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BETTER LEADERS BETTER SCHOOLS is the most downloaded podcast for K-12 school leaders — sitting in the TOP 0.5% of over 2 million podcasts worldwide. Launched in 2015, BLBS exists for one kind of leader: the Ruckus Maker — the principal who refuses to default to the status quo and is creating a campus experience worth showing up for. Every week, host Danny Bauer sits down with the sharpest minds in leadership, learning, and culture. No permission slips required. Turn your commute, your workout, or your chores into the best professional development of your career. Do School Different.
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- Yesterday45 min
SelfMentorship: Why Great Principals Don't Wait for a Coach with Danny Bauer
SelfMentorship is the leadership skill no one teaches principals. Stop waiting for a coach and learn to close your own leadership gaps. SelfMentorship is the leadership skill most principals and school leaders were never taught: turning your own experience into growth instead of waiting for a coach, a program, or a PD day to develop you. Co-host Dan Watt puts Danny Bauer in the hot seat to unpack ten years of Better Leaders Better Schools and the category that will shape the next ten. Danny breaks down his Harada chart (Sudoku for goals), why OKRs beat SMART goals, and the three-step play of create it, give it away, fire yourself. Then the reveal: a Digital Danny super user with 910 conversations named what Danny had been building for a decade. The lesson for your campus is to find your super users and describe your work in their words, not yours. THINK THROUGH YOUR NEXT LEADERSHIP MOVE: https://myprincipalcoach.com — your AI-powered principal coach, available 24/7. ⌚️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Why nobody teaches self-mentorship 05:34 - Danny's North Star for 2026 08:01 - The Harada method as Sudoku for goals 10:12 - Why OKRs beat SMART goals 13:05 - Infinite networking for school leaders 17:22 - Create it, give it away, fire yourself 22:27 - What Do School Different really means 24:20 - Why Ruckus Maker events break the PD mold 31:48 - The category nobody else teaches 33:48 - Find the super user on your campus 35:09 - Use their words, not yours 38:29 - Clarity in under 10 minutes 41:08 - The fundamentals behind peak performance WHENEVER YOU ARE READY, HERE'S 3 WAYS TO HELP YOU DO SCHOOL DIFFERENT: 📬 Weekly newsletter: https://ruckusmakers.news/subscribe 📚 Monthly mini-books: https://ruckusmakers.media 🧭 Map your next 90-days: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principals-entry-plan/ TODAY'S RUCKUSCAST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: IXL IXL's adaptive platform finds every student's knowledge gaps, adjusts difficulty as they learn, and gives you a dashboard showing exactly where growth is happening. 🔎 Over 1 million teachers use it — get started at https://ixl.com/leaders ODP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ODP Business Solutions has supplied schools for 30 years — converting dead computer labs into STEAM centers, stocking multiple campuses, upgrading whiteboards to interactive displays — all from a single supplier through cooperative contracts. 🔎 Learn more at https://odpbusiness.com/education ORCHARD Orchard gives every student a personalized career action plan and scores readiness across 8 dimensions — a number you can take to your board. 🔎 See how it works at https://betterleaders.orchard.careers/ KIDS FIRST EDUCATION Kids First Education builds professional learning around your district's priorities, your data, and your classrooms — not pulled off a shelf — and 98% of educators walk out ready to use what they learned. 🔎 Partner with them at https://kidsfirst.llc/leaders
- 4 days ago51 min
Why Relationship-Building Gives Secondary Teachers Time Back With John Whalen and Doug Overton
Relationship-building in secondary schools has a reputation problem. Content-focused teachers stacked with seven or eight periods a day treat connection as a nice-to-have they don't have time for. John Whalen and Doug Overton, co-founders of Ed Tomorrow, argue the opposite: teachers who invest a minute or two in connection get instructional time back, because bought-in students need less behavior management. Whalen and Overton left stable school leadership jobs to build The First Five, a free daily email that gives teachers grade-banded ways to build connection, care, and character into the first minutes of class. They break down why kids buy into a teacher before they buy into the content, how to get a hesitant secondary staff to try it, and what they'd build if they started a school from scratch. THINK THROUGH YOUR NEXT LEADERSHIP MOVE https://myprincipalcoach.com — your AI-powered principal coach, available 24/7. ⌚️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Why secondary teachers resist relationship building 04:11 - John and Doug introduce Ed Tomorrow 06:19 - The phone call that led to a cross-country move 09:15 - How COVID sparked the First Five 12:45 - Winning kid buy-in starts with relevancy 14:00 - Why kids buy into you before your content 17:01 - Meeting hesitant teachers where they are 23:58 - Why middle school is the hardest band to serve 33:07 - How the First Five actually works 34:34 - The three Cs behind every First Five resource 38:56 - The message they'd put on every school marquee 41:44 - Three guiding principles for building a dream school 47:04 - The one thing to remember before you start a ruckus CONNECT WITH JOHN WHALEN AND DOUG OVERTON Website: edtomorrow.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/edtomorrow/100083061286304 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ed.tomorrow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edtomorrow Quick sign-up Form: https://www.edtomorrow.com/signup/ WHENEVER YOU ARE READY, HERE'S 3 WAYS TO HELP YOU DO SCHOOL DIFFERENT: 📬 Weekly newsletter: https://ruckusmakers.news/subscribe 📚 Monthly mini-books: https://ruckusmakers.media 🧭 Map your next 90-days: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principals-entry-plan/ TODAY'S RUCKUSCAST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH IXL IXL's adaptive platform finds every student's knowledge gaps, adjusts difficulty as they learn, and gives you a dashboard showing exactly where growth is happening. 🔎 Over 1 million teachers use it — get started at https://ixl.com/leaders ODP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: ODP Business Solutions has supplied schools for 30 years — converting dead computer labs into STEAM centers, stocking multiple campuses, upgrading whiteboards to interactive displays — all from a single supplier through cooperative contracts. 🔎 Learn more at https://odpbusiness.com/education ORCHARD Orchard gives every student a personalized career action plan and scores readiness across 8 dimensions — a number you can take to your board. See how it works at https://betterleaders.orchard.careers/ KIDS FIRST EDUCATION Kids First Education builds professional learning around your district's priorities, your data, and your classrooms — not pulled off a shelf — and 98% of educators walk out ready to use what they learned. 🔎 Partner with them at https://kidsfirst.llc/leaders
- 1 weeks ago38 min
Why "Just Be Resilient" Is Burning Out Your Staff with Steph Hawkins
Teacher burnout won't be fixed with more grit. When resilience becomes the plan, schools stop redesigning the work that's draining staff. Teacher burnout and staff wellbeing get the headlines, but school leaders are missing two quieter problems: toxic resilience and bore out. Steph Hawkins, founder of Well Well Well, brings two decades of leadership across the UK and internationally, plus postgraduate work in applied positive psychology. She explains how "just dig deeper" became the bridge between unrealistic demands and human capability, and why it lets schools skip the real work. She breaks wellbeing into three layers (individual, leadership, organizational) and shows why middle leaders, the connective tissue of every school, have more agency than they think. You'll get the science of recognition that actually lands, why an overused strength starts to drain you, and how appreciative inquiry beats fixing weaknesses in school improvement planning.Depletion isn't a mark of dedication. Design for people and performance follows. THINK THROUGH YOUR NEXT LEADERSHIP MOVE: https://myprincipalcoach.com — your AI-powered principal coach, available 24/7. ⌚️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Toxic resilience and unrealistic demands 03:58 - Bore out, burnout's overlooked twin 07:36 - The three layers of staff wellbeing 10:08 - Why toxic resilience blocks system change 12:17 - Middle leaders as the school's connective tissue 14:25 - Staff recognition that actually lands 18:30 - When your strengths start to drain you 21:28 - Appreciative inquiry for school improvement 22:58 - How opposite strengths create team conflict 31:22 - Work design exposes hidden strain 33:47 - The connections every new educator needs 36:35 - Marquee message and dream school principles 🔗 CONNECT WITH STEPH HAWKINS: 🌎 Website: https://www.wellwellwell.work/ 👩🏻💻 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steph-hawkins-mapp/ 🫶 WHENEVER YOU ARE READY, HERE'S 3 WAYS TO HELP YOU DO SCHOOL DIFFERENT: 📬 Weekly newsletter: https://ruckusmakers.news/subscribe 📚 Monthly mini-books: https://ruckusmakers.media 🧭 Map your next 90-days: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principals-entry-plan/ 🤝 TODAY'S RUCKUSCAST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: IXL: IXL's adaptive platform finds every student's knowledge gaps, adjusts difficulty as they learn, and gives you a dashboard showing exactly where growth is happening. 🔎 Over 1 million teachers use it — get started at https://ixl.com/leaders ODP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: ODP Business Solutions has supplied schools for 30 years — converting dead computer labs into STEAM centers, stocking multiple campuses, upgrading whiteboards to interactive displays — all from a single supplier through cooperative contracts. 🔎 Learn more at https://odpbusiness.com/education ORCHARD: Orchard gives every student a personalized career action plan and scores readiness across 8 dimensions — a number you can take to your board. 🔎 See how it works at https://betterleaders.orchard.careers/ KIDS FIRST EDUCATION: Kids First Education builds professional learning around your district's priorities, your data, and your classrooms — not pulled off a shelf — and 98% of educators walk out ready to use what they learned. 🔎 Partner with them at https://kidsfirst.llc/leaders
- 1 weeks ago49 min
Why Classroom Management Is Killing Student Leadership with Rachael Thrash
Leads education and innovation at Big Bad Boo Studios, where she builds multicultural animated content that helps kids navigate conflict, identity, and belonging. Rachael Thrash has spent 25 years designing curriculum and student leadership systems in international and public schools, from Helsinki to Portland, Maine. Her book, Let the Learners Lead, gives school leaders a field-tested toolkit for turning students from passengers into co-owners of their school culture. Most classroom management strategies treat student behaviour as something adults control, not something students share responsibility for. Rachael Thrash, author of Let the Learners Lead, spent 25 years testing what happens when schools flip that assumption — inviting quiet, disconnected, and overlooked students into real leadership instead of asking them to earn it first. The results reshape how you think about culture, norms, and who actually gets to lead in your building. 💟 What You'll Learn How to identify and invite the students your leadership programs usually overlook. Why revisiting classroom and student leadership norms all year — not just in week one — protects culture. How to build an authentic audience for student work so learning doesn't end at a grade. Why peer acknowledgment does more for student engagement than teacher praise. How the same student-voice protocols that work with kids also fix disengaged faculty. 🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules 🩵 Key Insight #1: Student Leadership Programs Recruit the Wrong Students What's broken: Most student leadership retreats and councils only pull in kids who've already proven themselves as leaders. The shift: Rachael intentionally invites students who haven't participated much, because they're the ones with the sharpest observations about what isn't working. Impact: A withdrawn ninth grader who'd never spoken up built a BIPOC listening circle and presented on student leadership at international conferences within two years. 🚀 Key Insight #2: Classroom Norms Set in Week One Don't Survive the Year What's broken: Teachers build classroom norms during the first week of school, when every student is on their best behavior, then never revisit them. The shift: Norms have to be revisited regularly — when something goes wrong, the conversation returns to "how is this contributing to our classroom," not a rule violation. Impact: Teachers who build in regular norm check-ins see students take ownership of classroom culture instead of waiting to be corrected. 🧠 Key Insight #3: Peer Acknowledgment Beats Teacher Praise What's broken: Schools treat teacher approval as the primary motivator for good behavior and engagement, especially as students hit adolescence. The shift: Coaching students to recognize and acknowledge each other's contributions builds a stronger, more durable motivator than adult praise alone. Impact: Students who get peer recognition repeat the behavior that earned it — without an adult having to prompt them. 🤩 RACHAEL THRASH QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST "If you're looking at me to regulate your behavior, then you're not taking responsibility for yourself." — Rachael Thrash "If the supermarket line breaks into chaos, it's because each one of those people let it happen." — Rachael Thrash "Teacher acknowledgement is great. Peer acknowledgement is the holy grail." — Rachael Thrash "Who's the treasurer, who's the secretary — who cares is what I'm saying. What I care about is how you're treating each other and what we're doing collectively in this space." — Rachael Thrash "I am an AI optimist because I think that it's finally showing us that drill and kill is the most ridiculous thing ever." — Rachael Thrash "Every learner shapes this community. It has unique potential, and when each one of us contributes, we can create something beautiful." — Rachael Thrash 🏃♀️Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement? Start here: Tomorrow: Pull aside one student who has never volunteered for a leadership role and ask what isn't working at school. This Month: Rebuild one facul
- 2 weeks ago48 min
The 4 Branches of Creativity Most School Leaders Ignore
Creativity in schools isn't about talent, it's a system. Budget cuts and constraints make your team more creative, not less.Creativity in schools gets treated like an elective — something reserved for art class and cut the moment budgets tighten. Creativity researcher and author Susan Riley joins the show to make the case that creativity is a trainable system every school leader can build, not a talent some people have and others don't. Susan breaks creativity into four branches — creative skills, creative application, creative thinking, and creative expression — and explains why most schools only ever touch one or two of them. She also unpacks why AI is raising the stakes on creative and critical thinking, how daily habits build creative capacity over time, and why a constraint like a 20% budget cut can sharpen a team's creative response instead of shutting it down. If you're a school leader trying to build a campus experience that doesn't run on autopilot, this conversation gives you a framework and a set of practices to start with tomorrow. THINK THROUGH YOUR NEXT LEADERSHIP MOVE: https://myprincipalcoach.com — your AI-powered principal coach, available 24/7. ⌚️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - How schools kill creativity while fearing AI 05:40 - The Super Soaker story on unplanned creativity 06:56 - Can creativity actually be trained 09:10 - Susan's morning habit for daily creativity 12:16 - How creativity differs for teachers versus leaders 14:57 - The four branches of creativity explained 18:34 - Why creativity is the human edge over AI 22:46 - Creative moments versus creative systems 31:42 - The Dr. Seuss story on creative constraints 35:39 - Improv games that build hard fun 39:27 - Designing environments that support creativity 42:52 - The see-think-wonder walk exercise 45:26 - Three principles for building your dream school 🔗 CONNECT WITH SUSAN RILEY: 🌎 Website: https://susanmriley.com Facebook: Facebook.com/artsintedu Instagram: Instagram.com/artsintedu LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/susanmriley81 WHENEVER YOU ARE READY, HERE'S 3 WAYS TO HELP YOU DO SCHOOL DIFFERENT: 📬 Weekly newsletter: https://ruckusmakers.news/subscribe 📚 Monthly mini-books: https://ruckusmakers.media 🧭 Map your next 90-days: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principals-entry-plan/ 💟 TODAY'S RUCKUSCAST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: IXL: IXL's adaptive platform finds every student's knowledge gaps, adjusts difficulty as they learn, and gives you a dashboard showing exactly where growth is happening. 🔎Over 1 million teachers use it — get started at https://ixl.com/leaders ODP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: ODP Business Solutions has supplied schools for 30 years — converting dead computer labs into STEAM centers, stocking multiple campuses, upgrading whiteboards to interactive displays — all from a single supplier through cooperative contracts. 🔎 Learn more at https://odpbusiness.com/education ORCHARD: Orchard gives every student a personalized career action plan and scores readiness across 8 dimensions — a number you can take to your board. 🔎 See how it works at https://betterleaders.orchard.careers/ KIDS FIRST EDUCATION: Kids First Education builds professional learning around your district's priorities, your data, and your classrooms — not pulled off a shelf — and 98% of educators walk out ready to use what they learned. 🔎 Partner with them at https://kidsfirst.llc/leaders
- 2 weeks ago49 min
How to Delegate Everything in Your Head Without Hiring Anyone with Kati Cahill
Delegating feels impossible when you run a school alone — until you turn what's stuck in your head into a playbook someone else can run. Delegation is the hardest skill for a principal running a school without an assistant principal — every checklist, process, and judgment call lives in one head, and that head is exhausted. Kati Cahill, Head of School at Humanex Academy, a small private school for neurodivergent students south of Denver, walks through how she's been using an AI thought partner to pull her admissions process and scheduling system out of her head and into playbooks her team can actually run. She also breaks down how the same backward-planning conversation turned her 90-day entry plan into four owned workstreams — communication, academics, culture, and operations — instead of a document that sits in a folder, and how she built a reusable "wins" template that turns a year of staff stories into an instant morale boost when energy dips. This one's a real look at what sustainable school leadership looks like when you're the entire admin team. ⌚️ Episode Timestamps 00:00 - Turning the systems in your head into playbooks 04:13 - Leading a school with no assistant principal 07:05 - A solo retreat that led to staying 13:36 - Inside the Mastermind hot seat and book study 21:16 - Using Digital Danny to stop overthinking 24:08 - Building a 90-day entry plan by department 33:38 - Turning staff wins into a shareable template 37:03 - Defining one belief to repeat all year 42:34 - Why Digital Danny stays open as a tab 48:00 - The takeaway on making the job sustainable 🧔🏻♂️ Your SelfMentorship Guide Meet Digital Danny — your SelfMentorship guide. Always available, never forgets, and evolves with you. Think through your next leadership move at myprincipalcoach.com 🚀 Whenever you are Ready, here's 3 Ways to Help you Do School Different: 📬 Weekly newsletter: https://ruckusmakers.news/subscribe 📚 Monthly mini-books: https://ruckusmakers.media 🧭 Map your next 90-days: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principals-entry-plan/ 🫶 Today's RuckusCast in Partnership With: IXL IXL's adaptive platform finds every student's knowledge gaps, adjusts difficulty as they learn, and gives you a dashboard showing exactly where growth is happening. 🔎 Over 1 million teachers use it — get started at https://ixl.com/leaders ODP Business Solutions ODP Business Solutions has supplied schools for 30 years — converting dead computer labs into STEAM centers, stocking multiple campuses, upgrading whiteboards to interactive displays — all from a single supplier through cooperative contracts. 🔎 Learn more at https://odpbusiness.com/education Orchard Orchard gives every student a personalized career action plan and scores readiness across 8 dimensions — a number you can take to your board. 🔎 See how it works at https://betterleaders.orchard.careers/ Kids First Education Kids First Education builds professional learning around your district's priorities, your data, and your classrooms — not pulled off a shelf — and 98% of educators walk out ready to use what they learned. 🔎 Partner with them at https://kidsfirst.llc/leaders
- 3 weeks ago53 min
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 — the Mastermind, one-on-one coaching, and now Digital Danny. A middle school principal transitioning back to his first love, elementary, he's spent this year applying what each stage taught him about slowing down instead of reaching for the fastest answer in the room. He's also working on a book, currently titled Lead with Heart, Build with Purpose, and Serve with Joy, drawn from his own journals. School principal Bill Renner has used every tier of the Ruckus Maker system — the Mastermind, one-on-one coaching, and now Digital Danny. In this episode, he breaks down why fast answers from AI chatbots are quietly making leaders worse, and what changed when he learned to slow down before changing anything at a brand-new school. 💟 What You'll Learn Why treating AI like an answer machine can quietly make you a worse decision-maker. How to slow down and ask better questions before changing anything at a new school. Why giving your staff a "permission slip" to slow down changes how they show up. How to actually measure whether you're leading with joy instead of guessing at it. What separates the Mastermind, 1-on-1 coaching, and Digital Danny — and when to use each. 🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules 🧠 Key Insight #1: Why Instant AI Answers Lead to Mediocre School Leadership Decisions What's broken: Principals turn to AI chatbots for fast answers and start believing every idea the tool hands back is brilliant. The shift: A tool that asks better questions instead of supplying instant answers forces principals to actually reason through a decision first. Impact: Plans get executed with more ownership and better results because the leader has genuinely thought them through, not just accepted the first answer. 🧠 Key Insight #2: Why New Principals Should Ask Before They Change Anything What's broken: Experienced principals arrive at a new school with solutions already picked out, based on what worked somewhere else. The shift: Slow down and ask staff what they're proud of and where they feel stuck before changing a single thing. Impact: Staff spoke more openly once the notepad and devices disappeared, surfacing context a rushed transition would have missed entirely. 🧠 Key Insight #3: Why Giving Staff a "Permission Slip" Changes How They Show Up What's broken: Administrators push staff with deadlines and demands, expecting speed and compliance by default. The shift: Give staff explicit permission to slow down or push back — the same kind of permission a parent signs off on for a school trip. Impact: The room visibly relaxed, and staff started extending that same permission to each other. BILL QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST "There has to be more to this leadership thing than just survival." — Bill Renner "Leaders, they don't need to prove that they have every answer. We just need to be willing to reflect, ask different questions, and continue to grow." — Bill Renner "Every day isn't joyful, but every day has joy." — Bill Renner "I gave them permission to slow things down. In this fast-paced society, we're all interconnected one way or another." — Bill Renner "When I go to Digital Danny, I'm doing deep work — breaking things down to get to the raw of what exactly am I doing and why am I doing it." — Bill Renner 🫶 Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement? Start here: Tomorrow: Ask one staff member the question Bill used at his new school — "What's something we should never change here?" This Month: Give your staff one explicit "permission slip," written or spoken, to slow down or say no to something on their plate. This Semester: Build a weekly three-things-that-went-well journal, like Bill's, into your own routine to measure joy instead of guessing at it. ⌚️ Episode Timestamps 00:00 - Why 32 suspensions in one day killed his joy 04:33 - From hemming and hawing to joining the Mastermind 11:19 - Comparing Mastermind, 1-on-1 coaching,
- 3 weeks ago48 min
Why Student Behavior Won't Change Until the Adults Do
Student behavior changed when the adults did: 25 discipline calls a day dropped to about one. Here's the adult-first work behind it. School discipline problems don't start with the kids. Sarah spent years answering 20 to 25 walkie calls a day for escalated students. Tokens, red-light-green-light charts, taking away recess — external systems trying to fix an internal issue. Then she started doing the work on herself first. Ten days into opening a brand-new school this fall, she hasn't answered 12 calls total. Jill Molli has taught Conscious Discipline for 25 years, and she names the leap most principals never make. They'll regulate themselves for a kindergartner. They won't do it for the teacher who yells in the hallway but posts good test scores. Sarah Sicht did it with teachers, parents, and her own superiors. At her previous school, a 100% free-and-reduced-lunch building, that produced zero teacher turnover and a move from the bottom 10% of the state to the top 10% of Title I schools with the same kids and no redistricting. Jill also breaks down SAFE, the four-domain framework Conscious Discipline built by studying principals like Sarah: Sustained leadership, Adult regulation, Foster community, Engaged classroom. It's the spine of the Elevate conference, where Danny is keynoting the S. REGISTER FOR ELEVATE Elevate is Conscious Discipline's conference in Orlando this October. Sessions are labeled by S.A.F.E. domain, so you go straight to what your campus needs. Danny, Jill, and Sarah will all be there. Sign yourself up, sign the team up: https://elevateteacherconference.com/ ⌚️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - From 25 walkie calls a day to one 04:12 - What Sarah believed about kids before Conscious Discipline 07:09 - Willingness beats waiting for a reason to change 09:11 - Hurt doesn't only show up in Title I schools 10:32 - Building the soil with a brand-new staff 14:39 - The hardest part is doing it with adults 17:49 - Why leading alone gets hard 23:24 - What COVID taught Sarah about connection 26:55 - Lowest 10% to top 10% with the same kids 28:32 - The two questions every staff member asks 36:17 - Where the SAFE framework came from 38:32 - Breaking down the SAFE framework 46:09 - The one thing: it's adult first
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