EdLeader
Educational Leadership is an ever-evolving opportunity to make a real and lasting difference in the lives of students, parents, and the community. Join Dr. Rob Jackson for conversations and reflections on improving Educational Leadership from the Classroom to the Boardroom and beyond.
Episodes
90 episodes
Turn on the Faucet: Tuesdays with Morrie - featuring Graham Davis and Elijah Jackson
EdLeader Podcast host Dr. Rob Jackson might just be a closet bibliophile, someone who has a great love of books. Occasionally he enjoys returning to touchstone texts or timeless tomes, those books that shaped him early in his career and life an...
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Episode 90
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44:26
Serving Heroes - Supporting Military-Connected Students and Families featuring Dr. Angie Mullenix
Military-connected students and families transition on average 6-9 times in a military child's academic career. Schools should thoughtfully consider how to provide every flexibility possible to ensure that military-connected students have a smo...
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Episode 89
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34:16
Science of Reading: Vocabulary - What Every EdLeader Should Know
The Science of Reading is undergirded by theories of how students learn to read and comprehend text. The theory most often cited is Scarborough's ...
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Episode 88
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19:49
Meet Them Where They Are and Take Them as Far as They Want to Go featuring Dr. Jeff Cox
When students graduate from our schools and school systems, where do they go? We hope that they are enrolled, enlisted, or employed. We hope that we have helped them accomplish their dreams and reach their goals. Today’s guest on the EdLeader p...
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Episode 87
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38:25
Leading with Purpose: Strategies to Sustain in Leadership through Prioritizing Growth and Self-Care
Leaders tend to dive into the work and forget about themselves. Later, they find themselves feeling drained, frustrated, and tired. You have heard the clarion calls to prioritize your own self-care. We have also heard that self-care is no...
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Episode 86
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43:08
Bring the Joy featuring 2023 NC State Principal of the Year Donna Bledsoe
In a world that tips towards negativity and defeatism, EdLeaders have the opportunity to brighten life and sew positivity through Bringing Joy into the schoolhouse and into the lives of students and staff every day. Donna L. Bledsoe, prin...
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Episode 85
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24:42
Unleashing Greatness featuring Stephen M. R. Covey
Stephen M. R. Covey is the author of Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller, Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others. Joining Dr. Jackson for a truly inspirational conversation, Covey believes that even ...
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Episode 84
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42:10
Science of Reading: Phonological Awareness - What Every EdLeader Should Know with Special Co-host ChatGPT
Previous episodes in the Science of Reading series have focused on the strands of fluency, background knowledge, sight word recognition, verbal reasoning, literacy knowledge, decoding, and language structures. With this episode, we continue dec...
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Episode 83
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26:08
Intention & Attention - The Pathway to Making a Lasting Difference
In education, I am surrounded by incredibly caring people who want to make a difference. For years, as an ice breaker in a meeting, an introduction in a presentation, or in an interview question, I have asked the question, ‘Why do you want to b...
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Episode 82
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15:36
Equipped to Thrive: Improving School Mental Health featuring Charle Peck
Welcome to the 2023 - 2024 school year! It is hard for me to believe that this school year marks the EdLeader podcast’s fifth school year seeking to add value to the work and professional and personal lives of EdLeaders.Recently I was h...
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Episode 81
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31:04
Science of Reading: Language Structures - What Every EdLeader Should Know
The Science of Reading is undergirded by theories of how students learn to read and comprehend text. The theory most often cited is Scarborough's ...
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Episode 80
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22:34
Science of Reading: Decoding - What Every EdLeader Should Know
The Science of Reading is undergirded by theories of how students learn to read and comprehend text. The theory most often cited is Scarborough's ...
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Episode 79
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19:41
Elevate... from Good to Great
Join Dr. Jackson as he seeks to apply his one-word to his personal and professional life through reflecting through the lens of a seminal book in the field of education.New Year's Resolutions have been around for a while. Over 4,000 yea...
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Episode 78
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33:04
Pathway to the Principalship featuring Dr. Carrie Tulbert
The pathway to the principalship is paved with passion, purpose, planning, and practice. Dr. Carrie Tulbert, 2014 North Carolina State Principal of the Year, joins Dr. Jackson to share her journey to the principalship, how she supports Assistan...
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Episode 77
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36:57
Science of Reading: Literacy Knowledge - What Every EdLeader Should Know
The Science of Reading is undergirded by theories of how students learn to read and comprehend text. The theory most often cited is Scarborough's ...
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Episode 76
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16:42
People First, the rest will follow... featuring Coast Guard Captain Jennifer Stockwell
Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut describes leadership this way, “Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the st...
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Episode 75
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30:27
Purpose and Intentionality: The Role of the Principal in MTSS featuring Dr. Tanya Turner
MTSS, or Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, is a framework for school improvement. From selecting materials to planning instructional activities to improving core instruction, to considering interventions for groups and individual students, MTSS ...
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Episode 74
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34:21
Science of Reading: Verbal Reasoning - What Every EdLeader Should Know
The Science of Reading is undergirded by theories of how students learn to read and comprehend text. The theory most often cited is Scarborough's ...
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Episode 73
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17:36
Science of Reading: Sight Word Recognition - What Every EdLeader Should Know
The Science of Reading is undergirded by theories of how students learn to read and comprehend text. The theory most often cited is Scarborough's ...
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Episode 72
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22:15
Science of Reading: Background Knowledge - What Every EdLeader Should Know
This latest episode in The Science of Reading series focuses on background knowledge, a crucial strand of Language Comprehension. Once a re...
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Episode 71
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21:36
Science of Reading: Fluency - What Every EdLeader Should Know
Recently as Dr. Rob Jackson dove headfirst into attempting to understand The Science of Reading, he found himself immersed in The Reading War...
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Episode 70
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18:10
The Science of Reading - What EdLeaders Need to Know
As an elementary teacher, elementary principal, and as a Superintendent, EdLeader podcast host Dr. Rob Jackson has watched the battle lines drawn and the theories, best practices, and curriculum shaming hurled back and forth in the "Reading War...
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Episode 69
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20:17
Leadership Lessons from the GOAT with JJ Jackson - Life Beyond
In this final episode of the EdLeader special series "Leadership Lessons from the GOAT," LockedOn Blue Devils host and lifelong fan, JJ Jackson, joins his Dad one more time to wrap a special season and a special book, "Leading With the Heart" b...
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Episode 68
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28:00
From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident Capable Readers - Part II featuring Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward
In Part 2 of an incredible conversation with Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward, co-authors of From Striving to Thriving and Intervention Reinvention, the rubber hits the road as Stephanie and Annie bring the research alive and g...
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Episode 67
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22:37
From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident Capable Readers - Part I featuring Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward
EdLeaders are instructional leaders who are charged with making decisions daily about the teaching and learning taking place in classrooms, schools, and school districts. "Children learn to read by reading and need access to books they want to ...
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Episode 66
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23:51