The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast with Daniel Bauer

Christine Franklyn is an international speaker, writer and health coach. She is on a mission to help high-performing leaders get out from under the weight of everything that rests on their shoulders and truly shine. She has reverse-engineered the process she used to escape burnout and reclaim her A-Game. This is the foundation of her Power Up Formula. Show Highlights Recognize the signs of stress to avoid burnout Know your worth and maintain a “Think BIG Mindset”  Avoid setting for being put in someone else's box. Practical advice on how to combat negative health outcomes  Healthy habits designed for busy leaders A checklist to Double Your Energy Important steps to listening to your body and focus your values Why is your mind not trustworthy, but your bodies are?  “I have to start, take stock, and decide how I'm going to make a change. I've seen how crucial it is for clients and the leaders  I talked to and worked with. If you don't listen to yourself, if you don't listen to your body, you can end up in a downward spiral.” -Christine Franklyn Christine Franklyn’s Resources & Contact Info: https://bit.ly/energy2022 Twitter Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog 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

Jordan Mareno is a Partnerships Manager at Project Invent, a nonprofit that empowers high school and middle school students to invent technology for community impact. Jordan gravitates towards questions about and celebrations of human purpose, and believes that young people should be given chances — often and early — to wrestle with their own understandings of meaning.   Show Highlights Energy and ethos leaders desire for their schools.  A pivot point and catalysis for identifying as a Ruckus Maker.  Create community partnerships and design thinking with Project Invent. A question all students find purpose and meaning in the education system. Assist students with making a backpack of belonging. Support teachers who want to make a ruckus get off isolation island. Unlock talent and push people to believe they are talented. The value in crosscutting conversations with students and teachers. Close the distance students feel between the real world and the classroom.   “How old were you when you realized everything was invented? I think everybody has that moment or maybe you don't and those are the unlucky ones. You realize the world was designed and it can be redesigned and redesigned and redesigned and reinvented. We hope our students have that realization early on in their experience with us that everything around them was designed and they actually can be a part of that.” -Jordan Mareno   Jordan Mareno’s Resources & Contact Info: Project Invent LinkedIn Twitter Facebook   Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog 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

Tanya Sheckley is the Founder and President of UP Academy, a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. UP Academy is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms. Inspired by the will, drive, and desire of her daughter, Eliza, who was born in 2009 with cerebral palsy, UP Academy is proving that it’s possible to celebrate differences, change what’s broken in the American education system, and provide all children with a rigorous, well-rounded education. Tanya also hosts the Rebel Educator podcast, speaks across the country on the future of education, and leads professional development programs for school administrators and educators.    Show Highlights Champion Project Based Learning with a “changemakers unit” Every Ruckus Maker needs a Rebel Educator to make a ruckus  Effective marketing and business messaging for school leadership  Up Academy is changing what's broken in the American education system Stop robbing children of education inside school buildings Break the free of the 3 Ps that handcuff education Consistently give students more agency and responsibility to build executive functioning skills Powerful things a school leader could do to break down the silos Deep juicy questions to ignite deeper learning  Student agency, inclusion, and equity is at the foundation of  integrated experience. “Try something new, different, innovative and creative. Startle your students with something that they haven't had an opportunity to do before, or a different side of you,  they haven't gotten a chance to see or know.” -Tanya Sheckley   Tanya Sheckley’s Resources & Contact Info: https://tanyasheckley.com/ UP Academy Rebel Educator Linkedin Twitter   Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   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. Roseann is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge, LLC, who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health”. FORBES magazine called her, “A thought leader in children’s mental health”. Her work has helped thousands improve the most challenging conditions, such as ADHD, anxiety, OCD, mood, autism, learning disability, Lyme, and PANS/PANDAS using PROVEN holistic therapies such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, and psychotherapy. She is the author of the first ever book on teletherapy activities for child and adolescent therapists, “Teletherapy Toolkit™” and It’s Gonna be OK!™ book and The Get Unstuck Program™, which are resources for parents to improve their child’s symptoms with science-backed solutions. She is a media personality who has been in/on hundreds of television shows, podcasts, and major publications including Fox, CBS, NBC, Scripps, FORBES, PARENTS, Healthline, BBC, The Washington Post, and New York Times. She is sought after keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and works with brands to support employee, parent and children’s mental health and educate on solutions to reduce stress and increase resiliency. Dr. Roseann is a Connecticut Certified School Psychologist, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Integrative Medicine Mental Health Provider (CMHIMP), and a Board Certified Neurofeedback Provider (BCN). She is a member of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS). Dr. Roseann serves on the boards of the Northeast Regional Biofeedback Society and is a Lyme Connection Task Force Professional Advisor Show Highlights Advice for parents and educators who need to have tough conversations with kids Teach about the limits of healing Managing the good stress and the bad stress to see beyond the surface Shape behaviors with brain based, holistic therapies Solutions focused on how kids learn and process in the brain Coping skills to control your stress response to be stress resilient  Mindfulness based activities to regulate our nervous system Get kids out of  fight, flight, or freeze by preparing their nervous system to learn, pay attention, and take action  Stop working backwards in your schools “We've a community of consciousness, of people that are stressed in a way I've never seen before and they're bringing that to school. Somehow schools have become the fix all for everything, and it shouldn't be. We are a community and you can't over rely on one part in the community. All members have to do their part.  -Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge   Dr Roseann Capanna-Hodge’s Resources & Contact Info: It's Gonna Be Ok:  Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Instagram    Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   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

A professional bassist, Gerald J. Leonard offers a unique approach to accomplishing more productivity in the workplace. He is the CEO of Principles of Execution (PofE), a Certified Minority Business Enterprise, Strategic Project Portfolio Management and Culture Change consulting practice with over 20+ years’ experience working with large Federal and State Governments and Multinational Corporations. Past and present clients include Verizon, Center of Medicaid and Medicare, Freddie Mac, Hewlett-Packard (HP), GEICO, and many more.  He is also the author of Workplace Jazz: How to Improvise and Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps To Creating High-Performing Teams.   Show Highlights The value of having coaches and in the areas you want to go  The “acres of diamonds” lesson Learn to speak the language of imitation Deliberate practice is the performance.  Uncover workplace jazz and leave your ego at the door Music integrates the entire brain and allows you to see the big picture 3 ideas to naturally improve team dynamics Develop the pathway and capability to have great scientific and mathematical minds with brain integration.  “High-performing teams are high performers individually, but when they come together they first think of the performance and then they surrender to each other to highlight and motivate and encourage.” -Gerald Leonard   Gerald Leonard’s Resources & Contact Info: Connect with Gerald to book your productivity!  Workplace Jazz: How to Improvise  Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps To Creating High-Performing Teams. LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter What if Practice is the Performance: Falling In Love with Practice Gerald J. Leonard| TED Talk   Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   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. Efraín Martínez is a father, husband, and the principal of Northwood Middle School in Highland Park, IL. He reflects and interviews luminary figures on his podcast Wisdom & Productivity. His one word is #improvement and he strives to do all he can to make this world better. Show Highlights The #1 productivity secret   ​​Set fire to the house to know which door to open for your mental health  Stop being a time traveler to lead and live in the present moment  Develop honest, sincere relationships with emotional intelligence skills. Motivational leaders touch people with sincere candor Give yourself permission to take action and choose yourself   Be the first person to buy what you’re selling  Have a “dumping ground” for your ideas Tweet going down the stairs to have better quality leadership     “When we sanctify something by not talking about it, we are defending it instead of tackling face forward.” -Dr Efrain Martinez    Dr Efrain Martinez’s Resources & Contact Info: Wisdom and Productivity: The Podcast Twitter LinkedIn   Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   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

Genein Letford is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and corporate trainer on creative thinking and Intercultural Creativity™. She is the founder of CAFFE Strategies, and has inspired and led many to reconnect to their creative abilities in order to produce innovative ideas for an inclusive workspace. Show Highlights   The 7-gems of intercultural creativity framework Redefining creativity in schools. Stop unintentionally squashing creativity.   A new lens to view effective leadership Benefits in sitting with ambiguity  Strengthen your cultural competence and multi sensory observational skills.  Be an ability bridge across different cultural groups.     “Cultural competence and the creative growth mindset of the teacher is one of the highest indicators of student success.” -Genein Letford   “For the next era of thinking and the next future of work, we have to do a better job of really making sure our kids are strong in their ability to stand-in their unique truth.” -Genein Letford Genein Letford’s Resources & Contact Info: LinkedIn Twitter Caffe Strategies The 7-Gems of Intercultural Creativity I am Creative   Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   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

Sasha Lipskaia helps her powerful clients get clarity on who they really are, become magnetic to what they desire, and embody their purpose by getting out of their minds and into the truth of their hearts so that they can feel aligned and worthy in their relationships, and their mission in the world. Over the past 20 years, Sasha's work has integrated a variety of healing modalities, mystical traditions, de-colonial practices, theatrical and movement-based therapeutic art, yogic philosophy, mindset coaching, and sacred sexuality with a focus on guiding her clients' to re-wire their nervous systems while helping them reconnect to the wisdom of their body, and intuition.   Show Highlights The body is the missing piece of most leadership Radically trust yourself to be guided by intuition Feel into the truth of your heart to direct your leadership  Destruction creates an environment you can plant seeds in Integrate your finding of the Holy Grail on your “hero’s journey” The path will appear when you choose to honor the mission in your heart  The scariest thing to do is usually the most true. Find the truth to server what the moment calling for Be the tree to live as the leader you're looking for  “Your job, my job, the reason we're trained to do it, the reason we practice it is because knowing what question to ask and how to create space for someone to witness their truth, not only witness it, but to allow it to come into the body so they can embody it. To actually trust what it's asking of them.” - Sasha Lipskaia    Sasha Lipskaia’s Resources & Contact Info: Sasha Lipskaia Sasha Lipskaia - YouTube Being Brave with Sasha Lipskaia on Apple Podcast The Body Keeps the Score It Didn’t Start With You LinkedIn Twitter Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog 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

Jason Dropik is an educational leader serving diverse communities with his just cause in creating meaningful and lasting relationships. He has served both Public and Private Schools in and near Milwaukee Wisconsin for over 20 years. Mr. Dropik currently serves as the Head of School at the Indian Community School in Franklin, WI. Dropik believes in the power of diverse collaboration and is also serving as the President of the National Indian Education Association, Wisconsin Association of Environmental Education Board Member, and various professional and community organizations. He is committed to building community, expanding collaborations, and creating student leadership opportunities. Show Highlights Build connections amidst challenging times Frame a sense of gratitude to create a positive impact Tips to lift your staff to watch amazing things happening EVERY day Pivotal and foundational acknowledgments required to practice education Raise capacity within students and communities to acknowledge cultures  Flatten walls to expand your perspective and understanding  Step out of a previous leader’s shadow into your own leadership Honest and challenging conversations to navigate a path forward with perspectives outside of your own   “The ancestors, those that came before us, talked about living, balance and living in harmony with all of creation, everything around us. How do we slow down enough to be observant of all the gifts that are in front of us? A sense of gratitude has been really helpful through pandemic and changes that exist in schools and communities. Thankfulness and gratitude, it's hard to be upset and to not think about it.” -Jason Dropik “There are so many teachings and experiences that American Indian History has provided that were either erased, moved or taken away.”  -Jason Dropik   Jason Dropik’s Resources & Contact Info: Native-Land.ca Linkedin Twitter Buy Daniel’s latest book: Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader   Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   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

Stanley S. Litow is Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he also served as Innovator in Residence and also teaches at Columbia University. He previously served as deputy chancellor of schools for New York City and as president of the IBM Foundation and vice president of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs at IBM. At IBM, he helped create Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), the innovative grade 9 to 14 school connecting school to college to career. He is also co-author of Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career from Teachers College Press. Stan also serves as a Trustee of the State University of New York (SUNY) where he chairs the Academic Affairs Committee.  Show Highlights Why don't education reforms go to scale? P-Tech creates a pathway from high school to college to career.  Get past the politics in education. Education is the bottom line for profitability for all Americans. A formula that sets up conditions where ALL kids can soar.  An educational resource that can end the economic and cultural divide. Students determine when they are college ready. Billion dollar college saving and workplace ready plan.  Take down the silo between school to college for relevant learning.  “All of the assumptions about who can achieve go out the window if you provide students with the right opportunity.” -Stan Litow   Stan Litow’s Resources & Contact Info:   Breaking Barriers P-TECH LinkedIn Twitter Buy Daniel’s latest book: Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader     Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   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