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Listen Again Ep 8: MTSS Isn’t a Thing—It’s a Framework
System Shifters, this week, as we start to head into the new year, we are re-featuring one of our most eye-opening episodes because we keep hearing the same frustration from leaders:
"We're doing MTSS, but nothing's...
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26: Supporting Team Collaboration Through Data
More data isn’t helping schools, it’s overwhelming them. When teams don’t have the right access, clarity, or structures, data creates confusion instead of improvement. This episode breaks down the three leadership...
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25: SEL in Action: Moving Beyond the Curriculum
Most schools invest in social-emotional learning programs but then treat SEL as a box to check. A 30-minute lesson once a week can’t build the skills students need to navigate real life.
In this episode, the System...
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24: From Problem to Practice: A District’s Journey to Improve Student Outcomes
System Shifters: how do you move from identifying a problem to creating a solution that actually sticks? In this episode, Drs. Gail, Mary Beth, and Leesa break down how one district transformed growing concerns about...
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Listen Again Ep 4: Purpose Driven Teaming-Disrupting Meeting Silos
System Shifters! This week we are re-featuring one of our most popular episodes from the summer because it addresses the issues we hear from leaders year-round.
How many teams exist at your school and are they aligned...
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23: Build Trust and Safety into Team Meetings To Drive Teacher Collaboration and Student Outcomes
System Shifters: picture this: it’s Monday morning, your leadership team is gathered to discuss student outcomes, and you ask, “What should we do differently?” Silence. The ideas are there, but no one’s sharing...
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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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