Mafost Mashup

Live from NAESP conference! Inspired by the energy, vision, and passion of a few principals and educational leaders whom I happened to bump into - this quick rant is about the fulcrum, leadership.

Being the one for kids.

Being the voice and difference maker!

The Mafost Mashup is a podcast for principals and school leaders who seek to shape culture, connect people, and impact learning.

High expectations for student success - this is the mantra of our generation, but what if we've got it out of balance? What if we've used high student expectations in ways that created blind spots for excuses?

Episode 10 of the Mafost Mashup is a hard-hitting, fast-paced finale to season one including topics for principals and school leaders such as:

- High Expectations for Students

- Strange Thing About Water

- Determination

- Reform of No Excuse Schools

- Overview of Top Research on Student Expectations

- The Role of Educators

- Expectations for Educational Professionals

- Metrics of Impact

- DNA of No Excuses

- No Excuses in Education

Get show notes (research, charts, and examples) at https://mafost.com/mashup

This is the podcast for principals and school leaders who want to be challenged with insanely innovative ideas on school Culture, People, and Impact.

Over 100 principals have joined the collaboration to share free resources for school leaders and principals. The tools and resources are growing. Take a look at https://mafost.com/resources

In this episode of the Mafost Mashup, I sit with Hal Bowman and discuss the real lessons of school - those lessons that actually stick with students and meaningful for life. This podcast for principals and school leaders will leave you inspired to bring passion to your school every day because students aren't merely learning skills - they are forging identities. Topics in this episode include:

Doing Time

Impact Through Meaningful Work

What If School...

Bootlegging in Schools

Passions and Skills, Not Grade Levels

A Leader Who Gets It

Egg Carton Learning

Industrial Age Employee Model

Opportunities to Forge Identities

The Real Lesson

Passionate Teachers

Students Envisioning Their Futures

The Mafost Mashup is a podcast for principals and school leadership. In Episode 8: Clarity and Toxicity, Matt sits with Hal Bowman and discusses real-life experiences with school cultures, including:

-Shaping School Culture vs. Letting It Happen

-Creating a Tribe

-Bringing Clarity to the School Vision and Purpose

-Uncertainty and Toxic Cultures that Result

-The anxiety of the Unknown

-Finding the Right Fit

-Unintentional Culture Viruses

-Communicating with Clarity

Principals, instructional coaches, and educational leaders will receive helpful insights into why toxic cultures form and how to turn them around.

A podcast for principals and school leaders - Episode 7 of the Mafost Mashup tackles 5 insanely innovative ways to improve communication in your school. This episode starts with the Effective Schools Research, discusses a major gap in the effective school correlates, and addresses a powerful analogy to increase the effectiveness of your school culture.

Episode 6 of the Mafost Mashup is loaded with practical applications for principals and school leaders who wish to build a leadership strategy using Empathy. Five characteristics of empathy are discussed in detail, including these topics:

-Situational Awareness

-Predicting Pitfalls

-Tribes

-Circles of Trust

-Below-the-surface Issues

-Seeking to Understand

-Humility

-Conversations

-Authenticity

-Authentic Leadership Gone Wrong

-Research from "The Leadership Quarterly"

-Self-Awareness

-Unbiased Processing

-Relational Authenticity

-Well-Being

-Fearless Empathy

-6 Mindsets to Kill Fear of Failure

-What Empathy is Not

This is the must-listen episode for all school leaders, principals, and teacher leaders striving to lead learning and improve schools!

The only thing that makes or breaks a campus is people. Here are a few ways to strengthen the connections with the people on your campus, to lead learning, and to improve schools. For principals, school leadership, and teacher leaders.

How do we cultivate meaningful work in our schools? For teachers, leaders, and students. This episode tackles several topics related to meaningful work:

-Workplace Envy

-Absorption

-Play

-Research from Jeffrey Springer

-Flow

-Creating Meaningful Work

-Quote from Alfred North Whitehead

Schools that cultivate meaningful work will tap into the creativity and innovative spirit of their people. Students will experience learning that can be applied in their lives. Teams will have extreme engagement.

What is success for your school? Is it a rating? Is it a passing rate? Is it your own promotion? Or do you measure success by impact?

After spending the day with Hal Bowman at an amazing campus in the Houston area, I reflected on the meaning of impact. This episode challenges common notions and practices regarding the impact on student learning.

Topics in this episode include:

-Measuring Happiness

-Job Satisfaction Research

-Turnover

-Achievement Gaps

-Transformative Leadership

-Test Scores

-New Achievements

-Ways Schools Could Impact Communities

-Performance-Oriented Trends

-Your Game Defines Your Culture