The Assistant Principal Podcast

Power Quote: You are who you eat lunch with

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Today’s show is so packed with gold nuggets, you might want to take notes or listen twice. You will hear many of my core themes filtered through…

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How are you? I confess to having mixed emotions about how to respond to this question. On the one hand, I’m having fun in my business and everyone around me is healthy. On the other hand,…

Show title and release date: The Motivation Equation

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(Teacher) Team Leadership with Dr. Chad Dumas

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If you’ve been listening to me or following my daily email, you’ve heard me talk about 5-minute coaching, the series of three questions we c…

Today I’m digging into some questions I received from participants in my recent GAMSP training on moving from Fires to Fulfillment.  Podcast episode 242, released two weeks ago, is an edited audio of…

Today’s show is high energy with lots of thoughts and concepts that will grab your attention and your intention. My guest and I talk a lot about the power you have as a leader to transform your reali…

#243: Final Questions First with Joe Pettit

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This is just a short tease for the full interview coming out on March 11th, 2025. I had forgotten to ask Joe the four closing questions, and whe…

If you read my daily email, you likely know that my big goal for 2025 is to give 25 keynotes and presentations. On Monday, February 24, I gave my first ever keynote at the Georgia Middle School Princ…

Today’s episode is inspired by a book study I did last week with 25 building and district school leaders. The focus of the book study was stage 5 of A School Leader’s Guide to Reclaiming Purpose, whi…

We are in a moment of significant change. There’s a lot of instability and unpredictability and people don’t know what’s going to happen – good, bad, or indifferent. We don’t know what all of the ann…

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Today’s guest is Tequila Lamar. The name should be familiar to you because I just featured my first interview with Tequila as the “Greatest Episode of All Time.” And now she’s back and no…

 | A couple weeks ago in one of my daily emails I asked for people’s experiences, perspectives, and questions about culture. A reader responded:
 As far as culture, my main frustration is a lack of i…

In May, on episode 199, I had Jamie Brown on the show and he took us through a very simple but effective script for having a restorative conversation with a student. That show was re-aired at the end…

236: Culture Questions From Claude Part II

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 | Last week I asked Claude AI to give me 12 questions I could answer that would help elaborate on school culture. We answered the first six…

235: Culture Questions From Claude Part I

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Two weeks ago, I did a show that described how school culture is a byproduct of the degree of alignment between people, purpose, structures, …

#234: Leading an Ethical School with Dr. Nason Lollar

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Today’s guest has developed a framework and language around professional conduct, which he defines as “my contribution to our culture…

#233: Imposter Syndrome (Greatest Episode of All Time)

There is a very brief intro to this, my favorite episode of all time!

Originally released in May, 2023…

Let’s face it, you aren’t cut out for t…

#232: 2024’s BEST Podcast!

Power Quote: “Every kid has a story”

Jamie’s Student Debrief Protocol:

1.     Are you okay?

2.     What was the trigger?

3.     How did the behavior impact others?

4.     What …

A School Leader’s Guide to Building Culture 

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” -Peter Drucker, Author “Culture is like the wind. It is invisible; yet its effect can be seen and …

#330: Email Sucks

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Last week, Darrin Peppard and I went over some of our favorite time hacks. Towards the end of the show, we talked about email. Today, I’m devoting a whole show to e…