As a school leader, you see the big-picture vision for your students, staff, and overall community, which mostly involves implementing new practices or instructional topics for your school. But doing this is often met with resistance, and teachers aren’t always 100% sold on your ideas. So, how do you create teacher buy-in?

This is a topic that comes up a lot in my coaching work, and this week, I have a story that comes directly from one of my clients that I’m using for context so you can apply what I’m sharing to your situation. Whether you’re not yet confident in your decision-making as a principal, or you’re unsure of how to sell your teachers on your vision, we’re covering it all on this episode. 

Read more

I told you at the beginning of 2022 that I’m going to be spending time talking about how you can earn more in school leadership, and today is that day. So many school leaders believe they don’t have any control over their income, but the great news is that this is simply a myth, and I’m showing you why.

Creating demand as a school leader is an incredibly important skill to cultivate if you want a higher income. But whether it’s more money, time, or whatever brings you joy, it all starts with predetermining what you want, examining your beliefs, and getting busy expanding your portal of possibility. 

Read more

Most of you are now coming back off the holiday break, and I’ve been seeing the same struggle across the board with my clients. After a couple of weeks of lounging around, resting up, and having fun, they’re feeling resistant to getting back to work, experiencing what I’m calling the after-break blues.

We’re in the midst of winter, which means it’s dark, cold, and gloomy, and many teachers and school leaders are experiencing a dip in energy and morale. On top of that, it’s also the middle of the school calendar year, which means the motivation and delight at the beginning of the year have probably faded a little. But the good news is that this is just a temporary phase, and today, I’m showing you how to start feeling better.

Read more

I have been talking to school leaders throughout the past month, and they’ve been telling me all about the worries and stresses around one of the biggest focuses in their work: testing. They came back from the holidays, and their brains started panicking about testing, so that’s exactly what we’re talking about in today’s episode.

Both kids and teachers have been out sick, quarantining, and everyone was already so far behind anyway. So, with everything that we’re facing in 2022, what can we do to ease our minds while giving our kids the best chance of being successful in their tests?

Read more

Throughout the month of January, we’ve been exploring what we think is possible and investigating all the things we think are impossible for us and why. You might have some personal and professional aspirations that feel like a stretch right now, but I’m offering to you this week that there are amazing goals within your reach that you’ve never even considered before.

Whether it’s expanding your skills as a school leader, balancing your time better, or wilder dreams like becoming a millionaire, your brain is probably telling you it’s simply not reasonable or possible. But the truth is every goal is impossible only until it’s conceived, and this week, I’m inviting you to use the concept of future possibility to go after what you want.

Read more