The Wheelhouse

In this episode, we welcome our special guest, Steven Glaize, Principal of Hallowell Elementary School within the Hatboro-Horsham School District.  We are so excited to hear about what you are doing with Powerful Student Care. Don't miss this exciting episode!

In this second episode of the season, Kathy, Penny, and Grant focus on one of Powerful Student Care's most impactful tools: The Contemplative Practice. How does this process help educators better understand what each student experiences? What does it mean to predict, plan for, and respond to each student's needs and interests? Why does this process begin and end with educators looking in the mirror to surface, confront, and later update their mental models? Find out all of the answers to these questions and more. Take a listen!

As season seven begins, join Kathy, Penny, and Grant in a conversation about Powerful Student Care: Honoring Each Learner as Distinctive and Irreplaceable, an ASCD 2023 book written by Chandler and Kathleen M. Budge. What does it mean when a child believes they are distinctive and irreplaceable? Take a listen!

In this final episode of Season 6, Grant, Kathy, and Penny bid farewell to the Deficit Lens approach to educating today's children. How do we let it go and what happens when we do? Take a listen!

Humanizing the school experience is hard work. In this season, we've looked at eliminating the deficit-lens thinking that is so common in education today. We've talked about how we use tools that are deficit-lens thinking, how we use processes that focus on the deficit, and we even extend that negative thinking to people. In this episode, Kathy, Penny, and I talk about the dangers of assumptions and deficit-thinking when it comes to how we interact with parents and families. Don't miss another episode of The Wheelhouse!!

Join Grant, Kathy and Penny as they continue their roundtable discussions about moving away from the deficit lens in all things teaching and learning. How do programs fit into this discussion? Take a listen!

In our last episode, Penny, Kathy and I talked about how we even use this deficit model thinking toward our colleagues. In this episode, we continue that conversation about people and the deficit lens. Sadly, our students aren't excluded from being examined with this deficit way of thinking. When is it identifying a need and when is it casting judgment? Find out in this new episode of The Wheelhouse!

Having spent our first five episodes of this season talking about how we apply the deficit model to things, our conversation shifts in this episode to how we also apply (and need to stop applying) the deficit model to our colleagues as well.

How do Accomplishment-Driven Leaders think differently about other adults and how do we stop looking at people through that deficit lens. This is an episode of The Wheelhouse you won't want to miss! Take a listen.

In our fourth episode of season six, Kathy, Penny, and Grant consider new ways of using evaluation as a means of team building and growing those within our charge.  We know casting judgment doesn't work and many leaders and teachers alike dread the current evaluation process.  Accomplishment-Driven Leaders approach this complicated task in a very different way and get very different results. Take a listen.

No one would argue the value of an improvement plan . . . Accomplishment leaders, however, believe it's the approach to the improvement that really matters. We can either choose to navigate toward our strategic destination or we can try to unbury and tread water in the negative. Of course, ADLs choose the former.

Join Kathy, Penny, and me as we talk about what's wrong with the deficit lens and why navigation is so much more effective.