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What’s the Smallest Action You Can Take Right Now?

This Isn’t Tap Dancing

What Is the Counter to That Thinking?

June's 20/20 Hindsight

Why We Need to Coach Specials Teachers Early in Elementary

What Would Change If You Assumed Positive Intent?

The Sentence You Won’t Regret Rehearsing…

What If You’re More Capable Than You Think?

Your Skill-Will Matrix Has Fossils in It

If You’re Just Checking Boxes This Summer, You’re Missing the Most Important Work

Who Is the Right Exemplar for This Moment?

Here’s What You Do If You Can’t Tell Them Sh*t and Your Audience Hates You

The Unseen Load: What Teacher Shortages Really Cost Us

Disruption Invites Belief Repair

What’s Getting in the Way?

What You Really Believe About Leadership Might Be Hurting Your School (and You)

May's 20/20 Hindsight

What Story Are You Telling Yourself?

6 Things You Need to Know Before Pursuing a Principal Certification

Phrases You Use That Undermine Your Own Leadership

What’s on your summer list?

What Would It Take for This to Feel Possible?

Top 5 Things You Need to Know About Collective Efficacy

Are you watering the grass or the fire?

Action Step of the Week: Habits of Discussion

What Part of Yourself Do You Feel the Need to Defend?

The Word I’m Trying to Banish

Series Bonus: Trust & Autonomy Reflection Protocol

Designing for Trust

What Could This Behavior Be Protecting?

The Three Conditions for Healthy Autonomy

The Subtext of Autonomy

The Trust Friction Curve

What Do You Need to Believe to Be True to Move Forward?

The Trust Ladder

The Trust–Autonomy Matrix

The Autonomy Mirage

What Would It Look Like to Let Go of That Thinking?

Empowered to Lead: Rethinking School Leadership Through Teacher-Led Models

Stop Coaching Everyone: Focus on the Ones Who Might Actually Change

What’s the Real Issue Here?

Please Involve Teachers in Grading Policy Decisions

Stop starting with modeling. Start with independent practice.

I’ve Officially Wrapped Up the Bra Challenge

What Assumptions Are Present Here?

The Nursing Bra – Why We Hold Onto Things Long After We Need Them

Consistency matters more than intensity

Recognizing and breaking cycles

What Are You Willing to Tolerate?

Why "Have you ever thought about..." Is the Worst Coaching Question

The Cheetah Print Bra

Action Step of the Week: Sentence Frames

Why Unlearning is the Missing Step in Behavior Change

The Psychological Study That Keeps Me Fighting for Empathy

Unlearning the “I’m Finished” Mindset in Schools

The Listening Gap

I was mindset-coached with 3 words

Top 5 Worst Pieces of Feedback Given to Educators

Skill Gaps Aren’t the Problem—Belief Gaps Are

Do your questions feel like a trap?

A common mindset I unpacked that has made me more effective

Accountability Gap Quiz (Seventeen Magazine Style)

Can we please start matching competencies to roles?

If we want transformation, let's start with staff meetings

Adapting Doesn't Mean Losing Yourself

Why Group Feedback Generally Fails

The Good Old Boy System in Educational Leadership

Ok, I was wrong. Visions are alright.

The Accountability Gap Part 4

Action Step of the Week: Aggressive (Intentional) Monitoring

The Accountability Gap Part 3

The Accountability Gap Part 2

The Accountability Gap Part 1

Chapter 4 Preview: Who Do You Need Me to Be?

But are you having fun?

Action Step of the Week: Cold Call

How to Tier Your Teachers: A Practical Guide for School Leaders

Despair, Hope, Repeat

The Influence-Agency Matrix

Limiting Beliefs vs. Disempowered Mindsets

Belief Inventory Research Guide

Your beliefs about feedback are limiting your impact