward
38:45 Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
39:00 Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
39:00 The Sweet Spot by Christine Carter
40:15 Nothing as an educator makes you feel better than watching people benefit from learning

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Michael Hardiman describes the Denver Lab School as in its embryonic stage. Recorded 18 months prior to the opening of school - the journey seems monumental, but Michael is on a path to create a unique learning experience that will greatly impact those he seeks to serve!

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2:30 Holderness School
2:45 Phil Peck
4:15 AmeriCorps
5:00 Windermere Prep
6:00 Klingenstein Center
9:45 Vinny Dotoli
10:00 Brooklyn Independent Middle School
10:00 Orly Friedman
22:00 Vivid Vision by Cameron Herold
22:15 Traction by Gino Wickman
23:45 Mastery Transcript Consortium®
27:15 No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings
42:30 North American Outdoor Leadership Schools
47:00 Creative Schools by Ken Robinson  - Do schools kill creativity? - TED Talk
47:30 Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz
47:30 Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown
48:00 John Dewey Academy - Experience And Education by John Dewey

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Eric Jones has "been there - done that" in education! From teacher, Assistant Principal, Principal, Superintendent. Now Director, Professional Learning at National Center on Education and the Economy, Eric shares incredible advice for school leaders and insight on the direction education is headed.

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4:00 - Casey Wardynski
9:30 - Be passionate at what you do
10:30 - Put the good of the organization above self
10:45 - The leader is the vision & tone setter
11:00 - What motivates people to get behind a leader
11:45 - The best schools allow a structure continuous learning and improvement
13:30 - We need to be courageous enough to help all students be successful
15:15 - Whatever is happening in a school is a direct reflection on the leader
16:15 - Treat teacher like the professionals they are
17:30 - Too many processes and bureaucracies stifle the innovative atmosphere
18:30 - CJ Reynolds   -   Education Insights Podcast
19:00 - Carol S. Dweck
19:15 - You have to work hard, but you have to work hard on the right things
19:30 - How People Learn
19:45 - We teach in a manner that does not take into account how the brain works
21:45 - Have a servant mindset - There is no task too small for me
22:00 - You never know what opportunity will lead to from saying yes
23:30 - Go to your leader and ask what you can do to help
24:00 - Put yourself in a position where your leadership ability can be seen
29:30 - "Never miss an opportunity to take advantage of a good crisis" - Winston Churchill
30:15 - We have been presented with an opportunity to rethink how to deliver education
34:45 - Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
34:45 - Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
37:15 - The knock on education is "Why would you want to get into that. I see it the opposite"
37:30 - If you are looking to change lives - there is no place better than education
44:45 - Between the Clouds and the Dirt: A Short Film - Gary Vaynerchuk

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