Leaning into Leadership

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Celebrated school leader and former Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Driver, after a two-decade career in education that included teaching, coaching, and leading across all grade levels, Bradley James Davies fulfilled his long-held dream of writing a book. School Leadership from A to Z: How to Lead Well Without Losing Your Way is about the ups, downs, and all-arounds of school life and leadership. It’s lighthearted, heavy at times, and funny throughout. Its goal is to help educators thrive through the challenges and stresses of school life and leadership.

Born and raised in Minnesota, Davies attended Stanford University where he served as junior class president and captained the men’s soccer team. Later, he was honored as a Lily Fellow at Duke Divinity School, where he graduated magna cum laude. He holds a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and is the founder of Falkor, a leadership and life consultancy dedicated to helping clients live better, love better, and lead better. His current clients span all sectors, from technology and entertainment to government and education, and all levels of leadership, from rising stars to c-suite veterans.

When not roaming the Earth as an author, speaker, coach, and photographer, Davies calls Colorado and Florida home. His big dream is to someday add to his family a therapy dog named Fred.

You can connect with Davies via his website bradleyjamesdavies.com, on Instagram at bradley.james.davies, and via Facebook at Bradley James Davies.

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On this special mid-week episode, Darrin teams up with Joshua Stamper of the Aspire to Lead podcast to answer your burning leadership questions heading into a new school year.

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Improving student outcomes is AJ Crabill’s focus. He serves as Conservator at DeSoto, Texas ISD. During his guidance, DeSoto improved from F ratings in academics, finance, and governance to B ratings. He’s also Faculty at Leadership Institute of Nevada and Director of Governance at the Council of the Great City Schools. He served as Deputy Commissioner at the Texas Education Agency and spearheaded reforms as board chair of Kansas City Public Schools that doubled the percentage of students who are literate and numerate. Crabill is a recipient of the Education Commission of the State's James Bryant Conant Award.

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Kip Shubert is an educator and coach who is driven to lead and love staff and students to believe and discover that they are the greatest miracle in the world. Having almost thirty years’ experience in education, Kip is sharing that secret sauce as an educator, coach, author, speaker, and as a podcast host of The Secret Sauce with Kip Shubert. Kip recently moved from Oklahoma to the mountains of Colorado where he now teaches and coaches for the Woodland Park School District. 

Kip has climbed mountains that once seemed impossible to him. He uses his experiences of being homeless, an alcoholic, losing custody of his daughter, and his wife’s diagnosis with an incurable blood cancer to share how he used adversity to find his advantage, his secret sauce. His WHY is to use those powerful stories, combined with building real, authentic relationships to reach back over the mountains he has climbed so that he can be that sherpa to guide and empower others. 

Kip is fierce in his belief that our school’s culture and success depends on us being all in and all together in cultivating connections that ensures all stakeholders are seen, heard and valued. 

Kip is a proud father of four great kids, three amazing grandchildren and blessed husband to his wife Cindy. He loves to be outdoors, hiking, and especially college football season and Italian food. He is excited to be joining the Road To Awesome family and is grateful that each day he “gets to” share that secret sauce and make a difference in the lives of staff and students.

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Stacey Ross Cohen is an award-winning branding professional who earned her stripes on Madison Avenue and at major television networks before launching her own agency. Stacey specialized in “everything” branding. She is the CEO and founder of Co-Communications, a PR, Marketing and Design agency headquartered in New York. A Ted X speaker and staple at industry conferences, Stacey is a contributor at Huffington Post, Entrepreneur and has been featured in Forbes, Crain’s, and a suite of other national media. She has a B.S. from Syracuse University, an MBA from Fordham University, and a certificate in Entertainment from NYU Leonard Stern School of Business. Stacey’s book Brand Up: The Ultimate Playbook for College & Career Success (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster) released in April 2023, is a game changer for teens to stand out in our increasingly connected, cluttered, and competitive world.

Link for Stacey's TedX Talk: https://youtu.be/97WKB4MGTrY

Social Media links for Stacey

Facebook: https://facebook.com/StaceyRossCohen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceycohen2

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/StaceyRossCohen

Instagram: www.instagram.com/staceyrosscohen/

Email/contact info: [email protected]

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Beth Napleton is an executive leadership coach, consultant and the owner and founder of Beth Napleton Consulting. She offers senior leaders in education and at mission-driven organizations a clear path to excellence through individual, executive and group coaching experiences. Additionally, she offers busy leaders a container and her expertise so they can expand their capacity in all areas. Beth leverages her extensive experience in education to work with senior leaders in education and mission-driven organizations to help them clear out the “adult problems” that get in the way of student success. Beth is a national award-winning teacher and has been in the education field for over 20 years, having trained over 1,800 teachers and leaders to success. She is an alumni of Columbia University, Building Excellent Schools, and Teach For America. Most recently, she served as Founder and CEO of a small charter school network on the South Side of Chicago that opened in 2013. All graduates of her schools – most of them first-generation students – were accepted to at least two four-year colleges, changing their paths forever.

Beth took her leadership skills a step further and became a certified Clifton Gallup Strengths Coach so she can offer leaders the opportunity to lean into their own strengths and succeed. Beth completed the National Principal Supervisors Academy at Relay, and is a former member of the Far South Side Community Action Council. Beth has been a guest on The EJT Show and the Teacher Renewed: What's Possible in Education podcasts, and hosted her own podcast Live on Leadership with Beth Napleton. 

Get in touch with Beth:

Website:www.bethnapleton.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bethnapletonconsulting/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beth.napleton/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethnapleton/

Take Beth's Leadership Quiz right here: https://bethnapleton.involve.me/leadershipquiz

Here is a link to the Clifton Strengths Finder

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Charle Peck is the co-creator of Thriving School Community, a revolutionary program designed for schools to improve mental health. With over 20 years of education and mental health leadership experience, she has the unique lens of both a certified teacher and a licensed clinical therapist specializing in trauma. Charle holds an MS in Education and an MS in Social Work. Her role as a high school teacher coupled with her work with children and families in crisis gives her incredible insight into solving youth mental health problems stemming from our schools. She is the co-author of Improving School Mental Health: The Thriving School Community Solution and a global keynote speaker delivering powerful messages of hope to educators.

Connect with Charle: Twitter @CharlePeck or email: [email protected]

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Dr. Benjamin Ritter, founder of Live for Yourself Consulting, is a leadership and career coach, Talent Development Executive, values geek, international speaker, online course instructor, and podcaster (The Executive, and The Live for Yourself Revolution), who’s passionate about guiding leaders to be the leader of their own career and create a career they love. With over 11 years of experience working with clients from companies such as Amazon, Coursera, Doordash, Google, Fiserv, Northwestern, Pinterest, and Yelp, Ben understands how to navigate any career path you decide you want to travel. From empowering professionals to get unstuck, to guiding senior leadership on how to stand out from the competition, develop executive presence, and feel confident in being a leader, Ben is an expert in his field and will guide you toward truly living for yourself at work and in life. Ben received his Doctorate in Organizational Leadership with a focus on value congruence and job satisfaction and earned an MBA in entrepreneurial management, and an MPH in health policy administration.

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https://youtube.com/benjaminritter

Go to Ben's website for this eBook: https://www.liveforyourselfconsulting.com/

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Allyson Apsey has been an award-winning school leader for nearly 20 years, leading all levels from elementary to High School. She had the honor to help open a highly successful charter school, which included developing a secondary program designed around research-proven practices. Allyson next served as an elementary principal and district leadership coach. She was on the Executive Board of Directors for MEMSPA (Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association) as the Professional Development Chair and is on the NAESP Editorial Advisory Board. Allyson is the best-selling author of several books—including Leading the Whole Teacher,  The Path to Serendipity, and the picture book The Princes of Serendip,  She loves working with passionate groups of educators to support them in taking care of the whole child and the whole educator by implementing research-proven practices. Allyson’s TEDx Talk can give you an insight into her passion.

Connect with Allyson: [email protected] & https://allysonapsey.com

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Drew Perkins: As TeachThought’s Director of Professional Development and co-host of the TeachThought Podcast Drew helps design and deliver workshops and learning both on-site and virtually as well as coordinating PD work with our team. A graduate of Michigan State University with a degree in Political Science in three years, he was decidedly against the idea of being a teacher. With a mother and grandmother both educators, a stint as a substitute teacher lured him back to earn a teaching certificate in secondary social studies. Thus began a journey that includes 15 years in the classroom and leadership in Michigan, California, Texas and most recently Kentucky and spanned middle and high school, Special Education to Advanced Placement and basketball and golf coaching.

Formerly with the Buck Institute for Education and the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning he has designed and contributed to several PBL models, including the TeachThought PBL Model. Drew continues to deliver professional development and speak internationally. He has been light-heartedly referred to as a professional thought stretcher due to his emphasis on leading through inquiry and questioning.

5 Phases of PBL blog post: https://www.teachthought.com/project-based-learning/phases/

The Enduring Residue of PBL blog post: https://www.teachthought.com/education/benefits-of-project-based-learning/

Blog post Drew referenced the 2008 Housing Crisis: https://www.teachthought.com/education/push-teaching-vs-pull-teaching-thinking/

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