Principal Center Radio

By Justin Baeder

Principal Center Radio brings you the best in professional practice for school leaders, in an audio format that you can access in the car, on the treadmill, or anywhere you'd like to listen.... more

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How many episodes does Principal Center Radio have?

The podcast currently has 963 episodes available.

Principal Center Radio episodes:

August 23, 2025 Christina Hidek—The Principal's Parent Group Playbook
Visit Christina's website, www.PTOAnswers.com
Free resource: PTO Family Engagement Opportunity Assessment
Free resource: 5 No Brainer Ways to Improve the Teacher/Parent Relationship
Learn more about The Principal’s Parent Group Playbook
About The Author
Christina Hidek is a former attorney and Professional Organizer with a keen sense for developing systems to simplify and ease management of the most complex situations. With over 15 years of PTA volunteer and leadership experience, Christina knows what it takes to run wildly successful PTA/PTOs. She runs an international 8,000 member Facebook group for school parent group volunteers and leaders, and it's her mission to make life easier for all volunteers, parent leaders, Principals and school leaders.
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27min
August 23, 2025 Decoteau Irby & Ann Ishimaru—Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
Get the book, Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
Visit Decoteau's website, www.DecoteauIrby.com
Connect with Ann on LinkedIn
About The Authors
Decoteau J. Irby’s life work focuses on creating and sustaining organizations that contribute to Black people’s self-determined well-being, development, and positive life outcomes. He is Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is the author of Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership. Dr. Ann M. Ishimaru is an award-winning scholar, writer, educator and the Killinger Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy at the University of Washington College of Education. Through her work, she cultivates the leadership and solidarities of educators, organizational leaders and racially minoritized youth, families and communities to realize more transformative futures. In addition to many peer-reviewed articles in top-tier educational research journals, she is also the author of Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities. They are the editors of the new volume Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change.
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29min
August 16, 2025 Sharon Kramer & Sarah Schuhl—Acceleration for All: A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps
Get the book, Acceleration for All: A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps
About The Authors
Sharon Kramer, PhD, knows firsthand the demands and rewards of working in a professional learning community (PLC). As a leader in the field, she has done priority schools work with districts across the United States, emphasizing the importance of creating and using quality assessments and utilizing the PLC continuous-improvement process to raise student achievement. Sharon served as assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction of Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 in Illinois. In this position, she ensured all students were prepared to enter Adlai E. Stevenson High School, a Model PLC started and formerly led by PLC architect Richard DuFour. Sharon holds a PhD in educational leadership and policy studies from Loyola University Chicago. To learn more about Sharon’s work, follow @DrKramer1 on Twitter.

Sarah Schuhl (Shool), MS, is an educational coach and consultant specializing in mathematics, professional learning communities (PLCs), common formative and summative assessments, priority school improvement, and response to intervention (RTI). She has worked in schools as a secondary mathematics teacher, high school instructional coach, and K–12 mathematics specialist. Schuhl was instrumental in the creation of a PLC in the Centennial School District in Oregon, helping teachers make large gains in student achievement. She earned the Centennial School District Triple C Award in 2012. She holds a bachelor of science in mathematics from Eastern Oregon University and a master of science in mathematics education from Portland State University.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.
Discover the power of data-driven instruction in your school with IXL—it gives you everything you need to maximize learning, from a comprehensive curriculum to meaningful school-wide data.

Visit IXL.com/center to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.
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37min
August 12, 2025 Justin Baeder—Announcing The Eduleadership Show

Learn more about The Eduleadership Show at www.Eduleadership.org
About Justin Baeder PhD
Justin Baeder, PhD. is author of Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership (Solution Tree), co-author of Mapping Professional Practice (Solution Tree), and creator of the Instructional Leadership Challenge, which has helped more than 10,000 leaders in 50 countries make a daily habit of classroom visits. He holds a PhD in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies from the University of Washington, and helps senior leaders in K-12 organizations build capacity for instructional leadership.
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11min
August 02, 2025 Tom Sherrington—Rosenshine's Principles in Action
Get the book, Rosenshine's Principles in Action
Visit Tom's website WalkThrus.co.uk
About The Author
Tom Sherrington has more than 30 years of experience as a math and science teacher and headteacher in the UK and around the world. He co-hosts the podcast Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe with Emma Turner, and consults with schools around the UK and internationally, and he is the co-founder of Teaching Walkthrus. He is the author of several books, including Rosenshine's Principles in Action.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.
Discover the power of data-driven instruction in your school with IXL—it gives you everything you need to maximize learning, from a comprehensive curriculum to meaningful school-wide data.

Visit IXL.com/center to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.
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38min
July 26, 2025 Barbara Oakley—The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
Read The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
About The Guest
Barbara Oakley, PhD is professor of engineering at Oakland University and the author of numerous books and articles, including Learning How to Learn and Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn. She teaches the world’s largest MOOC, or Massive Open Online Course, Learning How to Learn, with over 4 million registered students.

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37min
July 19, 2025 Sam Nix—Six Steps to a Strong School Culture: A Leadership Cycle for Educational Success
Get the book, Six Steps to a Strong School Culture: A Leadership Cycle for Educational Success
Visit Sam's website www.snix3consulting.com
About The Author
Samuel Nix, EdD, has been an educator for more than twenty years with a background as a teacher, middle and high school principal, and chief of schools in a variety of school settings. He has used his experience to design professional learning sessions for educators on topics ranging from maximizing the success of the entire organization, with an emphasis on raising the academic achievement of all students, to helping leaders re-envision their learning cultures, to promoting systems thinking that transforms organizations.

While he served as a high school principal, Dr. Nix’s campus was named as one of the Top 32 Urban Schools in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST). Dr. Nix has been awarded a Leadership-in-Education Award from the Texas House of Representatives, and; was presented the Mary McLeod Bethune Heritage Award for Education by the NAACP in 2010, the Dr. June James NAACP Education Award in 2016, and the Leadership Legacy Award from the Future Schools Network in 2019.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.
Discover the power of data-driven instruction in your school with IXL—it gives you everything you need to maximize learning, from a comprehensive curriculum to meaningful school-wide data.

Visit IXL.com/center to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.
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23min
July 12, 2025 Nathaniel Hansford—The Scientific Principles of Teaching: Bridging the Divide Between Educational Practice and Research
Get the book, The Scientific Principles of Teaching: Bridging the Divide Between Educational Practice and Research
Visit Nate's Website www.PedagogyNonGrata.com
Follow Nate on X @Natejoseph19
About The Guest
Nathaniel Hansford has taught every grade from preK to 12th, in places as diverse as South Korea, the United Kingdom, the subarctic of Quebec, and Ontario, Canada. In 2022, he won the Literacy Leader of the Year award from the Ontario International Dyslexia Association. Nathaniel has written hundreds of articles on the science of teaching. He is most interested in using meta-analysis research to help teachers implement methodologies that have been proven to work. To learn more about Nathaniel’s work in education, visit teachingbyscience.com, or follow him @Natejoseph19 on X (formerly Twitter).

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34min
July 05, 2025 Dave Nagel & Bruce Potter—Grading Visible Learners: Learning with Fluidity, Not Finality
Get the book, Grading Visible Learners: Learning with Fluidity
Visit the website, www.CenterForCollaborativeExpertise.com
About The Authors
Dave Nagel and Bruce Potter are co-founders The Center for Collaborative Expertise.

Dave’s work focuses on helping schools and districts implement Visible Learning research, assessment and feedback, and effective grading reform at both school and classroom levels. He has supported schools in building impactful PLCs and is a thought leader in the PLC+ framework. Dave has authored seven books, 4 of which are best sellers–aligned to the PLC+ Suite of publications, and contributed to publications such as Principal Leadership, Educational Leadership, and The Learning Professional. He regularly presents at national conferences.

Bruce Potter is a school administrator with over 30 years experience. Bruce began his career as a classroom teacher and has held leadership roles at the building level as a principal and at the district level as a superintendent for 11 years. Bruce brings a wealth of experience in implementing Visible Learning research, guiding districts, schools, and teachers in transforming their practices. His schools have earned national recognition for innovative approaches that redefine success for traditionally underserved students.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.
Discover the power of data-driven instruction in your school with IXL—it gives you everything you need to maximize learning, from a comprehensive curriculum to meaningful school-wide data.

Visit IXL.com/center to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.
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34min
June 27, 2025 Patrice Bain—Powerful Classrooms: Evidence-informed Strategies and Resources
Get the book, Powerful Classrooms: Evidence-informed Strategies and Resources
Learn more about Patrice on her website, www.PatriceBain.com
Follow Patrice on X @PatriceBain1
About The Guest
Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S. is an award-winning teacher and author. Her research-based teaching strategies have proven successful for thousands of students. In addition to Powerful Teaching and A Parent’s Guide to Powerful Teaching, she also coauthored Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning with the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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37min

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