Urban Principal: Leadership Lessons

Courageous leadership is about sticking to your convictions and maintaining a strong vision. The ability to take action, make decisions and take risks can help you lead the way!

Leaders must keep a positive mindset while working with those that would take your time and energy. It is important to keep a balance and not become discouraged.

A majority of leaders don’t take the time away they need. This episode reviews the need for leaders to unplug and rejuvenate for both physical and mental wellbeing.

This episode emphasizes an effective leaders ability to take a break, reflect and reset for a new school year.

Empowerment can make the difference! Use the strengths, talents and motivation your staff has to supercharge your culture. Empowering your staff can be a way of opening the doors to success!

This episode discusses how a leader’s ability to share can enhance transparency and help staff to get the “Big Picture’ view of what is going on.

This is the time of year when many principals are having needed conversations. It could be around performance, class size or budget constraints. It is important to communicate well, be honest and caring when sharing needed decisions.

How do we keep educators? This episode wraps our dive into the book, “Meet Their Needs and They’ll Succeed” by Salome Thomas-EL as we review ways to keep teachers in the profession.

This episode continues our unpacking of the book, “Meet Their Needs and They’ll Succeed by Salome Thomas-EL. We specifically look at joyous, engaging classrooms and after-school support.

This episode draws from the recent ASCD book by Salome Thomas-EL “Meet Their Needs and They ‘ll Succeed” and looks at ways to support student success!

This episode looks at some insights from Warren Buffett that translate into effective leadership skills. His habits can help make you a better leader!

This episode discusses the significance of creating balance to perform at your best, Leaders need many types of rest in order to remain effective.

Leaders keep growing! It is important to continue to grow as a leader. What are strategies you can do to maximize your growth?

This episode looks at the original marshmallow experiment that was testing delayed gratification and the impulsivity of children and whether it predicted adult success.

As leaders we can’t see the future . Education is constantly changing and will continue to do so. How do we stay motivated in uncertain times.

This episode looks at some recent legislation passed in my state and reviews some good news on SEL and student success! It

Conflict can be valuable. This episode is a good wrap to our previous discussions on challenging conversations and looks at a variety of advice by leaders on conflict.

This episode continues our discussion around addressing challenging conversations with staff and gives tips to assist in making these discussions constructive. If this is done well, leaders can set the tone for a positive culture.

Leaders must continually work with people and it can often be demanding. How do you handle challenging conversations?

This episode takes from a chapter in my book Urban Principal Leadership Lessons and shares lessons learned in one line statements.

This episode is full of practical tips principals can use to assist in building a positive culture and bringing out the best in staff. This translates into retaining teachers through the right support.

This episode highlights the number of leaders in top positions who do not have high emotional intelligence. As we develop as leaders, our EQ relationship skills must increase to cultivate a positive culture.

Enhance your leadership with emotional intelligence. This episode dives into the four emotional intelligence skills as described in Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradbury & Jean Greaves.

This episode looks at the impact you can have through developing your emotional intelligence as a leader. We look at Daniel Goleman’s work on creating effective, positive leaders.

This episode quickly summarizes the many different leadership styles. Daniel Goleman’s six leadership styles are also highlighted as we look to the most positive styles.