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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Paul Erickson is the proud principal of Union Valley Elementary School in Hutchinson, KS. This is Paul’s seventh year as a building principal and 12th year in education. Paul has always summed up quality school leadership the same way he has summed up quality classroom teaching–if what you do is all about kids and taking them to unprecedented levels of learning, then you can do NO WRONG! He is passionate about creating and sustaining positive school cultures, maximizing collaborative opportunities for teachers, integrating technology, and helping others harness the power of Professional Learning Networks.    LeadUpNow is at the heart of his own PLN. Paul has led staff development on the concepts of Technology Leadership and Professional Learning Communities. He also has organized and led the Beginning Principals Workshop for the Kansas Association of Elementary School Principals from 2012-present. In 2014, he was recognized as KAESP’s National Distinguished Principal.   Outside of education, Paul enjoys spending time with family and friends. Paul and his wife, Tasha, have a three-year-old daughter, Stelli. He is also a Big Brother via Big Brothers/Big Sisters and coaches a 5th Grade Dodge Ball team each year at his school through the local YMCA.   In this episode you will learn:

• How to build great relationships through 2 key tips
• When to use humor in your leadership
• Why you should extend the benefit of the doubt to everyone
• Paul’s use of a daily morning assembly
• How being “connected” helped develop his leadership style
• Why failing to disperse leadership is a key mistake
• The power of taking risks
• The power of planning each day
• How to create a mobile office
• What is group capital and why you need to know

  Resources:   The Principal by Michael Fullan   iPad   Voxer   Connect with Paul   Paul'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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Better Leaders Better Schools Episode 24 is a special episode brought to you by Dan and Iby.  The guys discuss Tips 16-18 from the hugely successful “200 Tips for Effective School Leaders."   In this episode you will learn:

• the importance of networking
• how to find a mentor currently doing what you want to be doing
• the difference between a tribe and a mastermind
• why you should join a mastermind today
• give to give mentality
• Daniel’s experience in masterminds
• how masterminds help you accomplish goals
• the role of masterminds in education
• would you rather research for 72 hours or get the same answer in 1 hour?
• why you must attend conferences
• ILT strategy

  Resources   Tribes by Seth Godin   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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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Ben Owens is a physics and mathematics teacher at Tri-County Early College High School in Murphy, North Carolina and a 2014 Hope Street Group National Teaching Fellow.  He earned degrees in physics and mechanical engineering, respectively, from North Georgia University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. After a 20-year career with a multinational corporation at manufacturing and R&D locations across the U.S., he got his Masters of Arts in Teaching from Marshall University and then left the private sector in 2007 to teach in rural Appalachia. He is passionate about changing the status quo in education by better connecting the classroom to what happens in today’s global, knowledge-based economy. Ben is TCEC’s lead teacher and coordinator of their Project Based Learning program. He is a Center for Teaching Quality Virtual Community Organizer, as well as a member of the National Science Teachers’ Association, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.   In this episode you will learn:

• The power of collaboration to improve teacher PD
• How to build a professional network
• How to fight isolation and work on your own
• How Ben 3x participation in a collaborative model of PD
• How to make every teacher an example of a pocket of greatness
• The importance of establishing the right culture

  Resources   NC New Schools Initiative   Critical Friends Protocol   Learning Forward Standards   Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow   Classroom Rounds Protocol   NC New Schools Instructional Coaching   NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching   Kick-up   Overview of Ben’s Project   Ben's Writing   Contact Ben    Instructional Rounds by City, Elmore, Fiarman, Teitel   7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey  

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Better Leaders Better Schools guest, Marlena Gross-Taylor is an accomplished K-12 administrator, educational consultant and founder of #principalroundtable which has expanded to this more comprehensive forum to further support educational leaders.  A Nashville transplant originally from southern Louisiana, Marlena’s educational experience spans several states allowing her to have served K-12 students in both rural and urban districts. She has been recognized as a middle school master teacher and served as a successful administrator at the elementary, middle and high school levels.  Her professional development expertise has garnered both state and national attention as she is a Summer Leadership Institute Faculty Member of the Association of Middle Level Educators (AMLE).  As a proud Louisiana State University alumni, Marlena is committed to excellence and believes all students can achieve.   In this episode you will learn:

• "You can do it” belief system
• Empowering people through “letting the plates fall"
• True learning occurs when mistakes happen
• 2 types of leaders (transformative vs sustainer)
• Teachers need to see who you are
• The Power of “Yes"
• Don’t underestimate the importance of relationships

  Resources:   AMLE Conference Feb 8-9   Blink by Malcolm Gladwell   10 Minute Inservice by Todd Whitaker   Brain Rules by John Medina   Marlena’s website.   Contact Marlena    

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HELP PAY FOR QUINTONIO LEGRIER’S FUNERAL   Daniel & Iby from Better Leaders Better Schools brings you a special NYE episode to inspire you to accomplish BIG things in 2016.     In this episode you will learn:

• the importance of starting with the end in mind
• why chunking your time matters
• the writing process for writing goals that works
• the power of writing and speaking your goals
• the importance of treating yourself and celebrating progress
• 6 X 6 goal strategy
• why you should cut 15% of what you do this year
• how to reflect on your last year

  Resources:   Essentialism Leadership Book Report   Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe   Strength Finders 2.0   DISC Profile   How to Fascinate (book) by Sally Hogshead   How to Fascinate Assessment and Report   Axiom by Bill Hybels (6 X 6 book)   21 Day Instructional Challenge   Tribes by Seth Godin   48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller   48 Days Website & Podcast   Write Down Your Goals   Tell Someone Your Goals
Design Your Career or Someone Else Will   6 X 6 Article and Example

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Linh Johansson is the Chief Community Director at The Community Lab.  Linh works with innovation and product development and her approach is relationship-first and value creation.  Linh developed the strategy and model for the best educational leadership LinkedIn group called Learn Outside the Lines K-12 Education).   In this episode you will learn: 

• how to build authentic relationships
• listen and focus
• the importance of providing adequate training
• how to innovate
• the keys to setting the tone from the beginning
• to be honest about what’s working and what’s not working
• the value in knowing your target audience to develop your brand

  Resources:

• Music - Robin Schulz, Kygo, & Alle Farben
• How to Fascinate - Sally Hogshead
• How to Fascinate Assessment & Report

  Contact Linh  

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This episode of Better Leaders Better Schools is a solo episode brought to you by Daniel Bauer.  The content of the show was inspired by Daniel's viral blog post 200 tips for effective school leaders.  In this show Daniel reviews Tips 13-15: delegation, vulnerability, and journaling.

In this episode you will learn:

• why people don't delegate
• questions you should ask before delegating
• the keys to successful delegation
• the power of taking off the mask
• why it's important to be yourself
• it's fun to get naked
• keys to successful journaling
• the link between thank you cards, gratitude, and mindset shifts

Books / Links / Resources:

Mindtools delegation article

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

Take Off the Mask by Daniel Bauer

Getting Naked by Patrick Lencioni

Journaling article

Cell phones vs journaling article

 

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  Better Leaders Better Schools guest Don Wettrick is the Innovation Coordinator at Noblesville High School, just outside Indianapolis, IN. He is the author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level." Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; and educational speaker. Don is passionate about helping students find their educational opportunities and providing them with the digital tools they need to give them a competitive edge.   Don has lectured across the US and Europe about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. He was was honored by Centric for the Indiana Innovation Award for his work in innovation and education. Most importantly Don works with educators, students, and entrepreneurs to bring innovation and collaborative skills into education.

In this episode you will learn:

• how to use “don’t touch the stove-top” leadership
• why not adopting failure is at your own peril
• school shouldn’t be about “the grade"
• 2 powerful questions to ask our students - What do you love? … What bothers you?
• why inviting others to the table matters
• how to run a ROTH IRA class
• the importance of doing what you said you would do

  Don’s website   Don’s Twitter   Don’s interview on Inside Quest   Books/Resources:   Pure Genius by Don Wettrick   Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek   Bold by Peter Diamandis   UnCommon Learning by Eric Sheninger   Brain Rules by John Medina   Drive by Daniel Pink  

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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Scott Beebe's big, hairy, audacious goal is to help small business owners and organizational leaders uncover the things they cannot see, and to build actionable strategies that allow themselves and their team to live out their narrow brilliance, and ultimately their business with purpose.  

Scott is also the host of The Business On Purpose podcast; a weekly podcast where Scott interviews small business owners to get their insight as to how they are living out their business on purpose.

In this episode you will learn:

• what Scott learned working in rural Nigeria
• the GLOCAL philosophy
• the importance of mapping out where you are going
• how to show up everyday
• the power of routines and rituals
• how to find your narrow brilliance

Books:

Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard

Freebies:

www.mybusinessinpurpose.com/better

 

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This is a special episode aligned with the US holiday, Thanksgiving.     In this episode:

• learn the power of gratitude and get exposed to the science behind gratitude
• learn a new strategy to develop a more thankful mindset
• be challenged to participate in the Thank You Challenge - write a thank you card to someone everyday for a year!

  Resources   Read & Listen

• Amy Morin 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do This
• Amy Morin 7 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Gratitude
• Amy Morin on the Art of Charm

Buy This Book

• 5 Minute Journal
• How to Win Friends and Influence People

Start This Practice

• Thank You Challenge (you’ll need some thank you cards to start)

  If you want to join the Thank You Challenge … Tweet Me or Email Me “I’m In!!!"   I will add you to a Google spreadsheet and check in with you periodically throughout the year.  

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