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

Diane Willis has worked diligently in education for 32 years, making a difference in the learning lives of students and teachers. She is a veteran leader, serving 24 years in leadership roles in seven different elementary schools. Diane believes an instructional leader must be present during learning moments to help discover the next best answers. She believes that professional development is within things done, said, discovered, or planned each day. Show Highlights Tips to free yourself up to be available to be where it matters. TeachFX isn't "one more thing" it is a way to multiply yourself. Transfer ownership to your students to liberate learning. Offer high quality, personalized professional development on a daily basis. PD is every day with these little gems that you elect along the way. How to be present as a leader with the "next best answers" of the day. Tips and tricks to not miss moments to support your staff and share goals. Schedule the day out and share your improvement plan for optimal team effort. "The thing is just be there in the moment and professional development is at any moment, any time, any day, a question, any activity, if you've got a focus on what matters most at your school, go out and look for that. Once you find it, celebrate it, talk about it, share it, and it will spread like wildfire." -Diane Willis Full Transcript Diane Will Transcript Diane Willis' Resources & Contact Info: LinkedIn Twitter Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Deena Pierott is an Idea Generator and Social Impact Entrepreneur - Founder of the award-winning and nationally recognized STEM+Arts program for youth of color called iUrban Teen and most recently co-founded and launched Black Women in STEM 2.0. Sought-after diversity strategist and international keynote speaker. I've served on several boards and commissions including a Gubernatorial appointment to the Commission on African American Affairs in the State of Washington. Honored to be acknowledged by President Barack Obama as a White House Champion of Change for Technology Inclusion and by Ebony Magazine on their Power 100 List. Experience in designing diversity and equity programs including Employee Resource Groups for various organizations Featured in the following publications: Forbes, Inc., Government Technology, Essence Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Black Enterprise, Ebony Magazine, Deliver magazine, Portland Business Journal, Geekwire, Colors of Influence, Neurology Now, the Chicago Tribune and on NPR. Show Highlights Engaging your families with these simple, genius tips. 'Heart work' that engages peer-to-peer partnerships between teachers and students to increase value. Teach students to be better advocates for themselves with two essential questions. The impact of implicit bias on kids of color. How to get your school signed up for iUrban Teen. Ways to advocate for yourself without fear of repercussion or need for a "second self?" Stopping explicit bias. Ways to respond to both implicit and explicit bias. Can't miss conversion on how to share your privilege. "I want the Ruckus Maker to remember to keep on being that Ruckus Maker. Change doesn't happen by being complicit. Continue having your voice heard when you see change is needed. How do you build up a team of champions around you to create that change? Don't stay average." -Deena Pierott Full Transcript Deena Pierott Transcript Deena Pierott's Resources & Contact Info: iUrbanTeen Black Women in STEM 2.0 Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Deena@iurbanteen.org Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Jean Latting, DrPH, LMSW-IPR, is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant with over 20 years of consulting experience in private and public multicultural organizations. Hundreds of clients in leadership roles have benefitted from her practical solutions for building more rewarding, fulfilled lives at work and home. Over the last few years, an increased emphasis has been placed on building inclusive organizations. Leaders within fifteen industries have aligned with her to develop quantifiable solutions for addressing "elephant-in-the-room issues." Jean gained over 35 years of research and teaching experience at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW). Upon retirement, she began consulting and coaching full-time. As President and Founder of Leading Consciously, she challenges her clients to rethink assumptions preventing them from becoming the best they can be as organizations, leaders and individuals. She grew up on stories of generations of family members rising above adversity and supporting their communities. As a result, her career has followed a similar path toward helping others gain greater insight into the value of an empowered life, agile and resilient leadership, and culturally competent relationships with others. Jean's personal philosophy: "Helping people 'level up' by maximizing their potential in the workplace, community, and home through self-discovery and by building supportive environments." Show Highlights Living with a hole in the floor teaches empathize. Advocate for the underserved by challenging mindsets and beliefs of our faculty. Find the strength to "play chicken" in a room. Learn "You can't scare me into silence" when presenting valuable information. How leaders learn to live out the metaphor and walk a mile leadership The question that unblocks the skill of empathy. Tips to get comfortable in uncomfortable conversations about race. The school of hard knocks helps develop courage to touch the snake. Actionable tips to get people to change without isolating anyone. Eliminate systematic barriers that kept parents from coming to the school with a simple knock. "Everybody needs to know that it's uncomfortable and it's okay. If we want the students to grow and learn, as teachers and educators, if we stay in our comfort zone, we're not role modeling to kids how to do something that's hard. Let's conquer this thing. Let's be role models to kids that even though it's hard work, we can do this thing. It's okay to be uncomfortable. Step one is to acknowledge that and to be willing to bear the discomfort. Step two is to have a rule of non-shaming. If it's an uncomfortable situation, somebody's going to say something horribly offensive and stupid. Those who know that are going to sit around snickering to themselves or cutting eyes at one another. Those who don't know it are going to be oblivious. To praise calling out, I object to. I say, call them into the community." -Dr Jean Letting "Some people literally cannot leave themselves and put themselves in somebody else's shoes." -Dr Jean Letting Full Transcript Dr Jean Latting Transcript Dr Jean Latting's Resources & Contact Info: Leading Consciously Pathfinders Twitter Facebook LinkedIn jeanlatting@leadingconsciously.com Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Dr. Jen O'Ryan is the founder of Double Tall Consulting, specializing in Inclusion and Diversity. Leveraging two decades of experience in change management and organizational behavior, she understands the challenges leaders can face in developing a culture of inclusiveness for employees, clients, and consumers. She is also the author of Inclusive AF: A Field Guide for Accidental Diversity Experts. Designed for anyone thinking about inclusion and diversity, IAF explains how to cultivate a workplace more welcoming for LGBTQ+ individuals – and for everyone else. Show Highlights Talk about inclusion and making space safes for your community. Actionable for the listeners on how you engage in emotional conversations. Mental hacks and scripts you can do now to spark conversations on gender identity Think about people in a more progressive lens. practical tips on how to cultivate a workplace more welcoming for LGBTQ + and hear everyone in your community. Peel back the fear and initial instincts to get the work done. Gender is a social construct. Understand the misconceptions. Helpful feedback for when you put your foot in your mouth. "The reason that I wrote the book is because there's so many people out there that individually can make a huge difference. They have that spark inside and they want to make the world a better place. The bystander effect is very real. How do you actually interrupt that in a way that's safe in a way that doesn't put somebody in harm?" -Dr Jen O'Ryan Full Transcript Jen O'Ryan Transcript Dr Jen O'Ryan's Resources & Contact Info: Inclusive AF: A Field Guide for Accidental Diversity Experts LinkedIn Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

DANIEL BAUER is the Chief Ruckus Maker at BETTER LEADERS BETTER SCHOOLS (BLBS). He launched the BLBS Podcast in September 2015. With over one million downloads, the BLBS show is the most influential podcast available for educational leaders. In 2016, he changed how professional development is offered to school leaders through the structure of a mastermind. Since then, Daniel has coached and mentored over 100 school administrators from every continent in the world (except Antarctica of course). In 2017, Daniel launched The School Leadership Series, his second podcast which amplifies the diverse voices in school leadership today. He is the author of The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap, which released as an Amazon #1 new release and his second book, Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader, will be available on September 28, 2021, from Corwin Publishing. Daniel's JUST CAUSE is "to connect, grow, and mentor every school leader who wants to level up." Show Highlights 5 Day challenge The biggest problem with creating a powerful school year. When we don't know where to start. Avoid creating a mediocre school year in 90 days Simplify the complexity of school leadership Unorthodox leadership connects leaders around the world 5 pillars to the PSP program you need to experience. Scott's sticky core value story and other action tips Have consistently powerful days in a row "It's not about being the best. I think that's a silly thing to strive for. If you strive to get better every single day, the funny thing is you probably will ultimately become the best. Just improve 1% every day and that will lead to exponential results. To create the best year ever, you need a path, a path that simplifies the complexity of school leadership. When you have a path, all you need to do is take the next step." -Daniel Bauer Full Transcript Danny Bauer Transcript Danny Bauer's Resources & Contact Info: Join the Principal Success Path! Pre-order Danny's new book (Use the code SUMMER21 for a 25% discount and free shipping in the US). Powerful Day Course Infinite SQUARE SQUAD Thanks for the Feedback Radical Candor Rework Twitter LinkedIn daniel@betterleadersbetterschool.com Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Meghan Gardner is the founder of Guardian Adventures, which provides consultation and development of innovative and educational online and live events, training programs, and STEM programs. Her company specializes in story-based and emotionally immersive experiences where participants are highly engaged and readily transfer their education from the learning environment into practical use. Guardian Adventures also provides curriculum and training development for making education exciting and memorable for adults and employees (including an OSHA training program for corporate lab safety which involves a zombie invasion). Translating High Tech media and Transmedia into In-Person and High Touch experiences are the company's core competencies by developing innovative and educational training or adventures that engage participants in a manner that improves understanding, retention, and transfer. Meghan is also a STEM Curriculum Designer for ST Unitas (the parent company of The Princeton Review), a story-based adventure designer and staff trainer for Royal Caribbean Cruises (providing onboard educational adventures for their 6 million clients a year), a guest lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and other major universities, and an international speaker on the topic of Immersive Experiences in Education, Learning, and Training for all ages. In her free time, Meghan mentors women and minority entrepreneurs in the USA and Uganda and volunteers for hospice where she works with terminally ill patients of all ages as well as their families. Show Highlights How being a hospice volunteer helped create a non judgmental leadership approach. Creating emotionally engaging cultural educational experiences. Masterclass on empathy, listening, and powerful storytelling for leaders to use. Decision making requires enough time to be uncomfortable with time Fantasy and games create commonality and open up necessary possibilities for students How to cause good trouble in the world Before you can make a ruckus, you've got to create a sense of belonging. Inspire the idea of challenging what we think. Decision making is about mistakes and the outcome. Own any outcome. "One of the hardest things to do is to give that kind of compassionate listening when you are being judged. When the person you're listening to is having a hard time listening to you. It's tough because as a leader, you're in a position of authority. By that very nature, you are the one who has power over them or over the outcome. It can be very challenging when that emotional burden is in your chair because it is upon you to give more compassionate listening. Boy it can feel lonely. There can be days when you're human too, and you just don't want to hear yet another reason why someone thinks you're wrong." -Meghan Gardner Full Transcript Meghan Gardner Transcript Meghan Gardner's Resources & Contact Info: The Catalyst Event: July 15: Integrating Cultural Education into Schools The Cultural Educator and Diversity & Inclusion Specialist Database Guard Up's Guardian Adventures & STEM Summer Camps Culturaled.net Guardian Adventures Instagram.com Twitter Facebook Linkedin Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Tom Woelper, Founding Head of School New England Innovation Academy Tom has had a distinguished 31-year career in independent education, most recently serving as the Head of School of Far Hills Country Day School in Far Hills, New Jersey. Prior to his tenure at Far Hills, Tom served as the Assistant Head of School and Dean of Academic Life and taught history during his 14 years at The Hotchkiss School. Tom began his career in independent school education as a teaching intern at Groton School and then as a history teacher and Class Dean at The Taft School. Following a sabbatical year from Taft, Tom served as the Head of the Ake Panya International School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He also has served on the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, where he co-chaired the Accreditation Committee. Show Highlights Our future is characterized by disruptive technologies Break the Cellblock Gold Watch model in education to prepare students for the changing world Human-Centered Design school, iterate, fail fast, and fail forward Empathy is knowing that socks are more valuable than boots Putting into practice diversity, equity, and inclusion as cornerstones of your vision IDEAS will create action and connection Manage both the stress and the opportunity Position every member of the school as an educator Use your campus as a textbook "To develop an innovator, you need to have a group of people who have diverse backgrounds, experience, and thinking, and by extension, you're looking at diversity in all of its forms. It's visible and it's invisible forms. We know that diverse groups outperform homogenous groups all the time. For us to be successful in our mission and our educational mission, we have to be a diverse school, both in terms of the students and the faculty. Essential to what we're all about, but you can't stop there. Even in our acronym, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Action. Action is the A in social justice. Many schools or institutions stop short of the action, you have to actively dismantle the existing racism. You have to actively examine your own bias. You have to actively think about how you develop a community of diverse learners." -Tom Woelper Full Transcript Tom Woelper Transcript Tom Woelper's Resources & Contact Info: Twitter.com/twoelper Twitter.com/HelloNEIA LinkedIn Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Sam was an English teacher, Academic Intervention Specialist, athletic coach, and School Counselor for 21 years and is currently serving as Chief Development Officer at SimpliCollege.com. He is the Author of Choose the Perfect College and Hire Education. The father of five children, his family recently moved from the Philadelphia suburbs to Denver Metro. Sam is the host of the Made to Thrive podcast and is writing Why Aren't Men Thriving?, which is due out in early 2022. Show Highlights History proves Masterminds are transformational systems for achievement When culture and profession collide The art of being an aggressive suggester Don't miss delivery points of SEL programs and make teachers a dirty pipe Your leadership values serve McDonalds or Chick-fil-A Create boundaries that allow people to stay in their lane and you to move faster in yours A needed paradigm shift for the counselors Simpli College is a turn key,frictionless entry point into the college conversation for equity and access "Simpli College says your job as a counselor is to help people create a log-in and that's it. All of a sudden you think about the people who for a long time, unfortunately, school has been about access to school. Most of the school experience is given to those who know the system. Many of our families are first generation and have not had a welcoming school experience as parents. They're not going to pick up the phone and call the counselor and figure out when they can get in and talk about whether even college is a good idea for their kid." -Sam Feeney Full Transcript Sam Feeney Transcript Sam Feeney's Resources & Contact Info: Simpli College Choose the Perfect College Made to Thrive Podcast Linkedin simplicollege/ The Infinite Game LinkedIn Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Matt Silverthorne brings 30 years of high school teaching experience with him to Empowered — he introduced the program to its very first classroom in 1991. Today Matt is the Strategic Growth Director. His job entails inspiring and growing a movement that attracts and motivates Empowered educator customers to become principled social change entrepreneurs. Show Highlights "Playing School" pivot to a Ruckus Maker connection to kids First business we all start is the business of ourselves Ownership of growth for the entire learning community Blended methodology connecting students to markets and entrepreneurial thinking 3D Empowered model to discover innate talents and abilities The components of the "special sauce" "Transformational mindset" Turning barriers into opportunities Connecting Content to our own value Incentivize behavior and own your choices "We believe real change happens when we transform the classroom into a deeply experiential environment and we power those experiences with the undeniable power of markets. It means deemphasizing, tests, grades, and material. It doesn't mean deemphasizing their importance. It means deemphasizing those as the outcome in the classroom. Not getting the student to focus on the test, the material, but to focus on their own transformation, their own learning, their own transformation in terms of knowledge and skills. It means shining the spotlight on each individual student, helping each individual student discover, develop and apply their unique gifts." -Matt Silverthorne Full Transcript Matt Silverthorne Transcript Matt Silverthorne's Resources & Contact Info: Empowered Empowered: Home magazine developed just for teachers YE Academy - Entrepreneurship Education Hub | Youth Entrepreneurs-Our curriculum resources Teach Everywhere by Youth Entrepreneurs: Home Twitter Linkedin Facebook Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

Jeff Becker's an award-winning school counselor and teacher with a Master's in Secondary Counseling and a second degree in communications- so he's a boots-on-the-ground leader and entrepreneur. Jeff is also an adjunct professor at National University for their Master's program in Social and Emotional Learning. He's the founder of two revolutionary products that help principals to deliver much-needed SEL to their kids without taxing their teachers. And it looks like something from Netflix, so kids love it. Show Highlights Solving the SEL need with 5 minute videos How to Multiply yourself Build tension before you unpack solutions Resources to help students build self-discipline What it's like to have a principal that trusts you Archaic communication promotes the thing you're going against As a school leader, you're the biggest bottleneck Avoid 60 plus hour work weeks for your best year ever "The thing that keeps me up at night is all of these fires that we're constantly putting out as ed leaders. The more fires we're putting out and jumping around and being reactive, the less we're proactive about the skills that we're given to our children." -Jeff Becker Full Transcript Jeff Becker Transcript Jeff Becker's Resources & Contact Info: http://www.incontrolsel.com/danny betterleadersbetterschools.com/challenge-july-2021 Twitter LinkedIn Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join "The Mastermind" Read the latest on the blog SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs. ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder. Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC