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

    Ben Jones knew he was going to be a principal when he was in 3rd grade. His entire school career, while a bit tumultuous at times, gave him experiences that helped him become an impassioned educator.  After graduating from the University of Georgia in December of 2002, he began teaching at Carson Middle School in Greene County, GA.    After getting married in 2004, Ben and his wife moved to Fo...

    Ben Jones knew he was going to be a principal when he was in 3rd grade. His entire school career, while a bit tumultuous at times, gave him experiences that helped him become an impassioned educator.  After graduating from the University of Georgia in December of 2002, he began teaching at Carson Middle School in Greene County, GA.    After getting married in 2004, Ben and his wife moved to Fo...

    Stacey Green began her tenure at Stockton Grade School (SGS) as a new principal with an ambitious goal: transform the school's culture from an isolated, individual classroom focus to an integrated, responsive, and collaborative environment where teachers lead with the whole child and the whole school in mind. In just six years, Green has had remarkable success, not only because of her individu...

    Stacey Green began her tenure at Stockton Grade School (SGS) as a new principal with an ambitious goal: transform the school's culture from an isolated, individual classroom focus to an integrated, responsive, and collaborative environment where teachers lead with the whole child and the whole school in mind. In just six years, Green has had remarkable success, not only because of her individu...

  Do You Have A Safe Space to Unpack Tough Career Decisions? Dr. Charles Warfield has served the Haddon Township School District since 2002, where he has simultaneously been the principal of Stoy Elementary School and Jennings Elementary School.    Prior to his tenure in Haddon Twp., Chuck spent three years in the Cherry Hill School District as an Assistant Principal at Carusi Middle School. He al...

    Dr. Charles Warfield has served the Haddon Township School District since 2002, where he has simultaneously been the principal of Stoy Elementary School and Jennings Elementary School.    Prior to his tenure in Haddon Twp., Chuck spent three years in the Cherry Hill School District as an Assistant Principal at Carusi Middle School. He also taught elementary school in the Penns Grove-Carneys Po...

  Lauren Cikara is the Director of K-12 Initiatives at Active Minds. Prior to that, she worked for the Colorado School of Public Health School recruiting schools to participate in the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey (HKCS), Colorado's Youth Risk Behaviour Survey (YRBS), and Smart Source. She is a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusive school board policies and ensures the work she is a part of has an e...

    Hailing from Canada's Capital region, Loop pedal violist, composer, and educator Kathryn Patricia Cobbler has crafted a singular niche in improvisation and classical performance. Bringing creativity to concert halls, schools, and community venues, her work as a performing artist, composer, educator, and speaker centers around multidisciplinary collaborations that both hold space for and tell t...

    Show Highlights Tips to boost your confidence to avoid imposter syndrome.  Every leader needs a "Jar of Awesome" to capture the results you create. Learn your default response when it comes to facing obstacles, challenges, and failures. No Wasted Experience, you need to invest in yourself. Accomplishing anything of massive value in your life takes a strong mindset.  Modify "A principal's lunch...

How to solve the crisis in education   Stanley Litow is a Professor at Duke, Trustee of the State University of NY and  columnist at Barron's. He previously served as President of the IBM Foundation, Deputy Schools Chancellor for New York City, Founder and head of Interface and Executive Director the Urban Corps. He organized and led 3 National Education Summits, served on two Presidential Commiss...

Road To Awesome Darrin Peppard is a leadership expert focused on organizational culture and climate, and coaching growing emerging leaders. Darrin is the author of the book Road to Awesome: Empower, Lead, Change the Game. He is also the host of the Leaning into Leadership podcast. As a 'recovering high school principal', Darrin shares strategies and lessons learned and effective from over 25 years...

The Leadership Optimization Compass    Show Highlights Operating at your personal best consistently every day next year for your campus with this tool.  Learn the four parts to T he Leadership Optimization Compass framework.  Unplug in Denver with a stripped down personalized approach to achieving your leadership goals.  If you wanna create bigger results for your campus, you need to network to im...

  Bryan Miltenberg is the proud principal of Aquebogue Elementary School in Riverhead, New York. He's been a teacher, dean, and middle school assistant principal, and has presented and published on topics including school climate and culture, instructional technology, self-aware leadership, inclusivity, time management, and co-teaching partnerships. Against all logic, he remains a suffering lifelo...

      Show Highlights The one decision that's going to change everything for you with this simple strategy regarding culture. Stop blaming students for failures and get organized as a professional learning community. The survey you need to overcome your blind spots to ensure you are celebrating your entire learning community.  Epic Live Mastermind event in Denver this summer with a brand new frame...

Culture to the Max   Dr. Shontoria Walker is a graduate from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas with a degree in Professional Leadership with an emphasis in Literacy. Her research focuses on using culturally relevant pedagogy to influence literacy achievement for middle school Black Male Students based on her experiences as a former 8th grade English teacher at an all-boys preparatory aca...

    Born in Scotland and raised around the world, Kirsten is a truly global thinker.  Her educational training spans Scotland, USA, Australia and more.    After 27 years of international education experience across 7 countries and leadership positions in 5 schools, she now works as an independent consultant, creating individually tailored PD for schools, developing online learning events and coach...

Dr. Steven Weber is the Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning. He brings more than 20 years of experience to the district having previously served as the Executive Director for Curriculum and Instruction with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (NC). During his career, he has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, director of secondary, and executive director of curriculum...

    Ryan Steuer is the founder of Magnify Learning, a Project Based Learning professional development organization. Prior to founding Magnify Learning, Ryan was an engineer for a Fortune 50 company, an eighth-grade English teacher, and a missionary. He shares his educational leadership insights on YouTube and on the PBL Simplified podcast.   Show Highlights The adventures and life learning from RV...

    Mitch doesn't teach teachers how to teach. He teaches teachers how to set students up for success. He can teach teachers how to deliver content - He is good at it, but that's not where he adds value for your school or district.    As you know, unless students develop a solid foundation for learning it does not matter how great your teachers deliver content, or how emergent the technology, or e...

  Show Highlights   School transformation and really leveraging curiosity and intentional design. Turn critics into cheerleaders with the "Can If mental model"  Use the nine propelling questions to leverage the constraints and do something powerful within your school. Use your leadership superpowers and tools and follow the map your biggest critics provide.  Create opportunity and rewards for your...

In this special episode, Chief Ruckus Maker, Danny Bauer teaches the Principal Success Formula™. This episode is in-depth. Much deeper than a usual show. We recommend you listen to this one with a notebook, so you can follow along and do the work Danny had leaders do when he taught this live. The four parts of the Principal Success Formula™ are: LEVEL UP your mindset so that you are an even more m...

    Dr. Decoteau J. Irby's life work focuses on creating and sustaining organizations that contribute to Black people's self-determined well-being, development, and positive life outcomes. He is an Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is the author Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press)...

  Shannon Buerk is the Founder and CEO of engage2learn, a leading provider of Education Intelligence through smart professional learning, job-embedded coaching, and related technology solutions since 2011. Educator turned entrepreneur, she has emerged as a thought leader on educational leadership, organizational culture, and systems thinking. Buerk recently published Connect the Dots: Utilizing Ed...

    Will Jawando is an attorney, an activist, a community leader, and a councilmember in Montgomery County, Maryland, a diverse community of more than one million residents. Called "the progressive leader we need" by the late congressman John Lewis, Jawando has worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Sherrod Brown, and President Barack Obama. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post and T...

Dr. CJ Lowery, is the Assistant Superintendent in Rockport-Fulton Texas.  He has a background with inner-city and rural Title 1 schools as a teacher and principal.  CJ believes that education is not a job, it's a mission field.  This mission field requires strong relationships, data, and collaboration for success. "It's not who you know, but who you were good to."   Show Highlights   Ruckus Makers...