About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of supporting teachers' growth rather than trying to fix their problems, featuring guest Leah Marone.

Support, Don’t Solve Teaser: Becoming a strategic leader is a journey – a long one. It’s a journey full of stops and starts, and slow incremental improvement. But there are also some inflection points – places where leaders make a great leap forward. Those inflection points usually have more to do with changes in perception than the acquisition of knowledge or skills. Today’s topic is an inflection point. To get to the place where you are growing your teachers, you have to first stop trying to fix things for them. Don’t fix, grow. You can’t do both. Today’s wonderful guest is going to help us learn how to stop being a serial fixer. Before we dive into the interview, I’s like you to think about summer… When students practice math over the summer, math scores go up. So, what’s your summer math plan this year? Whether you have no summer math program, or are curious about what a research-based program looks like. Check out Summer Pops for free. Get your FREE workbook samples today at Summer Pops Workbooks.com . The link is in the show notes. Show Intro Sponsor Spot 1: I’d like to thank Kaleidoscope Adventures for sponsoring today’s show. Lots of companies can help you organize class…

People in this episode

Host: Frederick Buskey

Guest: Leah Marone

Topics covered

• strategic leadership
• teacher growth
• support vs. solving
• educational improvement
• leadership journey

Keywords

• strategic leader
• teacher support
• educational leadership
• growth mindset
• fixing vs. supporting

Sponsors

Kaleidoscope Adventures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Summer Pops

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