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

Better Leaders Better Schools guest Aaron Peña has been an educator for 18 years, 12 of which have been in administration at the elementary and secondary levels. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in education from Baylor University and his master’s degree in education administration from the University of Houston Clear Lake. He is currently working on his doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Aaron has obtained many awards for his work in educational leadership including the Johnny Veselka Texas Association of School Administrators Award, the Exemplary Instructional Leadership Award from the Cooperative Superintendents Program at UT Austin, and is the current HEB Excellence in Education Texas Principal of the Year.

Aaron has a passion for working with all students but enjoys working in suburban environments going through the urbanization process. He has a beautiful wife who is also an educator and three lovely daughters, 10, 11, and 13.

In this episode you will learn:

• How leadership is all about the journey ... and learning!
• The meaning of distributive learning (Aaron's doctoral focus)
• The importance of learning from mistakes
• How to create a risk taking culture
• How to have real conversations
• The power of practicing patience
• Why life long learning leads to leadership success

Books:

• The 5th Discipline by Peter Senge
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels
• Reframing Organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership by Bolman and Deal (Four Framework Model)

Contact Aaron

Join Aaron and other awesome leaders in education every Sunday night (9 pm CST) on Twitter. Search #EDchat to join!

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Daniel & Iboro unpack tips 10-12 on the widely popular post 200 tips for leaders.

In this episode you will learn:

• How taking breaks maximize your productivity
• What to do when taking a break and what not to do
• Strategies for building relationships
• The key question a leader should ask when building a team

Resources mentioned on the show:

• Strength Finders
• Be Better Cycle
• Staff Spotlight questions
• Global Leadership Summit Report (2015)

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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Aaron Walker has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence.  He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher.  35 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience.  Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.

In this episode you will learn:

• What it means to live with intentionality
• Lessons from owning 8 businesses over 3o years
• The benefits of an abundance vs a scarcity mindset
• The power of pooling resources and collaboration
• What it means to "give, give, give, then ask"
• The importance of moving from success to significance
• How to create opportunities to show generosity and kindness
• Listening skills are the key to leadership
• The importance of planning ahead and success
• The book that all high school students should read
• The power of mastermind groups in education
• Fear missing opportunity more then fearing failure

Books:

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg

Resources:

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• Personal Assessment
• What do I want?
• Steps to a productive day

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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Clayton Reedie, the Principal of Dalmeny Public School located in the South-Western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Dalmeny, a K-6 school with over 1,000 students and 80 staff, is Clayton’s fourth Principalship. The first being Mount Hunter Public School, a small country school of 56 students near Camden outside of Sydney.

Clayton began teaching in 1991 and has built his leadership experience across a range of settings and executive positions. In addition to these school-based roles, Clayton has been the President of the Liverpool Primary Principals’ Council for three years and has spent time on secondment with the New South Wales Department of Education in a number of Principal support roles. The most recent being with the High Performance Directorate assisting principals to implement a range of reforms around budgeting, localised decision-making processes and school planning.

Clayton believes in focused, differentiated professional learning for his staff to improve lesson delivery and maximise success for students. Dalmeny’s professional development structures are a model for many colleagues.

When not at work, Clayton enjoys traveling, Rugby League Football (go the Tigers!), V8 Supercars (go Ford!) and watching cricket. He is married to Nikki (also a school Principal) and has five children (all boys!) who keep him very grounded – and very busy!

In this episode you will learn:

• How to lead with vulnerability
• How to use a mobile office
• The importance of listening (without taking it personally)
• How to avoid being hard on yourself
• The best and worst of teacher PD
• How to empower teacher development
• The power of focus groups
• The most important thing teachers can do to improve student achievement

Resources from the show:

• Leadership Capability Framework
• Teachers Make a Difference: What is the research evidence? by John Hattie

Books:

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• How to Get Your School Moving and Improving
• Visible Learning for Teachers

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Daniel & Iboro unpack tips 7-9 on the widely popular post 200 tips for leaders.

In this episode you will learn:

• The importance of a "white hot why" (via Bill Hybels)
• How to honor people before your vision
• The importance of eating well and exercising
• How exercising helps generate great ideas
• Why it's important to play and have fun when exercising

Resources mentioned on the show:

• Simon Sinek on TED
• Amazon Article Iby mentioned
• Michael Hyatt on sleep
• Shawn Stevenson' Model Health Show

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Better Leaders Better Schools Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business with an Inbound Strategy.  He led the growth of Goodbye Crutches from a regional player to a national leader in under 3 years. 

In this episode you will learn:

*What Tom learned about leadership through running a nuclear power plant in the Navy

*How to delight your customers

*How to over-deliver to your customers

*What you can measure you can move

*How to build promoters for your school

*5 ways to be a great leader

*What it means to be yourself

Books: 

Inbound Marketing by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah

Essentialism by Greg McKeown

Tech Resource: Trello

More Resources (including some freebies from Tom)

http://www.tmschwab.com/better/

5 Ways to be a better podcast guest (and a better leader).

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Better Leaders Better Schools Iboro Umana is a current MD PhD student at the University of Chicago.  When he is not learning how to save lives he is making a great impact in his community through empowering youth.  Iboro is the chief visionary for the Career Expo.

In this episode you will learn:

*how to move past a fear of failure

*the core components of the career expo

*the importance of real world lessons in a young person's education

*why age is just a number

*how to help students see the impact they can make right now and in the future

Book: The Art of Work by Jeff Goins

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Better Leaders Better Schools Justin Baeder is Director of The Principal Center and host of Principal Center Radio. He helps school administrators transform their productivity and multiply their impact, and speaks regularly at conferences and professional development events.

In this episode you will learn:

• how to give consistent and high quality feedback
• Justin’s definition of instructional leadership
• how to get the right information to make the right decisions
• why immersion in classrooms will help you be a better leader
• why you should tape yourself leading meetings and providing feedback to teachers
• how to avoid burning out your best people

ow we frame things matters a great deal"

Book: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Tech Resource: Google Calendar.

More Resources

principalcenter.com/app

instructionalleadershipchallenge.com

principalcenter.com/collaboration

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Daniel & Iboro unpack tips 4-6 on the widely popular post 200 tips for leaders. 

In this episode you will learn:

• How to lead your tribe
• Why online communities accelerate leadership development
• How to establish and stick to your values
• The importance of consistent messaging
• The structure of professional learning communities
• How values relate to boundary setting
• The need for repeating messages
• The relationship between values and compromise

Books mentioned on the show:

• Tribes: We need you to lead us by Seth Godin
• Revisiting professional learning communities at work
• Learning by doing
• Common formative assessment: A toolkit for professional learning communities at work

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Better Leaders Better Schools guest Matt Miller has experience in the Air Force, Abbott Labs, and now a business owner.  Matt's School Spirit Vending creates hassle-free fundraising opportunities for schools.  He has helped schools bring in $3 million worth of proceeds over 7 years.  The best part of School Spirit Vending is that it requires no money and no work from the schools Matt serves.  Today, School Spirit Vending is helping schools in 23 states raise money in unique ways.

In this episode you will learn:

• How to quiet the impostor syndrome
• How to lead while not in the driver's seat
• How stickers can make schools millions
• Why stewardship is key to leadership
• When it makes sense to be the dumbest guy in the room
• Green tomato philosophy
• The power of masterminds and success

Resources from the show:

• The Global Leadership Summit Report 2015
• School Spirit Vending (for schools)
• School Spirit Vending (for franchisees)
• School News Guru
• Marlin and Percy

Books:

• 5 Love Languages
• Adversaries into Allies
• John Taylor Gatto's books

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