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Rich Milner: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity gaps, and Teaching in today’s Classrooms
Richard Milner IV is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. He has secondary appointments in Peabody’s Department of Leadership, Policy...
4 Things I Learned from Orly Friedman
Orly Friedman was Danny’s guest on a bonus podcast episode. She is the founder of the Red Bridge school in San Francisco. You can listen to our conversation, read the show notes, and get links to all the resources she mentioned here. Below are 4 things I learned from...
Bonus: Tracey Benson: Introducing the Anti-Racist Leadership Institute
Tracey A. Benson, Ed.L.D., is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is a former public school teacher, middle school assistant principal, and high school principal. Dr. Benson received his Ed.L.D. in...
Eric Adams: Healthy Eating in Schools
Eric Leroy Adams was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn on September 1, 1960, the fourth of six children for his mother Dorothy, a house cleaner and cook, and his father Leroy, a butcher. Growing up in a working-class household in South Jamaica, Queens,...
Mastermind Case Study: Shbrone Brookings
Principal @ Ralph Downs Elementary “After joining the mastermind, I instantly possess an attainable network of global resources.” Tell us what you do and what your work typically entails. I’m an elementary principal in Oklahoma City that gets the opportunity to create...
4 Reasons Why Limiting Your Candid Feedback Sabotages Your Progress
If you’re an educational leader, you’re probably not using candid feedback as often or as well as you should be. That’s as candid as we can be about it. And, mostly, it’s not your fault. Candor is a skill. It takes practice. It requires training. And, it’s not...
Jethro Jones: Designing a Transformative School
Jethro Jones, 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, is a former principal in Fairbanks, Alaska, and host of Transformative Principal, where he interviews principals, leaders, and influencers who help improve K-12 education throughout the world. He is also the...
September 2020 Results & Q3 OKR Reflection
Every three months I take a deeper dive into my goals. In this post, I will look briefly at September 2020 and extensively at my performance from July - September 2020. This post is on the longer side, but if you stick with it you'll learn a few things about goal...
Anthony Kim: Creative Thinking about School Leadership
Anthony Kim is a Corwin Press bestselling author, with publications including The New Team Habits, The New School Rules, and The Personalized Learning Playbook. His writing ranges the topics of the future of work, leadership and team motivation, improving the way we...
