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Schurtz and Ties: A podcast about education and culture — 153 episodes
Second-hand Schurtz: Start the Year Strong | Episode 38 Revisited
Episode 142: Why Are We Building a Bike Shed? with Mr. Rupp
Episode 141: Hunting in a Farmer’s World with John Dini
🎙️ Episode 140: Casey Watts on Clarity, Complexity, and the Work That Actually Moves Us Forward
Episode 139: Celebrity Principal or Real Principal with Jedd Hefer
Episode 138: Cordelia Fine on Gender, Schools, and the Stories We Tell About Boys and Girls
Episode 137: Alfie Kohn on Compliance, Control, and What Schools Reward
Episode 136: Why Humans Took 300,000 Years to Invent the Toilet with Adam Mastroianni
Schurtz & Ties Presents: Behavioral Leadership with Tony DeRose | Guest Appearance on Collab Lab Live
Episode 135: The Literacy Knowledge Teachers Need with Mary Jo Fresch
Episode 134: The Wisdom of Being Unsure with Maggie Jackson
Episode 133 (Part 2): The Fear Teachers Carry — When One Decision Can End a Career
Episode 133 (Part 1): Teaching Through Fear — Inside a School During a Political Firestorm
Episode 132: Brain Myths, Learning Science, and What Teachers Actually Need to Know — with Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Episode 131: No-Nonsense Brewing No-Nonsense Education
Episode 130: Choice, Structure, and the Cost of Getting Education Wrong with Barry Schwartz
Schurtz Shorts: What’s Our Guiding Light?
Episode 129: When Inclusion Stops Working — A Conversation with Dr. Douglas Fuchs
Episode 128: Feed the Cats: Coaching Classrooms, Competition, and Joy with Tony Holler
Episode 127: Anxious Kids, Anxious Adults: Communication, Accountability, and the Work Beneath Behavior with Peck
Episode 126: Brain Science, Trauma, and Rethinking School Behavior with Dr. Katie Lohmiller and Halley Gruber
Episode 125: Clear Expectations, Reflective Questions, and Raising Good Humans. A conversation with Pete Hall
Schurtz Shorts: Christmas Special
Ep. 124: Beyond Punishment: The Case for Accountability
Schurtz Shorts: The Balance Between Punishment and Accountability
Ep. 123: Beyond the Gap: Grade-Level Access, Scaffolding, and What Today’s Learners Need, with John Almarode
Schurtz Shorts: Emotionally Sound Leadership: What to Share, What to Hold, and Why it Matters
Ep. 122: People, Curriculum, and the Ocean Between.
Schurtz Shorts: When Your Best Strategies Stop Working
Ep. 121: Doing the Inner Work, with Jennifer Abrams
Schurtz Shorts: Solving PD Time
Ep. 120: Skill or Will? And the gaps that divide.
Ep. 119: Broken Windows and Measured Responses
Ep. 118: Closing the Divide — Building Bridges Between Admin and Staff
Ep. 117: Education is complicated. Keep it simple.
Ep. 116: Unintentional Culture Killers, with Darron Pepperd
Ep. 115: "Yes, And…" Lessons from Improv expert Bob Kulhan
Ep. 114: Surviving the Evergreen Shooting: One story, many warnings - a conversation with a mom and son
Ep. 113: Traits of Cool, characteristics of a bully, and the thin line between.
Ep. 112: Culture by Design—the Upper Arrow with Sydne Jacques
Ep. 111 : The Lost Key to Life and Leadership: A Conversation with John Dickson
Welcome to season 4!
Ep. 109: Season 3 Takeaways!
Ep. 108: Ignoring principals and building culture, with Jimmy Casas
Ep. 107: Get Outside, with Court Rustemeyer
Ep. 106: Responsibility Monkeys, with Todd Whitaker
Ep. 105: How to "do Culture," change Culture, with Josh Tovar
Ep. 104: April Engagement Madness with Jedd Hefer
Ep. 103: Stop Cancelling PD!
Ep. 102: Successfully navigating hard conversations, with Jennifer Abrams
Ep. 101: Instructional Leadership with Principal Kafele
Ep. 100: The boxes we carry
Ep. 99: Design Thinking and "Feeling the toe pinch" with Julie Schell
Ep. 98: Teachers Deserve It, with Rae Hughart.
Ep. 97: Ideas and Quotes worth (re)Considering
Ep. 96: What we do when the lights go out, with Chris Gonsalvez
Ep. 95: Range of Knowledge and solving Impossible Problems
Ep. 94: We're in the dark ages of behavior management. Scott Ervin brings the light.
Ep. 93: The Truth About Reading. An honest conversation.
Ep 92: Smart Thinking, with Dr. Art Markman
Ep. 91: A Threat to the Model, with John Hattie
Ep 90: Overcoming Education: A conversation with Dr. Brad Gustafson
Ep. 89: Beware the wolves! A conversation with Amy Berry's Continuum of Engagement
Ep. 88: Ask questions. Listen well. Be interested. A conversation about Personal Engagement.
Ep. 87: Forget the students (not really), its all about the teachers! (no, really).
Ep. 86: "Who before the do." Intellectual Engagement with John Almarode
Ep. 85: Be cautious, be free, be curious. The importance of Cultural Engagement
Ep 84: "Put me on hold, please" and the smell of milk: A Barstool Episode
Ep. 83: "Its all about security." Emotional Engagement with Charle Peck
Ep. 82: Social Engagement: A reflection of who We are and want to be.
Ep. 81: "Stay a teacher." Wisdom on Behavioral Engagement with Jedd Hafer
Ep. 80: Physical Engagement
Ep 79: The Red Threads of Engagement
Ep. 78: Lessons from the summer, and more!
Ep. 77: Supporting teachers, Reaching students. A conversation with Jim Knight
Ep. 76: Teacher perceptions vs Principal perceptions: A conversation about educator wellbeing, with Dr. Humphrys and Dr Syson
Ep. 75: Better PD. Here's how. Here's why.
Ep 74: It Doesn't End with Relationships
Ep. 73: Let them be loud; Let them show up. A conversation about culture with Tina Curry
Ep 72. Stand Tall, with Steve Bollar
Ep. 71: What Schools Need Now. An honest discussion about mental health, with Tim Dohrer and Tom Golebiewski
Ep. 70: Finally. A useful discussion about AI integration, with Vera Cubero
Ep. 69: Should we be hairy finishers? Maybe. Probably . . . Absolutely!
Ep. 68: Rethinking that which shall not be named
Ep. 67: A Spring Break Soundtrack
Ep 66: How to nail your next interview, with Darrin Peppard
Ep. 65: Is Education a little bit culty?
Ep. 64: The Kids are Alright . . . Aren't They?
Ep. 63: Thriving Educators, Thriving Schools. A conversation with Charlie Peck
Ep. 62: Lost Boys and Struggling Educators, with Hal Bowman
Ep. 61: Identifying the Humanity, with Erica Heilman
Ep. 60: The Dark Side of Motivation
Ep. 59: Superheroes in the classroom? Maybe.
Ep. 58: The Future of Education, According to History. A conversation with Dr. Flamm.
Ep. 57: The meaning of conducting, with Jim Papoulis
Happy New Year
Ep. 56: Reflection: why bison run and mirrors distort.
Ep. 55 : The Culture Blend, with Jerry Jones
Ep. 54: How to survive a rip current and the sacrifice for power - a barstool episode.
Ep. 53: Why so serious? A turning from the abyss; a call towards joy.
Ep. 52: Teachers and Parents and Bridging the Relationship Gap. An honest discussion.
Ep 51. AI and education's obligation.
Ep. 50: "A cat won't follow a lemming off a cliff" and other educational sayings that don't exist.
Ep. 49: Can Education be a System of Profound Knowledge?
Ep. 48: Get your hands dirty. Engage in the mess. Find solutions.
Ep. 47: The Cult of Done. Is it worth throwing away?
Ep. 46: Safe, secure, and stable. A reflection of over 40 years.
Ep. 45: The destructive and constructive nature of comparison.
Ep. 44: The Future of Schools, Now
Ep. 43: Be a Ruckus Maker, with Danny Bauer
Ep 42: Safe vs Brave Schools.
Ep 41. "Localize your message" and how best to embrace the hard, with Jenn Ford
Ep. 40: "Sharpen Your Ax" : Spend time focusing on humans
Ep. 39: "You. Belong. Here." Three intentional ways to create a culture of belonging
Ep. 38: Start the Year off Strong. Lean into who you are
Ep. 37: What are you hankerin' for?
Ep. 36: Favorite fictional teachers and what they teach us about being human.
Ep. 35: Chatbot, the psychology of free, and the discomfort of leadership. A barstool conversation
Ep. 34: Summer Soundtrack (APPLE PODCAST RELEASE w/o music)
Ep. 33: #KeepKnocking : The Art of Never Giving Up on People
Ep 32: Educational Leadershi* : It's messy, and fully worth it.
Ep 31: Education is a Wicked Problem, which means it is impossible to solve. We tried anyway.
Ep. 30: Bridging the Recognition Gap and Strengthening Your School Culture
Ep. 29: Finish Strong! Be Mr. May.
Ep. 28: "What about the boring kids?"
Ep. 27: Ted Lasso is flawed. And that's why we love him! And it's why we can learn from him.
Ep. 26: Gossip. Lets chat about it! Because it isn't as bad as we think.
Ep. 25: Influential Teachers: What made them great and why they are remembered.
Ep. 24: We are Anxious. So let's do something about it.
Ep. 23: Punishment vs Consequence. What they are, what they aren't, and why the differences matter.
Ep. 22: Poverty. What it is and what it isn't, and the questions between.
Ep. 21: Hippopotamus Laws : What they are and where we see them. And more importantly, what can we do about them.
Ep. 20: Make the Intangible, Tangible : How to capture meaningful moments, and why it matters
Ep. 19: From New York to Arizona: A barstool reflection of the sustainability of Education
Ep 18: The Gods of Education and the the bargains we strike
Ep. 17: Stay calm. Teach. A conversation with Dr. Mary Jo Fresch
Ep 16: When in doubt, Do G.R.E.A.T. things! Here's how.
Ep. 15: ChatGPT is going to disrupt education. Here's how we can (and should) embrace it.
Ep. 14: Responsibility Centered Discipline: The most effective and purposeful method for changing behavior
Ep. 13: Universal Design for Life: What Unnecessary Barriers can we Eliminate? (Part 2)
Ep. 12: Universal Design for Life: What Unnecessary Barriers Can We Eliminate? (Part 1)
Ep. 11: Elevator Thinking, Spider-Man and How We Find Identity : A barstool episode.
Christmas Break
Ep. 10: Curse of Knowledge vs Gap of Knowledge (Part 2): Analyzing the gaps of misunderstanding between teachers and parents
Ep. 9: Curse of Knowledge vs Gap of Knowledge (Part 1): Analyzing the gaps of misunderstanding between teachers and parents
Ep. 8: What can sports teach us about achieving excellence?
Ep. 7: Education Soundtrack (APPLE PODCAST RELEASE w/o music)
Ep. 6: The worst TV and Film bosses…and what to do if you have a terrible boss.
Ep. 5: How to attain autonomy, mastery and purpose in our schools and in our lives
Ep. 4: How do you know if you've chosen the right career... or significant other?
Ep. 3: What to do when the honeymoon ends?
Ep. 2: Active, not Passive: Five phrases that can help change our perspectives on conflict, students, and daily life
Ep. 1: Forging New Paths