The Assistant Principal Podcast
A bi-weekly podcast to improve the quality of life and leadership for assistant principals.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 266
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Flywheel with Dr. Melissa Burns
Show Notes, Episode 32: The Flywheel with Dr. Melissa Burns
About this show:
In Jim Collins’ Iconic book, “Good to Great”, he describes the flywheel. An organization’s flywheel consists of some core p…
Prioritizing Your Own Leadership Development with Maria Werner
Show Notes, Episode 31: Prioritizing Your Own Leadership Development with Maria Werner
About this show:
Dealing with discipline, being the test coordinator, and taking care of a million things for eve…
Six Ways to Eliminate Interruptions
Show Notes, Episode 30: Six Ways to Eliminate Interruptions
About this show:
In a noisy world, is it possible to find the quiet necessary to do work that moves us forward? In this episode, we cover six…
Culture with Brad Coleman
Show Notes, Episode 29: Culture with Brad Coleman
About this show:
Culture. What is it? How do we shape it? Why is it so critical? You could fill an entire library with books related to culture and how…
The Ship is Sinking
Show Notes, Episode 28: The Ship is Sinking
About this show:
Imagine you’re on a nice little boat, floating along a gentle river or out on a calm lake. Everything is fine until you hear a gurgling soun…
Why is Instructional Leadership so Hard?
Show Notes, Episode 2: Why is Instructional Leadership so Hard?
About this show:
Have you noticed how many first-year teachers have trouble managing their classrooms? And if they never receive really g…
Courage with Dr. Mary Hemphill
Are you living your leadership journey courageously? Before Dr. Mary Hemphill became the Director of Academic Standards for the North Carolina Department of education she was a passionate and innovat…
Parents and Community with Dr. Leigh Ann Alford-Keith
Show Notes, Episode 25: Parents and Community
About this show:
“We need to increase family engagement.” I hear this all the time. We know what we want from families, but do we know what families want …
The Four Patterns of Observation
Testing Coordination with Carrie Prochaska
Show Notes, Episode 23: Testing Coordination with Carrie Prochaska
About this show:
April showers bring May flowers and May flowers bring…. Testing in schools! Many of the assistant principals I work …
Growth Mindset with Becca Silver
Show Notes, Episode 22: Growth Mindset
About this show:
If you have ever played buzz-word bingo, and had “growth mindset” on your card, you knew you odds of winning were good. But what is “growth mind…
Meeting the Needs of New Teachers
Show Notes, Episode 21: Meeting the Needs of New Teachers
About this show:
In today’s episode, guest host Mara Buskey leads us through a discussion with two relatively new teachers about what they nee…
Change Starts from Within with Gabby Grant
Show Notes, Episode 20: Change Starts from Within
About this show:
The topic of this show is restorative practices, but the show title is the key to implementing such practices: Change starts from wit…
Exceptional Student Support with Elizabeth Schumpert
Show Notes, Episode X: Title
About this show:
Serving exceptional students can be one of the most challenging and rewarding aspects of school leadership. In this episode Elizabeth Schumpert, Director …
The Math of Leverage
Show Notes, Episode 18: The Math of Leverage
About this show:
The four principles of leverage, described last week in episode 17, can guide us to creating progress in our organizations. A key to progr…
The Four Principles of Leverage
Show Notes, Episode X: Title
About this show:
Ever wonder why we are always driving change in our schools? Ever wonder why change initiatives rarely seem to produce the promised results? What if there…
Becoming Strategically Reactive!
Show Intro
Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals…
Teacher Leadership with Melissa Burns
Show Notes, Episode X: Title
About this show:
Dr. Melissa Burns is the principal at Sara Collins Elementary School in Greenville, South Carolina. Melissa is a remarkable principal and leader who balan…
The Teacher Tracking Document
The Assistant Principal Podcast
Episode X: Tracking Teacher Development
Why does it always feel like improving teacher quality is an uphill battle? One big reason is that our schools are not structured…
What Makes a Great AP with Brenda Byrd
Show Notes, Episode 13: What Makes a Great AP
Today I’m joined by Brenda Byrd, an Assistant Superintendent for School Leadership (and a former South Carolina Elementary Principal of the Year and a Nat…