Accelerate Your Performance
Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet highlights tactical and actionable strategies that leaders in educational organizations can hardwire to meet successful student, service, and people outcomes. Listen now, and you’ll see why it’s ranked by ListenNotes in the top 5% of podcasts worldwide.
As she introduces a variety of pivotal leadership practices from the Nine Principles ® Framework, Janet underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating each practice to deliver positive and impactful results. For each leadership practice she introduces, Janet provides a solid foundation and then collaborates with coaching experts to dig deeper and demonstrate its practical application. Janet also interviews leaders and partners who excel at the tactics to hear about their implementation journeys, hurdles they’ve faced, and their notable achievements. To bring it all together, she offers a broader perspective on leadership, interviewing guests about a diverse array of topics on their paths to achieving organizational excellence.
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Accelerate Your Performance
Dare to Lead Boldly
What does it take to help prepare students for life beyond the classroom? As you'll hear in today's episode, our guest, Dr. Mark Martin, shares that dreaming big and thinking outside the box have a tremendous impact on students. Dr. Martin is the Superintendent of Meade County Schools in Brandenburg, Kentucky. His bold and innovative leadership is a model for us all. Listen as he discusses with Dr. Janet Pilcher a program he's launched called Close the Gap Kentucky and how it's helping other school districts succeed. This program reinforces that professional development should be a process and not just a one-time event. He'll also discuss how his team is thinking outside the box to better serve students in special education.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
- Why is it important to lead boldly?
- How do you know you're doing what is best for students and how can you effectively track that growth to ensure success?
- What can leaders do to help increase unity and buy-in when it comes to new initiatives?
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