The Eduleadership Show

Danny Bauer on Self-Mentorship, AI Coaching, and Leading Without Permission

November 11, 2026 · 25 min

In this episode of The Eduleadership Show, Danny Bauer of Better Leaders Better Schools explains self-mentorship: school leaders owning their growth instead of waiting…

Matt Harr on Building Resilient Humans Through Accountability & Consequences

June 19, 2026 · 27 min

In this episode of The Eduleadership Show, veteran coach and teacher Matt Harr joins me to discuss his approach to building strength and resilience in students. We…

Kim Marshall on Teacher Evaluation, Feedback Conversations, and Artificial Intelligence

March 1, 2026 · 46 min

In this episode of The Eduleadership Show, I had the honor of sitting down with Kim Marshall, one of our field’s leading experts on instructional leadership. When I was…

Principal Justin Johnson on Tier 3 Systems for Learning

January 30, 2026 · 31 min

I’m thrilled to welcome our first guest to The Eduleadership Show—Principal Justin Johnson of Wahitis Elementary School in Othello, Washington. We discuss: School-wide…

Accommodations at Elite Colleges; Bloom’s 2-Sigma Problem; Overhyped AI EdTech

December 5, 2025 · 10 min

Accommodation Nation, by Rose Horowitch in The Atlantic Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? Higher ed’s maximally inclusive approach hurts those it…

Why It's Hard To Evaluate Microschools; Remedial Math at UCSD; Sweden Rolls Back Tech in Childhood

November 14, 2025 · 10 min

Exclusive: Researchers Find it ‘Nearly Impossible’ to Gauge Microschools’ Impact—As the sector flourishes, a Rand Corp. look at student performance at 271 schools in all…

Alpha School's Teacher-Free, A.I.-Driven Learning; Varsity Mariachi As Earnest Striving; Varsity Pickleball & Corollary Sports

November 7, 2025 · 13 min

AlphaSchool Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out—Wired Magazine No, kids aren’t learning 10x faster with A.I.—learning is hard work,…

Curriculum Reviews; The "Just Tell Them" Trap; Bring Your Own Chair to PD

October 31, 2025 · 11 min

Sold A Story Episode 13: The List (on EdReports, Success For All, and Steubenville, OH) My kingdom for a reliable curriculum review, by The “Just Tell Them” Trap, by…

From Pendulum Swings To A Research-Based Profession; Anxiety Accommodations; Corn in the Horn

October 24, 2025 · 10 min

Stopping the Pendulum: Making Education a Research-Based Profession: What Real Professions Get Right—and Education Doesn’t (2025) by Douglas Carnine (apologies for…

Repeated Reading; Learning On Vacation; Reading 6-7 Nights A Week

October 17, 2025 · 8 min

Promoting Fluency Through Challenge: Repeated Reading With Texts of Varying Complexity, by Jake Downs, Chase Young, and Alycia Cole in The Reading Teacher “Makeup work”…

Tutor-To-Teacher Pipeline; Knowledge-Building Curriculum; Gen Alpha Slang Choir Warmup

October 10, 2025 · 8 min

Tutoring Is the Teacher Pipeline We’ve Been Missing—Katie Tennessen Hooten in The 74 TFA’s Ignite tutoring program What’s Really Behind the “Southern Surge”? by Natalie…

Mississippi Miracle; Small-Group Reading Instruction; Kids On Phones After Midnight

October 8, 2025 · 12 min

Illiteracy Is A Policy Choice, by Kelsey Piper in The Argument There Are No Miracles in Education, by Freddie DeBoer Is Mississippi Cooking The Books? by Karen Vaites &…

Expert Guidelines on Smartphones for Kids; How AI Stunts Learning; Teaching On-Grade Content

September 26, 2025 · 12 min

Jean Twenge profile in NY Times and her new book Kelsey Pomeroy—an analogy for how AI undermines learning Grade-Level Content When Kids Are Below Grade-Level—Justin…

Smartphones Tanking NAEP Scores; Dylan Wiliam on Critical Thinking; Lesson Planning Like Songwriting

September 18, 2025 · 9 min

Student Test Scores Keep Falling. What’s Really to Blame? by Martin West in Education Week Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival—30-minute video…

Face-To-Face vs. Written Feedback; Why Students Should Read Whole Books; Vet Tech Class

September 4, 2025 · 7 min

Edutopia: The Case for Face-to-Face Debriefs After Observations, by Kim Marshall Edutopia: Why Students Should Read Whole Books, by Doug Lemov, Colleen Driggs, & Erica…

Behavior & Disproportionality; Statistics & Accountability; Where PBIS Came From

August 26, 2025 · 16 min

IN HARM’S WAY: The Persistence of Unjust Discipline Experienced by California’s Students Overview from National Center for Youth Law The High Costs of Classroom…

High-Dosage Tutoring; Differentiation & Remediation vs. Acceleration; The Snake & The Lamb

August 21, 2025 · 8 min

Education Week: High-Dosage Tutoring Should Be Here to Stay, By Alan Safran & Susanna Loeb Sharon Kramer & Sarah Schuhl—Acceleration for All: A How-To Guide for…

Effort Grades; Late Work Deductions; When Students Put Away Their Phones

August 16, 2025 · 5 min

Sloan-Hendrix Public Schools: When they put away their phones AR Bell To Bell No Cell Act

How SNAP Cuts Could Affect School Lunches; Deliberate Practice; Classroom Visit Notecards

August 14, 2025 · 7 min

NEA President Becky Pringle: Trump’s Tax Bill Will Starve Public Schools (Time Magazine) Urban Institute: Changes to SNAP Could Reduce Student Access to Free School…

Gen Z Slang Campus Tour; Eggs Hatch—But They Aren't Chickens; What Should Teachers Be Evaluated On?

August 12, 2025 · 9 min

Principal Reads Students' Slang-Filled Script for High School Tour and It's Straight Fire (00:00): Eduleadership show for August 12th, 2025. I'm your host, Justin Bader,…

Ride Your Horse To School Day | Yale Poetry Professor Tries A.I. | Promoting People To Their Level Of Incompetence

August 11, 2025 · 12 min

Have a story, photos, or videos to share of animals on campus? Leave a comment or email me at justin@principalcenter.com Nason Lollar: The Peter Principle Is A Dangerous…

Playground vs Garden Projects, Post-Secondary Planning, Charlotte Danielson’s Best Book, and How To Make A Student Feel Better About Being Held Back

August 9, 2025 · 7 min

Announcing the Eduleadership Show

August 5, 2025 · 1 min

The Eduleadership Show will be published here at eduleadership.org as well as on YouTube, and we’ll post clips on all social platforms. I look forward to bringing you…