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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

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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 Classroom Management Is Killing Student Leadership with Rachael Thrash

    Why Classroom Management Is Killing Student Leadership with Rachael Thrash
    2026/09/27
    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 faculty or student leadership meeting around a real question — "what would make this better for everyone?" — instead of a status update.This Semester: Set a recurring check-in to revisit your classroom and student leadership norms instead of leaving them posted and forgotten from week one. 🕰️ Episode Timestamps 00:00 - Why managing students differs from mobilizing them05:11 - The quiet student who became a campus leader10:23 - What the World Happiness Report reveals about isolation11:58 - Helping English learners find voice through soccer14:53 - Applying student leadership tools to disconnected teachers17:02 - Using cartoons to teach kids digital citizenship24:58 - Why classroom norms need revisiting all year27:25 - Why peer acknowledgment beats teacher praise33:41 - Giving student work a real audience37:57 - Why AI makes memorization obsolete in schools40:00 -...
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  • The 4 Branches of Creativity Most School Leaders Ignore with Susan Riley

    The 4 Branches of Creativity Most School Leaders Ignore with Susan Riley
    2026/09/23

    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
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    48 分
  • Why "Just Be Resilient" Is Burning Out Your Staff with Steph Hawkins

    Why "Just Be Resilient" Is Burning Out Your Staff with Steph Hawkins
    2026/09/30

    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:

    1. 00:00 - Toxic resilience and unrealistic demands
    2. 03:58 - Bore out, burnout's overlooked twin
    3. 07:36 - The three layers of staff wellbeing
    4. 10:08 - Why toxic resilience blocks system change
    5. 12:17 - Middle leaders as the school's connective tissue
    6. 14:25 - Staff recognition that actually lands
    7. 18:30 - When your strengths start to drain you
    8. 21:28 - Appreciative inquiry for school improvement
    9. 22:58 - How opposite strengths create team conflict
    10. 31:22 - Work design exposes hidden strain
    11. 33:47 - The connections every new educator needs
    12. 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
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    38 分
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