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Monday Mar 26, 2018
Monday Mar 26, 2018
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About Mitch Weathers
Mitch Weathers is a high school teacher, adjunct college professor, and the creator and founder of Organized Binder. Mitch designed Organized Binder to help all students achieve. Together with the Organized Binder Team he now helps teachers, parents, schools, districts, and colleges implement the system both nationally and internationally.
Monday Mar 19, 2018
Monday Mar 19, 2018
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About Barbara Blackburn, PhD
Barbara Blackburn, PhD is the author of 18 books and a full-time consultant who works with schools around the world to help raise the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. Dr. Blackburn has been named to the Top 30 Education Gurus by Global Gurus for 3 years running, and she’s co-author of the new book Advocacy A to Z.
Monday Mar 12, 2018
Monday Mar 12, 2018
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Dan Kelley is President of NASSP, the National Association of Secondary School Principals and principal of Smithfield High School in Rhode Island. As a leader in education, Dan believes in challenging current instructional practices to provide creative and effective opportunities for students to learn, grow, and succeed. He is passionate about educational leadership that builds strong relationships with faculty and the community, utilizing social media to foster connections between educators, and establishing Personal Learning Networks for collaboration and professional development.
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Monday Mar 05, 2018
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Brad Balch, PhD, is a professor and dean emeritus at Indiana State University. A former superintendent, principal, assistant principal, teacher, and school board member, as well as a board member of higher education governance bodies including the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, he's the author of several books.
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Monday Feb 26, 2018
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About Daniel R. Venables
Daniel R. Venables is an Education Consultant and Executive Director of the Center for Authentic PLCs, home of the Grapple Institutes, where he helps schools in building, leading, and sustaining authentic Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). He is author of How Teachers Can Turn Data Into Action and The Practice of Authentic PLCs: A Guide to Effective Teacher Teams
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
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Get the book, The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Read the New Yorker profile on Dr. Burke Harris by Paul Tough
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Nadine Burke Harris, M.D., is founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point. She is the subject of a New Yorker profile and was the recent recipient of a prestigious Heinz Award in 2016, among many other honors. Her TED talk, “I Was Thinking Too Small,” has been viewed more than 3 million times, and she's the author of the new book, The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Monday Feb 12, 2018
Monday Feb 12, 2018
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Get the book, The NEW School Rules: 6 Vital Practices for Thriving and Responsive Schools
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Anthony Kim is a nationally recognized leader in education technology, school design, and personalized learning. He is the CEO and founder of Education Elements.
Thursday Feb 08, 2018
Thursday Feb 08, 2018
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Victoria Bernhardt, PhD is Executive Director of Education for the Future, and professor emeritus at California State University—Chico. She's passionate about her mission of helping educators improve teaching and learning by gathering, analyzing, and using data. She is the author of 20+ books.
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Monday Jan 29, 2018
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Get the book, Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children
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About Dr. Yong Zhao
Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He is also a professorial fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy, Victoria University in Australia as well as a Global Chair at the University of Bath, UK. He previously served as the Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to his work at the University of Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He has published over 100 articles and 30 books.
Monday Jan 15, 2018
Monday Jan 15, 2018
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Peter Kraft is the CEO and Co-Founder of Evolution Labs
Monday Jan 08, 2018
Monday Jan 08, 2018
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About Cassandra Erkens
Cassandra Erkens is president of Anam Cara Consulting and is an internationally renowned expert in professional development and teacher training. The author of more than half a dozen books on assessment and leadership, she designs and provides training through the Solution Tree Assessment Center, and is a Solution Tree PLC Associate.
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
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About Dr. John Hattie
John Hattie is the researcher and author behind the enormously influential Visible Learning series, including his synthesis of more than 800 meta-analysis studies related to achievement. Dr. Hattie is Professor, Deputy Dean, and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is Chair of the Board of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, and Associate Director of the ARC-Science of Learning Research Centre.
[expand title="Show Transcript"] Announcer: [00:01] Welcome to "Principal Center Radio," bringing you the best in professional practice. Here's your host, Director of the Principal Center and champion of high‑performance instructional leadership, Justin Baeder.
Justin Baeder: [00:12] Welcome everyone to Principal Center Radio. I'm your host, Justin Baeder, and I'm honored to be joined today by Dr. John Hattie. Dr. Hattie is the researcher and author behind the enormously influential "Visible Learning" series, including his synthesis of more than 800 meta‑analysis studies related to achievement.
[00:31] Dr. Hattie is also professor, deputy dean, and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is chair of the board of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership and associate director of the ARC Science of Learning Research Center.
[00:48] Most of our Principal Center Radio listeners know Dr. Hattie primarily as a researcher and author. We're here today to talk about his new book, "10 Mindframes for Visible Learning ‑‑ Teaching for Success."
Announcer: [01:00] And now, our feature presentation.
Justin: [01:03] Dr. Hattie, welcome to Principal Center Radio.
John Hattie: [01:05] It's great to be here talking to you, Justin, and to the listeners.
Justin: [01:09] Thanks so much. Let's talk first about what you saw happening in the profession, perhaps in reaction to some of your previous work. How did you arrive at the conclusion that teachers' mindframes are so important? What was it that led up to this particular book?
John: [01:25] Since I started on the whole visible learning notion, which actually I started in your old state, Washington, way back in the early 1990s, was trying to answer the question about how everything in our business seems to work. How come every teacher says they're above average and every school has evidence that they're doing a good job? Yet from the perspective of a student, that doesn't always make sense.
[01:48] What I've tried to do is change the conversation from what works ‑‑ because almost everything works ‑‑ to what works best. As I've done in the book, trying to take the many, many thousands ‑‑ tens of thousands ‑‑ of research articles that are done in everyday classrooms and trying to answer the question about what does work best.
[02:07] In the early books, I was grappling with 150, now 250 different influences. I published the book and I take the responsibility here. Sometimes that lead table, that list of factors, gets in the way of the story. It took me 20 years to write that first book to understand what that story is.
[02:26] What this current book is about is it concentrates entirely on that story. What it turns out is it's not really what teachers do. We could have two teachers, Justin, using exactly the same strategy and one of them implements it well. One of them has got good diagnosis and [inaudible] for their class. One of them modifies it on the fly, and one of them doesn't.
[02:51] It's not the strategy. It's their thinking in the moment‑to‑moment, day‑by‑day process that teachers use. It really was not so much what they did. It wasn't really who they are in terms of whether what kind of training they have, how many years' experience, whether in Arkansas, whether in Washington, whether in Melbourne. What matters is how they think.
[03:10] What I tried to distill in this book is the 10 most important ways about how teachers think. My argument in the book is that's what we need to worry about with our profession, that expertise that relates to how teachers think. It's very profound. It's very dramatic. It's incredibly powerful when you see it happening. It's not uncommon at all.
Justin: [03:29] I couldn't agree more that teacher thinking, teacher cognition is so critical and so powerful. I wonder if you've seen what I'm picking up from a lot of our profession, this focus on teacher behavior.
[03:45] People will take a list like your book, "Visible Learning", the big study, and say, "I want to see teachers doing this, that, or the other thing." We go around to classrooms. We bring the clipboard, and we say, "Well, you're doing this. I think you should be doing that instead." We focus very heavily on teacher behavior.
[04:03] I've seen very, very little focus in our profession on teacher thinking, and the decision making that teachers do, and the ways that teachers think about their work and think about their students. I'm very excited to see you direct the attention of educators to thinking, to those things that happen behind the scenes.
[04:23] We have a frustration as administrators ‑‑ I work primarily with administrators ‑‑ that thinking is not very visible. Of all the things that we can influence, thinking is one of those that happens beneath the surface or behind the scenes.
[04:36] As you have probed this topic to think about how we can get at teacher thinking, what have been some of the main indicators to you of how teachers think and how that matters in the classroom, how that matters for students?
John: [04:51] The theme is absolutely correct. This is too strong, but I almost don't care how teachers teach. The whole debate we have about best ways to teach, about best practice, about resources, apps, all that kind of stuff is killing us as a profession. It's not how they teach. It's the impact of that teaching on the kids.
[05:11] In the same way as you said, when you go into classroom with those clipboards, you take the Danielson and the Marzano's, and you sit in the back, and you record them all. It doesn't really matter. I've struggled to find any evidence that doing that makes a difference. Only a fifth of the items in the Danielson relate to the impact of the teacher on the kid.
[05:30] Now if you talk do Danielson, she'll say that your instrument wasn't invented to use it in the kind of accountability way your country's obsessed with. I care about that impact on the kids.
[05:40] When you go into a classroom, it's a sin to watch another teacher teach. All you do is tell that teacher how to teach better like you. What you should do is watch the impact on the kids.
[05:50] We know from [inaudible] work that 80 percent of what happens in the classroom, a teacher doesn't see or hear. Why would we care about the teacher reflection on that 20 percent? Help the teacher understand that 80 percent. A lot of our work at the moment is trying to help teachers see what's happening in that other percent.
[06:06] I take the private lives that kids talk about in the classrooms as teachers are talking. Teachers talk an incredible amount of the time. It's not as if kids are sitting there passive. They have a whole private world that goes on in that classroom. How do we help the teachers understand and use that to the beneficiary?
[06:21] Then it comes to your point, Justin, about...You're right, it's hard to see the thinking, but it's not impossible. If you can get teachers talking to each other about the decisions they're making, if you can get kids talking to each other about the ways they're thinking, and in great classrooms, this happens.
[06:39] Hearing kids think aloud is really powerful, in the same way, hearing teachers think aloud in the staff room. Close to 80 to 90 percent of the time, kids and teachers are sitting there quietly absorbing the material. The only way, and you can imagine ‑‑ this is hard for me ‑‑ the only way you can do this is learn to shut up.
Justin: [06:58] I'm very excited to hear you say that conversation is the way we get at that thinking. That's an idea that has captured my attention for the last couple of months, this idea that so much of teacher practice is hidden beneath the surface.
[07:12] If we go in and observe, and take notes, and then just talk at the teacher, we're going to have a very limited ability to actually impact their practice because, again, most of their practice is that thinking that if we're doing all the talking as administrators, we're not even beginning to get at.
[07:30] In the book, you give a number of different mindframes, 10 different mindframes for looking at how teachers think and for teachers to reflect on their own thinking. One of the first that you have in chapter one of the book is "I am an evaluator of my impact on student learning."
[07:49] I wonder if you could talk for just a moment about why that rose to the top as one of the key mindframes for teacher thinking.
John: [07:56] Justin, it's easier than that. If you want to save yourself time reading the book, just read that one chapter because the other lines are variants of that same theme.
[08:04] It all comes back to when you walk into a classroom, and you say, "My job here today is to evaluate my impact," then all the good things follow. If you walk into a staff room and say as a school leader, "My job here today is to evaluate my impact," now of course that's going to mean you have to have a discussion, an agreement, an understanding of what impact means. That's probably the most important thing that happens.
[08:29] Why should it be that every time a kid hits a teacher, if their teacher's conception of what a year's growth looks like is very small compared to one down the corridor where that year's growth is very large, that's going to have a profound impact on your learning that year.
[08:43] How do we get that discussion of what does a year's growth look like? What does it need to be good at, year 5 English, year's 10 panel meeting? Those are the kinds of discussions we have to have, not why are you teaching and how do you teach it, but what do you mean by growth?
[08:56] Bring along two pieces of kid's work three months apart and have a discussion. Do you agree this shows three‑months growth?
[09:02] It's all this notion about what do you mean by impact. It means that you're going to have to have an understanding of how you go about assessing them. You do it through listening to student voice. What does it mean to learn on this class? Ask the kids that. What does it mean to have growth?
[09:17] We're working on another book now looking at student assessment capabilities where we're trying to point out that students are actually very, very smart about whether they're learning or not, or whether they're growing or not. How do we use them in the conversation?
[09:30] This whole notion about as an evaluator, I evaluate my impact. I go in there to see who I have impact on, what I have impact about, and what my magnitude is. Quite frankly, that's the whole theme of the other nine. We thought just having one is probably risky, so we'll have nine of them saying the same thing.
Justin: [09:50] For so long in our profession, we've been asking the question am I using best practices. I know that one of the reactions to your work sometimes has been that we don't really read the whole book. We just look at the list and say, "Well, I should be using these top practices," and as you said, ignoring all the rest.
[10:09] You also say in the introduction to this book that it's almost as if students learn despite us sometimes. Students learn no matter what. Everything works. This question of what is my impact that I'm having, I think often we ignore that question. We just look at whether students are learning.
[10:29] We've had a big obsession with data and with measuring student progress. That's an incredibly important question to layer on top of that is what is the impact that I am having.
[10:42] Let's talk a little bit more about assessment. What are some of the mindframes or some of the strategies that teachers can use to look at student work, to look at some of the results that they're getting from perhaps more standardized assessments, and really get a sense of that?
[10:59] I think we all have this sense as educators that we're doing the very best we can day‑to‑day. We're trying to implement the latest and greatest strategies, and yet, we always have students who are not doing as well as we would like them to be doing. We want every student to be at 100 percent proficiency on everything we teach, but the reality is we never quite get there.
[11:20] What are some points where we can gain some traction on that question of how to evaluate our own impact?
John: [11:25] Don't get me wrong. There are higher‑probability interventions. The law of probability interventions. Yes, I would want teachers to use higher‑probability interventions. It's all looking backwards. It's all rear‑vision mirror stuff. I look at the research of what's happened in classrooms.
[11:40] When you look at what happens, these things tend to work better than those things so they're high‑probability ones. What really matters is when you implement it, the fidelity of your implementation, the ability of you to make those adaptive expertise comments and changes as you go through, the ability you have of great diagnosis.
[11:59] Then coming to the last part of your question, again, the mindframe that we want you to have, particularly around assessment, is assessment is feedback to you about your impact.
[12:10] So often we think of assessment as feedback to students about their learning. I challenge every teacher out there to give a kid a piece of work, give them an assignment, give them a task, and ask them before they start, "What grade do you think you're going to get?" They are stunningly accurate.
[12:30] You got to seriously ask what do they learn from assessment. They just confirmed what they already know. Surely, our job's to mess that up. Our job is to find attributes and expertise in the kids that they don't think they have, not just to confirm that you're a C student, you're a B student, you're an A student.
[12:44] By age eight, most kids know where they fit in that distribution. As I say, our job's to mess it up.
[12:49] The mindframe we get across in the book is that I interpret an act of feedback given to me. Every time you give an assessment, at the end of it, or an assignment, say, "What did I learn about my impact? What did I learn about what the kids think my concept of impact is, my magnitude of impact?"
[13:07] That's how you learn what your impact is, is by looking at the kind of tasks kids do, the assignments they do. Assessment has an incredible, powerful value if you can learn from that to then decide what the next steps are.
[13:21] In the same way, if we could teach kids to be assessment‑capable so that they learn from their assessments so they know what to do next, not waiting for us always to tell them and see what the grade is.
[13:29] Sometimes the grade is just an indication the work's over. Sometimes teachers think and confuse marking and think sometimes it has something to do with feedback. Not necessarily.
[13:39] We have to be, again, active thinkers about the impact that we're having. Assessment is an incredibly powerful way to do it if we see it as about us, not so much about the kids.
Justin: [13:50] I wonder what you think about the issue of teacher evaluation when it comes to mindframes. This has probably happened to you over and over again in your career as an author and researcher that you will share something, share a new idea or share a new finding in a book, and then as practicing educators, we immediately misinterpret and misapply that.
[14:12] I heard Charlotte Danielson when she worked with us in Seattle public schools, express frustration at the way that many teacher evaluation systems that were based on her framework were developed with a lot of just punitive and unsound measures, and processes, and procedures built into them.
[14:29] She said, "That's absolutely not the intent, but if you bring that kind of punitive and negative kind of approach to my framework, you will end up with a system that's punitive and negative."
[14:40] I wonder what kind of cautions you have for us in applying this idea of mindframes. If we know teacher thinking is so critical, if we know getting teachers to reflect on their impact and assess their impact is so critical, what do you think are the most likely ways that we're going to mess that up?
[14:58] I'm sure, again, this has happened over and over again with your work where we don't actually read your work closely enough. We play a telephone game with it. I know somebody who knew somebody who read your book, therefore, I think what we'll do is we will start evaluating our teachers based on their mindframe.
[15:14] Give us some kind of words of caution on the teacher‑evaluation side.
John: [15:18] You're absolutely right. I've talked to Charlotte, and Bob Bazalo, and many of the people who develop these instruments, and they're horrified at how they're misused because it's all about the use and interpretation.
[15:29] Certainly, my background as a researcher, I'm a measurement statistician so I see this all the time in the measurement community.
[15:37] I would be horrified if we now developed a measurement mindframes to come up with some kind of punitive measure. [inaudible] , we have developed measures of mindframes. We have in our own work, trying to find out better ways to understand how teachers talk or think to each other.
[15:54] I want to go back a step, Justin. I want to go back to one of the things I've said in each book that sometimes is often missed that if you look at the research both in invisible learning work, and if you look at the work as I've done when you had No Child Left Behind, when you look at Nate, I think I can say with some confidence that probably 60‑plus percent of schools and teachers in your country are already [inaudible] those kids to gain a year's growth or year's input.
[16:20] That's impressive. Excellence is all around us. One of the major themes in "Invisible Learning" is have we got the courage to recognize the excellence that's there now. It's not a matter of running around with clipboards to drum up change and say that you've got to change. You got to change. Why would you change the excellence that's there?
[16:38] One of the things I would argue right upfront is are we prepared to acknowledge excellence? It may not be with our 30‑year veteran. It may be with our five‑year‑out teacher. Are we prepared to build a coalition of success around the excellence that's already in our school? Are we prepared to privilege that way of thinking and to get that kind of thinking out there?
[16:56] If we're not prepared to do that, no system of evaluation is going to make one iota of a difference. That's the first one.
[17:05] The second is yes, there are ways that you can look at teachers' mindframes, but it's very, very dependent on the particular kids, particular subject, particular year group, particular age group. It's all about that kind of detail. All education is local.
[17:19] Try and see how teachers think about diagnosing where their kids are at, how they go about making decisions about where to go next, how they understand what the concept of impact is. These are incredibly difficult things to evaluate.
[17:34] Here in Australia, I have a political job. I'm employed by the federal government so I oversee a Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. One of its roles is to provide resources for the teachers in schools to do this.
[17:47] We provide it, and it's free, available to all your users at the actual website. We provide them with an incredible amount of apps and resources for them to understand how they're doing. A lot of it is self‑reflection, relative to standards. We know it's incredibly used. We know we have a million hits from Australian teachers and principals to our site a month.
[18:07] Creating that conversation in the school is really critical. Step ‑‑ this is the one you're worried about ‑‑ is when you then start to say, "We're going to measure it, some kind of performance review." Let's for us pause and say, "You tell me any other sector that doesn't."
[18:23] This is the job of school leaders, to make those decisions, to make those decisions that are much more nuanced, use a balance of judgment across the different kinds of measures. No one measure's ever going to do it. I'm not resigning from the fact that it can be done. It can be done.
[18:37] I'm being a little resistant to a simplistic way of coming up with a checklist, coming up with a tick box, having someone sit in the back of the room. It's not going to work. Yes, I think it can be done, and we should do it. We have to project expertise, or else we're going to lose it. The expertise is how we think.
[18:54] If you look at the book, you look at the 10 of them, you'll see they're quite varied. Most of them, you can't see them. You have to shut up. You have to listen. You have to create scenarios. You have to look at what expertise means. You have to go back to the work that David Berliner did in your country in the 1990s looking at expertise and say, "That's the kind of work we need to do."
Justin: [19:12] I love a comment that you made earlier about shifting our focus from the question of "what works?" to the question of "what works best?" I've been thinking a lot lately about this idea of a competency trap.
[19:28] As administrators, we often have a preferred strategy, a new strategy, a new curriculum that we have heard or we know through our connections in the field and our professional reading that this approach would be better than what our teachers are currently doing.
[19:43] I hear from a lot of administrators who want to help teachers change from maybe a more outdated way of doing something ‑‑ say, teaching reading ‑‑ to a more up‑to‑date, more cutting edge, and more research‑based or well‑established, cutting‑edge approach.
[19:59] What I heard in terms of resistance from teachers often centers around this idea of the fact that they're good at what they're currently doing. They're not yet good at what they're being asked to do, what they're being asked to switch to. I think of that as a competency trap, where people feel stuck in their desire to do the absolute best they can, knowing that they will do a better job with the old way than with the new way.
[20:31] When we're thinking about change and thinking about stopping one practice, or switching from one practice to another that's not as familiar yet, that we don't have that same level of skill, experience, and proficiency with yet, what are some of the mindframes that can help teachers navigate those changes?
[20:48] And figure out, "How am I going to handle this change in a way that I feel good about, that I can pursue with integrity, and pursue with confidence that, ultimately, it is going to get better for my students?"
John: [21:01] Justin, let me start by saying you've got to beware of educators who have solutions. We have a tendency in our business to look for the latest bauble on the Christmas tree and say, "We've got to introduce this in our school," whether it be a new curriculum, a new teaching method, a new whatever.
[21:17] That's one of my frustrations in the business. Why don't we start with acknowledging and recognizing that we do have excellence all around us? Why would you take a teacher who uses a method that you may not like, who uses a method perhaps out of the 1970s, but they're having an impact on their kids, why would you change that?
[21:36] When I was living in North Carolina, I worked for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. One of my jobs was to look at the thousand videos at the time of the best teachers across your country. One of the things that's remarkable when you look at videos of a thousand‑plus superb teachers is you find very little in common about how they teach.
[21:56] It's the whole theme of the book. It's their thinking that's behind it. When I heard school leaders who come up with this latest "gee whiz" thing they want to do, and all their teachers in their schools have to adopt this new whatever, whatever, whatever, it drives me crazy.
[22:12] Sometimes you are destroying the very excellence that are there. No wonder some of our teachers sit there with their arms crossed saying, "No, I'm not going to do it." I'm not defending incompetence. I'm not defending those who have low impact. I'm saying start by acknowledging whether you have teachers already doing good things. Why would you change them?
[22:31] In fact, I think the biggest problem we have in our profession is we have no debate. We have no literature on how we scale up success. In fact, I'm not bad at literature searching, Justin, and I could only find six articles that have ever been written on how you scale up success. All the time, we want to change.
[22:47] The first thing I want to do is say, "Let's be careful about this new thing. Let's have a look and see what's working well, first." The second part of it is that sometimes you do need to change. If you're not getting that year's growth, absolutely you must change.
[23:00] I look at our business again and say, "How good are we at implementation?" We work on the assumption that if the principal comes up with idea, they're going to implement it. We don't have a lot of implementation science, a tiny bracket at the Carnegie Corporation, one that's been in South Carolina. They've got some study models of how you do change and how you do fidelity of change.
[23:24] Certainly, if I was running a course in your country on principals, I would be worried in talking to them about, "What does program logic look like? What does getting to outcomes look like? How do we go about the implementation?"
[23:35] Sometimes, it's implemented so badly, with the principal standing up front saying, "We are going to do this. Here's the script. Here's the resources. Go and do it." No wonder it fails. You wouldn't do that in any other profession. You would be continually worried about the fidelity of our implementation.
[23:49] I start from the work of Hess. Acknowledge the excellence there. Some of those teachers with their arms crossed in the back of the room don't need to change. Some of them do. Your first job is to work out which camp are they on.
[24:02] Second thing is what I want principals to be very, very good at is evaluating their own implementation, how they go about, when they introduce something to the schools, to know where it's working, when it's working, how it's working, the magnitude that it's working.
[24:16] I make a very strong argument that it's about principals and teachers as evaluators of what they do. That's the major theme that I want to worry about there. How do you get that implementation? How do you get that good diagnosis? How do you get principals helping teachers where to go next in [inaudible] ? That's what all the visible learning work look like.
Justin: [24:38] I think a lot about implementation, I think a lot about fidelity of implementation, and I think you're absolutely right. So often, we focus on a shallow teacher‑behavior level of fidelity. Honestly, as instructional leaders, we're often afraid to get into the thinking.
[24:56] We're afraid to say, "Well, this could look different in different classrooms," and, "I don't know exactly what it should look like in every classroom, but this is what the model is about. This is how we can talk about practice."
[25:09] I keep coming back to the idea of conversation as so critical for leadership, critical for understanding where teachers are in their thinking, critical for making decisions at the school level about how to proceed, about where we are, and what we need to do next.
[25:27] I really appreciate your take on that. It is not a simple task to say, "I have my clipboard, I have my rubric, and I'm going to see you implement this strategy or this approach." I appreciate your comments about noticing the good that's already there.
[25:45] I think about the idea of appreciative inquiry, this approach to research that says, "Let's find what's working. Let's find the good and build on that." I think the Hippocratic Oath for instructional leadership would be something along the lines of, "Don't break something that's working and replace it with something that's not going to work as well."
[26:10] I appreciate that medicine has that philosophy or that value. It just struck me, as you're speaking, that we need the same thing ‑‑ to appreciate, first, the value of what's working and to be careful to protect that. Thank you so much for those comments.
Justin: [26:25] Just to make a comment on that, Justin, the biggest power of a school leader is they can have a major decision of what the narrative in the school is. I just want the narrative to be about impact, not about what we do.
[26:39] In the same way, we're doing a lot of work here in Australia of networking principals, getting principals to work across schools. It's very, very hard, but it can be done, because we're doing it, is to relentlessly make sure that the conversation when principals come out of schools and talk to each other is also about the impact their teachers are having on kids.
[26:57] They do want to talk about the resources in the school, about the wonderful things they're doing, about the policy, about the curriculum. But it's sometimes very hard to get them to talk about that impact. It means you have to create a pretty safe, trusting environment. In our work, sometimes that takes six months to eight months to even get that environment before you can get principals talking about impact.
[27:17] I don't want make it that simple, but it is that simple. You have the power to tap the narrative about impact. Do it.
Justin: [27:27] That gets to my last question here. If you could wave a magic wand and get all of us in the instructional leadership business, if you could get all school leaders everywhere to do one thing, just by a wave of the magic wand, what would it be?
John: [27:41] That's easy. Stop talking about what you do. Stop talking about how you do it. Stop talking about the students. Stop talking about what you do. Stop talking about your curriculum. All I want you to talk about, all I want you to privilege is the notion of expertise.
[27:59] As a professional, sometimes we deny our expertise when we say, "Ah, the kids did the work. The parents did the support. I had the right resources. I had the right curriculum." We have to stand up, as a profession, and say, "No, kids learn because we are very, very good at what we do. We are brilliant change agents," and we are.
[28:17] I look at your country and my country and I see the demands of expertise. I see all the amateurism coming in. I see everyone say, "Oh, anyone can be a teacher." It requires an incredible set of skills and mindframes to do it.
[28:29] I'd challenge any parent that's listening, probably not to your program, to imagine taking a group, 20 to 30 five‑year‑olds, and teaching them every day, four or five to six hours a day, every day of the year. That requires skill and expertise.
[28:43] Can we, as a profession, please acknowledge kids improve? Our educational system is very good because of our thinking, of our expertise.
Justin: [28:55] The book is 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning ‑‑ Teaching for Success. Dr. Hattie, thank you so much for joining me on Principal Center Radio.
John: [29:02] Pleasure. Thank you, Justin.
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Announcer: [29:04] And now, Justin Baeder on high‑performance instructional leadership.
Justin: [29:09] High‑performance instructional leaders, what did you take away from my conversation with John Hattie? I think there is so much that we are doing, as a profession, that diminishes teacher thinking, that diminishes the importance of teachers' own cognition, reflection, and judgments about their practice and judgments about what their students need.
[29:30] As I said to Dr. Hattie, I think we've done a tremendous disservice to our students by focusing so much on teacher behavior and on the observable aspects. I want to encourage you to commit to yourself that you will get at teacher thinking.
[29:47] The best way to get at teacher thinking is simply to talk with teachers and, as Dr. Hattie said, to have a conversation. In those conversations, I really appreciated the fact that Dr. Hattie emphasized the importance of teacher expertise and highlighted that teacher expertise is not a rare thing.
[30:07] We have enormously talented, experienced, knowledgeable, expert teachers in our profession. I think it's been a terrible thing in the last couple of decades that through accountability, through data, we have made all these attempts to reduce the importance of teacher expertise and to treat teachers as if they're the bottom of the totem pole in our profession.
[30:28] Teachers are the front lines and they are the primary decision‑makers. I want to encourage you to have conversations with teachers that get the teacher to do the talking. As Dr. Hattie said for us, as leaders, to zip it and to just listen, and get teachers talking about their thinking, talking about their impact, and reflecting on their practice.
[30:49] I want to let you know about our flagship, free program for helping you get into classrooms and talk with teachers. That program is called the Instructional Leadership Challenge.
[31:02] We are giving it a complete overhaul. We've had more than 10,000 people go through the Instructional Leadership Challenge from about 50 different countries around the world over the past three or four years. We are doing a total reboot to help you get in the classrooms on a consistent basis and have those conversations with teachers. You can check that out at instructionalleadershipchallenge.com.
[31:24] I also want to let you know about our in‑depth training program called the High‑Performance Instructional Leadership Certification Program. This is available both to individuals and to districts to help administrators get in the classrooms and have evidence‑based, framework‑linked conversations with teachers that actually lead to improvements in practice.
[31:47] One of the reasons I was so excited to talk with Dr. Hattie today is because he kept saying things...
[31:52] [background music]
Justin: [31:52] that have been resonating with me for the past year or so as I've been developing this program, developing the certification program.
[32:00] So much of what we talked about today, you will find in that program because that approach to conversation and getting at those invisible aspects of teacher thinking and teacher decision making really designed into the high‑performance instructional leadership model.
[32:16] You can check that out at principalcenter.com/district if you're interested in learning more about bringing the High‑Performance Instructional Leadership Certification Program to your district. You can also read about the model in my book, "Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High‑Performance Instructional Leadership".
Announcer: [32:32] Thanks for listening to Principal Center Radio. For more great episodes, subscribe on our website at principalcenter.com/radio.
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Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
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About David Hehman
David Hehman is the STEM Engineering Teacher at Phenix City Intermediate School, and he's the co-founder Creation Crate, where he oversees project and curriculum development.
Monday Nov 20, 2017
Monday Nov 20, 2017
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Listen to the School Safety Free Period Podcast »
About Dr. Amy Klinger
Dr. Amy Klinger is nationally recognized as an expert in school safety and crisis management. Her past experience includes 28 years of service as a teacher, central office administrator, building principal, and college professor. Dr. Klinger is a certified Department of Homeland Security Instructor.
About Amanda Klinger, Esq.
Amanda Klinger, Esq. is nationally recognized as an expert in cyberbullying, school safety, and the law. Her expertise in active shooter response, crisis management, vulnerability assessment and mitigation, as well as lockdown enhancements is derived from her work with Dr. Klinger in developing training courses for the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Monday Nov 13, 2017
Monday Nov 13, 2017
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Visit The Four O'Clock Faculty Website »
About Rich Czyz
Rich is a principal and former teacher and instructional coach, and he's the author of The Four O'Clock Faculty: A Rogue Guide to Revolutionizing Professional Development.
Monday Nov 06, 2017
Monday Nov 06, 2017
Tamara Fyke joins Principal Center Radio host, Justin Baeder, to discuss her customizable curriculum: Love In A Big World
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
Visit The Love in A Big World Website »
About Tamara Fyke
Tamara Fyke is an author, speaker, and expert on social and emotional learning, and she's the creator of the customizable curriculum, Love In A Big World.
Monday Oct 30, 2017
Monday Oct 30, 2017
Patty Alper joins Principal Center Radio host, Justin Baeder, to discuss her publication: TEACH TO WORK: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
Purchase Teach To Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close The Skills Gap in America
Visit the Teach To Work Website
About Patty Alper
Patty Alper is president of the Alper Portfolio Group, a marketing and consulting company, and is a board member of both the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and US2020, the White House initiative to build mentorship in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers.
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Matt Renwick joins Principal Center Radio host, Justin Baeder, to discuss his publication: Digital Portfolios in the Classroom: Showcasing and Assessing Student Work
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
Purchase Digital Portfolios in the Classroom: Showcasing and Assessing Student Work
Visit Matt's Website
About Matt Renwick
Matt Renwick is principal at Mineral Point Elementary in Wisconsin, and the author of several books, including Digital Portfolios in the Classroom: Showcasing and Assessing Student Work.
Monday Sep 25, 2017
Monday Sep 25, 2017
Kimberly Tyson joins Principal Center Radio host, Justin Baeder, to discuss her publication: Blended Vocabulary for K-12 Classrooms
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Follow Kimberly on Twitter @tysonkimberly
Follow Angela Peery on Twitter @drangelapeery
About Dr. Kimberly Tyson
Dr. Kimberly Tyson is a former teacher, administrator, and literacy consultant, and is currently an education specialist with Solution Tree. She's the co-author, with Angela Peery, of Blended Vocabulary for K-12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital Tools and Direct Instruction, a valuable resource to help classroom teachers and leaders use effective vocabulary strategies in classrooms and integrate digital tools and apps for instruction, practice, and review.
Friday Sep 08, 2017
Friday Sep 08, 2017
Chris and Courtney Daikos join Principal Center Radio host, Justin Baeder, to discuss their work with Continua Consulting Group, where they help schools and their communities implement trauma-informed multi-tiered systems of support.
Links and Resources
Visit the Continua Consulting Website
About Chris and Courtney Daikos
Chris and Courtney Daikos are the co-founders of Continua Consulting Group, where they help schools and their communities implement trauma-informed multi-tiered systems of support.
Monday Aug 28, 2017
Monday Aug 28, 2017
Ken Spero joins Principal Center Radio host, Justin Baeder, to discuss his work with Ed Leadership SIMs: Training Simulations for School Leaders
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
Learn more about Ed Leadership SIMs at Edleadershipsims.com
About Ken Spero
Ken Spero is CEO of Ed Leadership SIMs, established in partnership with the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn GSE). With more than 30 years of experience designing simulations across a variety of industries, Ken currently works with districts, universities, and other organizations to strengthen their leadership pipelines and reduce leadership churn.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Sam LeDeaux joins Justin Baeder to discuss The Snowball Effect: How I Visited Classrooms 1,173 Times in One School Year. Interview Notes, Resources, & Links Follow @sledeaux84 on Twitter About Sam LeDeaux Sam LeDeaux is a junior high administrator in the Chicago Metro area.
The post Sam LeDeaux—The Snowball Effect: How I Visited Classrooms 1,173 Times in One School Year appeared first on The Principal Center.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
PJ Caposey joins Principal Center Radio host, Justin Baeder, to discuss his publication: Making Evaluation Meaningful: Transforming the Conversation to Transform Schools
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
Purchase PJ's book Making Evaluation Meaningful: Transforming the Conversation to Transform Schools
About PJ Caposey
PJ Caposey is a speaker, author, superintendent, and former high school principal in Illinois. He's the author of numerous articles and three books, including Making Evaluation Meaningful: Transforming the Conversation to Transform Schools
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Matt Miller joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book, Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase Matt's book, Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete.
- Follow Matt @jmattmiller on Twitter
- Visit the Ditch That Textbook website
About Matt Miller
Matt Miller has spent more than a decade teaching technology-infused lessons in public schools. As an author, blogger and education speaker, he encourages teachers to free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms with mindset, techniques and curriculum to serve today's learners.
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Sam LeDeaux joins Justin Baeder to discuss The Snowball Effect: How I Visited Classrooms 1,173 Times in One School Year.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
About Sam LeDeaux
Sam LeDeaux is a junior high administrator in the Chicago Metro area.
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Mark Wu joins Justin Baeder to discuss his work in helping create Answerables.com, an immersive virtual classroom.
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About Mark Wu
Mark Wu is a veteran educator who has served as an administrator, classroom teacher, and special education teacher. He's the co-founder of Answerables, an immersive virtual classroom.
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Bill Ziegler joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book Future Focused Leaders: Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate for Real Educational Change.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase the book from Corwin and enter the code N17C12 to receive 20% off your purchase of Future Focused Leaders
- Visit Bill's Website
- Follow Bill on Twitter @DrBillZiegler
- Learn more about Ed Leadership Sims
About Bill Ziegler
Dr. Bill Ziegler is an award winning high school principal, author, and speaker. He was recognized as the 2016 Pennsylvania Principal of the Year and the 2015 National Association of Secondary School Principals Digital Principal Award Winner. He is the co-author of Future Focused Leaders - Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate for Real Educational Change.
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Naphtali Hoff joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book Becoming the New Boss: The New Leader's Guide to Sustained Success.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase Naphtali's book,Becoming the New Boss: The New Leader's Guide to Sustained Success
- Download a sample chapter of the book "Becoming the New Boss"
About Naphtali Hoff
Dr. Naphtali Hoff of Impactful Coaching and Consulting is an executive coach, organizational consultant, and sought-after trainer and lecturer. A former head of school, he is the author of Becoming the New Boss: The New Leader's Guide to Sustained Success.
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Richard Kincaid joins Justin Baeder to discuss his work with EcoRise Youth Innovations.
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About Richard Kincaid
Richard is the chief innovation officer for EcoRise, and a former educator and curriculum director in a number of different school districts in the state of Texas.
Friday Jun 30, 2017
Friday Jun 30, 2017
Dr. Tonya Goree joins Justin Baeder to discuss Impact Now: How Principals Can Use Video-Enhanced Coaching to Grow Teachers and Raise Student Achievement.
About Dr. Tonya Goree
Dr. Goree has over 26 years of experience in education, with seven years of experience as principal.
Wednesday Jun 28, 2017
Wednesday Jun 28, 2017
Michael Toth joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book Who Moved My Standards? Joyful Teaching in an Age of Change.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Get the book Who Moved My Standards? Joyful Teaching in an Age of Change
- Learn more about the SOAR Rubric
- Follow Michael on Twitter @MTothLSI
About Michael Toth
Michael Toth is the founder Learning Sciences International. The author of numerous books, including Teacher Evaluation That Makes a Difference, which he co-authored with Robert Marzano, his mission is to partner with educators and school districts to draw on the most current research and best practices in K-12 education in order to steadily improve student achievement and restore the joy of teaching and learning to all classrooms.
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Steve Reifman joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book 10 Steps to Empowering Classroom Management: Build A Productive, Cooperative Culture Without Using Rewards.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Get Steve's book 10 Steps to Empowering Classroom Management:Building a Productive, Cooperative Culture Without Using Rewards
- Visit Steve's Website
- Follow Steve @stevereifman
About Steve Reifman
Steve Reifman is the author of numerous books for teachers and students. A National Board Certified Teacher with more than 20 years of classroom experience, Steve helps teachers and parents empower children, build character, and help students become more enthusiastic, more intrinsically motivated learners.
Monday Jun 12, 2017
Monday Jun 12, 2017
William Parker joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book Messaging Matters: How School Leaders Can Inspire Teachers, Motivate Students, and Reach Communities.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase William's book Messaging Matters: How School Leaders Can Inspire Teachers, Motivate Students, and Reach Communities
- Learn more about Messaging Matters from Solution Tree
- Visit William's Website
About William Parker
William D. Parker is principal of Skiatook High School, and was the 2011 Oklahoma Assistant Principal of the Year. A nationally known speaker, he is the host of the Principal Matters podcast, and the author of two books, including Messaging Matters: How School Leaders Can Inspire Teachers, Motivate Students, and Reach Communities
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Joy Kirr joins Justin Baeder to discuss her book Shift This!: How to Implement Gradual Changes for MASSIVE Impact in Your Classroom.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase Joy's book Shift This!: How to Implement Gradual Changes for MASSIVE Impact in Your Classroom
- Visit Joy's Blog
- Follow Joy on Twitter @joykirr
About Joy Kirr
Joy Kirr is a National Board Certified Teacher and one of the profession's leading evangelists and workshop facilitators on Genius Hour. She currently teaches 7th grade English Language Arts.
Monday May 29, 2017
Monday May 29, 2017
Chris Walsh joins Justin Baeder to discuss the dynamic school scheduling platform: Abl.
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About Chris Walsh
A former teacher, Chris has worked for national education organizations, and has led several successful ed-tech startups, and was the co-founder of the Google Teacher Academy. Chris is currently is Head of Growth and Impact for Abl, the first dynamic school scheduling platform.
Monday May 15, 2017
Monday May 15, 2017
Jessica Johnson, Shira Leibowitz & Kathy Perret joins Justin Baeder to discuss their book The Coach Approach to School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase The Coach Approach to School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness
- Download the first chapter of "The Coach Approach" for free
- Visit Jessica's Website
- Visit Kathy's Website
- Visit Shira's Blog
- Follow Jessica on Twitter @PrincipalJ
- Follow Kathy on Twitter @KathyPerret
- Follow Shira on Twitter @shiraleibowitz
Monday May 08, 2017
Monday May 08, 2017
Host Justin Baeder discusses how to turn your school's strategic plan into a focused agenda for 2017-2018, so your change efforts result in organizational learning, not just more activity.
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About Justin Baeder
Justin Baeder is Director of The Principal Center and host of Principal Center Radio.
Monday May 01, 2017
Monday May 01, 2017
Rick Stiggins joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book Defensible Teacher Evaluation: Student Growth Through Classroom Assessment.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase Rick's book Defensible Teacher Evaluation: Student Growth Through Classroom Assessment
- Visit Rick's Website
- Listen to Rick's Principal Center Radio interview on The Perfect Assessment System
About Rick Stiggins
Rick Stiggins, PhD is founder of the Assessment Training Institute and the author of Assessment for Learning and several other books. Dr. Stiggins is one of the profession's leading authorities on assessment.
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Monday Apr 24, 2017
In a rare solo episode of Principal Center Radio, Justin Baeder describes a plan for building career ladders into the teaching profession.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
About Justin Baeder
Justin Baeder is Director of The Principal Center and creator of The 21-Day Instructional Leadership Challenge
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Jon Saphier joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on “Smart Is Something You Can Get”. Interview Notes, Resources, & Links Purchase Jon's book High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on “Smart Is Something You Can Get” Visit the […]
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Monday Apr 03, 2017
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Rick Stiggins joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book The Perfect Assessment System. Interview Notes, Resources, & Links Purchase Rick's book The Perfect Assessment System Visit Rick's Website About Rick Stiggins Rick Stiggins, PhD is founder of the Assessment Training Institute and the author of Assessment for Learning.
The post Rick Stiggins—The Perfect Assessment System appeared first on The Principal Center.
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Jon Saphier joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on “Smart Is Something You Can Get”.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
About Jon Saphier
Dr. Jon Saphier is the founder and president of Research for Better Teaching, and the author of 8 books, including The Skillful Teacher, which has sold more than half a million copies and is used around the world.
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Rick Stiggins joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book The Perfect Assessment System.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
About Rick Stiggins
Rick Stiggins, PhD is founder of the Assessment Training Institute and the author of Assessment for Learning.
Monday Mar 27, 2017
Monday Mar 27, 2017
Daniel Bauer joins Justin Baeder to discuss his work as the Founder of The Better Mastermind, a hybrid group coaching program and leadership development program for school leaders.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Join a Mastermind Group
- Limited Offer: Join the Leadership Sprint using the promo code "PrincipalCenter" The first 10 registrants can join the Sprint for free
- Join the Leadership Sprint using the promo code "Justin" to get $30 off your registration
- Visit Daniel's Website
- Show Highlights:
[2:57] "The enemy of excellence is isolation"
[3:33] How mastermind members connect each week (and why it DOESN'T work to meet in person)
[4:42] The format of each mastermind session
[5:20] Some of the books Daniel's group has been reading (including one that's high on my list)
[7:51] The specific reasons members gave for joining, and what happens in their leadership when they do
[11:12] Why Daniel is focusing on books from outside of education
[14:40] Daniel's innovative Leadership Sprint and how it works (code: PrincipalCenter)
[18:00] "You're the average of the..." —Jim Rohn
[22:01] Why I'm not participating in Twitter chats any more
About Daniel Bauer
Daniel Bauer is founder of Better Leaders Better Schools, where he helps school leaders create a winning culture, focus on the essentials, and lead with courage and integrity. He's also the creator the Leadership Sprint and the founder of the Better Mastermind, a hybrid group coaching program and leadership development community for school leaders.
Monday Mar 20, 2017
Monday Mar 20, 2017
Rick Jetter & Rebecca Coda joins Justin Baeder to discuss their book Escaping the School Leader's Dunk Tank: How to Prevail when Others Want You to Drown.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase Rick and Rebecca's book Escaping the School Leader's Dunk Tank: How to Prevail when Others Want You to Drown
- Visit the Leadership Dunk Tank Website
- Visit Rick's Website
- Visit Rebecca's Website
About Rick Jetter & Rebecca Coda
Dr. Rick Jetter is an educational consultant, multi-genre author, speaker and trainer, and book writing coach. He works with school districts across the nation on curriculum, transforming school culture, and just about any type of PD for educators. Rebecca Coda is the founder of the Digital Native Network and currently serves as a STEM Instructional Coach.
Monday Mar 13, 2017
Monday Mar 13, 2017
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About Sarah Fiarman
A former public school teacher, principal, and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Sarah Fiarman is an independent education consultant.
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Kenneth Baum joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book The Artisan Teaching Model for Instructional Leadership: Working Together to Transform Your School.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase Kenneth's book The Artisan Teaching Model for Instructional Leadership: Working Together to Transform Your School
- Visit the Artisan Teaching website
About Kenneth Baum
Kenneth Baum is an award-winning former principal and superintendent, and an expert in school design, strategic planning, and leadership. His experience leading in both the district and charter settings has given him a deep understanding of today's leadership challenges. In 2004 he founded the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science, a non-selective public school in the South Bronx serving grades 6–12.
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Tom Hoerr joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book The Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs.
Interview Notes, Resources, & Links
- Purchase Tom's bookThe Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs
- Harvard Business Review: Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture
About Tom Hoerr
Thomas Hoerr, PhD is Emeritus Head of the New City School in St. Louis and the author of five books and more than 100 articles. He currently teaches in the principal preparation program at the University of Missouri—St. Louis.
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Baruti Kafele joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book The Teacher 50: Critical Questions for Inspiring Classroom Excellence.
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Monday Feb 13, 2017
Monday Feb 13, 2017
Matthew Pietrafetta joins Justin Baeder to discuss college entrance exam prep for underserved communities.
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About Matthew Pietrafetta
Matthew Pietrafetta is the founder and CEO of Academic Approach, which helps students develop college and career readiness skills. He holds a PhD from Columbia University.