The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast with Daniel Bauer

Show Highlights Improve the most underdeveloped area of your leadership. Understanding how you measure mindset growth and effectiveness. One of the problems with this though is that do you understand? 5 ways you can improve your mindset. Catch the inner critic and stop allowing yourself to beat yourself up.  Sign up for a free growth opportunity challenge at BLBS “Maximize Your Margin Challenge.”    Get the episode transcript here!! Show Resource & Contact Info: Emotional intelligence 2.0 Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC          

Dr. Nathan D. Lang-Raad is an educator, speaker, and author. He is the Vice President of Strategy at Savvas Learning Company. Throughout his career, he has served as a teacher, elementary administrator,  high school administrator, and university adjunct professor. He was the Director of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, as well as education supervisor at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He was also the Chief Education Officer at WeVideo. He serves as the US State Ambassador for the Climate Action Project, a collaboration between the United Nations, World Wildlife Fund, NASA, and the Jane Goodall Institute, and an advisor for TAG (Take Action Global).   Nathan is the author of Everyday Instructional Coaching, The New Art and Science of Teaching Mathematics co-authored with Dr. Robert Marzano, WeVideo Every Day, Mathematics Unit Planning in a PLC at Work, The Teachers of Oz, co-authored with Herbie Raad, Boundless Classroom co-authored with James Witty, and Instructional Coaching Connection.     Show Highlights The hardest moments are teachable moments if you can learn from the vulnerability Juggle the major changes with Instructional Coaching Connection. 6 pathways to  build your instructional coaching practice and model alongside to provide feedback and critiques. The practical emotional intelligence question to use to offer someone the exact support they need.  Dr Nathan prescribes the key strategy to create more value for your organization. Give the coordinates to your school’s Northstar to create different pathways for coaches to operate to help and support teachers.    “We should be developing healthy, skeptical learners and then also independence of mind, teaching students to think independently and having the confidence to believe in themselves, to ask those questions and search for answers.” -Dr Nathan Lang-Raad Episode Transcript: Dr Nathan Lang-Raad  Dr Nathan Lang-Raad’s Resources & Contact Info: Dr. Nathan Lang-Raadad.com Instructional Coaching Connection: Building Relationships to Better Support Teachers LinkedIn Twitter   Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC            

Linc Kroeger is the President of Knight Moves, a limited profit company creating the next generation of elite technology professionals through extensive training in technology disciplines, with an intentional focus on including Native American, rural, and urban underserved communities.   Show Highlights Organizations aren't designed for workforce development, computer science, diversity, or inclusion and only move people around instead of shifting culture. The importance of specific messaging to focus on what people care about through feedback loops. Knight Moves has a profound impact by breaking tradition and barriers for underserved communities with no curriculum, no classroom, no grades.    Stop eliminating experience, interest and challenge by filtering out students fit for tech programs based bias. Experiment and innovation tips that serve every Ruckus Maker. Pivot, persevere, kill is the model leaders need to overcome the rigid, unrealistic systems facing education. “I asked 400 graduates from school, tell me what impacted you most in school. Nobody ever says the curriculum in the book I had in math. It's always some important thing a teacher did in their life. That wasn't just a teacher. It was a person who could bridge people to their future. -Linc Kroeger Linc Kroeger’s Resources & Contact Info: LinkedIn Twitter Knight Moves | Home Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC            

Show Highlights Bolster up your weakest leadership area with a new four part framework, Leadership Optimization Compass. Top three benefits of using the Leadership Optimization Compass. Add more than a hammer to your leadership toolbelt.  Mental models you need at your disposal to become a more effective leader.  Tools outside of education that build a bridge to meaningful change. Apply podcast information and get real world results with these tips.  Better Leaders, Better Schools Live Mastermind event in Costa Rica!! Opportunity to be re-energized or re-inspired with the Leadership Optimization Compass. “I will tell you that mindfulness training has increased my awareness and has been the number one sort of secret tactic  I use to improve, scale my leadership, and the results I have created.” -Chief Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer The Leadership Optimization Compass Transcript   Show’s Resources & Contact Info: https://www.betterleadersbetterschools.com/CostaRica/ The great mental models  Poor Charlie Almanac The search inside yourself  Waking Up - Free 7 Day Trial - Turn Meditation Into a Habit StrengthsFinder 2.0 - Gallup StrengthsFinder Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC            

Pete Hall is a capacity-builder. Driven to impact others’ lives in a profoundly positive way, he channels his experiences as a school principal, life coach, and small-business owner into manageable lessons for continuous growth, personal improvement, and positive mindset. Tenacious, courageous, and incorruptible, Pete shares his optimism, joy, and practical application of strategies for getting the most out of yourself.     Show Highlights Understanding your mission and the moment you identified it. Explore 13 life lessons organized around 4 tenets to help you strive to be a better and live an extraordinary life. “Seek out your antelopes” and look for “Purple Cows” in your life in leadership. A powerful reframe to “Embrace Disequilibrium.” The explicit connection between controllables and uncontrollables with the “A Yikes Week” resource.  A model to promote your priorities and understand time management.  Take an intentional step towards awakening and unlocking what's going on inside our own heads. Reflective personal development that comes from going through toil and hardship.    “The most important thing for us to remember is that we're dealing with human beings. The one thing that is so difficult to define, which is who we are as human beings. If we remember our job is to build capacity in kids and grownups, in communities, societies, parents, families and ourselves, we'll be really, really successful no matter what we take on and no matter what initiatives we have on our plates. There's a lot of initiatives on our plates in education.” -Pete Hall Pete Hall Transcript   Pete Hall’s Resources & Contact Info: EducationHall A Teacher's Reflective Impact Journal | McREL Store Twitter LinkedIn Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC            

Dr Shira Lewibowitz is a  dynamic educator, author and entrepreneur, Shira is CEO and founder of both Revabilities and Discovery Village. Rev Abilities is a Professional Learning Academy helping educational business owners and directors bring their vision for learning to life so they can increase their income and improve the lives of their students. Discovery Village is a premier project and play based childcare center and preschool located in Tarrytown, NY. Shira is co-author of The Coach Approach To School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness. Her upcoming book, to be published summer 2022, is titled Havens of Hope: Ideas for Redesigning Education From The COVID-19 Pandemic.   Shira holds a Ph.D in Education and is an experienced school leader who served for 20 years as a principal of nursery through eighth grade independent schools in the greater New York City area. She is a faculty member in the doctoral program of education at Northeastern University; co-author of The Coach Approach to School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness; a national faculty member for the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development; and a leader of professional development for educators. Shira has been working with childcare centers regionally and nationally on how to navigate the health, financial, and educational challenges facing early childhood centers in the age of COVID-19. Throughout it educational programs have not only navigated through but have become dramatically better. At Revabilities, Shira shares the insights and inspiration that sparked their success.   Show Highlights Turn devastation into hope by going off script to create an oasis for learning grounded on the wellbeing of your community.  The highway to happiness protocol for curiosity and exploration to flip the magic “up” where kids need it most.  Insights when countering the negative, LOUD story of what goes on in education with hope and positivity. Teaching children to play and explore within the constraints of any environment is the necessary path. Overcome the two simultaneous narratives to every crisis to ensure your team comes out stronger. Examples on how to get teachers and parents comfortable with the evolution of change happening daily in education and the uniqueness of your school. Approach creativity in your leadership and switch your mindset from a matter of “if” to a matter of “how.   “When we say there is no other choice than to figure it out and to be present for our students, we do that. Figuring things out requires us to level up in ways that are profoundly uncomfortable and stretch ourselves in ways that, frankly, education doesn't support.” -Dr Shira Lewibowitz  Dr Shira Lewibowitz Transcript   Dr Shira Lewibowitz ’s Resources & Contact Info: Havens of Hope Linkedin Twitter Instagram Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.   In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.   Join the challenge today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC      

Al Kingsley is the CEO of NetSupport and Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust As well as his CEO and Chair roles, Al is an FED Co-chair of two groups, Chair of the BESA EdTech Group,  member of Forbes Technology Council, and chairs his regional Employment and Skills Board. He’s a well-known face in EdTech speaking internationally; the author of “My Secret #EdTech Diary” and co-author of “A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education”.     Show Highlights Interesting ideas on how to roll out and adopt technology Create a school that's actually responsive to community needs. Be a firm believer in lifelong learning and become an Edu sponge.  Reevaluating how to effectively label, measure and validate high performing schools. The misalignment between high stakes tests and student performance.  How to be a school responsive to the students and the community you’re in front of needs? Stop buying technology that  doesn't deliver and adopt a strong digital vision within your school or district. Al Kingsley Transcript “I think that that love of learning really comes down to inquisitiveness and that sense of actually, the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know.”   “The one thing I want every child to leave school with is a love of learning and a passion to learn more. Not a sense of ``I've got through that and never again.’” -Al Kingsley Al Kingsley’s Resources & Contact Info: My Secret #EdTech Diary: Twitter Linkedin Instagram Netsupport Radio- Podcast EdTech Shared | a podcast Websites –  https://www.netsupportsoftware.com/ https://www.alkingsley.com  https://authory.com/AlKingsley Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.   In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.   Join the challenge today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC        

Bonus: Best Seller Show Notes   Show Highlights  Creating reality from your dreams comes from feeling it in the moment to unlock success. Five things Danny’s learned from achieving bestseller status!! Positive visualization is essential to guide the steps you take towards manifesting your goals to the world.  Don't hide the failures. Talk about what you've learned regarding the failures. Embracing that there's not just one way of doing life. Being risky and being vulnerable is the way to be authentic in what you hope to achieve. Ruckus Maker Event in January!! Go to betterleadersbetterschools.com/Costa Rica, view the video explaining the event and join the waitlist. “A key question for you, whatever you're trying to achieve in life,  whether that's as a school leader or putting a book out there, whatever that project is, how are you taking 100% of responsibility to achieve the goal that you want to achieve?” -Chief Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer     Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.   In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.   Join the challenge today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC        

Christina Hidek is a recovering attorney, and current Professional Organizer and certified PTO volunteer nerd. She founded PTO Answers 5 years ago to help empower parents to improve their child’s educational experience and school community through PTA/PTO involvement.  She’s been an active PTO leader for the past 12 years and hosts the vibrant 7500+ member PTA/PTO Super Star Leaders Facebook Group. When she’s not volunteering, you can find her in her garden, cheering on her boys at their hockey games, or walking the family dogs. Show Highlights Encourage your PTOs to be on a first name basis with the superintendent. Tactics to create a culture that identifies problems with solutions when voicing feedback.  Social media “Needs to be jazzier” to effectively generate attention towards the great stuff happening in your school. PTA / PTO are circuit breakers for teacher retention and selling your school to the community.  Approaches when forming a new relationship or transforming a negative relationship with the PTA/PTO.   Effective ways school leaders increase parent involvement. “I’m going to look for you on Tuesday” is a powerful phrase you need to master to create connection.  “The game has changed most drastically for public school leaders and for public school districts because they need to really be selling their school. It's not just that you're going to worry about educating the kids, coming up with a curriculum and all that kind of stuff. No, you have to go and sell your school to get the community kids to come to your school.” -Christina Hidek Christina Hidek’s Resources & Contact Info: Linkedin PTO Answers Facebook You don't have to go it alone as a PTA/PTO leader! Pinterest Youtube Freebie: 5 Uncomfortable Truths PTAs/PTOs Wish Principals Understood (and how to level up from the missed opportunities):Principal Uncomfortable Truths Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.   In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.   Join the challenge today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC     125: Christina Hidek Show Notes  

Sarah Saint, advises and litigates on behalf of public and private educational institutions and school boards on an array of education law issues, including special education and disability issues, civil rights laws and tort claims. She has a particular focus on diversity and civil rights issues, including issues related to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and religion. Show Highlights Tips for districts to create more inclusive settings that connect with trans kids. Navigate serving both very liberal and very conservative districts to approach how to create psychological safe places for learning communities.  Learn to identify the importance of when a person is ready to be supported by the school system by” letting the process in” instead of “coming out.” Avoid these assumptions or myths about transgender children. Stop allowing your students and staff to wear “costumes” at school with ways to help them shed the layers and be their authentic self. Learn how to take the first step in creating a space dedicated to showing your school is safe.   If you care about the survival of children they should not be the one to open the doors and demand to be heard or demand to be allowed to be authentic. You need to care about the “third spaces” in your community and not just the 1st and 2nd spaces.  “When you are authentic, you create authenticity in others. They feel safer to be authentic with you. When you are not afraid to say when you're wrong, when you're not afraid to make wonders. People feel safer in that relationship.” -Sarah Saint   Sarah Saint Transcript   Sarah Saint’s Resources & Contact Info: Twitter ​​Linkedin And Tango Makes Three  Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.   In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.   Join the challenge today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.  Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.   ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC