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Better Leaders Better Schools™
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Why the “Why Your Anti-Racist PD IsnConveyor Belt’”t Actually Changing Anything with Dr Abby C. Emerson
Dr Abby Emerson is an assistant professor of Childhood Education at Hunter College, CUNY, where her research spans anti-racist and abolitionist teacher…
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Why the “Why Your Anti-Racist PD IsnConveyor Belt’”t Actually Changing Anything with Dr Abby C. Emerson
Why the conveyor belt model of career readiness fails students — and how AI tools like Orchard help principals build a better system.
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Experiential Education: Why Your Lesson Plan Is Failing Students
Zaretta Hammond on cognition redlining, closing the learning power gap, and what real instructional equity looks like for principals.
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The Learning Model That Turned a Dropout Into the Class Speaker Jenny Curtin
Jenny Curtin partners with schools and districts across New England on behalf of the Barr Foundation, where she helps build and scale Transformative Learning…
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Why Firing Yourself Might Be Your Best Leadership Move
Danny Bauer on why grinding harder fails school leaders, and how firing yourself from what you love builds a vision that outlasts you.
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Why Your Equity Work Isn’t Closing the Gap with Zaretta Hammond
Zaretta Hammond on cognition redlining, closing the learning power gap, and what real instructional equity looks like for principals.
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The Real Reason Principals Burn Out (And How to Fix It)
Why principal burnout starts with hiding your personality at work — and how pay yourself first and the Harada Method fix it.
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The CEO Who Gets 91% Teacher Retention Without Tenure with Pablo Villavicencio
How Alliance CEO Pablo Villavicencio hit 91% teacher retention and a 96% graduation rate — without tenure. A belief-driven leadership model.
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Why Your Tutoring Program Is Quietly Failing Students With Aly Murray
Paul Quinn College requires every student to launch a real business before graduation. Here's what venture-based learning looks like — and what K–12 leaders…
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Why Reacting to Student Outbursts Destroys Your Classroom with Adam Wolfsdorf
Why reacting to student outbursts backfires — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf on classroom management, compliance, and constructive subversion.
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Why Your Neurodivergent Students Are Disappearing with Vanessa Castañeda Gill
80% of school avoidance students are neurodivergent. Social Cipher founder Vanessa Castaneda Gill shows principals how to actually close that gap.
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Why Every Student at This College Must Launch a Business
Paul Quinn College requires every student to launch a real business before graduation. Here's what venture-based learning looks like — and what K–12 leaders…
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Why Your Edtech Is Failing Students (And What to Do Instead) with Kris Rockwell
AI policy is missing in most districts. Edtech is failing students. This episode breaks down why — and how principals can lead differently.
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How to Turn Around a Failing School: Real-Time Coaching That Works
School turnaround principal Chad Weiden shares the real-time coaching system and beacon teacher strategy that took a failing school to good-rated in South…
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10 Lessons from 10 Years of School Leadership Podcasting with Danny Bauer
Danny Bauer reflects on 10 years of school leadership podcasting — what he unlearned, what separates growing principals from stalled ones, and why curiosity…
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Why Your Open Door Policy Is Destroying Your Leadership
Sage Hobbs is an author, facilitator, and coach whose work combines her background in counseling psychology with a passion for helping people communicate with…
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Why Your PLCs Aren’t Solving Problems (And What Does)
A professor at San Diego's High Tech High Graduate School of Education and co-author of PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design, Nancy Frey has…