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Eric Barker’s humorous, practical blog, Barking Up the Wrong Tree, presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. Over 290,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter and his content is syndicated by Time Magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Financial Times. With a writing career spanning over 20 years, Eric is also a sought-after speaker and interview subject, and has been invited to speak at MIT, Yale, West Point, the University of Pennsylvania, NPR affiliates, and on morning television. His first book, Barking Up The Wrong Tree, will be released by HarperCollins on May 16th.   "The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” - William Gibson   Eric Barker Show Highlights

• Why extroverts aren’t better leaders
• How a focus on research with a touch of warmth and emotion amplified his influence
• Technology is a tool
• 5 questions that will make you emotionally strong
• The benefits of meditation 
• How Stoicism can help you make better choices
• Do you think enough about your thoughts? You can change those!
• Why you should frame challenges as a game
• The story of starting Barking Up the Wrong Tree
• Are the maxims we here even true (e.g. nice guys finish last)
• Filtered vs unfiltered leaders
• Gratitude will make you awesome at life

  Eric Barker Resources   Eric’s blog   Barking up the wrong tree (the book)   5 questions that will make you emotionally strong  

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In today’s show, Danny “Sunshine” Bauer, host of Better Leaders Better Schools shares some of attitude of gratitude hacks with the listeners. These are tips and tricks to develop a more positive mindset and outlook which the listener can implement today.   Show Highlights:  

• What is the "Awesome Jar” and how to make one
• Why you should start journaling today
• How to complete a 5 minute journal
• Practicing "Loving kindness” meditation
• 20+ ways to appreciate staff
• The “Daily Practice”
• “Secret System” of How to Achieve More in 12 Weeks Than Most People Do in an Entire Year
• The power of masterminds

  Show Resources:   Sign up for the FREE "Secret System" Webby here   Join the Mastermind   Contact Danny   312-788-7595   Anywhere on social media: @alienearbud

 

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Jethro Jones is the host of the Transformative Principal podcast, founder of the Transformative Leadership Summit, and Principal of Kodiak Middle School.   Jethro Jones Show Notes  

• How Jethro defines the “School experience.”
• 34 initiatives in 3 years ...
• Great Question >>> From the Teacher experience what do we want to Start? Stop? Continue?
• 4 areas of the school experience.
• What he’s most proud of & what he wished he accomplished at Kodiak Middle 
• Relationships are most important to your school success.

  Jethro Jones Resources   Transformative Principal    Jethro’s Ideal Week Resource   Transformative Leadership Summit    Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss   Jethro on Twitter

 

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Jennifer considers herself a “voice coach,” helping others learn how to best use their voices – be it collaborating on a team, presenting in front of an audience, coaching a colleague, supervising an employee.   Jennifer has been recognized as one of “18 Women All K-12 Educators Need to Know” by Education Week’s “Finding Common Ground” blog, and the International Academy of Educational Entrepreneurship’s 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year.   Jennifer’s publications include Having Hard Conversations, The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicating, Collaborating & Creating Community and Hard Conversations Unpacked – the Whos, the Whens and the What Ifs   Jennifer Abrams initially was my guest on EP036   Jennifer Abrams Show Highlights:

• How schools encourage "get out" thinking and acting?
• How to make different choices in their work
• What the shift from teaching to leading in school requires
• Why pushing and wanting to be fixed is the problem
• Here is how to grow adults
• Playing in the deep end of the pool
• What is collective efficacy?
• What the Ministry of Education learned from talking to their principals
• Jennifer’s process for writing
• Why "slowing down” and "don’t push” is unhelpful

  Jennifer Abrams's Resources: Jennifer’s website (and get the newsletter) Farnam Street Blog Shane Parrish Conference? Tell me so I can hear you (book)  How the way we talk can change the way we work Global dexterity Hard conversations unpacked   Contact Twitter Contact Jennifer for a free consultation    

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Adrian J. (AJ) DeLeón is a first-generation college graduate whose passion to achieve equity and excellence for students has guided his professional career. In his work, AJ is always willing to learn new tactics and work with others to design creative solutions to the challenges they face. His work has proven to him that by investing in people and promoting new ideas in organizations, sustainable social change will occur.

After serving in several strategic roles at the district level of Chicago Public Schools -- including project manager, where he helped define the key performance indicators of the departments that encompassed the office that supports college readiness in the district -- AJ decided to become an EP Fellow. He wanted to combine his skills in teaching, data analysis, staff development, change management, and strategic planning to accelerate student achievement.

AJ currently advises a range of leaders from principals, nonprofit and school systems' leaders, to his own organization’s CEO in his current position as the Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer with the CSC Consulting Group.

AJDeLeón Show Highlights  

• What does contrast really mean?
• Where AJ developed his natural curiosity.
• How to become an Activator of Change.
• Don’t just sit at the table & join the convo … change the seating arrangement.
• AJ’s love for developing people & how admiration motivates people.
• Why you should “feel the wrath” of asking the question no one wants to ask.
• The problem without being fully authentic.
• Tactics for becoming authentic.
• Know yourself & invite others into the process.
• The story of starting the CSC Consulting Group

  AJDeLeón Resources   CSC Consulting Group website   What got you here won’t get you there by Marshall Goldsmith   AJ on Twitter   312-857-6727   Email AJ  

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Dr. Allen Pratt has served as a high school science teacher and coach, a high school principal, assistant superintendent/curriculum director, executive director of the Tennessee Rural Education Association, executive director of the East Tennessee Center of Regional Excellence for the Tennessee Department of Education, and rural outreach liaison for Lincoln Memorial University. His primary interests are those issues which impact rural schools and the role of instructional leaders at the district and building levels. He is also involved at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Education and Educational Leadership.   Show Highlights

• What Allen learned about PLCs in a rural area through his dissertation
• What Teddy Roosevelt teaches us about servant leadership
• The biggest challenges rural schools face
• Develop people based on strengths and diversity
• Pick the underdog and watch him grow
• Hard copy and computer everything
• Systems help you succeed
• Slow down. Schools don’t change in 6 weeks.
• Do we have a MS / HS program aligned to the workforce?

  Resources   School culture rewired by Steven Gruenert and Todd Whitaker   Email Allen

 

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Kyle Wagner is the founder and lead consultant for Transform Educational Consulting, an organization that empowers school leaders to lead change and improve student learning through simple, innovative strategies and teaming structures. He is also the former Coordinator of Futures Academy at the International School of Beijing, a program that uses interdisciplinary project- based learning to connect students to their passions and the world outside of school. His book "The Power of SIMPLE" documents this experience and helps provide simple, research- based strategies for school transformation. Kyle is also a former educator at High Tech High, the school featured on the hit documentary “Most Likely to Succeed.” He holds a M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership with a thesis that focuses on developing democratic classrooms and distributed leadership models. When not writing or teaching, he is performing with his original band, participating in karaoke contests and traveling the world with his partner. He currently resides in San Diego, California where he spends time developing schools of the future while helping other school leaders build theirs.   Kyle Wagner Show Highlights

• Which super-hero would play Kyle in real life.
• The “explore-possibilities" style of leadership
• Leadership needs to be personalized
• Great questions are connected to people’s most desired outcomes
• How to meet people where they’re at to lead effectively
• What Kyle learned from leaving an incredible job at High Tech High to jump into the unknown in China
• The paradox and freedom from removing yourself from everyone you know
• Smaller system = greater innovation
• Designing a mission that is authentic
• Don’t post your mission; show your mission (when it’s played out)
• Leadership is taking people from where they are at and taking them one step further

  Kyle Wagner Resources   Kyle on Twitter Kyle’s website The power of simple by Kyle Wagner Brett Wagner’s band: Emersen Adaptive school trainings Made to stick by The Heath brothers Xlr8 by John Kotter Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros  

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Glenn Robbins is the proud Superintendent at the Tabernacle Township School District. His passion is harnessing a school culture that thrives on design thinking skills, innovative digital spaces, BYOD/1to1, and Makerspaces. In addition, Glenn encourages all students to have a voice, not only in building a school culture but also in designing student-led courses. He was named as a 2016 Digital Principal of the Year by NASSP for exhibiting bold, creative leadership in his drive to harness the potential of new technologies to further learning goals for staff, students, and the school community. Glenn led his former school to become the first school in New Jersey history to receive the 2016 SETDA Student Voices Award, which honors an outstanding K-12 school or district that has leveraged technology to dramatically improve the educational experiences and achievement of their students.   Glenn has been recognized by numerous organizations for his innovative technology implementation methods and has been a featured speaker at numerous events across the globe. His extensive travels to various schools across the globe have helped to diversify his views on education and implement new instructional methods to better both students and staff. By empowering students and staff to have a growth mindset through design thinking, while implementing digital tools, we can better prepare them to be agile, flexible and adaptive, towards the profound shifts that they will encounter in life.   Glenn Robbins Show Highlights

• How passion and empathy led to a career in education.
• How to build people up and add value to their lives.
• Leaders create climate every day.
• Understand that people have bad days. Learn how to respect.
• Check your ego at the door.
• Together is better.
• Innovative ways to use technology
• Record your projects and how you make a difference in others’ lives
• The shift from Principal to Superintendent
• Mindfulness in schools

  Resources Ego is the enemy & The obstacle is the way both by Ryan Holiday Rework by Fried & Hansson Meetings suck by Cameron Herold 12 week year by Brian Moran   Connect Email Twitter Medium The Connected Lead Learner  

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“Boy is retarded,” reads the top of Dr. Stephen Sroka’s third-grade report card. In ES, he was mocked for having a crossed eye and a speech impediment. He was crippled in a HS fight. Doctors said, “ Listen to your teachers.” The more he listened, the smarter the teachers became. His HS counselor told him that he didn’t have the IQ to go to college, but he didn’t know that Steve had the WILL. (Today it is called GRIT.) He learned to live with the gifts of ADHD and dyslexia. He went from the “projects” to being inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He was awarded The Walt Disney American Outstanding Teacher of Health and Physical Education, and has been on Oprah and covered in USA TODAY. He travels the world striving to reach, elevate and inspire with The Power of One message. After a cardiac arrest, he realized that The Power of One was not enough. He needed The Power of Many. We all do. He always did, he just didn’t know it. He does now.   Stephen Sroka Show Highlights:  

• How educators saved his life … twice
• The power of grit
• Build morale by recognizing teachers for the Teacher Hall of Fame
• Start with the heart to get to the head
• The Power of One and The Power of Many
• What dying in front of 800 people taught him
• My body … my choice …
• The importance of saying “Thanks"
• The 4 Cs of Relationships
• Warrior Aura
• The best gift to give your staff (or SO)

  Resources National Teachers Hall of Fame Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman     Connect Stephen on Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Website  

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Jon is currently the assistant principal at Sandy Hill Elementary School in Cambridge, Maryland. This is his sixth year serving as an assistant principal at the elementary level. Prior to becoming an administrator, he served as a Math Coach and an elementary school teacher. During his ten years as a classroom teacher, he taught first, second, fourth and fifth grades. During his sixth year teaching, he earned Nationally Board Certification, which he held for ten years. For seven years he ran a Young Gentleman's Cub that was aimed at helping young men reach their full potential.  

Jon received a B.A. from Furman University while majoring in Philosophy. He later went on to earn his B.S from Salisbury University while majoring in Elementary Education. Jon was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to student teach in New Zealand. He eventually received his M.A. degree from Salisbury University in Public School Administration.  

Jon is the host of the education podcast, "My BAD."

Jon lives in Cambridge, Maryland with his amazing wife and two awesome children.

Jon Harper Show Highlights

• How no idea of what he wanted to do led to education
• Jon’s “Have Fun” style of leadership
• The power of apologies
• 29 times out of 30 …
• The story of starting My Bad, Jon’s podcast
• Jon’s morning routine for success
• Anything. Anytime.
• The obstacle is the way

  Jon Harper Resources   Jon’s podcast: My Bad   Miracle morning by Hal Elrod   Deep work by Cal Newport   Meditation vs Detention article   Jon’s "Anything Anytime” article     The obstacle is the way by Ryan Holiday   Jon on Twitter    Jon’s Voxer handle: jharpe3658   Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Create winning cultures Focus on the essential Lead with courage & integrity 

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