How to Delegate Everything in Your Head Without Hiring Anyone with Kati Cahill
Kati Cahill has spent 15 years at the school and is now in her ninth year as Head of School. She's a longtime member of the Ruckus Maker Club and…
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Why Getting Answers From AI Is Hurting Your Leadership with Bill Renner
Currently in his eleventh year of school administration and his twenty-fifth in education, Bill Renner has run the full course through the Ruckus Maker system
Why Student Behavior Won’t Change Until the Adults Do
Twenty-five years teaching Conscious Discipline to educators across the country gives Jill a rare vantage point: she can spot a principal who's ready to let go of fear-based control before…
How to Make Better Decisions Without More Information with David Samuelson and Mary Call Blanusa
Blanusa brings two decades of education policy and philanthropy experience, including co-designing decision-making courses with state systems like the Tennessee Board of Regents.
Fred Holmes on Why He’s Never Missed a Wednesday Mastermind
Fred Holmes — known inside the Ruckus Maker Mastermind as the Velvet Hammer — started as a science teacher in Shelby County Schools, moved through teacher leadership and an assistant…
Why Principals Won’t Delegate (And What It’s Costing Them) with Naphtali Hoff
Dr. Naphtali Hoff trains school leaders and teachers to perform at their best without running themselves into the ground. He's the author of three books, and his newest, Becoming the…
Why Your Anti-Racist PD Isn’t Actually Changing Anything with Dr Abby C. Emerson
Dr Abby Emerson is an assistant professor of Childhood Education at Hunter College, CUNY, where her research spans anti-racist and abolitionist teacher education, restorative justice, and the critique of whiteness…
Why the “Conveyor Belt” Career Model Is Failing Kids with Corey Kossack
Why the conveyor belt model of career readiness fails students — and how AI tools like Orchard help principals build a better system.
Experiential Education: Why Your Lesson Plan Is Failing Students
Zaretta Hammond on cognition redlining, closing the learning power gap, and what real instructional equity looks like for principals.
