Dr. Grant Chandler

The Wheelhouse

The Wheelhouse exists to create an inclusive community of empowered educators who believe that, together, we can disrupt the transactional herding nature of schooling to create districts, schools, and classrooms where each student feels confident, optimistic, capable, well-supported, and emboldened to be and to become who they are meant to be. Guiding Principles1. We are steadfastly committed to each learner and each educator believing they are distinctive and irreplaceable.2. We believe that educating our children should be a humanizing, relational, and transformational endeavor. All else is...

Author

Dr. Grant Chandler

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Education

Podcast website

ourstudentsmatter.org

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Looking Forward - Charting a Path to a New Destination 13.12.2021

Accomplishment-Driven Leadership will help us maneuver today's challenges in public education.

An ADL Action Plan 29.11.2021

We conclude the ADL thinking and action regarding a common leadership issue we introduced in the last episode.

ADL in Action 22.11.2021

Today, we take a common leadership problem and explore it using the arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership.

Revisiting a Journey to Accomplishment-Driven Ledership 09.11.2021

This episode highlights the journey of one district leader toward Accomplishment-Driven Leadership.

Realization as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership 01.11.2021

This episode explores the fifth arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Realization.

Contemplation as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership 25.10.2021

This episode explores the fourth of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Contemplation.

Guidance as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership 18.10.2021

This episode explores the third of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Guidance.

Poise as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership 11.10.2021

This episode explores the second of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - POISE.

Captainship as an Arena of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership 04.10.2021

This episode explores the first of five arenas of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership - Captainship.

Leadership for a New Era 27.09.2021

In the opening episode of season three, Dr. Chandler discuses the critical role "Accomplishment-Driven Leadership" plays in responding to our current needs and chartering a path forward in the new era of education

Let's Open Doors, Not Close Them 05.07.2021

This final episode of season two explores the responsibility that we have as educators to ensure that doors are open for each of our students. We have no idea where their life paths will take them. Our job is to open as many opportunities as possible; we must think about how our actions can unintentionally close doors and diminish opportunity.

Uncovering the Silver Linings 21.06.2021

Hollis Upper Elementary School principal and international consultant, Candice Fowler returns to The Wheelhouse to talk about reflections on the past year and some very important silver linings from an incredibly unforgettable school year!

Exploring Buildership 14.06.2021

Dr. Robyn Jackson, CEO of Mindsets, Inc., award winning administrator and author of ten books including her latest publication, Stop Leading Start Building: Turn Your School into a Success Story with the People and Resources You Already Have , stops in for a conversation on this episode of The Wheelhouse.

On the Journey to Accomplishment-Driven Leadership 07.06.2021

District leader, Penny Brockway, stops in The Wheelhouse to share her thoughts on what it means to her and to her leaders to be on the journey to Accomplishment-Driven Leadership.

Empower Each Student to Thrive 24.05.2021

This episode explores the mental mindset shift we ought to make to better support our behaviorally challenging students. It further establishes a new, concrete definition of "support" that so many teachers and leaders seek to help them solve this complicated issue.

Turning the Blue Bucket Purple 17.05.2021

This episode explores how to support teachers and leaders through the difficult process of meaningful, impactful change.

How Well Do We Really Know Them? 10.05.2021

In today's episode, I’d like us to think about disrupting the way in which we build relationships with students.

National Teacher Appreciation Week 03.05.2021

In this week's episode, literacy coach Chelsee Strickland stops by The Wheelhouse to celebrate teachers and to think about the future of the profession. Happy National Teacher Appreciation Week!

Moving Beyond the Fourth Wall 26.04.2021

Not all learning is standards-based and not all learning is tied to a specific course or to a specific discipline. The academic world is artificial. Learning is so much bigger than progress reports, report cards, state assessments, and the five paragraph essay? We invented some of those things to live within the artificiality of the classroom. Let’s connect the classroom to the world beyond. And C...

Uncovering Positive Intent 19.04.2021

Each and every student comes to school every day wanting to be successful. Some have the skills to do so, others both students and adults fall short. Some have all the skills they need while others lack the skills needed to meet academic, social, emotional, or behavioral expectations. But isn’t that what school is for? If everyone came fully loaded with all the skills, attitudes, and motivation, w...

Redefining Leadership 12.04.2021

This episode explores Students Matter's definition of Accomplishment-Driven Leadership, one of the three pillars in it's Teaching, Learning, & Leading Infrastructure.

Targeting Reading and Writing 05.04.2021

In part-two of my conversation with Candice Fowler we talk about her building's efforts to maximize student learning in reading and math.

Team Building in a Pandemic 29.03.2021

This episode is a conversation with Candice Fowler, Principal of Hollis Elementary School in Hollis, New Hampshire and focuses on her efforts to guide her team through a pandemic.

Lessons Learned from a Pandemic 22.03.2021

This episode explores the power of teacher recorded video and authentic relationships as two key learnings we need to take with us when we build our new normal.

Each Student's Life is Distinctive and Irreplaceable 15.03.2021

This episode highlights the the need for urgency in proving to each student that he/she is both distinctive and irreplaceable.

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