THE RUCKUS MAKER MASTERMIND · FOR PRINCIPALS
The weekly room where Ruckus Makers build The Automatic School: a hot seat for your hardest problem, a national peer group, and a year you can see, from a baseline the week you join to proof by May.
A 7-minute application. An answer in 48 hours.
THE ROOM
Once a week, your cohort meets live for an hour. One member takes the hot seat with the problem keeping them up at night, and the room works it with them. You leave with a next move, and the room asks about it next week.
It isn't a course or a webinar series. It's Selfmentorship: you stop waiting for the system to develop you, and you do the work with peers who hold you to it.
Principals from across the country, so you can say the true thing out loud.
School leaders run every cohort, not facilitators reading from a script.
The process is the same for everyone. What you work on is yours.
ONE HOT SEAT, 25 MINUTES
"I just finished my 7th year as principal. This was the first year I felt balanced. Confident. In control. And my teachers noticed."
"The guidance at the very beginning of my mastermind experience helped me mature and set a clear vision of what I wanted: to build trust."
"This mastermind changed my life. I found a place to grow, belong, and lead different."
HOW THE YEAR WORKS
The stages follow the school calendar, so your whole cohort is in the same stage at the same time. You start with a baseline and finish with proof.
Take both Scorecards. Meet your coach for a 30 to 45 minute Welcome Call.
Weekly hot seats. Monthly trainings on ownership and the ideal week.
Weekly hot seats when the year gets heavy. Commitments tracked week to week.
Retake both Scorecards. Present your year to the room at your May review.
Join any month. Your Welcome Call sets your baseline, and you step into the stage the calendar is in.
Stay and it compounds. Year 1 is Lead Domino (you). Year 2 is Ripple Effect (your team). Year 3 is Big Picture (systems that outlast you). Year 4 comes back to you, and takes your leadership to the next level.
THREE WAYS TO JOIN
Online, then in person, then with Danny.
Every tier starts with the same application. Any member can add Off Campus for $1,000. Travel isn't included at any tier.
THE COACH TEAM
They're principals and education leaders who have done this work and stayed to help others do it.
Leads the monthly training and the Front Row Stage Calls.
Canada. 15 years of school leadership.
President, National Indian Education Association. In the room since 2016.
Principal, Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
COHORTS
Groups meet weekly on Zoom. All times are Eastern.
Your cohort is confirmed after your application is reviewed.
"Before joining, I was ready to quit. After just a few sessions, I had a clear vision and real momentum. I didn't just survive this year. I thrived."
"The other day, I got a high five from a teacher during a walk-through. She told me, 'We did it.' That 'we' includes me."
"I wanted to build a school where kids come every single day and they feel loved and cared for and seen and heard."
"Self-criticism was getting in the way. The mastermind experience is incredibly validating. It has grown my confidence."
FUNDING
Many members have asked and gotten a yes. The answer is no unless you ask. Title I and PD funds are common sources, and we handle quotes, POs and invoices.
Makes the case in results your district cares about.
Uses negotiation psychology to get to yes.
FOR SUPERINTENDENTS
Buy Mastermind seats for your principals. You pick the tier, and every seat goes on one PO.
"I put into practice what the Ruckus Makers taught and all my beginning of the year stress was gone."
Principals from the same district go into different cohorts, with peers who don't share their boss.
The discount applies to the $3,500 base. Off Campus and Stage Calls stay at full price.
No debriefs and no scores. The room stays theirs.
Next year's proposal arrives in spring, before budgets lock.
Want all your principals together, with reporting? Ask about the District Cohort.
Yes. The Mastermind is built for principals who are already leading well and know exactly where the ceiling is.
One hour of live coaching a week, plus about an hour for reading and the community. Two to three hours a week in all.
Start with The Room for the weekly cohort. Choose Off Campus to add two days together in July. Choose Front Row to add a Stage Call with Danny at each stage of your year.
Join any month. Your Welcome Call sets your baseline, and you step into the stage the calendar is in. If you join after January, your first May is a checkpoint, and your full review is the following May.
Yes. The weekly room runs year-round, and Off Campus happens in July.
Yes. The Mastermind is built for principals who are already leading well and know exactly where the ceiling is.
One hour of live coaching a week, plus about an hour for reading and the community. Two to three hours a week in all.
Start with The Room for the weekly cohort. Choose Off Campus to add two days together in July. Choose Front Row to add a Stage Call with Danny at each stage of your year.
Join any month. Your Welcome Call sets your baseline, and you step into the stage the calendar is in. If you join after January, your first May is a checkpoint, and your full review is the following May.
Yes. The weekly room runs year-round, and Off Campus happens in July.
The principals who apply are done waiting for the system to develop them. If that's you, apply today.
A 7-minute application. An answer in 48 hours.