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Crystal is the founder of LeadingUp Consulting, a consulting firm based in North Carolina focused on advancing student achievement by strengthening teachers and school leaders. Crystal is a 25-year veteran of North Carolina schools and universities – serving in multiple roles from teacher to Principal to course instructor of Elementary Education at North Carolina State University. Prior to her career in education, Crystal also served in the United States Air Force.   In her free time, Crystal loves to run and work out, especially with her big goofy dog, Cooper. Crystal and her husband love to travel when she’s not spending time with their son, Matthew, a junior at East Carolina University.   "You get the best out of others, when you give the best of yourself.”   -Harvey Firestone   Crystal Scillitani Show Highlights

• How to act with honor and integrity
• The importance of family outside of biological families
• Taking care of one another
• Noticing people and developing future leaders
• You get the best out of others, when you give the best of yourself
• Leadership … being a part of the solution.
• Seeing people as people
• Stay off your phone for the first hour of every day
• Are you volunteering?
• What are you doing for rest?
• Surround yourself with competent people
• Being too quick in the decision making process is a mistake to avoid

  Crystal Scillitani Resources:   Leading Up Consulting   Give & Take    Scrum   22 Best Books for School Leaders      Show Some Love

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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/

 

Mastery Leadership Institute

Have you ever thought, “Educators are great at collecting data — but how do teachers use that data in real time?”

• This Mastery Leadership Institute is an intensive, three-day professional development retreat facilitated by nationally recognized principals.
• Educators will be immersed in full-day workshops focused on strategies to effectively use data to target interventions, personalize learning, and evaluate instructional efficacy.
• Attendees are part of a dedicated cohort  that will meet in monthly coaching sessions with other like-minded educators from across the country.
• Transform the data culture in your school and get your teachers using data in just two days, with proven strategies like the 48-hour Challenge.
• True school transformation is only possible when educators are empowered to use the data they collect to immediately impact teaching and learning.
• Learn more about the Mastery Leadership Institute including upcoming dates and locations here.

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David’s background includes five years as a successful grant writer totalling over $2.2 million in wins. He has written several winning applications for nearly every prestigious business award in Alberta.   Prior to Alberta Business Grants, David worked for four years at the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a finance research analyst and executive assistant to the leader of the official opposition. He has taught political science students at the University of British Columbia, Wilfrid Laurier University, Grant MacEwan University, and the University of New Brunswick. David speaks enough French to get by and holds a Master's degree in Canadian Politics specializing in media and public opinion.   David is a member of the Edmonton Sunrise Rotary Club and plays recreational hockey. As a member of Aaron Walker's Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind (www.viewfromthetop.com), David is committed to living a life of success and significance in his community.   David Kincade Show Highlights

• How David got started with grants
• Grants = following the money
• 3 areas of education grant funding
• How Rotary clubs fund schools
• The secret to leadership and grant funding is the same … relationships
• Connect businesses + politicians
• Why would corporations want to fund an agriculture project?
• 3 steps to finding a grant
• Grants love to support bold & innovative
• Grants are called everything except “Grant”

  David Kincade Resources   Studying Efficiently and Effectively http://www.breakfastclubcanada.org/school-corner/apply-for-a-grant/   David’s Website    Email David   Call David: 780-297-6177   Show Some Love

• BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH
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  Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn 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/

 

Mastery Leadership Institute

Have you ever thought, “Educators are great at collecting data — but how do teachers use that data in real time?”

• This Mastery Leadership Institute is an intensive, three-day professional development retreat facilitated by nationally recognized principals.
• Educators will be immersed in full-day workshops focused on strategies to effectively use data to target interventions, personalize learning, and evaluate instructional efficacy.
• Attendees are part of a dedicated cohort  that will meet in monthly coaching sessions with other like-minded educators from across the country.
• Transform the data culture in your school and get your teachers using data in just two days, with proven strategies like the 48-hour Challenge.
• True school transformation is only possible when educators are empowered to use the data they collect to immediately impact teaching and learning.
• Learn more about the Mastery Leadership Institute including upcoming dates and locations here.

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Eleni Theodorou is an Anti-Bullying Educator and children’s author. She holds a bachelor’s and honor’s degree in psychology from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and a master’s degree in sports psychology from Capella University in the United States.

Born and raised in South Africa, she currently lives in the United States where she teaches children the Art of Compassion through her tales and her accompanying multi-sensory anti-bullying program called

“Noko’s Culture Of Compassion Campaign”. Her program is currently being integrated into the school curriculum by various Boards of Education in New Jersey with exciting and lasting results.

Eleni Theodorou is also a dedicated volunteer to special needs children, senior citizens, and animal shelters and is an actively involved in community-focused endeavors.

 

Eleni Theodorou Show Highlights:

• The power of pets and their connection to our family
• How Eleni inadvertently got involved in anti-bullying campaign
• Eleni’s immersive experience via the Culture of Compassion Campaign
• Using cognitive flexibility in understanding bullying
• The “tough love” advice Eleni’s mom gave her
• Success doesn’t come overnight
• You always have the power of choice
• The power of diet on our emotions

“If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me.”

-Eleni Theodorou

 

Eleni Theodorou Contact Info

• Website
• Twitter (@NokoTheKnight)
• Facebook

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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/

 

Mastery Leadership Institute

Have you ever thought, “Educators are great at collecting data — but how do teachers use that data in real time?”

 

• This Mastery Leadership Institute is an intensive, three-day professional development retreat facilitated by nationally recognized principals.
• Educators will be immersed in full-day workshops focused on strategies to effectively use data to target interventions, personalize learning, and evaluate instructional efficacy.
• Attendees are part of a dedicated cohort  that will meet in monthly coaching sessions with other like-minded educators from across the country.
• Transform the data culture in your school and get your teachers using data in just two days, with proven strategies like the 48-hour Challenge.
• True school transformation is only possible when educators are empowered to use the data they collect to immediately impact teaching and learning.
• Learn more about the Mastery Leadership Institute including upcoming dates and locations here.

 

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Dan Kreiness is a middle school instructional coach in Derby, Connecticut. Before acquiring this position in the fall of 2015, Dan helped create the intervention program at Derby Middle School as the Reading Interventionist. Dan began his teaching career by spending nearly eight years in the New York City Department of Education as an eighth grade English language arts teacher, academic intervention specialist, and middle-level literacy coach. Dan holds masters degrees in adolescent education and educational leadership and is currently a doctoral student in the field of educational leadership.   Dan is emerging as an expert presenter at education conferences, trainings, and EdCamps on topics including leadership, growth mindset, student engagement, various instructional technologies, augmented and virtual reality for education, and using social media in education. Dan is the creator of the Leader of Learning podcast. His specific educational interests include leadership, educational technology, and student engagement. He is an ASCD Emerging Leader. He is also a Google Certified Educator, Nearpod Pionear, Flipgrid Ambassador and Hoonuit Learning Ambassador. Dan will also soon have a chapter published in the upcoming EduMatch Snapshot: 2017 book on transformational leadership and growth mindset.   Dan Kreiness Show Highlights

• The story behind starting the Leader of Learning podcast
• Leading without labels
• Helping people feel the need for change
• Challenges are merely opportunities
• Studying the link between transformational leadership + growth mindset
• No one person can change another … until they want to change
• Know where you want to go

  Dan Kreiness Resources   Dan’s website (and podcast)   Dan on Twitter   Switch   Lead from the Heart   Show Some Love

• BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH
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  Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn 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/

SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING

• Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check
• Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling
• Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing.
• SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.

  Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools

Stefanie's graduate degree from New York University, and fieldwork at the NYU Phelps Lab for Neuroscience Research, NYU Institute for Prevention Science, and Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine focused on the cross-section of neuroscience, resilience and social justice. She combines a decade plus of counseling and teaching in schools and organizations across the US, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Africa, with insights gained from science research and training in monasteries with meditation and mindfulness teachers from Africa, the US, Vietnam and India. She now offers neuroscience workshops and consulting to universities and businesses such as Illinois State University, City Colleges of Chicago, the Chicago Teachers Union, Northwestern University's School of Education & Social Policy, Google, HPI Design School in Berlin, and school districts throughout the US, UK and Canada.   Stefanie Frank Show Highlights

• Don’t let people feel broken
• How to spark aha moments in students?
• Self-directed neuroplasticity
• Behaviors change based on the adult in the room
• We learn expectations. We’re not born with them
• Survival of the busiest in our mind
• Micromovement and Microprogress
• Polyvagal Theory & Stephen Porges 
• Creating safety for students through connection and trust
• Behaviorism is bad science for schools
• Connection is the key to success with students and staff
• Prevention vs Intervention
• The one thing that matters MOST in every relationship
• An amazing elevator strategy for visualization
• How to internalize a growth mindset

  Stefanie Frank Resources   Stefanie’s website   Stefanie’s LinkedIn Profile   Search Inside Yourself   Show Some Love

• BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH
• DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!
• LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW

  Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn   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/

SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING

• Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check
• Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling
• Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing.
• SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.

  Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools

Mr Corey M. Christman serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Vethos, LLC - a Human Capital Leadership and executive strategy firm.  He’s a retired Supervisory Special Agent, United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Since retiring in 2012, he’s worked within the veteran advocacy space and is currently partnered with several key leaders to raise awareness for mental/behavioral health for first responders – nationwide.

He’s a professionally trained winemaker, he works within the Finger Lakes wine region of New York State and he will be launching his own veteran/first responder focused wine label in 2017.

He’s the recipient of numerous awards for leadership, human resource management and innovation.  In 2017, he completed the Executive Leadership Program, Cornell University, and he holds an MBA in entrepreneurship and BA in Criminal Justice.

Corey Christman first appeared in Episode 101, “Do you understand the value of others” on the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast.

 

Corey Christman Show Highlights:

• Corey’s background in the military
• Tips for making local school communities safer and what we can do
• How to expand on physical security measures
• Start with recognition and observation
• Bring in local law enforcement for indicators  can look for and what to do
• Go all in on educating your school community
• Building situational awareness and providing a system to process the information
• We need a new “normal”

Corey Christman Resources:

 

• Never split the difference

 

Corey Christman Contact Info

• Corey’s website
• Email Corey
• Connect on LinkedIn
• Connect on Twitter

 

FREE Webinar on School Safety

June 5th. 10 am Eastern / 9 am Central / 7 am Pacific

Register for FREE here.

 

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• BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH
• DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!
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Join my hybrid group coaching

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Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444

 

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Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn

 

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/

 

SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING

• Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check
• Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling
• Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing.
• SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.

 

Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools

Patty Alper is a board member of both the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and US2020, the White House initiative to build mentorship in STEM careers. Drawn from her 15 years of mentoring inner-city high-school students, her proven Project Based Mentorship model provides an intuitive and scalable way to transform education inside high schools, community colleges, universities, and after-school programs. She is also the author of the new book TEACH TO WORK: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America (Taylor & Francis; 2017).   Patty Apler Show Highlights

• The perceptions of the skills gap
• What can be done with the skills gap?
• Whose responsibility is it?
• What is this new culture of innovation?
• Can corporations align better with schools?
• What would a partnership look like?
• Google’s culture of innovation
• How can we best prepare kids for the future?
• Examples of projects that students have completed
• Where to find mentors

Patty Alper Resources   Teach to Work (book)    Teach to Work (website)   Never Split the Difference   Show Some Love

• BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH
• DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!
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  Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn 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/

SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING

• Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check
• Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling
• Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing.
• SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.

  Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools

Missy is the Director of Innovation at a regional service agency in Wisconsin and the Educational Administration Program Coordinator at the University Wisconsin-Platteville. When engaging in conversations with Missy, her energy and enthusiasm for learning are contagious. She is a relentless advocate for school leaders and their learning needs as they maneuver their way through this time of massive change in education.

“I’m not asking you to change; I’m asking you to learn.”

-Missy Emler

Missy Emler Show Highlights:

• Compliance is detrimental to the learning process
• The best thing a school leader can say
• The Modern Learning Lense
• Improving equity on your campus
• What do we do about the test?
• Assessment means to make more sense
• How do we talk about the impact of testing for students?
• Use students to tell your story via social media
• Asking the question signals the expectation

Missy Emler Resources:

• And what do you mean by learning?
• 7 Strategies to Win the War on Learning

Missy Emler Contact Info

• Modern Learners Website
• Modern Learners Podcast
• Insta

“Asking the question signals the expectation”

-Missy Emler

Show Some Love

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Join my hybrid group coaching

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Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders

Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above.

Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn

 

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/

SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING

• Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check
• Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling
• Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing.
• SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.

 

Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools

Phillip Carson, the Director of Pharmacy services for Priority Care and President of Carson Natural Health, LLC is a Pharmacist who thinks outside the box of traditional medicine. He believes in helping people find natural alternatives and integrative medicine solutions to their health problems.  He is committed to leading people to finding the root cause of their health problems and not just treating the symptoms. Phillip is passionate about encouraging and teaching people how to live more balanced, healthier and vibrant lives.  He believes in equipping people with the knowledge to make the right choices for optimal health.   Phillip Carson originally starred on Episode 44   Phillip Carson Show Highlights

• How to live a balanced life as a leader
• The warning signs are there … don’t ignore them
• Keys to better sleep
• NEWSSSS (Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sleep, Supplements, Soul, and Spirit)
• Phil’s Mastermind is the reason he wrote a book
• Functional medicine and getting to the root of a problem
• Evaluating wellness centers

  “The purpose of life is not to be happy, it’s to be useful, honorable, passionate, to have made some difference that you have lived and lived well." -Ralph Waldo Emerson   Phillip Carson Resources   How to Live Until You Die   Carson Natural Health   F.lux   Show Some Love

• BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH
• DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!
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  Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn 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/

SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING

• Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check
• Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling
• Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing.
• SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.

Adam Welcome is currently a Director of Innovation and Technology, and former Elementary Principal for six years. Adam also taught elementary school for seven years and set up one of the first GAFE domains in his county. Adam was Principal of the Year for his ACSA region, a 20 To Watch for the National School Board Association, guest blogger for EdWeek, NAESP magazine, ACSA and also writes his own blog. Adam also consults and works with many education technology companies as a way to improve their product for others!    Adam is passionate about technology integration with all educators and a huge advocate of social media and connecting with other educators from across the country. Adam makes it clear that kids come first and has preached the message of Team Kid for many years. Adam believes leaders should stand on the tables, ride tricycles and do whatever it takes to connect with kids!    He is also the co-founder of Kids Deserve It with Todd Nesloney and there book is currently on Amazon for order.    Adam has an amazing wife (Stacy) and two young children (Greta and Tilden) that keep life at home exciting and active.   Adam Welcome Show Highlights

• What to do with the haters …
• Your barometer should be kids (awesome / not awesome)
• The power of being “un-principal”
• "You need a life!” Do you have one?
• Do something today with your kids they don’t expect
• Some of the worst advice Adam received as a principal
• Do what you are great at and let others do the rest
• The story of starting Kids Deserve It
• Why he chose “Suffer” as his one-word for 2017
• Find you passion to connect with outside of school 

  Adam Welcome Resources   Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals   Ego is the Enemy … send to Adam (ask permission)   Kids Deserve It (the book)   Kids Deserve It (podcast) on iTunes   Kids Deserve It Twitter chat: 6 pm PST every Wednesday   Adam on Twitter   Help Adam raise $100,000 for homeless students   Show Some Love

• BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH
• DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!
• LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW

  Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn SHOW SPONSORS: SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING •Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check •Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling •Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing. •SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.   Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools