Lead. Learn. Change.

4:45 – two (maybe three) rules for AI prompts

5:15 – Rule 0 – mindset 

5:45 – Rule 1 - be clear and specific

8:05 – don’t be discouraged

8:25 – Rule 2 - have a conversation

10:00 – keep going, don’t settle

10:50 – the Magic School conundrum

14:00 – Khanmigo – one for teachers and one for students

15:15 – Khanmigo will not provide answers – it’s a tutor

16:15 – Microsoft Copilot

16:35 – Coach.microsoft (reading support)

17:45 – Perplexity (pow...

3:25 – AI has the potential to reshape every industry, job, and life

4:30 – the shift from narrow, programmatic control to individual user control

7:00 – a democratized internet with language comprehension

8:00 – the move from menus to genies

10:00 – you can ask AI virtually anything 

10:40 – offsetting the unfortunate reality of the suppression of curiosity

12:00 – Hallucinations, mistakes, guessing, and precision

14:15 – AI iterations a...

1:50 – Felicia Mayfield - the noble field of education 

2:45 – George Wurtzel - blindness is not the loss of your knowledge and skill

5:20 – Cassidy Magill Evans - a great teacher...

6:45 – Anjelika Riano - support students and keep them focused on a vision

7:55 – Tylan Bailey - treat others well and make a difference

9:55 – Amy Gropper - challenge students to intrigue them

12:15 – David Reynolds - go against the grain every now and then

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SHOW NOTES

2:25 – heart transplant at age 29, no previous cardiac issues

3:00 – post-partum cardiomyopathy

3:30 – placed on a Life Vest and a low ejection fraction

4:30 – a 49-day stay in the hospital

5:15 – the fear of leaving one’s children behind, without a mom

6:15 – emergency room, to a two-week stay, to “we’ve done all we can for you”

7:00 – options and prognosis regarding Cassidy’s heart

8:30 – praying and deciding to move forward ...

Show Notes:

00:15 - Teacher Appreciation Day 2024 

00:25 - eight encore excerpts from seven guests

1:15 - Julia Roland  - college student, art student, artist (segment 1 of 2)

3:00 - Lana Camiel - pharmacist, herbalist, professor, podcaster

4:30 - Mike Shannon - retired U.S. Army officer, current university president

6:25 - Joy Robinson - former teacher, staff member with the Professional Association of Georgia Educators

7:25 - Megan Gold...

4:20 – workplace of the future

5:00 – rapid changes in technology and society

5:45 – leaders are made, not born

5:55 – the Leadership Foundry

7:00 – building resilience, self-awareness, agency, and personal interaction skills

8:20 – the complexities, and simplicity, of leadership

9:30 – pursuing the best version of yourself parallels the leadership journey

10:10 – you may never know the impact you have on others

11:40 – storytelling as a m...

Show Notes

3:10 – the value of questions

3:20 – the portability of questions

3:40 – questions bring people together (questions can lead to community)

4:10 – ask yourself, “What’s one question I want to carry into the next twelve months?”

5:35 – does everyone have a story to tell?

6:35 – you have a story and there are many ways to convey it

7:30 – writing is a way of trying on ideas

8:35 – “Do I consider myself to be a teacher?”

9:30 – count...

SHOW NOTES

2:30 – teachers are bridge builders

2:55 – a passion for building connections and helping others realize their potential

3:40 – overwhelming appreciation for men and women in the U.S. military

5:50 – being better tomorrow than you are today

6:10 – focus most on what you need to do well, show up the next day, and improve

7:00 – chorus director Janice Folsom was an inspiration

8:10 – the capacity to command a room, getting a team...

SHOW NOTES

0:55 - Contextual introduction for this episode’s unique features

3:20 – Sample DJ clips

4:15 – Guest introduction

5:05 – Cancer, voice change, a long stint behind the high school football stadium game night microphone

6:00 – Rick starts his three-decades of announcing Friday night home games

7:55 – Son Rowdy follows Dad Rick at the football field

8:45 – Family members want to hear the players’ names

10:30 – Daughter Grace, a p...

2:50 – words (including jackalope) and an older book

4:30 – everyone “owns their own channel” now

4:50 – you don’t have to wait for permission

5:30 – teaching experience

5:45 – difference between learning and education

5:55 – connection between autodidacticism and conditions for learning

6:10 – a good day is when…

6:40 – Mr. Jon Guillaume decided to change my life

7:00 – not an accident that the arc of one’s life can be redefined because o...

Be ready to go - Traffic Lights and Bumper Stickers

A glance in the rearview mirror is not the best compass.

The Sankofa Bird

Reflections and Call to Action

Filters

PAGE Break – Members Matter

Sankofa - Berea College link

Music for Lead. Learn. Change. is Sweet Adrenaline by Delicate Beats

Podcast cover art is a view from Brunnkogel (mountaintop) over the mountains of the Salzkammergut in Austria, courtesy of photog...

SHOW NOTES:

3:00 – deciding to be a teacher when in middle school

4:10 – as a teenage dad, deciding to be a good father

6:00 – your support system is your true family

6:40 – fairness, love, respect – Hightower family and blood family

7:50 – homeless, couch surfing, and fourteen schools

8:20 – road to success is very hard

8:35 – choices, decisions, and consequences – life!

9:45 – June 2, 2017 – everything changes

10:45 – delivering newspaper...

SHOW NOTES:

NOTE: Episode 47 will be followed by a guest episode, Tylan Bailey, who made a career move from school custodian to . . . teacher. You won’t want to miss it.

Thereafter, guest, book, guest, book, guest… will serve as the pattern for our epidsodes until the book selections are completed.

Today’ s episode includes:

Lead purposeful change - Where are We Now? Where are You?

Change the Story!

We learn best from others, and P...

SHOW NOTES:

Set your direction - Which Gear?

Improvement isn’t instantaneous, but movement toward it is manifested in individual moments

Begin with those you serve - Who’s on First?

PAGE Break – CCRPI 

Don’t dwell solely on answers. Spend time getting the questions right.

Working on the Work: an Action Plan for Teachers, Principals, and Superintendents by Phillip Schlechty

Why Johnny Can’t Read: And What You Can Do About It, by R...

Another installment of readings from Lead. Learn. Change., the book, pages 19 to 41. 

Book Selection installments and Guest episode pattern

Acknowledgement correction

Foreword or Forward?

This is my favorite book…

How to use this book

Your work cannot thrive in isolation

Make a difference - If a complainer whines in the woods

Great teachers impact lives

Transformation might be a synonym for learning

All of us can learn from all of ...

SHOW NOTES

2:30 – second-career educator and an effective, thoughtful, and creative teacher

3:30 – every never you utter in life becomes your roadmap

3:45 – I will never be a teacher. I hate school

4:00 – perhaps not the greatest horse rider but a great teacher of horse riding

5:00 – going back to school to become a teacher

5:15 – David as Amy’s first assistant principal

5:30 – engage and intrigue students

5:45 – first experiences in highe...

5:05 – the meaning of engagement, with an emphasis on relationships

6:30 – engagement, challenge, reflection, and learning

7:35 – initial awareness of the concept of working on the work

8:25 – theory, practical application, and context for a student-centric approach

9:40 – a book is borne out of a passion for teaching

10:55 – sharing content on the internet is easy but taking it to the next level takes effort

12:35 – what it means to be ...

SHOW NOTES

3:40 – learning contains all of human potential

4:20 – learning can occur at any age

4:50 – little fulfillment correlates with little learning

5:05 – Carol Dweck - growth mindset vs. fixed mindset

6:20 – Mrs. Ramsay’s influence

6:55 – one of the benefits of going to school

7:45 – Mrs. Ramsay’s caring approach

8:05 – family response to Robbie’s first school report

8:35 – Robbie’s creative future assessed

9:40 – carrying the wrong ...

SHOW NOTES

Dedication page
Table of Contents samples
Preface
Acknowledgments
One (quote)
One (Dr. Magill)

Music for Lead. Learn. Change. is Sweet Adrenaline by Delicate Beats

Podcast cover art is a view from Brunnkogel (mountaintop) over the mountains of the Salzkammergut in Austria, courtesy of photographer Simon Berger, published on www.unsplash.com.

Professional Association of Georgia Educators

David’s LinkedIn page

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