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The Wheelhouse
The Wheelhouse exists to create an inclusive community of empowered educators who believe that, together, we can disrupt the transactional herding nature of schooling to create districts, schools, and classrooms where each student feels confident, optimistic, capable, well-supported, and emboldened to be and to become who they are meant to be. Guiding Principles 1. We are steadfastly committed to each learner and each educator believing they are distinctive and irreplaceable. 2. We believe that…
Episodes
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Do We Have the Courage to Act?
In this ninth episode of season nine, Dr. Chandler and round table panelists Penny Brockway and Michael Pipa unpack the last chapter of his book, Powerful…
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The Act of Bravery
In our eighth episode of this season, our panel explores the concept of bravery. The bravery to think about how each student is served by the enterprise of…
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Give Them a Positive Touch
In our seventh episode of this season, our panel is joined by veteran K-20 educator, author, professor, and founder of Sustained Solutions, Dr. Alicia S…
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You Don't Believe This, But I do. You Matter.
In our sixth episode of this season, our panel is joined by K-12 and higher ed administrator, Jim. Van Nada as we explore how each student is welcomed and…
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It's So Simple and Yet So Complex
In our fifth episode of this season, our panel is joined by veteran elementary teacher and administrator, Julie Farmer, as we explore Our Way of Thinking in…
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Dignity is a Birth Right
Michael Pipa returns as a permanent member of our roundtable. In this episode, Kathy, Michael, and Grant explore big ideas from the third chapter of the book…
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Love Perpetuates Love
We are thrilled to welcome Midwest Virtual Educator Shelby Atkin back to The Wheelhouse in this third episode of season 8. Each of us, Kathy, Penny, Shelby and…
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Lifting Powerful Student Care's Counter Narrative
We are thrilled to welcome New York educator Michael Pipa back to The Wheelhouse in this second episode of season 8. Each of us, Kathy, Penny, Michael and I…
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There's the Radical Part! Thats it!
It's the season of "Bring Your Favorite Quote to the Table!" Grant, Kathy, and Penny return to The Wheelhouse to continue their conversation about Powerful…
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Season Seven Finale: Our Power to do GOOD!
In this last episode of season seven, Kathy, Penny, and Grant highlight the season's best moments centered on the tenets of Powerful Student Care. We'll see…
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The Ripple Effect
In this episode, we welcome Dianne Wolford, an 8th grade ELA teacher and the inspiration for "Londyn" in the book, Powerful Student Care: Honoring Each Learner…
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The Love Rock
In this episode we welcome Julie Farmer, an early elementary principal and Shelby Bennett, a high school ELA intervention teacher. You don't want to miss this…
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Mic Drops
Mid-way through our season, Kathy, Penny and I step back to reflect on compelling words from our guests thus far in the season: Steven Glaize, Melanie Ulinger…
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Essential Truths
In this episode, we welcome our special guest, Michael Pipa, a New York educational consultant and veteran educator. Find out what he means by, "young humans …
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Education as Social Justice
In this episode, we welcome our special guest, Melanie Ulinger, Director of Special Education, Curriculum & Instruction with the Brocton Central School…
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"It's Not Another Thing, it's Something"
In this episode, we welcome our special guest, Steven Glaize, Principal of Hallowell Elementary School within the Hatboro-Horsham School District. We are so…
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Leveraging a Spirit of inquiry to Extend Powerful Student Care
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…
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All Things Powerful Student Care
As season seven begins, join Kathy, Penny, and Grant in a conversation about Powerful Student Care: Honoring Each Learner as Distinctive and Irreplaceable, an…
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Season 6 Finale: Farewell, Deficit-Lens Thinking
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…
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Assumptions are Dangerous
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…
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So Many Programs . . .
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…
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Identifying Need? Labeling with a Deficit?
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…
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I Get to Work Along Side this Person . . .
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…
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Honoring Will
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…
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A New Destination and a New Plan to Get There
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…
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Slow and Steady Doesn't Win This Race
In this second episode of season six, Kathy, Penny and I continue to explore the impact of looking at our work through a deficit lens. Specifically, we wonder…
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Stop the Madness!
Season Six begins and Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway return to The Wheelhouse to join Dr. Chandler for yet another series of round table conversations about…
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ADL: A Day in the Life
This is our 20th roundtable episode with Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway joining Grant to talk about all things Accomplishment-Driven Leadership. In this…
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Casting Judgment Aside
In this episode, Kathy, Penny and Grant talk about how an Accomplishment-Driven Leader approaches Evaluation. What does the Grand Canyon have to do with it?…
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A Wheelhouse Classic Episode: Feedback isn't Enough: Accomplishment-Driven Leaders Think Growth
It's that time of year! We are either already underway in the 2023-2024 school year or we are in the midst welcoming staff back and preparing for our students…
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Opening Days - ADL Style
Join Kathy Mohney, Penny Brockway and Grant in this episode where we explore how an Accomplishment-Driven Leader rethinks the opening days of school to…
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The Very Best Version of Me
In episode 5 we defined "The Unexpected Place." In this new episode Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway join Grant back in The Wheelhouse to consider what it feels…
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The Unexpected Place
In this expisode, Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway join Grant to explore the "unexpected place." Where is that place? Why does it exist? Is it a location or…
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Crushing Fear with the Human Connection
In this episode, Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway continue their conversation with Grant addressing the origins of the fear factor from last week's episode. In…
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Crushing Fear
The Wheelhouse returns following our national holiday. In this episode, Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway continue their conversation with Grant focusing on the…
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Defining the Destination
In this episode Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway return to The Wheelhouse to continue our roundtable discussion of all things Accomplishment-Driven Leadership…
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It's a Bit Like Herding
Season Five begins and Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway return to The Wheelhouse to continue our roundtable discussion of all things Accomplishment-Driven…
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The Human Factor
It's the season four finale! Penny, Kathy, and Grant review the eight paradigm shifts inherent in the journey toward Accomplishment-Driven Leadership. All…
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Accomplishment-Driven Leaders Embrace Shared Purpose and Responsibility
Grant, Penny, and Kathy are back again. In this episode, they talk about what it looks like when district leaders embrace shared purpose and responsibility…
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Accomplishment-Driven Leaders Embrace a Deliberate Change in Destination and Course
In this episode, Grant and his guests, Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway talk about what it looks like when Accomplishment-Driven Leaders plot a course for a…
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Think Adult then Student Growth
Accomplishment-driven leaders understand the layered approach to student achievement. They focus on adult learning as the means to cultivate student growth. In…
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Accomplishment-Driven Leaders Cultivate Changes in Practice
In this episode, we talk about how an accomplishment-driven leader rethinks professional development (learning) moving this away from just an event on a…
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Feedback isn't Enough: Accomplishment-Driven Leaders Think Growth
Grant, Kathy and Penny return to the Wheelhouse to talk about another Accomplishment-Driven Leadership paradigm shift. In this episode, they talk about moving…
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Step Aside, Buy-In: We're Cultivating Discretionary Effort
Grant and his colleagues Kathy Mohney and Penny Brockway continue their conversation about the many paradigm shifts inherent in the journey to be an…
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Beyond Manage and Lead: Think Navigate
In this episode Dr. Chandler and his roundtable guests, Penny Brockway and Katherin Mohney discuss the secon major paradigm shift inherent in the…
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An ADL Paradigm Shift: All to Each
In this episode, Penny Brockway and Kathy Mohney join Grant Chandler to begin a series of roundtable conversations about the paradigm shifts we must consider…
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An ADL Roundtable
This season's roundtable discussion featuring podcast host Dr. Grant Chandler and his season four guests, Penny Brockway and Katherin Mohney, begins with a…
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Looking Forward - Charting a Path to a New Destination
Accomplishment-Driven Leadership will help us maneuver today's challenges in public education.
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An ADL Action Plan
We conclude the ADL thinking and action regarding a common leadership issue we introduced in the last episode.
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ADL in Action
Today, we take a common leadership problem and explore it using the arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership.
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Revisiting a Journey to Accomplishment-Driven Ledership
This episode highlights the journey of one district leader toward Accomplishment-Driven Leadership.
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Realization as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership
This episode explores the fifth arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Realization.
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Contemplation as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership
This episode explores the fourth of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Contemplation.
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Guidance as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership
This episode explores the third of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Guidance.
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Poise as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership
This episode explores the second of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - POISE.
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Captainship as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership
This episode explores the first of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Captainship.
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Leadership for a New Era
In the opening episode of season three, Dr. Chandler discuses the critical role "Accomplishment-Driven Leadership" plays in responding to our current needs and…
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Let's Open Doors, Not Close Them
This final episode of season two explores the responsibility that we have as educators to ensure that doors are open for each of our students. We have no idea…
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Uncovering the Silver Linings
Hollis Upper Elementary School principal and international consultant, Candice Fowler returns to The Wheelhouse to talk about reflections on the past year and…
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Exploring Buildership
Dr. Robyn Jackson, CEO of Mindsets, Inc., award winning administrator and author of ten books including her latest publication, Stop Leading Start Building…