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The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast | The #1 Downloaded School Leadership Show

The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast | The #1 Downloaded School Leadership Show

著者： Daniel Bauer Loves School Leadership
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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.© 2015 Better Leaders Better Schools 教育
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  • Why Your Neurodivergent Students Are Disappearing with Vanessa Castañeda Gill

    Why Your Neurodivergent Students Are Disappearing with Vanessa Castañeda Gill
    2026/07/01
    She spent six years hiding her autism diagnosis from everyone — peers, friends, even herself. Then she built a neuroscience-backed video game that's changing how neurodivergent students understand who they are. Vanessa Castañeda Gill the founder of Social Cipher, an SEL video game platform designed by and for neurodivergent people, developed in partnership with the LEGO Foundation. Her work sits at the intersection of neuroscience research and lived autistic experience — and she's one of the few people in edtech who has both. She was diagnosed autistic at 14, went on to become a published neuroscience researcher, and turned her personal story into a scalable tool now reaching classrooms across the country. 80% of school avoidance students are neurodivergent. That single stat reframes every conversation you've been having about "disengaged" kids in your building. Your neurodivergent students aren't checking out because they don't care — they're burning out from performing normalcy in a system that was never designed for how their brains actually work. This episode is a practical roadmap for principals who want to close the gap between their inclusion vision and what neurodivergent students are actually experiencing every single day. 🤩 What You'll Learn Why calm corners and flexible seating aren't enough — and what neurodivergent students actually need to feel safe and stay enrolled.How Social Cipher uses video game mechanics to build a shared emotional vocabulary between students and teachers.What it looks like to lead a majority neurodivergent team — and why that's a strength, not a challenge.Three low-cost, high-impact classroom moves any teacher can make this week to support neurodivergent learners.The principle of "diagnosing a need over needing a diagnosis" — and why it matters for the undiagnosed kids already in your building. 🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules 🧠 Key Insight #1: Neurodivergent Students Aren't Disengaged — They're Exhausted from Masking What's broken: Schools interpret quiet compliance as success, missing that neurodivergent students spend the entire school day suppressing their natural responses to fit in — and completely collapse when they get home.The shift: Recognizing masking as a coping mechanism, not good behavior, and designing school environments where self-regulation is taught explicitly and practiced safely before students hit their limit.Impact: When schools build in structured regulation opportunities for all students — not just flagged kids — neurodivergent students stop burning out by dismissal and school avoidance rates drop. 🧰 Key Insight #2: SEL Programs Built for Neurotypical Kids Are Leaving Neurodivergent Kids Behind What's broken: Most SEL programs were designed with neurotypical students in mind — and when a neurodivergent student's natural coping tools (stimming, special interests, movement) aren't built into the framework, those tools get labeled as problems instead of recognized as regulation strategies.The shift: SEL curriculum designed by neurodivergent people, grounded in neuroscience, that treats stimming and special interests as assets and builds a shared emotional vocabulary students can actually use in the moment.Impact: Teachers report students using in-game language to communicate their needs in real time — "I feel like Ava right now, I need to go to my quiet space" — which means fewer outbursts, fewer evacuations, and a classroom that's actually safer for everyone. 🧰 Key Insight #3: Diagnose the Need Before You Wait for the Label What's broken: Schools gatekeep neurodivergent supports behind official diagnoses, leaving a massive population of undiagnosed students — disproportionately students of color, girls, and late-identified learners — without the tools they need.The shift: Design your building to meet underlying needs regardless of whether a formal diagnosis exists, because the underlying needs are real whether or not the paperwork has arrived.Impact: Every student who needs movement breaks, predictable routines, or permission to engage through special interests gets those things — and the students who were flying under the radar stop disappearing. 🎙️ VANESSA CASTAÑEDA GILL QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST "Neurodivergence doesn't need fixing. Your approach does." — Vanessa Castaneda Gill "The world won't work without all kinds of minds." — Vanessa Castaneda Gill "It is part of my identity and part of who I am. It is not all of who I am, and it's not something that needs to be fixed." — Vanessa Castaneda Gill "If you are in a position of leadership, model that vulnerability. It will just allow for so much more vulnerability between your employees or your students and you." — Vanessa Castaneda Gill "It's really hard to tell nuanced and rich and resonant stories that kids can actually root for and feel represented by if it wasn't led by neurodivergent experience." — Vanessa ...
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    45 分
  • Why Reacting to Student Outbursts Destroys Your Classroom with Adam Wolfsdorf

    Why Reacting to Student Outbursts Destroys Your Classroom with Adam Wolfsdorf
    2026/07/08
    Adam Wolfsdorf chairs the Humanities Department at Bay Ridge Preparatory in Brooklyn and teaches graduate students at NYU and Wesleyan, drawing on 26 years inside the classroom. He's the author of Teaching in the Riptide, where he names the moments educators get pulled under by something more powerful than their plan — and what to do when that happens. Outside the classroom, he spent 25 years performing professionally, including national tours of RENT and Grease. A student kicks over a trash can, slams the door, and storms out mid-lesson. Seventeen other students sit frozen, waiting to see what the teacher does next. That moment — and the instinct to fight back in it — is what most classroom management training gets wrong. Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf has spent 26 years studying what happens when teachers refuse to match a student's energy, and why that refusal is the most powerful classroom management tool no one teaches. 🫶 What You'll Learn Why matching a student's outburst with your own energy guarantees you lose the room.How "constructive subversion" turns a disruptive moment into the most powerful lesson of the year.What separates teachers who do harm from teachers who do good — and it isn't classroom control.Why compliance is the wrong goal for both students and educators.How to teach students to feel a story instead of just analyze one. 🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules ✅ Key Insight #1: Why Reacting to Student Outbursts Destroys Classroom Management What's broken: Teachers are trained to regain control the moment a student acts out, so they react instantly — and the reaction is what costs them the room.The shift: The strongest move is often no move at all — sitting in the discomfort of a disrupted classroom without flinching or matching the student's intensity.Impact: Students who provoke a reaction to feel powerful lose that power entirely once a teacher stops giving it to them — Wolfsdorf reports the student who kicked over the trash-can, never had another outburst that year. ✅ Key Insight #2: How Constructive Subversion Turns Disruption Into the Best Lesson You'll Teach What's broken: Teachers walk into a lesson with fixed expectations for what students are capable of, then read any departure from the plan as a problem to shut down.The shift: Wolfsdorf names a category he calls "constructive subversion" — student behavior that breaks from the assignment but exceeds everything the teacher hoped for, like a ninth grader's poem about her father's death disguised as a poem about vegetables.Impact: The student who wrote that poem has now worked with Wolfsdorf three separate times and is heading to college — a years-long relationship built from a moment he almost dismissed as off-topic. ✅ Key Insight #3: Why Compliant Students and Compliant Teachers Both Stunt Growth What's broken: Schools reward compliance in students and conformity in teachers, treating obedience as the marker of a "good" classroom.The shift: Real progress — for a student, a teacher, or a system — requires people willing to push back, because systems don't change unless they get rattled.Impact: Wolfsdorf points to his own students calling him out at home for thinking too rigidly, forcing him to revise his own positions in real time rather than defaulting to authority. 🎩 DR. ADAM WOLFSDORF QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST "Do you understand that you are the punchline of the classroom?" — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf "Sometimes the student needs to give the teacher a hard time because the teacher is the one who needs to learn more than the student in that particular situation." — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf "There are educators who really want students to learn, and then there are educators who kind of want to torture students." — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf "Systems don't change unless they get rattled." — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf "We have to be aware that we could be a counter narrative to those destructive elements." — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf "Sometimes it's the case that it's the teacher even more than the student who needs the education." — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf "If you have the equanimity to resist, even if you're feeling it, that's a pretty powerful lesson." — Dr. Adam Wolfsdorf 🧠 Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement? Start here: Tomorrow: The next time a student pushes your buttons, pause for three full seconds before responding instead of reacting in the moment.This Month: Identify one student whose disruptive behaviour might actually be a "constructive subversion" worth leaning into rather than shutting down.This Semester: Build a feedback loop where students can call out your own rigid thinking, the way Wolfsdorf's kids challenged him at home. ⌚️ Episode Timestamps 00:00 - Why reacting to outbursts destroys your classroom04:13 - How to handle subversive behaviour without shutting it down05:55 - Teaching a student who identified as a Neo-Nazi12:50 - The ninth-grade poem that changed his ...
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    54 分
  • Why Your Tutoring Program Is Quietly Failing Students With Aly Murray

    Why Your Tutoring Program Is Quietly Failing Students With Aly Murray
    2026/07/13
    Building a tutoring nonprofit that now serves 25,000 students a year — with a vision to reach millions — required someone who'd lived the exact gap she was trying to close. Aly Murray grew up a low-income student raised by a single immigrant mother, moved through a string of Title 1 schools, and felt firsthand what it's like to navigate homework and college applications without support at home. She left a trading job at JP Morgan eight years ago to build Upchieve, a nonprofit offering free, 24/7 human tutoring and college counseling to every Title 1 middle and high school student in the country. Her work is backed by a Gates Foundation-funded study comparing human and AI tutoring, and Upchieve now partners with schools, districts, and CMOs at a cost of about 50 cents per tutoring session. Most school tutoring programs run from 3 to 5pm — and that single design choice quietly locks out the students who need help the most. Aly Murray, founder of the nonprofit Upchieve, built a 24/7 human tutoring program instead, and the data on why AI can't replace it yet might surprise you. 📚 What You'll Learn Why the standard after-school tutoring program design quietly excludes the students who need it mostWhat a Brookings Institute report reveals about grades, identity, and college enrollmentWhy Upchieve's founder built a 24/7 human tutoring model instead of scaling with AIWhat a Gates Foundation-funded study found when students had access to both AI and human tutorsHow much it actually costs a school to close its tutoring gap 💥 Breaking Down the Old Rules 🚀 Key Insight #1: Why Your After-School Tutoring Program Is Built to Exclude Kids What's broken: Drop-in, after-school tutoring assumes every student has a ride home, free time, and no caregiving responsibilities.The shift: Upchieve makes human tutoring available 24/7, matching a student to a live tutor in about two minutes — so support meets students wherever and whenever they actually need it, including 3am calculus.Impact: Upchieve gets over a third of students at partner schools using the platform regularly, a usage rate most after-school tutoring programs never come close to. 🚀 Key Insight #2: The Data Says Tutor the Middle, Not Just the Bottom What's broken: Most tutoring programs target only the lowest-performing 10-20% of students who are actively failing.The shift: Brookings Institute research found that once you control for academic preparation, over 70% of the college enrollment gap between low-income and high-income students disappears — meaning the biggest leverage sits with the "middle majority" of B and C students, not just the students at risk of failing.Impact: Small, consistent tutoring shifts a student's grades and, more importantly, their identity as "a student who's good at school" — which is what actually predicts whether they enroll in college. 🚀 Key Insight #3: Human Tutoring Still Beats AI Tutoring — And the Research Proves It What's broken: Schools are defaulting to AI tutoring because it looks cheaper and easier to scale than finding enough human tutors.The shift: In a Gates Foundation and Microsoft Research-funded study, less than 20% of students with access to both a human and an AI tutor ever tried the AI tutor once, and more than 92% of all tutoring sessions in the study were human-only.Impact: Students overwhelmingly chose — and stuck with — human tutors, because the motivational effect of a real person saying "I'm rooting for you" is what actually drives learning outcomes. 📣 ALY MURRAY QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST "Tutoring is completely misunderstood and, in fact, undervalued as a tool that schools should be using to drive outcomes for their students." — Aly Murray "If you don't offer transportation after tutoring, you're going to lose all the kids who depend on the school bus to get home. I was one of those kids." — Aly Murray "There are enough humans to provide human tutoring to every student that needs it." — Aly Murray "When presented with a choice between an AI tutor and a human tutor, students overwhelmingly choose the human tutor." — Aly Murray "Anytime you have a one-on-one pairing of a student and a tutor and they get enough hours of tutoring, it works. It improves learning outcomes. It always works." — Aly Murray "Things can be not fun, but still worth doing." — Aly Murray "How can I, as a leader, claim to care about students' upward mobility if my staff are not making a living wage?" — Aly Murray 🚵‍♀️ Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement? Start here: Tomorrow: Pull your after-school tutoring attendance numbers and identify how many of your neediest students are missing simply because of the time slot.This Month: Calculate what a per-session cost like Upchieve's 50 cents would run your school and compare it against your current after-school tutoring spend.This Semester: Pilot a 24/7 or after-hours human tutoring option for your...
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    50 分
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