The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast | The #1 Downloaded School Leadership Show

Host Daniel Bauer provides weekday motivation for the modern educator. Listeners can expect tools and tricks from a variety of sources: inspirational books, stories from the mastermind, and weekly challenges. Learn more and listen to the category defining leadership conversation for school leaders, Better Leaders Better Schools at https://betterleadersbetterschools.com

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Kevin Schaefer is currently the Director of Program Support for the Supporting Inclusive Practices (SIP) project at the El Dorado County/Charter SELPAs. In this role, Mr. Schaefer works diligently to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities by providing high-quality leadership and support to the California Department of Education and Districts throughout the state that focuses on creating enabling least restrictive environments that honor the diversity of learners across general and special education settings.

Show Highlights

• Create equitable outcomes by dismantling the educational instructional toolbox
• Stop the cycle of failure for students with IEPs and 504S
• Honoring the variability of learners in classrooms takes major self reflection and hard core PD
• The epiphany of Time to Thrive conference
• How we falsely blame students for not progressing as he or she should 
• PD to address the adult response to components of the systems  that create unsafe learning environment
• Practical steps to actually build connections with LGTBQ students and staff 

“We do a lot of work with universal design for learning and the idea is that we don't look at students as disabled. We look at the environment, we look at the curriculum as disabled, and then we mitigate potential barriers in the environment and in the curriculum to allow all students to access the instruction.”

-Ken Schafer

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Kevin Schaefer Transcript

 

Kevin Schafer’s Resources & Contact Info:

• Supporting Inclusive Practices
• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

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Rex Miller is a futurist by training. He began his career as a project manager in the architecture and construction department for Southwestern Bell now AT&T, in 1978. He has spent decades helping organizations leverage their environments as a catalyst to healthy cultures and clear missions.

Rex turns hopelessly stuck situations into transformation and growth.He is among a rare group of proven practitioners that also have a deep academic foundation. He is an award winning author and trained in Improv Comedy and uses these techniques to enhance workshop experiences.

This breadth of experience is why leaders chose Rex to move the needle.

 

Show Highlights

• “Tackling wicked problems” 
• The pit bull trait that will hold you up when the world is upside down 
• SEL is educating the brain in the heart. How schools prepare mental health and SEL needs.
• Pandemic reinvention is an adventure
• 50% teachers burnout
• Form a barn raising strategy for peer to peer support
• Co-create the future for the kids with a 21st century education, not a 19th century education

 

“It amazes me that we don’t take better care of our teachers and lay the foundation of our nation. Close to 50% of teachers burn out before 5 years.

“WICKED” problem if a superintendent spends $1 on teachers it is seen as taking $1 away from kids.”

-Rex Miller

 

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Rex’s Resources & Contact Info:

• Whole: What teachers need to help students thrive
• Humanizing the education machine.

• rexmiller.com  
• hope.school  
• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
•  [email protected]

 

Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

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Dr. Jeremiah Newell is the founder and CEO of MAEF Public Charter Schools, which has opened the first public charter school in the state of Alabama. He has previously taught middle and high school, led innovative secondary school models for disconnected youth, directed secondary school turnaround efforts, and served as a Harvard Fellow for the Rhode Island Department of Education.

He believes transforming public education is one of the most important issues of our time. He is committed to being a part of the solution and wants to learn from and partner with colleagues of all backgrounds to use our collective imagination, ingenuity, and perseverance to give young people their best possible start to adulthood. 

 

Show Highlights

• Use the fire in your belly to ignite change  
• Earn currency with young people for a responsive learning environment
• Vision without action is a hallucination
• Unpacking competency based learning models 
• Replace the traditional role of a counselor with intensive therapeutic counseling
• The questions you need to ask for innovative, equitable education 
• Education is a communal process

 

“As an educator, we have a responsibility to create the holding environment for young people to make change. That doesn't mean directing them to what that change should be. It's literally creating a space where they can learn and grow.”

-Jeremian

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Jeremian Newell’s Resources & Contact Info:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Email

  Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

 

Show Sponsors

ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

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My experience in education includes 16 years teaching high school social studies, 6 years as a high school Assistant Principal, and I am now in my 5th year as Principal at Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, California. I have always been drawn to public education and see it as part of the larger project that includes protecting our democracy and breaking down economic and social barriers that are embedded in our society and the educational system.

Show Highlights

• A public school truly free from fees for students and parents
• Pilot your great ideas for relevant data
• Develop a faculty mindset regarding rigorous courses
• Curriculum that pushes depth of learning for all students
• The internal conversation every Ruckus Maker needs to have
• How to move through discomfort for more equitable outcomes
• Why Tracey has used Organize Binder for the past 10 years 

 

“You have to think about all of the different things that kids are dealing with when you're coming up with ideas on how to help them. If there are some kids left out, then we have to think again. How can we really have Student X access all of the things that we're trying to offer. I think that for a long time it's been okay for students to be left out as long as most of your students are doing okay.”

-Tracey 

 

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Tracey Runeare’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

• Opening Doors:
• Harbor High School - Santa Cruz, California - CA | GreatSchools
• [email protected]
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Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

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Manuel Colon is the Chief Academic Officer in the Anaheim Union HIgh School District.  He has been instrumental in the implementation of the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), which has been highlighted as a model in California. In addition, his work with building partnerships has created one of the most comprehensive promise initiatives in the state.  Moreover, Mr. Colon has presented at local, state, and national conferences.  He received his bachelor’s degree from U.C.Santa Cruz in Language and Culture, a master’s degree in Education from Stanford University, and a master’s degree Administration from UCLA.  Mr. Colon has been in education twenty-eight years as a teacher, program specialist, assistant principal, junior high school principal, high school principal and Assistant Superintendent. Mr. colon has received multiple individual awards including the Apple of Gold Award in Excellence in Teaching from the HIspanic Education Endowment Fund, California State Administrator of the Year for Valuing Diversity from the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), Campbell UHSC Teacher of the Year, and the LaBoskey Award in Teacher Education from Stanford University. Mr. Colon has also published the following:L Nichols, Patricia. C and Colon, Manuel 2000. “Spanish literacy and the academic success of Latino high school students: Code Switching as a classroom resource. “ Foreign Language Annals 33: 498-511.  Garcia, Eugene and Colon, Manuel.  1995. Interactive journals in bilingual classrooms: An analysis of language transition. Discourse Process 19, 39-56.  Poem published in teaching tools video for Spanish textbook. !Dime! Pasaporte al mundo 21. D.C. Health, 1994.  Finally, Mr Colon has been married for twenty-six years and has a son and a daughter.

Show Highlights

• Change the mindset of those in education to ensure what we say is in the best interest of children
• A simple question has the ability to change the trajectory of lives 
• You fail the future with bias behavior that corrupts your best intentions  
• Keep equity at the forefront of all decision
• How to successfully build the capacity of your staff without a budget
• Manuel shares how Teach Fx has been a transformative tool of learning for his teachers 

“Shift the culture of the campus, everything starts to fall into place. Achievement falls into place, discipline falls into place. All of these other pieces fall into place. You build a really strong system of shared systemness with your staff.”

-Manuel Colon

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Manuel Colon’s Contact Info:

• Twitter
• Facebook

 

Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

Show Sponsors

ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Jaime Casap is the Chief Education Evangelist at Google. Jaime evangelizes the potential of digitalization as an enabling capability in pursuit of promoting inquiry-based learning models. Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation into our education policies and practices.

In addition to his role at Google, Jaime serves as an advisor to dozens of organizations focused on learning, skill development, and the future of work. He is the coauthor of “Our First Talk About Poverty,” as a way to talk to children about poverty. Jaime helped launch the Phoenix Coding Academy, a public high school in Phoenix, AZ, focused on computer science as part of an inquiry-based learning model. He teaches a 10th-grade communication class at the school. He also guest lectures at Arizona State University.

He speaks on education, digitalization, innovation, generation z, and the future of work at events around the world. 

 

Show Highlights

• Reality distortion field.  Lean into your voice
• Helping students use their life experiences and circumstances as a competitive advantage. 
• Vision isn’t good enough without these action items 
• It is the time of the Ruckus Maker. Are you taking advantage?
• The biggest risk in hiring.  How to “future proof” your schools.
• Moving students from a consumer, to more critical thinker, and designer by teaching them how technology functions
• Curriculum that creates influencers that can actually change the system

“I don't like talking about education, being broken as it's something that needs to be fixed. That's just too negative for me. I want to start with, what does the system need to look like for the future that we face and how do we take the best ideas that we've been able to build in education?”

-Jaime Casap

 

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Jaime Casap’s Resources & Contact Info:

• Jaime Casap - YouTube
• On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty 
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

 

 

 

Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Nancy Frey is a professor at San Diego State University in Educational Leadership where she focuses on policies and practices in literacy and school leadership. Nancy is also a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College, an award-winning open-enrollment public school in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego that she co-founded in 2007. For nearly 3 decades, Nancy has dedicated her work to the knowledge and skills teachers and school leaders need to help students attain their goals and aspirations. Nancy just released The Distance Learning Playbook with co-authors Doug Fisher and John Hattie.  

 

Show Highlights

• Win the school year by using these plays from Nancy’s playbook
• How to pivot in a pandemic or any other crisis
• Tips to build, maintain and foster relationships when we're at a distance
• The loss of learning in times of crisis is counterintuitive
• Why national test scores increase during times of crisis
• This isn't crisis teaching. Create cohesion and consistency with these scheduling strategies
• Future proofing students

“What I want a Ruckus Maker to remember is that our job is to be a Ruckus Maker. As educators, I think that we sort of have a self concept that we maintain the status quo. Now more than ever, we need to disrupt. We need to innovate. Schooling has needed to be innovated for a long time. This is our chance.” 

-Nancy Frey

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Nancy Frey’s Resources & Contact Info:

• The Distance Learning Playbook
• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

 

Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Dr. Lori McEwen helps educators create classrooms and communities of deep and joyful learning. 

Lori has served educators, students and families as a leader in urban, suburban and charter environments and as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and professor.  Some of her proudest achievements include providing leadership, vision and strategic direction for meaningful change--including the creation of personalized, mastery-focused high schools. 

Lori is skilled at helping partners explore what’s possible in classrooms and schools by asking tons of questions, providing lots of readings, supporting risk-taking and making sure there’s laughter along the way. 

 

Show Highlights

• How to develop and lean on your gut instincts
• The importance of a lengthy interview process when hiring 
• Lori provides valuable resources to support the mastery movement
• The first steps to building a framework so students can be masters of their learning. 
• Why you can’t cheat on authentic assessments 
• Rigorous and social, emotional learning are not mutually exclusive, but inclusive 
• Lori’s favorite strategies to fill the 3 buckets that ensure deep and joyful learning

“The better that you and I can communicate with one another, the better we can collaborate. Once we have a great collaboration, we can get to this place of synergy. This idea that the room is smarter than any individual in the room. We can construct meaning to get to that higher level of creativity together because we're riffing off each other.”

-Lori McEwen

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Lori McEwen’s Resources & Contact Info:

• The Grid Method
• Fair Isn't Always Equal,
• Thomas R. Guskey 
• Never Work Harder Than Your Students
• Core SEL Competencies - casel
• Lori McEwen: Home
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

 

Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Clayton Reedie is the current Director for the Campbelltown Principal’s Network in Sydney, the equivalent of a District Superintendent in the United States.

He began as a teacher in 1991 and from there earned early promotion to Executive Teacher, Assistant Principal and then Deputy Principal. Clayton’s first Principalship was at Mount Hunter, a small country school of 58 students. Further principal positions followed at Chipping Norton, Hinchinbrook and finally at Dalmeny Public School.

In 2019, Clayton left the school-based role to become a Principal (School Leadership) a position which centred on providing support and professional development to principals and school leadership teams. Earlier this year he was successful in being promoted into his current role of Director.

Clayton was honoured to be elected by his peers to lead the Liverpool Primary Principals’ Association as President for three years from 2011 to 2014 and in 2016 he was awarded a full scholarship to study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Clayton lives in south-western Sydney and his greatest love is spending time with his wife, Nikki, and five boys aged 6, 13, 16, 19 and 22. They entertain, enlighten, love and give… but most of all keep him very much grounded in reality.

  Show Highlights

• The original Ruckus Maker’s framework to open doors of trust that turns challenging parents into biggest supporters
• Avoid being closed minded to life changing opportunities
• Heart shifts are needed instead of mind shifts in the school of life.
• Only 12.5% of people are capable of change without these supports
• 90% of complaints come because of these two factors
• The pitfalls of quoting policy to your learning community
• How to share data, warts and all with parents to create curriculum allies

"We need a heart shift before a mind shift." And that's because when people connect with an idea, emotionally, they're moved to action. There's no amount of numbers or logic that can change what somebody thinks, but if they can put themselves in somebody else's shoes, just for a moment, maybe just maybe they'll have an epiphany and want to do what is right.

- Clayton Reedie

 

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Clayton Reedie’s Resources & Contact Info:

• Dual Capacity Building Framework
• Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: 
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Looking for more?

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

 

Show Sponsors

ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC