Improving Outcomes through Compassionate, Engaging Leadership with Superintendent Dr. Michael Troop

05/05/23 • 71 min

Dr. Michael Troop is a Superintendent whose core purpose is to positively impact the lives of students, educators, employees, and organizations. In addition, he has a passion for helping people learn skills that increase productivity at work and in life.
In this episode, we discuss school improvement and the critical skills needed for learning, teaching, and leading in a way that produces positive learning cultures.

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Socratic Questioning and the Habit of Thought with TedX Speaker Michael Strong

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Michael is the most experienced developer of innovative educational programs in the US and the Founder of The Socratic Experience, an online school based on Socratic dialogue that emphasizes personalized and purpose-driven education for students in grades 3-12.

His remarkable career in education spans over three decades, and includes creating many high-performance school programs that promote critical thinking, creativity, and entrepreneurship in students across the country.

Some of Michael's notable projects include a public school program in which minority female students gained four years' worth of critical thinking gains in four months (on the Watson-Glaser) and Moreno Valley High School, a Paideia charter high school, which was ranked the 36th-best US public high school by Newsweek.

He also created The Winston Academy, where middle school students passed Advanced Placement (AP) exams, making it the most academically advanced school in the US at the time. Thousands of his students have been admitted to top universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, and many other post-secondary institutions.

Michael's impact on education extends beyond the classroom, as he is also the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, which includes a foreword by John Mackey, the Co-Founder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market, with whom he has collaborated on initiatives related to conscious capitalism and entrepreneurship.

He has spoken at Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Chicago, and dozens of other universities, and his work has been featured in academic journals (The Journal of Business Ethics, Economic Affairs, Critical Review, etc.), specialty publications (Microfinance Insights, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Ethics, etc.), and popular media (The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, RealClearPolitics, Barron's, etc.).

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Teaching Special Needs Students Verbal Behavior with Liz and Steve Maher

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Verbal behavior instruction helps students develop effective communication skills. Communication is a fundamental aspect of human interaction, and strong verbal abilities enable individuals to express their thoughts, needs, and emotions clearly and appropriately. Teaching verbal behavior equips students with the tools to engage in meaningful conversations, express themselves, and understand others effectively.
Unfortunately, verbal behavior is not taught everywhere that it is needed in mainstream education. In this episode, Liz and Steve Maher discuss the importance of assessing and teaching verbal behavior.
To find out more about Liz and Steve, or to learn more about practical software for assessing verbal behavior, go to https://datamakesthedifference.com/. And to pick up the PDF version of Verbal Behavior Extended Edition by Dr. B. F. Skinner, the Skinner Foundation is offering it here for as little as $2.49!