About this episode

Chanie Wilschanski discusses the importance of staff training infrastructure in building a lasting school culture.

If you've ever rebuilt the same staff training from scratch, paid for a speaker who inspired everyone for two weeks and then disappeared, or stayed up late wondering what to train on next — this episode is for you. Chanie breaks down the four training patterns that keep school leaders stuck in activity instead of infrastructure, explains why most staff culture problems are predictable skill gaps (not personality issues), and introduces the Staff Culture Infrastructure Vault — a decade of field-tested, ready-to-use training assets available to only 100 schools before it's permanently retired. In this episode: - The four training traps and why none of them build lasting culture - Why one-time events don't change behavior — and what actually does - The teachable skills most teachers were never formally trained on - What training infrastructure looks like and how to deploy it across your school year Tune in and stop reinventing the wheel. Resources Mentioned: Get Chanie's book, This Can't Be Normal: https://thiscantbenormal.com Explore the Staff Culture Infrastructure Vault: https://schoolsofexcellence.com/vault Apply for Leadership HQ: https://schoolsofexcellence.com/apply Follow…

People in this episode

Host: Chanie Wilschanski

Topics covered

• teacher development
• staff training
• school culture
• leadership
• education infrastructure

Keywords

• staff training
• school culture
• training infrastructure
• teacher skills
• leadership

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Staff Culture Infrastructure Vault

Books & works: This Can't Be Normal

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