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22: The Missing Foundation: Why School Collaboration Fails Without Trust, Safety, and Relationships
What if the secret to your school’s success isn’t about having the smartest people or the best plan but about how safe people feel to speak up, take risks, and learn together?
In this episode of System Shift, we...
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21: Building Collective Efficacy: How Educational Leaders Create Collaborative School Cultures
What happens when professional learning communities feel more like compliance than collaboration? In this episode of System Shift, we explore the research behind collective efficacy—the belief that when educators work...
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20: Sustaining the Momentum: How Educational Leaders Embed Conditions for Learning into Daily Culture and Long-term Strategy
What happens when the excitement of a new initiative fades, budgets tighten, or leadership changes hands? Too often, well-intentioned work around Conditions for Learning fades into the background remembered by a few,...
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19: Making it Stick: Sustaining Conditions for Learning Through Accountability
It’s easy to get excited about new initiatives but sustaining them is where real system change happens. In this episode, the System Shift team explores what happens after Conditions for Learning have been rolled out....
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18: Beyond Good Intentions: How School Leaders Transform Conditions for Learning Into System-Wide Practice
In this episode of System Shift, we explore how Conditions for Learning can serve as the foundation that strengthens the work schools are already doing, not as “one more thing.” Drs. Mary Beth, Gail, and Leesa break...
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17: From Nation at Risk to Nation at Hope: How Districts and Schools Create Conditions Where Every Student Thrives
In this episode of System Shift, we dive into why creating the right conditions is essential for academic, social, and emotional success. Drawing from the groundbreaking report A Nation at Hope, we explore how...
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16: Data Governance in Education: Building Secure, Accurate, and Usable Systems
When reports don’t align or numbers don’t match, confusion takes over and trust in data suffers. That’s why data governance is essential. In this episode of System Shift, Drs. Gail, Leesa, & Mary Beth welcome back...
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15: Educational Data Systems: From Silos to Student Success
What if the data we collect in schools could actually prevent crises instead of just documenting them? In this episode of System Shift, we welcome Jeremy Deckard and Jimmie Houts, co-founders of Viridian Education, to...
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14: Designing Strategic Data Cycles for Lasting Change
Educational leaders face constant pressure: boards want results tomorrow, while true systemic transformation takes years. How do you balance urgency with sustainability? In this episode of System Shift, we unpack how...
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13: Sharing the Right Data, with the Right People, at the Right Time
How we present data matters just as much as the data itself. In this episode, we unpack a real story from the field; sharing SEL screening results with staff and the very different reactions it sparked. Some teachers...
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12: Starting Smart with Data - Asking the Right Questions for the Right Insights
School leaders often say they’re “data rich but process poor” overflowing with numbers but still unsure what’s really happening in their schools. In the first episode of our new data series, we explore why the key to...
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11: Building Protective Factors for Staff - The Foundation of Psychological Safety
What if the same conditions that help students feel safe to take risks also determine whether your veteran teachers spoke up in a meeting? In this episode of System Shift, we explore how the three core protective...
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