The Assistant Principal Podcast

Seven Favorite Things Today’s show covers seven favorite of my favorite parts of the book! One for the introduction and one for each of the six stages.   The Strategic Leader’s Guide to Reclaiming Purpose: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWRS2F6N?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520   Monthly nudges : A single email each month to highlight a single stage ( link )   Frederick’s Links: Email: frederick@frederickb...

Assistant Principal Podcast Content Episode Outline     Show Description: In 2007 I lead a group of six professors at Western Carolina University in a total redesign of our masters of school administration principal licensure program. I was the coordinator of a program that had jest become fully online, our admissions were skyrocketing and our students were becoming much more diverse. The old prog...

  Show Title: Presence and Passion for Living with Lindsay Titus   Power Quote: “Emotions are energy in motion”     Description: How do you take care of yourself when you are so busy taking care of others? How can you be present when there is so much to do? What’s the meaning of life? Okay, we won’t go quite that deep in today’s show, but we will explore ideas around being authentic and loving you...

The Three Epiphanies     Maybe you are a new admin this fall. Maybe you are headed to a new school. Maybe you are staying where you are, but new people are coming to you. In today’s abbreviated episode, we’ll play with this idea of newness.       The Big Idea ·      What this podcast was going to be…. ·      BB King ·      3 epiphanies ·      Can’t do everything on the front end of new… ·      Wha...

Show Title: 42 and Stuff with Dr. Steve Miletto   Description: Today’s conversation is like a meandering stream that is destined to end in a specific place. What are the meanders, and where do they lead? Stay tuned!   Guest Bio: Dr. Steven Miletto has been an educator in Georgia(US) for 37 years. He has served public school families as a history teacher, assistant principal, high school principal,...

Show Title: Authentic Parent Partnerships with Ari Gerzon-Kessler   Power Quote:     Description: Imagine that we have some time scheduled to meet together. What would you want to talk about? And how would I know what you wanted to talk about? You would either have had to tell me, or I would have had to ask. And if neither of those things happened before the meeting, we might both be a bit disappo...

Supporting Early Career Teachers – a Systems Approach   Show Description: With all the challenges we face, it can be difficult to focus on just one thing. In fact, it often feels like we do the opposite – throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks. In today’s episode I detail how we can make important gains by focusing on one thing – helping early career teachers build positive classroom cu...

Show Title: “One-offs Matter” with Jen Manly   Power Quote: “One-offs matter.”     Description: Do you remember being a teacher? Or maybe you are an aspiring AP and you are still in the classroom. Either way, I want you to think about the relationship between the evaluation process, professional development days, and teacher growth. It seems like these are three related things, but in much of my e...

Show Title: Coaching and a Culture of Learning with Elena Aguilar   Power Quote: “To normalize growth, we must normalize making mistakes.”     Description: Before we get started, I need to give a shout out to Dr. Pam Buskey. Today is our anniversary and though the years have flown by too quickly, every one of them has been filled with special moments, big and small. Marriage is a partnership and I...

Show Title: The Coaching Relationship with Elena Aguilar   Power Quote: “We are social beings.”     Description: In 2013 Elena Aguilar wrote The Art of Coaching . I came across the book soon after and it has shaped the way I view and do coaching. Today’s show is part 1 of my discussion with Elena in which we focus defining coaching and identifying the foundations of coaching. There are some great...

Ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the pain?)   Show Description: Last week you listened to Chad Dumas and I discuss PLCs. When we began talking, I had in my head the idea of a PLC being a discrete thing – group of teachers collaborating around honing their teaching skills. I suspect that most of you listening also had similar ideas – that PLCs were things we could drop into schools and have teachers...

Outline and Show Notes   Show Title: Will the Real PLC Please Stand Up? with Dr. Chad Dumas   Power Quote: “Clarity precedes confidence”     Description: I’m giving you fair warning – today’s show is loaded with both big ideas and small techniques. The discussion will feel like it is meandering a bit but stay with us because it all comes together into a powerful conclusion. As your thoughts are be...

Show Title: Celebrating 200 with Frederick and Mara   Power Quote: People are the purpose Guest Bio: Frederick Buskey helps school leaders reclaim their purpose! Building on 33 years of k-12 and higher education leadership experience, Frederick provides simple frameworks and practical tools to help leaders make immediate incremental improvements. His new book, A School Leader’s Guide to Reclaiming...

Outline and Show Notes   Show Title: Are You Okay? With Jamie Brown   Power Quote: “Connection before correction”   Jamie’s Student Debrief Protocol: 1.     Are you okay? 2.     What was the trigger? 3.     How did the behavior impact others? 4.     What could you have done differently?   Description: Are you okay? Of course, your answer to that question may vary depending on the circumstances, bu...

This is a bonus episode done while I was hiking and reflecting on my own training facilitation. Frederick’s Links: Email: frederick@frederickbuskey.com Website: https://www.frederickbuskey.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/strategicleadershipconsulting Daily Email subscribe: https://adept-experimenter-3588.ck.page/fdf37cbf3a The Strategic Leader’s Guide to Reclaiming Purpose: https://www.a...

Show title and release date: Who Should Drive Change? With Frederick   Power quote: Lighter = faster and easier with less risk of injury   Show Description: In a few weeks you will hear my discussion with Dr. Chad Dumas in which we dig into PLCs. We begin by noting the “PLC” is one of the most despised buzzwords by teachers and dig into the why. In my conversation with Chad, we move from 40,000 fe...

Outline and Show Notes   Show Title: Mastermind! With Dr. Nick Davies   Power Quote: Be willing to fail     Description: When I say the word “mastermind”, what thoughts spring into your head? Do you picture the head of a shadowy criminal enterprise, or the 1980’s colored-dot guessing game (think WORDL with colors). Or maybe you think about a special club for people in similar roles to come togethe...

Outline and Show Notes   Show Title: Three questions with Dr. Brandon Beck   Power Quote: “Our ultimate goal is to unlock unlimited potential in others”   Description: Today’s show is going to inspire you. It will take you deep into yourself, maybe places you go every day, but also to places within that you haven’t visited in a while. I guarantee after today’s show you are going to want to invest...

Interview Tip: Tell the Story that Drives You!   The Big Idea   ·       Interview tips for aspiring APs (Dos vs. don'ts, or any stories of a successful interview or an interview that did not go well) o   Remember you are interviewing them o   Be authentic – if you compromise in the interview you can never get it back o   Tell what you have done, not what you would do o   Tell the story that drives...

A Human Approach to Schooling with Dr. Faiza Jamil   Power Quote: We lose our ability to see the whole     Description: You can think of today’s show as a bit of a thought experiment. What changes if we make relationships, at every level of the school, THE priority? It is a thought experiment, but we also have lots of experience that tells us how that experiment could turn out.   Guest Bio: Faiza...

Power quote: If you don’t have a relationship, you aren’t coaching… your telling.   Show Description: The foundation of coaching. That’s today’s topic, although it wasn’t what I had planned. This episode was scheduled to be about coaching fundamentals, but as I began working on the first part of the show – I realized the foundation needed more than a couple lines. So, once again, we will be talkin...

Investing in Growth with Dr. Nick Davies   Power Quote: Control What you can     Description: If you don’t grow, how can you get better? Yet, in a job where you can’t ever get everything done, how do you find time to grow? Today we have the 2024 Washington State Elementary Principal of the Year here to help us figure out how to prioritize growth.   Guest Bio: Dr. Davies is an associate principal f...

Description: Today’s show is guest hosted by Mara Buskey, the Inclusion Strategist at Strategic Leadership Consulting. Frederick’s new book, A School Leader’s Guide to Reclaiming Purpose, is out and we thought it would be fun to celebrate by turning the tables and having Mara be the guest host to interview Frederick about the book. Enjoy!   Guest Bio: Frederick Buskey helps assistant principals li...

Guest: Andrea Bitner   Show Title: We Are the Ticket with Andrea Bitner   Power Quote: “Lack of language does not equal lack of intelligence”     Description: I love doing shows where you, my colleague, can walk away with concrete steps to use in making immediate incremental improvements. The only thing better than those shows are the ones offering a transformative shift in perspective – where you...

Show Title: Run to the Complexity with Jason McKenna   Power Quote: STEM is a mirror of our world”     Description: STEM has been around for awhile, but I’ll be honest – I don’t actually know what stem is. It is a process? A product? A package? And who can do STEM? And, as school leaders, how do we know if STEM is worth encouraging and, if it is, how do we support teachers who wade into the STEM a...