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Morgan is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, identity theft and privacy. His landmark testimony before Congress on Healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information. He has made hundreds of appearances on national news, radio, print and web, and has spoken to audiences around the world. Previously Morgan was a Senior Advisor in the US State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program and Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the 2012 Republican National Convention. In addition to 18 years in state and local law enforcement, Morgan has developed solutions in defense, justice and intelligence for the largest technology companies in the world.   Morgan Wright Show Highlights:  

• Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness
• Always be inquisitive
• Keys to reading people quickly
• The clarifying questions he asks to get at motivation
• Online, offline, and real-world scenarios that impact our lives
• How to create better passwords
• How to live a more secure and safe life

  Resources   Identity Predators: Win the war against hackers, scammers, and thieves Create better passwords     Nozbe   Tools for titans by Tim Ferriss   Contact Morgan   Morgan on Twitter

 

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Steven Weber is the Associate Superintendent for Teaching & Learning with Fayetteville Public Schools (Arkansas). He was selected as a PDK Emerging Leader and his blogs have been recognized as Top 10 Blogs on ASCD EDge. He was elected as the Vice President of North Carolina PDK and as a board member with North Carolina ASCD. He was a finalist for The BAMMY Award as a curriculum director. Weber has served as a classroom teacher, principal, and curriculum director. He also worked as a curriculum coordinator with the Arkansas Department of Education and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. He is passionate about supporting teachers, administrators, and curriculum leaders. He presents at state and national conferences and engages audiences in conversations that support curriculum design, school transformation, and college and career readiness. Connect with Weber on Twitter at @curriculumblog or ASCD EDge.   Steven Weber Show Highlights:

• Leadership develops over time
• Leadership is about investment
• Outward vs Inward focused leadership
• Favorite leadership investment memories
• Listen more than you talk
• How learning spaces impact teaching and learning
• You can impact learning space without a big budget
• What is the learning target for this classroom … Does this classroom allow students to reach that target?
• Novice principals do you know your teacher voice, student voice, and parent voice?
• We need financial literacy to be college and career readiness
• Provide reflection at the end of meetings and different ways to do that
• Why principals and teachers should join Voxer right now

  Resources   The 360 degree leader: John Maxwell Steven on Twitter Steven on ASCD   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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Joshua Spodek is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., founder of Spodek Academy, and author of Leadership Step by Step (launching February 2017).

He has led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, INSEAD (Singapore), the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA, and studied under a Nobel Prize winner. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents.

He earned praise as “Best and Brightest” (Esquire Magazine’s Genius Issue), “Astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “Rocket Scientist” (ABC News and Forbes) and has been quoted and profiled by ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, and has done burpees every day for six years and counting. He lives in Greenwich Village and blogs daily at www.joshuaspodek.com.

Joshua Spodek Highlights  

• How Joshua moved from Astrophysics to Leadership Guru
• The definition of entrepreneurship and how educators can use entrepreneurial skills
• You can’t help people without understanding who they are
• Put people’s interests before your own
• What Joshua learned from writing over 70 gratitude emails
• Leadership can be taught (in a practical way) and help people be effective
• How leadership is like playing musical scales
• Project Based Learning changed his instruction in college
• Don’t change the people … change the theory
• Go with what works
• People are not tools

Resources   Joshua’s website Joshua’s book & course Joshua’s article mentioned on the show (70 gratitude emails) Joshua on Twitter Science Leadership Academy Educon   Books Getting to Yes   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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Jessica Cabeen has been a Kindergarten Principal in Austin Minnesota for the past 5 years.  Previous to this she was an assistant middle school principal and special education supervisor.  Her teaching career included work in special education and as a music therapist.  She facilitates the Minnesota P3 Principal Leadership series as well the Principal Academy through the University of Minnesota.  She is passionate about leading in the early years and supporting other leaders in gaining balance between the business of school and life.  

Jessica Cabeen Show Highlights

• Leading with joy
• How her understanding of Early Childhood development has formed her understanding of the principalship
• High interest activities you can bring to your early childhood campus today!
• Coding club for Kindergarten
• How to offer amazing experiences even when you are scared or clueless
• What principals need to do to grow into the role
• Feedback can hurt … here’s how to deal with it
• Listen, learn, then lead
• Set boundaries between work and home
• Creating a playkerspace
• You need to blog now

Resources   Strength Finders 2.0   Kids deserve it   Renegade leadership   Starting a movement   Contact   Jessica on Twitter   Jessica on Voxer   Jessica’s blog Do you need accountability? Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Daniel wants to work with you and help you accelerate your leadership development and increase your impact.     

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Ms. West is recognized internationally for her innovative, effective, and cutting edge ideas and proven practices for transforming schools into multi-generational learning communities that thrive in the 21st century. She is uniquely qualified to assist school districts across the country because she has worked at every level of the system from classroom teacher, to building administrator, to curriculum coordinator, to district administrator, and as consultant to urban, suburban, and rural districts.   Lucy West established Metamorphosis TLC after her outstanding run as Director of Mathematics Instruction in New York City’s Community School District 2.   Lucy West Show Highlights

• How theater helped prepare Lucy for a career in education
• Tips to healthy conflict
• How to find out what really is going on ...
• Listen more than you tell!
• The ONLY way to introduce a new initiative
• What are you afraid of?
• Don’t follow a pacing guide … follow the kids
• Contradictions in education
• Coverage vs Depth
• The power of content-focused coaching

Resources   Content focused coaching: Transforming mathematics   Agents of change   Crucial accountability   Influencers   Connect with Lucy   Lucy’s website   Follow Lucy on Twitter   Lucy on LinkedIn   Lucy on YouTube   Lucy on FB Do you need accountability? Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Daniel wants to work with you and help you accelerate your leadership development and increase your impact.     

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Adam in his eighth year as an educator. After four years of teaching, he moved into a principal position. Now in his fourth year, Adam is the principal for grades 6 through 12 at Renaissance Academy in VA Beach. He is currently working on his dissertation at the College of William and Mary, Adam has dedicated his career to reaching and empowering all students. Adam is a 2014 American Educational Research Association 'Emerging Scholar', 2016 ASCD 'Emerging Leader', and 2016 ASCD Influence Leader. Adam is a presenter and currently blogs for Corwin Press, ASCD, and Edu-Rise.org. A student of leadership, Adam seeks to improve and learn from the world around him.

Show Highlights

• How his parents influenced his career path
• Avoid servant leadership mistakes
• Mr Belding as a model for a principal
• What it’s like to take over a new building
• Systems that support open communication
• Adam’s dissertation on burnout
• How becoming an ASCD Emerging Leader impacted his leadership
• Prioritization
• 3 ways to find time to read and develop

Resources   Adaptive Schools    Procrastinate on purpose    12 week year   Essentialism   Mindset   Leadership and the new science    5 dysfunctions of a team   Good to great   Connect   Adam on Twitter   Email Adam Do you need accountability? Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Daniel wants to work with you and help you accelerate your leadership development and increase your impact.     

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An experienced educator who has led a number of private institutions for nearly 30 years, Jim Power has been named the 13th Head of Schools of Culver Academies.   Culver Academies is a college preparatory boarding high school comprised of Culver Military Academy (founded in 1894) and Culver Girls Academy (1971). The Academies’ enrollment consists of 800 students from 38 states and 23 countries. The Academies’ also operate the Culver Summer Schools & Camps, a six-week program with 1,400 youth ages 9 to 17.   Prior to his position at Culver Academies , Power served as principal Principal of Upper Canada College in Toronto, and Headmaster of Georgetown Preparatory School near Washington, D.C. He also served in such roles as an English teacher, coach, Assistant Director of Admissions, English Department Chair, Dean of Students, and Academic Dean at the Pomfret School in Connecticut.   During his tenure at UCC, Power served as President of the Board of the Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB), and as a trustee of the International Coalition of Boys Schools and of the Canadian Educational Standards Committee. He was a Klingenstein Visiting Heads Fellowship participant in 2003. Recognized for his years of distinguished service as a head of school, Power serves on the faculty of the Institute for New Heads of the National Association of Independent Schools and wrote a chapter, “The Administrative Team,” for The Head’s Handbook: A Guide for Aspiring, New, and Experienced Heads of School.   Power holds a BA in English from the College of the Holy Cross. His work toward the degree included one year at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He also was awarded a Master of Arts Degree from Boston College in English and a doctorate (Ed.D.) from Boston University in Educational Leadership.   Dr. Jim Power Show Highlights

• How a lack of an imagination 
• The power of mentorship
• Respect people’s pies of energy
• How to develop character in students (and how boarding schools do it)
• Why language is so important to a school/student identity
• Model difficult conversations
• School leaders need two things: wisdom and courage
• Hard conversations never get easy 
• Religious schools teach character better, but not because of theology
• Listen. Listen. Listen.

Resources

7 habits of highly effective people   Drive   The human side of school change   To serve them all my days   Contact Dr. Jim Power   Email Jim   Do you need accountability? Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Daniel wants to work with you and help you accelerate your leadership development and increase your impact.     

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Suzanne Mitchell is in her 4th year as principal of Selma Elementary in North Carolina. In 2015, She was the Johnston County Principal of the Year.   Suzanne Mitchell contributed to the epic blog post on staff appreciation where she shares a variety of incredible ways to honor your staff. We get into her tips for appreciating staff and so much more in this episode. Finally, I consider Suzanne a friend and she adds so much value as a weekly mastermind member.   Highlights:

• How a long line of educators influenced her career choices
• Tips to celebrating staff and her Directors of WOW
• How she went from hiring 25 teachers one year to 20 the next and then solving the turnover problem (hired only 6 teachers last year)
• Connect teachers to why they got into the profession
• Work a system to be in the Top 5 of student growth
• Don’t believe everything you hear
• Failure is an opportunity to reflect and learn
• Leverage your leadership team to hold yourself accountable as principal
• Be true to yourself or risk being fake
• Powerful PD: Walk & Learn

Resources & Connect

  Staff Appreciation Ideas blog post with a super-star contribution from Suzanne Mitchell!   Voxer   The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell   Crucial Conversations   Twitter: @SuzanneReads Do you need accountability? Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Daniel wants to work with you and help you accelerate your leadership development and increase your impact.     

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Chyla Weaver is one of my closest friends and is married to D'Andre Weaver (guest on Episode 001 of the show). She has a ton of wisdom and is currently a principal in Houston Texas.   Chyla Weaver Show Highlights:

• True collaborative style of leadership
• Trust & support = BIG impact
• Buy-in vs Ownership
• Benefits of "Staying a teacher" as a school leader
• 2 tips - prioritize & delegate
• How to achieve balance at home

Resources

Leverage leadership: Paul Bambrick-Santoyo

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Professional Development Agent Pete Hall, 12-year veteran school principal on sabbatical, proudly offers professional development experiences, workshops, mentoring support, keynote addresses, and other educational consulting services full-time. After a teaching career that spanned three states and included primary, intermediate, and middle-school positions, Mr. Hall served as principal of Anderson Elementary School in Reno, Nevada. When he took over Anderson Elementary in 2002, it was the only school in Nevada to have failed to make AYP for four consecutive years. Two short years later, it was the only Title I school in the state of Nevada to earn “High Achieving” designation. Subsequently, he served as the principal of Sheridan Elementary, a Title I school in Spokane, which earned accolades from the Washington State Office of the Superintendent for its growth and achievement, and as principal of Shaw Middle, another Title I school in Spokane, which earned recognition for its college & career readiness indicators and growth.

Pete Hall Show Highlights

• His style of “building capacity” and how he does it ...
• What he learned from his 28 page School Improvement Plan
• Leave it to your team to create the plan for where your school is going
• How Pete builds trust with his people
• The 4 step reflective cycle Pete created
• Pete’s creative process for writing
• The question you must ask yourself as a leader, “What are you focused on?"
• We need something for trauma-informed instruction
• How to maintain relationships with people different than us
• What do we want our kids to be like when they leave?
• Read something non-professional to be more human

Resources

The principal influence Fostering resilient learners Teach, reflect, learn Building teachers’ capacity for success   Contact Pete   Contact Pete on Twitter   Email Pete     Do you need accountability? Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Daniel wants to work with you and help you accelerate your leadership development and increase your impact.     

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