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

Better Leaders Better Schools guest Karine Veldhoen, M. Ed. is the founder of Learn Forward and a creative force in education. She’s also the Chief Learning Officer at Willowstone Academy, the CEO/Founder of Niteo Africa, a former Education Consultant for Fresh Grade and a modern day Learn Forward represents a lifetime of her professional study, action research, and meaning-making within the context of education.

Driven by her passion for making a difference in the lives of others, Karine’s been exploring the most important journeys of children through serving as the Chief Learning Officer at Willowstone Academy for the last 10 years and as an educator for over 20 years. In her talks about the transformation of education, she emphasizes the importance of cultivating a connection between school and home and uses the Table of
Learning as a metaphor for where we can begin.     In this episode you will learn:

• Power of being a learner
• Don’t take things so personally
• How to frame experiences in healthy ways
• Power of letting go
• The story of starting Learn Forward
• The 5 most important journeys of a child
• Brutal honesty + trust
• How to invite practice into your community
• Self-care
• Vision building
• How to get on the same page as a couple

  Resources   Learn Forward   The Courage to Teach   The Artist’s Way   Touchstones (free) resource   On Being   Connect with Karine ...   on Twitter   on LinkedIn   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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

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KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by:

• Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs
• Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers
• Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time

Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact.

What Great Educators Do Differently

This conference hosts professional learning and networking events for educators serving in teaching and leadership roles. The next WGEDD conference is October 14 and 15 in beautiful Kansas City, MO. The conference is a two-day eventsfeaturing world class learning and presenters such as Todd Whitaker, Pernille Ripp, George Couros, Kenneth Williams, Tom Murray, Joe Sanfelippo, Angela Maiers, LaVonna Roth, Garnet Hillman, Shannon McClintock Miller, and Erin Klein to name a few.

 

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 Today is another Mini-Monday episode ... 32 to be exact.

I discuss the last two chapters of Creativity, Inc.

Show Highlights:

• Lessons learned from a Disney-Pixar merger
• What does your office say about you?
• Get great results (with the same staff)
• How to run notes day
• The key question that drove the solutions of Notes Day

Resource

Creativity, Inc.

 

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KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by:

• Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs
• Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers
• Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time

Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact.

What Great Educators Do Differently

This conference hosts professional learning and networking events for educators serving in teaching and leadership roles. The next WGEDD conference is October 14 and 15 in beautiful Kansas City, MO. The conference is a two-day eventsfeaturing world class learning and presenters such as Todd Whitaker, Pernille Ripp, George Couros, Kenneth Williams, Tom Murray, Joe Sanfelippo, Angela Maiers, LaVonna Roth, Garnet Hillman, Shannon McClintock Miller, and Erin Klein to name a few.

 

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Greg is the founder of Coachwell, Inc. and author of The Enemies of Excellence.   For over a decade Greg has coached and consulted leaders to realize their goals and improve their lives. Greg directs the Coachwell team and inspires team members to pursue excellence as an example to others. Coachwell’s mission is to develop positive results by inspiring excellence through professional coaching, certification and coaching systems. Greg lives in Central Oregon with his family where he enjoys the great outdoors. When Greg is not serving leaders, he ski’s at Mt. Bachelor, rides mountain bikes, and hikes with family and friends.   Show Highlights  

• Coaches and their message of importance of character
• The definition of character and how you match them with your life
• The problem with not listening
• Greg’s defining moment and when his wife said “I’m done …"
• How to actively listen
• Why do leaders fail?
• How ego hurts leaders and what that leads to
• Wisdom of Proverbs 18:1
• The antidote to failure and how to sustain your success
• Are you using a pre-scheduled calendar?
• What to look for in a core group
• Tips for planning

  Resources   The Enemies of excellence   Living forward   The 5 dysfunctions of a team   The advantage   Connect   Greg’s email   Greg on Twitter   Greg’s website     "Excellence is not a destination, it’s a journey ..."   -Greg Salciccioli     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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

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KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by:

• Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs
• Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers
• Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time

Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact.

Audbile: Try over 180,000 titles on any smart device or computer.  I've downloaded and enjoyed books by Charles Duhigg, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk so far.

     

 

Today I'm releasing a bonus episode ...

In my masterminds for school leaders we read an excellent leadership book each month and it bothers me that listeners miss the valuable insights from the books because I have limited availability in the masterminds.

So I decided to experiment ... in this show I share a few ideas around some impactful ideas from the book we read this July: Creativity, Inc.

Show highlights:

• honesty vs candor
• how Pixar delivers feedback through the Braintrust
• what "good notes" are
• how Pixar's feedback system is different than yours
• Braintrusts and Masterminds

Thanks for listening!

Books mentioned in the episode:

Creativity, Inc.

Switch

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BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH

DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!

SHOW SOME LOVE: PLEASE LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW

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

KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by:

• Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs
• Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers
• Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time

Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact.

Audbile: Try over 180,000 titles on any smart device or computer.  I've downloaded and enjoyed books by Charles Duhigg, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk so far.

 

Better Leaders Better Schools guest Ryan Jackson is the new principal of Mt. Pleasant High in Mt. Pleasant, TN. Prior to this he served as an AP at Maplewood HS. Jackson’s tenure in education has sent him as far as China to exchange leadership philosophies as part of Vanderbilt University and Metro Nashville Public Schools’ Principal Leaders Academy of Nashville. In our first podcast we dug into his Competitive Teaching Model and his identity as the UnderdogsAdvocate.    If you haven’t listened to the first episode with Ryan Jackson, you can do that here.   Show Highlights  

• #ArtAntidote and #CourageToCreate how Arts are important to schools
• Top initiatives he is trying to accomplish
• Mechatroncis & Project Lead the Way
• PBL model that will change how we will view the moon
• Connecting with each student & weaving them into the school community
• Ryan’s mindset going out to connect with the community & staff
• The importance of being a reflective leader and how Ryan does it
• How his mentors prepared him for the leap to the principalship
• Are you connecting on Twitter, Voxer … why not start a podcast?
• Ryan’s experience in an education mastermind
• How Ryan wants to be remembered as a leader.
• How to power through excuses
• Ryan’s top 5 films

  Resources   Finding our courage to create blog post   Good to Great   Brain Rules by John Medina   Connect   Ryan on Twitter   Sign up a time to chat if a mastermind is right for you    Ryan’s Top 5 Movies   Apocalypse Now Pulp Fiction Back to the Future Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Predator      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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH

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SHOW SOME LOVE: PLEASE LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW

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Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above.   Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn    Show Sponsors

KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by:

• Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs
• Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers
• Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time

Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact.

Audbile: Try over 180,000 titles on any smart device or computer.  I've downloaded and enjoyed books by Charles Duhigg, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk so far.

 

THIS IS A PREVIEW of Episode 050 that releases on Wednesday, 7/20/16 ...   "Smells Like Summer" was provided by Del via CC. Listen to Del here.   Better Leaders Better Schools guest Ryan Jackson is the new principal of Mt. Pleasant High in Mt. Pleasant, TN. Prior to this he served as an AP at Maplewood HS. Jackson’s tenure in education has sent him as far as China to exchange leadership philosophies as part of Vanderbilt University and Metro Nashville Public Schools’ Principal Leaders Academy of Nashville. In our first podcast we dug into his Competitive Teaching Model and his identity as the UnderdogsAdvocate.    If you haven’t listened to the first episode with Ryan Jackson, you can do that here.   Show Highlights  

• #ArtAntidote and #CourageToCreate how Arts are important to schools
• Top initiatives he is trying to accomplish
• Mechatroncis & Project Lead the Way
• PBL model that will change how we will view the moon
• Connecting with each student & weaving them into the school community
• Ryan’s mindset going out to connect with the community & staff
• The importance of being a reflective leader and how Ryan does it
• How his mentors prepared him for the leap to the principalship
• Are you connecting on Twitter, Voxer … why not start a podcast?
• Ryan’s experience in an education mastermind
• How Ryan wants to be remembered as a leader.
• How to power through excuses
• Ryan’s top 5 films

  Resources   Finding our courage to create blog post   Good to Great   Brain Rules by John Medina   Connect   Ryan on Twitter   Sign up a time to chat if a mastermind is right for you    Ryan’s Top 5 Movies   Apocalypse Now Pulp Fiction Back to the Future Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Predator      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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH

DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!

SHOW SOME LOVE: PLEASE LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW

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

KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by:

• Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs
• Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers
• Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time

Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact.

Audbile: Try over 180,000 titles on any smart device or computer.  I've downloaded and enjoyed books by Charles Duhigg, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk so far.

 

Emily Drake is the CEO of Flank 5 Academy located in Chicago, IL.  Flank 5 is a personal incubator that helps you unlock your potential, change careers, or become self-employed. Graduates start consulting practices, open restaurants, change industries, and restructure their current employment situation.   In this episode you will learn:

• Community building thinking
• How to be a part of the solution
• The power of possibility
• Micro-movements and celebration
• How to push through fear and take action
• Ask yourself, “What could be?"
• Get out of the perfectionist box
• The power of failing fast
• Learn some great interview questions AND how to facilitate a great interview
• Why emotional intelligence matters

  Resources:   Mindset by Carol Dweck   Give and Take by Adam Grant   Enemies of Excellence by Greg Salciccioli   Flank 5 Academy   Contact Emily    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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH

DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE!

SHOW SOME LOVE: PLEASE LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW

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

KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by:

• Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs
• Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers
• Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time

Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact.

Audbile: Try over 180,000 titles on any smart device or computer.  I've downloaded and enjoyed books by Charles Duhigg, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk so far.

   

Today's show is special for a few reasons.

#1 ... it is released on my birthday ... WOO-HOO!!! BLBS has been around a little less than a year and to produce something to the wonderful community of ed-heroes trying to make an impact in their local communities is a great birthday gift to me and to you!

#2 ... Masterminds have been instrumental in my own personal, professional, and spiritual development. I participate in one and lead others through Better Leaders Better Schools

This episode is a "behind the curtain" look at what it's like to participate in a mastermind. I hope you enjoy it and I hope you consider joining. If you act fast you can lock in a great rate that will never, ever again be this discounted. Mastermind membership dues increase this August 2016.

Resources     Set up a call with Daniel to discuss if a mastermind is right for you.   Read about a mastermind here.   Listen to me discuss Masterminds with the Transformative Principal, Jehtro Jones.   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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Henry Vasquez is a 4-time entrepreneur with experience in consumer media, B2B SaaS, and software consulting. Henry helped Spartz Media grow from a dorm room idea to a downtown office with more than 40 employees and 5 million users. He has built two 7-figure startups, two venture-backed startups, and created over 100 software applications.     In this episode you will learn:

• Do you have a bench of talent?
• The importance of building trust and how to do it at scale
• Why you should be world-class in one thing and broad in all the rest
• How to build a brand
• Why you need to do what you say you’ll do
• How his app, Tribe builds accountability
• Why you should find people that compliment your skill set

  Resources   Tribe.do   Tribe demo video   Contact Henry   Nudge by Richard Thaler     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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Jeremy Rogoff  has been an educator in rural, urban, district and charter schools. He was also a Coro Leadership Fellow and an All-Conference pitcher at Washington University in St. Louis.

  His teaching career started in Clarendon, Arkansas and continued at KIPP DC: College Preparatory, where he was inspired to co-found KickUp.  He’s helped secure partnerships, attract investment, and generate interest in KickUp’s vision among K-12 teaching populations.   In this episode you will learn:

• Get out of the way and remove obstacles
• Building. Measuring. Learning.
• How to make PD meaningful.
• Importance of serving others.
• Importance of listening.
• Are you communicating with clarity?
• Partnerships are enticing, but maybe not the right thing.
• How 2 week experiments improve success.
• Keys to effective meetings.

  Resources   The Lean Startup   KickUp Website   Email Jeremy   Follow KickUp on Twitter     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.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!  

BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH

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