
The Leadership Optimization Compass
02/15/23 • 47 min
The Leadership Optimization Compass
Show Highlights
- Operating at your personal best consistently every day next year for your campus with this tool.
- Learn the four parts to The Leadership Optimization Compass framework.
- Unplug in Denver with a stripped down personalized approach to achieving your leadership goals.
- If you wanna create bigger results for your campus, you need to network to implement the best practices that move you.
- A mental model all leaders need to have a healthy life on and off campus.
- 15 choices all the best Ruckus Makers make in order to optimize their performance.
- No Wasted Experience Tool to learn from the biggest mistakes you make as a leader and turn them into a growth mindset sort and leverage point.
Get your episode transcript here!!
Show’s Resources & Contact Info: Read my latest book!Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional developmentTM work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.
Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!
Apply to the MastermindThe mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.
100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.
Apply to the mastermind today!
SHOW SPONSORS:HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.
Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.
Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC
The Leadership Optimization Compass
Show Highlights
- Operating at your personal best consistently every day next year for your campus with this tool.
- Learn the four parts to The Leadership Optimization Compass framework.
- Unplug in Denver with a stripped down personalized approach to achieving your leadership goals.
- If you wanna create bigger results for your campus, you need to network to implement the best practices that move you.
- A mental model all leaders need to have a healthy life on and off campus.
- 15 choices all the best Ruckus Makers make in order to optimize their performance.
- No Wasted Experience Tool to learn from the biggest mistakes you make as a leader and turn them into a growth mindset sort and leverage point.
Get your episode transcript here!!
Show’s Resources & Contact Info: Read my latest book!Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional developmentTM work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.
Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!
Apply to the MastermindThe mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.
100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.
Apply to the mastermind today!
SHOW SPONSORS:HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.
Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.
Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC
Previous Episode

Building Inclusive Schools
Bryan Miltenberg is the proud principal of Aquebogue Elementary School in Riverhead, New York. He's been a teacher, dean, and middle school assistant principal, and has presented and published on topics including school climate and culture, instructional technology, self-aware leadership, inclusivity, time management, and co-teaching partnerships. Against all logic, he remains a suffering lifelong Mets and Jets fan.
Show Highlights
- Establish transformational belonging at your school by avoiding these misunderstandings.
- The different mechanisms Bryan put in place to understand the rapid changes occurring in his school to understand what people were experiencing.
- We all have an “eyes problem.” Build something inclusive with tips to increase teacher retention.
- Tips to build a pipeline that attracts culturally and linguistically diverse candidates to see your school as a place that they wanna be.
- Create a Punk concert environment for your students to connect with their learning community.
- Take the Michael Jordan and Brene Brown approach to adversity and harsh feedback.
- Leaders need to play the long game by balancing the tension between urgent and significant.
“I tell that story, not to say that it's radical to have a greeter or to have a bilingual person, but because it's symbolic of what we're trying to do in terms of telling kids, families and staff, we accept you as you are. We're gonna make the adjustments that we need to make to support you rather than force you to do something you may not be able to do yet.”
-Bryan Miltenberg
Bryan’s Resources & Contact Info: Read my latest book!Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional developmentTM work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.
Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!
Apply to the MastermindThe mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.
100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.
Apply to the mastermind today!
SHOW SPONSORS:HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.
Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.
TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.
From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.
Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS
Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.
Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC
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Road To Awesome
Road To Awesome
Darrin Peppard is a leadership expert focused on organizational culture and climate, and coaching growing emerging leaders. Darrin is the author of the book Road to Awesome: Empower, Lead, Change the Game. He is also the host of the Leaning into Leadership podcast. As a ‘recovering high school principal’, Darrin shares strategies and lessons learned and effective from over 25 years in public education to help leaders to be more effective and positively impact the world around them.
Show Highlights
- Transform a toxic culture by honestly investigating your own experience to avoid creating expectations that push people to be compliant.
- Simple and effective practical tips for schools to show that they see, hear, and love their students.
- Leadership coaching stops you from being a firefighter and starts you on a path towards ensuring you can go and do that work.
- Focus on 3 primary tenets to travel the Road to Awesome with 6 things that are important to leaders.
- Leaning into Leadership will help you create a culture of celebration.
- Stop looking for the “red cars” in your school and start training your mind to look for the great things in your school.
- Nurture your relationships and stop pretending to listen and build systems that can be delegated.
“As a school leader, as the principal, my really biggest job was to grow and coach everybody else in that school, grow and coach my teachers, grow and coach my leaders, grow and coach my support staff so that we were doing everything we could for kids.”
-Darrin Peppard
Get the episode Transcript here!!
Darrin’s Resources & Contact Info:- TikTok
- Road To Awesome, LLC
Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional developmentTM work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.
Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today!
Apply to the MastermindThe mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.
100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.
Apply to the mastermind today!
SHOW SPONSORS:HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.
Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.
TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.
From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.
Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS
Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.
Copyright © 2022 Twelve Practices LLC
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