The Principal's Office Podcast

Leading Through Change: In times of change it is alright to be uncertain, but is not alright to be unclear about the vision. This teaching will provide you a series of key strategies to ensure stakeholders and teams are along for the journey and have hope in you.

Learning From Failure: We all have failed. However, not everyone has the ability to learn from their failures and produce significant outcomes. This lesson will help you change your mindset

No Clarity, No Progress: Being stuck stinks. This lesson will teach you steps creating clarity in any aspect of your life so you can see the next steps and live the life you were put on this earth to live.

To go fast, go alone. To go far, build a team. This lesson will provide you with key strategies to ensure you hire the most effective, like minded and value based teammates.

Seasons of Leadership: There is a reason why the most effective school leaders have completed their hiring and program tweaking six to twelve months in advance. This teaching will teach you how to prepare on the front end so you are not spending each fall playing catch up and repairing on the back end.

This podcast will teach leaders three critical strategies and provide specific action steps on how to lead difficult adults. Go to: http://bit.ly/LBL-Store to learn more.

Teacher Meetings: What is it that teachers are supposed to be doing during their meeting? Do you know? More importantly, do they know? This lesson will provide you the key practices and principles of effective teacher leadership meetings.

Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: Learn about a leadership landmine that I stepped on early in my career and the three practices and principles that my mentor taught me in order to connect better with people. You follow these principles, and people will follow you.

Celebrating an organization’s success is a critical component of effective oversight. High impact boards identify and communicate the specific evidences they will accept to demonstrate the organization’s progress on the school’s goals. This session will teach boards how to effectively identify and communicate the acceptable evidences demonstrating the school’s progress towards its goals.

Why Good Intentions are Not Enough: This lesson was part of our Intentional Living Series discusses the difference between Good Intentions and Intentional Living. What our actions do not always match our talk and strategies to overcome.

The mission statement is more than words on paper, it is why you exist. This video will provide you examples of effective mission statements and 7 questions you and your team should use to evaluate your mission.

If you are not preparing, you will be repairing! This lesson will assist any charter school leader in the development of their board meeting agenda to ensure a stronger end of year finish.

The answers to these three questions were critical to my success as a principal and education consultant. This less is past of my Blue Print4 Charter Success Program, learn more at:https://leaders-building-leaders.com/blueprint-4-success/

Media Inquiries: When the opportunity comes it is too late to prepare. This lesson will ensure you and your team are always prepared and nail that 30 second sound byte when the mic is on you.

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“When you take on something bigger than yourself, the universe helps you.” Dr. Joanne Woodard This episode hit me right in the heart! If you listen through to the endwhen I read the poem posted in the hallway of the school, written by its namesake in 1948, you will see why. For this episode of The Principal’s Office Podcast, I had the chance to visit with Dr. Joanne Woodard, of Sallie B. Howard Sc...

“The adults in the building are my students - that’s who I’m teaching” - Cheryl Turner Today I have the distinct pleasure of bringing you our latest podcast with Ms Cheryl Turner from Sugar Creek Charter School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sugar Creek is one of the one of the most impressive organizations that we've worked with because, as we fancy ourselves leadership organization, one thing tha...

Today’s guest on The Principal’s Office Podcast is Joe Caraher, Director of Cornerstone Charter Academy: A TeamCFA School. Joe has helped lead Cornerstone to a new building in Greensboro, NC, where they house over 1000 students in kindergarten through 11th grade, and they approach their first class of graduating seniors in 2018-19. Joe’s common sense leadership style reflects the success of the sc...

“Every day as schools there is a battle going on between the plan... and everything else.” -Alex Quigley For this episode of The Principal’s Office Podcast we sat down with Alex Quigley to talk about leadership at the school, state, and family level. Alex is currently the Executive Director of Healthy Start Academy in Durham, NC, as well as the Chair of North Carolina’s Charter School Advisory Boa...

Welcome Lori Roy, principal of Cape Fear Center for Inquiry in Wilmington, NC., to the Principal's Office. This school is over a decade old and serves K-8th grade with an inquiry-based learning platform. Lori and her team do a tremendous job defining their version of inquiry, and how they have built their program to support this mindset in the teachers and students. During this podcast, Lori and h...

Our guest today, Meghan Agresto, founder of the Water's Edge Village School, is no stranger to the perennial charter school puzzle of limited resources. The school is located in Corolla, NC, the last town north on the Outer Banks, and with only 32 students this year, they have still found a way to stay true to their mission and provide a valuable school of choice for their community. Meghan by day...

We talk a lot about mentoring and mentors in our work with leadership development, and it is something special to meet one of your mentor’s mentors! This podcast features Joy Warner, who has long been someone that my friend and mentor Tom Miller has referred to as the best school leader he has ever seen. Joy is the founder and executive director, and also high school principal, at Community School...

This week we get back into the Principal's Office with Dr. Charles Fuller at Envision Science Academy in Wake Forest, NC, which is just outside Raleigh. Envision is a K-8 school and I spent most of January and February with Dr. Fuller, who was a long time teacher and principal in Franklin county, NC He joined the charter school world and Envision two years ago, when Envision was coming off a rocky...

Today we bring you a conversation with Mark Bailey from Maureen Joy Charter School in Durham, NC. Mark talks at great length about the challenge of building and rebuilding school culture, his specific strategies in his first year at the school. Whether you are in your first year or your twentieth year, I think you will find Mark's thoughts to be innovative, yet applicable whether you are building...

For this month’s episode, we hosted Dr. Les Stein, who came to see us at our new office in Knightdale, North Carolina to talk all things leadership. Dr. Stein is a retired colonel in the Marine Corps, and has been the school leader at charter and private schools in Raleigh, Durham, and Burlington, NC. Dr. Stein has taught at Meredith College and Northeastern University in Boston. He is also an aut...