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Principal Center Radio

Principal Center Radio brings you the best in professional practice for school leaders, in an audio format that you can access in the car, on the treadmill, or anywhere you'd like to listen.

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October 11, 2025 27 mins

Read Aly’s post on AI vs human tutors

Visit Upchieve's School Partnership page

Math scores study

About The Guest Aly Murray is the Founder and Executive Director of UPchieve. She’s also a proud Latina, math nerd, and community college grad. After earning an associate’s degree, Aly transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Mathematics. Following Penn, Aly worked on th...
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Get the book, Rigor & Assessment in the Classroom: Strategies & Tools, 2nd Edition

Visit Barbara's website www.BarbaraBlackburnOnline.com

About The Author Barbara Blackburn, PhD is the author of more than 38 books and a full-time consultant who works with schools around the world to help raise the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. Dr. Blackburn has been repea...

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Get the book, Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change Visit Decoteau's website, www.DecoteauIrby.com

About The Author Decoteau J. Irby’s life work focuses on creating and sustaining organizations that contribute to Black people’s self-determined well-being, development, and positive life outcomes. He is Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Educational Policy Studies...
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Get the book, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading

Visit the Teach Like a Champion website, teachlikeachampion.org/blog/

About The Author Doug Lemov is the bestselling author of Teach Like a Champion 3.0 and is Co-Managing Director of Teach Like a Champion, designing and implementing teacher training based on the study of high-performing teachers and exceptional classrooms. He has taught Eng...

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Follow Dr. Lane on Instagram @drjameslane

Visit the ETS website, www.ets.org

About The Author Dr. James Lane is Managing Director of K-16 at ETS, and has served as the CEO of PDK International and held senior leadership roles in the U.S. Department of Education. He served as Virginia’s 25th Superintendent of Public Instruction after a career as a band director and then superintendent in three districts. Dr. Lane holds degr...
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About The Author

Adam Tyner is national research director at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Dr. Tyner served as senior quantitative analyst at Hanover Research, and has taught English as a second language in China and California and taught courses at the University of California, San Diego. His research and commentary have appeared and been cited in national and international media such as The Economist,...

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Visit Christina's website, www.PTOAnswers.com

Free resource: PTO Family Engagement Opportunity Assessment

Free resource: 5 No Brainer Ways to Improve the Teacher/Parent Relationship

Learn more about The Principal’s Parent Group Playbook 

About The Author Christina Hidek is a former attorney and Professional Organizer with a keen sense for developing systems to simplify and ease manage...
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Get the book, Acceleration for All: A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps

About The Authors Sharon Kramer, PhD, knows firsthand the demands and rewards of working in a professional learning community (PLC). As a leader in the field, she has done priority schools work with districts across the United States, emphasizing the importance of creating and using quality assessments and utilizing the PLC continuou...

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Learn more about The Eduleadership Show at www.Eduleadership.org

About Justin Baeder PhD Justin Baeder, PhD. is author of Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership (Solution Tree), co-author of Mapping Professional Practice (Solution Tree), and creator of the Instructional Leadership Challenge, which has helped more than 10,000 leaders in 50 countries make a daily habit of classroom visits. ...
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Get the book, Rosenshine's Principles in Action

Visit Tom's website WalkThrus.co.uk

About The Author Tom Sherrington has more than 30 years of experience as a math and science teacher and headteacher in the UK and around the world. He co-hosts the podcast Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe with Emma Turner, and consults with schools around the UK and internationally, and he is the co-founder of ...

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Read The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI

About The Guest Barbara Oakley, PhD is professor of engineering at Oakland University and the author of numerous books and articles, including Learning How to Learn and Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn. She teaches the world’s largest MOOC, or Massive Open Online Course, Learning How to Learn, with o...

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Get the book, Six Steps to a Strong School Culture: A Leadership Cycle for Educational Success

Visit Sam's website www.snix3consulting.com

About The Author Samuel Nix, EdD, has been an educator for more than twenty years with a background as a teacher, middle and high school principal, and chief of schools in a variety of school settings. He has used his experience to design professional learning sessions for edu...

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Get the book, The Scientific Principles of Teaching: Bridging the Divide Between Educational Practice and Research

Visit Nate's Website www.PedagogyNonGrata.com

Follow Nate on X @Natejoseph19

About The Guest Nathaniel Hansford has taught every grade from preK to 12th, in places as diverse as South Korea, the United Kingdom, the subarctic of Quebec, and Ontario, Canada. In 2022, he won the Literacy Leader of the Year awa...
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Get the book, Grading Visible Learners: Learning with Fluidity

Visit the website, www.CenterForCollaborativeExpertise.com

About The Authors Dave Nagel and Bruce Potter are co-founders The Center for Collaborative Expertise.   Dave’s work focuses on helping schools and districts implement Visible Learning research, assessment and feedback, and effective grading reform at both school and classroom levels. He has su...

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Get the book, Powerful Classrooms: Evidence-informed Strategies and Resources

Learn more about Patrice on her website, www.PatriceBain.com

Follow Patrice on X @PatriceBain1

About The Guest Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S. is an award-winning teacher and author. Her research-based teaching strategies have proven successful for thousands of students. In addition to Powerful Teaching and A Parent’s Guide to Powerful Teaching, she al...

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Visit Jheri's Website www.JheriSouth.com

About The Guest Jheri South is a passionate advocate for teenagers, young adults, parent-child relationships, and individuals with ADHD. She empowers families, schools, and organizations to grow together, communicate effectively, and build healthier connections. Jheri is an ADHD Specialist, Teen & Parent Coach and the founder of Headspace Hub. Jheri is the mom of 7 neurodiverg...

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Get the book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching

Visit Elena's website, www.BrightMorningTeam.com

About The Guest Elena Aguilar is a writer, leader, teacher, coach and podcaster. Elena is the founder and CEO of Bright Morning Consulting, an organization committed to helping individuals and organizations create the conditions for transformation. She has taught tens of thousands of folks how to have conversations...

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Get the book, RIGOR Unveiled: A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance

About The Author   Douglas Fisher, PhD is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruc...

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Get the book, Leading Future-Focused Schools: Engaging and Preparing Students for Career Success

About The Guest Shira Woolf Cohen brings 25 years of experience in youth workforce development and education,Over a decade of her career was spent in school leadership at a Philadelphia charter school, As a Teacher, Program Director, Dean, Vice Principal, and Principal, she championed student engagement, innovative instructio...
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Get the book, Emotional Intelligence for School Leaders

Visit the STAR Factor Coaching Website, www.StarFactorCoaching.com

About The Authors Dr. Janet Patti, a former school leader, is CEO of Star Factor Coaching, a founding member of CASEL, and professor emeritus at Hunter College School of Education at City University of New York, where her teaching and research concentrated on educational leadership. 

 

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