Sep 25, 2022

Amelia Leighton Gamel shares her take on the real causes of educators burning out and leaving the classroom, as well as what solutions leaders need to be focused on to retain staff.  Classroom management bootcamps, teacher mentorship programs, parent involvement, and administrator support are all part of her equation to...

Sep 18, 2022

Dr. Marcus Belin serves as the Principal of Huntley High School and President of the Illinois Principals Association. Dr. Belin, native of Chicago, Illinois. attended Bradley University, where he received his bachelor’s in elementary education (‘10) followed by a master’s in education administration (‘14). He...

Sep 11, 2022

James Moffett is a principal in Kansas and he loves kids.

• Pretty empathetic
• Relationships
• Teri Barilla
• Question things I did as an educator
• If you were doing these things before the pandemic, you were as ready as you could be for the pandemic
• If you wouldn’t accept it from your supervisor, don’t dish it out to your...

Sep 5, 2022

In this episode, there is a bit of passing of the baton, as we introduce the next Transformative Principal, Eric Makelky. Eric will be recording the majority of the podcast episodes you hear over the next few months as we try a little experiment. We don’t know how it will work out, but we are hopeful.

Each month,...