The Assistant Principal Podcast

Have you ever popped into a classroom, just to see what’s going on, and have the teacher stop the lesson and begin explaining to you what they are doing? Or have them continue teaching but give that look of, “what are you doing in my classroom?” Or, after one of these pop-ins, had the teacher run to you after class and want to know if you thought they did okay? None of these things is helpful, and...

Today's episode of five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of October 3rd through seventh twenty, twenty two. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you'll find some added value here. And if you don't already subscribe, you can find a link on my homepage at frederickbuskey.com Many readers like to begin their mornings by reading the email and setting...

Show Notes, Episode 63: Productive Disruption with Dr. Mary Hemphill About this show:  Ship is sinking (may 26, 2022, Ep 28) The teacher shortage is not going awayThe academic setbacks from COVID will ripple through our schools for ten yearsContinued trauma has exacerbated already challenging mental health issues among our students, their families, and even our teachers. Politics – enough said. Th...

2022-09-27_62_Five for Friday_FINAL AUDIO  00:01  Hello colleagues, and welcome to the Assistant Principal podcast. I'm your host, Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to improve life and leadership for assistant principals. Today's episode of five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of September twenty sixth through thirtieth twenty twenty two. If you already g...

Show Description: How did your to-do list go today? How about yesterday? How will it go tomorrow? If you missed last week’s webinar on escaping the black hole of urgency, you may still be focused on the to-do list. I won’t recap the entire webinar here, but I will pull a couple of highlights.   Show Intro   Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Bu...

Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of September 19-23, 2022. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you’ll find some added value here and...

Assistant Principal Podcast Content Episode Outline   Show title and release date: 9/20/22   Show Description: Everything has a cost. That cost can be easily measured in time, money, and attention. But the larger and more important cost is opportunity cost. Opportunity cost reflects what we could have done with the time, money, and attention that we spent on doing whatever we did. Because our scho...

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Show Notes, Episode 58: Supporting New Teachers with John Schembari About this show: We all know how critical it is to support new teachers, but do we actually know how to support them? Today we answer four questions: What do we mean when we say “new teacher?” How can APs build collaborative relationships with new teachers? What specific actions can we take to meet the personal and professional ne...

Monday: Relationships in the workplace take three basic forms: ·      Congenial: people share a social bond ·      Pragmatic: people share a professional bond ·      Collegial: people share professional and social bonds   The problem with congenial relationships is that while they make people happy, they don’t help us achieve the organizational purpose.   The problem with pragmatic relationships i...

Show Notes, Episode 55: The Black Hole of Urgency   For many of us, our goals – our dreams – of leadership revolve around helping others: ·       By helping them gain skills, ·       By aligning systems so their work is easier and less frustrating,  ·       By increasing opportunities,  ·       And by building powerful collegial relationships.   But those goals, dreams, intentions, slip away from...

Looking forward to episode 56: The Black Hole of Urgency!

Assistant Principal Podcast Five for Friday   Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of August 29-September 2, 2022. If you already get my daily leadership emails...

Show Notes, Episode 53: Supporting New Teachers, August 30, 2022   About this show: In my teacher education program at The Ohio State University, I had two professors who literally wrote the book on managing students and spaces in physical education. Some of our student teaching lessons were taped, and the video was analyzed in six-second increments. Time was coded based on what a specific student...

Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of August 22-26, 202. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you’ll find some added value here and if y...

Show Notes, Episode 51: Who are you? With Craig Martin About this show: Last spring several of the assistant principals in our APEx group asked if we could work on how APs can influence school culture without over-stepping their boundaries. One AP noted that this could be especially problematic if you and your principal had very different styles. Back then I approached this as a culture question,...

Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of August 15-19, 202. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of August 15-19, 202. We also celebrate out 50th episode by listening to five of our favorite outtakes from the pod.   If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you’ll find some added val...

Show Notes, Episode 49: The Instructional Leadership Team About this show: This episode is titled THE Instructional Leadership Team. Why “THE Instructional Leadership Team” ? Why not the instructional leadership team? The fun reason is because I’m an Ohio State grad, and The Ohio State University sounds way cooler than Ohio State. But the real reason is because “THE Instructional Leadership Team”...

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Show Notes, Episode 47: From first year AP to AP of the Year with Dr. Tia Jones Pt. 2 About this show: What does it mean to be an assistant principal? What is your job? What are the essential skills? One of the reasons being an AP is so challenging is because there aren’t really clear answers to these questions. Outside of busses, books, and butts, there isn’t a strong consensus for what makes a g...

Show Notes, Episode 46: From first year AP to AP of the Year with Dr. Tia Jones Pt. 1 About this show: What does it mean to be an assistant principal? What is your job? What are the essential skills? One of the reasons being an AP is so challenging is because there aren’t really clear answers to these questions. Outside of busses, books, and butts, there isn’t a strong consensus for what makes a g...

Summary of the daily leadership emails from the week of August 1-5.

Show Notes, Episode 44: The Story That Drives Me About this show: Many of us have a story that drives what we do. We had a special teacher, or a great mentor, or even a horrible experience. Whichever it might have been, there is a story that is so deeply rooted in our psyche, that it drives what we do and how we do it. Today… my story. Notable Quotes Frederick “The problem is, what we focus on is...

Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of July 25-29, 2022.

Show Notes, Episode 42: The Curmudgeon with Nat Ellis About this show: When we talk about teachers resisting change, we often conjure up images of the curmudgeon – the 30-year veteran teacher who hasn’t changed and refuses to “get with the program.”  However, often times there are good reasons to resist change. Just as importantly, our veteran teachers can be great allies in building and improving...