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The Perkins Platform — 320 episodes

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Leading at Large Scale: It's Not At 30,000 Feet After All

2

AI Is Coming Faster Than We Think: Lessons From the Pandemic

3

Cybersecurity Isn't Just for the IT Team: Leaders Are Now On The Hook

4

At The Junction of AI and Creativity: What Qualifies as Your Work?

5

Legacy: The Psychology of Being Remembered

6

Courage Has No Color: Writing About The Truth for Children

7

How Top Leaders Leverage Their Life Experiences and Create the Perfect Pitch

8

Leading with Emotion: The Hidden Edge of Great Leaders

9

Stop Performing & Start Leading: The Science of the True Self

10

Breaking the Cycle of Surface Acting: Advice for Leaders

11

Breaking Old Habits and Making New Ones: The Science & Application

12

The Not-So-Subtle Costs of Change Leadership

13

Power, Influence and Social Media Accountability

14

Peril and Promise: A Conversation with Beverly Daniel Tatum

15

Stress, Worrying & Leadership: Overcoming the Threat of Chronic Stress

16

Parenting Lessons from a Harvard-Bound Teen

17

Leadership Lessons from a Former KGB Spy

18

Self Control & Leadership: Moving Beyond Just Willpower

19

Using Persuasion in Leadership: Aristotle's Advice

20

Thriving Under Pressure: Leadership Mindset & Mastery

21

The Price of Nice: Advice for Saying What Needs to be Said

22

Justice A.I. - The Decolonization of Artificial Intelligence

23

Dealing With High (And Sometimes Unreasonable) Expectations in Leadership

24

The Silent Cost of High Achievement: "Physician, heal thyself"

25

Detonate, Provoke & Hone: Strategies for Moving Past What You've Always Done That Way

26

Lessons from Healthcare Leadership: Vision Matters

27

Kindness as a Leadership Strategy

28

The Black Woman's Rest Revolution: Restoration and Self-Care Are Priority

29

The Connection Between Strategic Thinking and Organizational Growth

30

Raising Culturally Competent Kids

31

The Advantages to an Unfocused Mind: A New Strategy for Productivity & Creativity

32

The Role of Children's Literature in Identity Formation

33

The Mentally Strong Leader: Building Habits That Work

34

Asian-American is Not A Color

35

Understanding Generation Z in the Workplace

36

F Your Office Snacks: Advice from NOT the HR Lady

37

Special Segment w Dr. Uma Naidoo: Food Satisfaction and Mental Wellbeing

38

AI in Schools: Okay or Not?

39

The Future of DEI: Expert Advice for Leaders

40

Why Simple Wins: Cutting Through Complexity to Drive Innovation

41

The Curse of Knowledge: How Information Impacts Your Decisions and Leadership

42

Masterpiece: Developing the Whole Self

43

Leadership Planning, Reflection & Self Assessment

44

Leadership Planning, Reflection and Self-Assement: The Life Brief

45

Trust and Influence: Putting it Together for Leadership Success

46

Thinking, Working and Making Decisions After Midnight: The Research

47

Exploring the Fallacies of Racism: Even If Some of Your Best Friends Are Black

48

Are School Boards Broken? A Discussion on Politics, School Boards & Education

49

Women in Leadership: Addressing Retention and Growth Opportunities

50

Why Reducing Teacher Qualifications is A Bad Idea

51

Logical Thinking + Empathy = Wisdom: The Evidence

52

Seeking Mastery? Stop Worrying About What People Think About You!

53

How and Why Influence Matters in Leadership: You Have More than You Think

54

Understanding Racial and Multi-Racial Experiences

55

Philosophy and Leadership

56

Our Fight Over Morality and Politics

57

How Games Have Shaped Our World

58

Special Segment: Energy Foods - Not Energy Drinks (w Dr. Uma Nadoo)

59

Nurturing Children To Achieve Their Dreams

60

Religion in Schools: The Debate Resumes

61

A Leader's Role in Reducing Workplace Burnout

62

Pulling All-Nighters Might Not Be A Good Idea: The Science on Working Late

63

On the Development of Pre-School Girls: What the Latest Psychology Research Says

64

What Leaders Can Do to Create an Inclusive LGBTQ+ Workplace

65

From Adversity to Superpower: A Professor's Transformative Narrative

66

Strategy: A Leadership Skill

67

Communicating Change: How Leaders Can Talk About Organizational Movement

68

Raising Good Humans: Advice for Parents and Everybody Else

69

Leaders Get Angry Too: Strategies for Dealing with Anger & Frustration

70

Leadership and Applied Critical Thinking

71

Shutting Off The Pre-school to Prison Pipeline Once and For All

72

How Bad Became The New Good...And Other Contemplations About Now

73

Establishing Your Brand: What Leaders Need To Know

74

The Art & Science to 1:1 Meetings

75

Democracy and Education: Looking at Dewey's Ideas with A New Lens

76

Teaching Children to Be Responsible Consumers of Information: The Essentials

77

Understanding Conflict and Communication

78

Women in Leadership: Challenges & Opportunities

79

Just How Important Is Happiness? Reframing How We Think About Work & Happiness

80

Stop Talking Start Influencing: Messaging and Brain Science

81

It's Important to Teach the Truth (Even When Its Challenging)

82

Inspiration for Writing: In the Presence of the Ancestors

83

AI in Schools: Why We Can't Afford to Fear It

84

The Secret to Happiness At Work

85

Etiquette: What Leaders Need to Know

86

Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace (And What Happens For Suggesting It)

87

The Battle For Equity in Schools: Leadership Practices That Work

88

Political Expression & Participation: How Today's Youth Are Involved

89

The Thing About Food - with Dr. Uma Naidoo (Episode 1)

90

How Minds Change: An Exploration of Opinion and Persuasion

91

The Disruptive Truth

92

Toxic Achievement Culture in Schools: What We Can Do

93

The Truth About College Admissions

94

Confidence: A Leadership Necessity

95

What Happens When We Exclude & Include People

96

Nobody's Fool - What Leaders Can Do To Avoid Being Taken In

97

Leadership Coaching: Sometimes It Doesn't Work

98

Presence: How to Command the Respect You Need to Lead

99

Understanding the Rise and Impact of Mass Incarceration

100

Responding to Questions You Can't Answer

101

Using Neuropsychology In Your Leadership Practice

102

Leaders Need to Maximize Their Time, Energy & Attention

103

Intelligence Isn't Enough: Black Professionals in the Workplace

104

How to Master Change

105

Getting Unstuck in Decision-Making

106

1% Leadership: Small Improvements That Set Great Leaders Apart

107

Aligning How You Lead With Who You Are

108

The Psychology of Success

109

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When The Stakes Are High

110

The Emotional Leader

111

Beating Busywork: Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff

112

Quitting: A Life Strategy

113

The Connection Between Race, Maternal Health, Healthcare and Life Outcomes

114

ChatGPT: Friend or Foe?

115

How to Lead School Turn-Around: Strategies from the Field

116

Magic Words: What to Say, When and How

117

Not Everyone Is A Coach: Training Matters

118

Never Go With Your Gut: Decision-Making That Works

119

The Truth About Teachers

120

Using Intrinsic Motivation: Learning to Look Within

121

How to Raise Kids That Aren't A-holes

122

The Adultification of Black Children

123

Lest We Forget: The Ban of African American History in Our Schools

124

The Age-Proof Brain: What You Can Do To Improve Your Memory & Brain Function

125

Why Black Boys' Sneakers Should Matter to Educators

126

You're a Leader Now What?

127

Toxic Workplaces: How Leaders Can End & Prevent Them

128

Understanding Super-Helper Syndrome

129

Attention Span: Focusing on Balance, Happiness & Productivity

130

Leadership: Two Words At A Time

131

Training Your Brain and Understanding Emotional Anchors

132

The Importance of Setting Boundaries in Leadership

133

This Is Your Brain on Food: Nutrition and Mental Health

134

The Illusion of School: Why Children Fail and What We Can Do

135

I’m Not Yelling: Perspective on a Black Woman’s Workplace Communication

136

Integrating Storytelling Into Your Leadership Skill Portfolio

137

Reset or Perish: Adaptive Leadership For Uncertain Times

138

Why the Modern Male is Struggling

139

No BS (Bad Stats) Allowed

140

Creating Extraordinary Work Environments: Advice for Leaders

141

How Discomfort Can Help You As A Leader

142

The Uncomfortable Truth: Understanding Institutional Racism

143

The Keys To Successful 1:1 Meetings

144

On Religion: Sikhism

145

Teaching About Racism in Schools: Success Facilitating Student Discourse

146

Using Language to Get What You Want: How Persuasion Works

147

Making the World What We Teach

148

Beyond Special Education: One Man's Journey to Success

149

Why Representation Matters: On screen & In Life

150

Why It's So Hard to Talk About Race in Schools - Especially Now

151

Conscious Accountability: Leading for the Results You Want

152

Twelve Steps to Effective Leadership

153

Monkey Pox, COVID and Flu: Addressing Challenges of School-Based Nursing Today

154

How to Detect Deception: Using Body Language and Verbal Cues in Your Leadership

155

Five Negative Mindsets That Can Wreck Your Judgement

156

The Impact of Digital Media on Children's Intelligence

157

Open Forum on Educational Leadership - Ten Years of Perkins Platform!

158

What's Changed in School Leadership

159

Why Leaders Lie

160

Black Men Don't Cry

161

When Grades and Test Scores Don't Match Parents Are Confused

162

On Religion: Buddhism (RESCHEDULED BROADCAST)

163

Seven Components to Decision- Making

164

How to Deal with Narcissistic Behaviors: Expert Advice for Work and Life

165

Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children: Advice for Educators and Parents

166

The Art of Insubordination

167

Turn It Off: How Powering Off Your Smart Device Can Help You

168

Forgiveness: For Us or Them?

169

Authenticity & The Workplace: How Should You Show Up?

170

The Lighthouse Effect: Extraordinary Impact from Ordinary People

171

Raising a Thinking Child: How to Support Critical Thinking & Questioning

172

SPECIAL BROADCAST: What I Told My Students About The Buffalo Shooting

173

Understanding the Science of Motivation: How to Get Things Done

174

Wellbotics: Learning Technology With a Purpose

175

Tackling Human Trafficking: What School Leaders Need to Know

176

Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover: Bias In and Out of The Courtroom

177

Building Realistic Optimism in your Organization

178

Am I Supposed to Be Here? Confronting and Understanding Imposter Syndrome

179

Monotasking: Doing One Thing At A Time...Better

180

How Media Impacts Our Thinking & Actions

181

What You Should Know About Schools Right Now: Leaders Talk About The Pandemic

182

Overthinking: Getting Over Hurdles in Your Mind

183

Freire: What Relevance Is His Philosophy Today?

184

SPECIAL HOUR: Don't Talk About Race in Schools! What Teachers Are Saying

185

SPECIAL AUDIO & VIDEO SIMULCAST: The Leaders Needed for a Post-COVID World

186

Addressing the Adultification of Black Girls in Schools and Society

187

Open-mindedness: Perspectives from a Rabbi

188

I Built A School to Close A Prison: One Woman's Extraordinary Mission and Vision

189

How to Disrupt A System That Was Designed to Hold You Back

190

Put the Mask on Yourself First: Tips for Leaders on Managing Stress

191

Water: A Biography - Our Relationship to A Fundamental Life Source

192

Primetime Broadcast: A Reckoning with The Myth of the Lost Cause

193

On Leadership: Guilt-Free Strategies for Making Time for Yourself

194

On Leadership: Navigating an Uncertain Future

195

The American Dream: A School Providing A Foundation For Immigrant Families

196

The Truth About Inequality: An Examination of the Gender and Racial Wage Gap

197

Empathy: A Leader's Essential Tool

198

The Truth About Our Democracy: Rethinking What We Teach in Our Schools.

199

Using STEM to Expose, Inspire & Engage Students from Low-Income Backgrounds

200

Our World Goes Beyond Our Five Senses

201

White Supremacy, With A Tan

202

Artificial Intelligence: Do Computers Really Understand the World?

203

Bringing Historically Marginalized Parents Into the Fold

204

The Indigenous Voice: Education, Voting and Community Organizing for the Navajo

205

Good Trouble Principals: De-Centering Whiteness & Serving Students of Color

206

Back to School Broadcast: Informing Our Schools With Black Psychology

207

Update Haiti: What's Happening in the Wake of Political & Social Disruption

208

The Gap Between Teacher Expectations and Black Students' Potential

209

Voices in Our Head: Understanding the Conscious

210

The Impact of Sleep on Decision-Making and Leadership

211

Advice for Teachers: How to Disrupt Outdated Behavior Management Models

212

Science Ed in Public Schools: Evolution, Climate Change & Other Hot Topics

213

Critical Race Theory: What It IS and What It Is NOT

214

The 1619 Project: Fact, Fiction or History?

215

American History Perspective: What Our Public Schools Need

216

The 1776 Commission Report: What We Need to Know

217

Humor is a Skill

218

The Education System We Need: Thinking of the Future for Today's Children

219

Making Social Justice Relevant in School

220

Domination Culture, White Supremacy and What We Need to Do to Fix Things

221

100th Broadcast: Changing the Southern Landscape - Literally & Figuratively

222

Environmental Injustice: The Flint Water Crisis

223

Truancy Intervention: Approaches to Increased Attendance and School Success

224

The Reason Why I Serve: A Story of Dedication to an Urban School Community

225

The Invisibility of Asian Americans: Reality and Myth for the "Model Minority"

226

Black Mothers, Black Daughters & American Society

227

The Talk: Why The Conversation Black Men Have With Their Boys is Necessary

228

Time Capsule Circa 1960: Anything Changed?

229

Book Club: The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)

230

African American Teen Crisis: Suicide During the Pandemic

231

Keeping Millennial Teachers: What Motivates Them To Stay At Your School

232

Teen Suicide During COVID-19: The Second Crisis In Our Schools

233

Consciousness - The Final Frontier: What Leaders Need to Know

234

Lessons from the Playground: I Was Almost A School Shooter

235

Gender Matters: Understanding The Pervasive Role of Gender in Our Daily Lives

236

Grasping The Power of Neuroplasticity: Using Neuroscience In Our Daily Lives

237

Applying Game Theory to Vaccination Planning

238

The Virus, The Vaccine & The Pandemic Explained for Non-Scientists

239

How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias

240

The Case for Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

241

Pandemic Impact: Reporting from Households with Small Children

242

Remote Schooling Under COVID: The Challenges School Leaders Face

243

COVID and Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Cumulative Effect of Trauma

244

Deliberately and Intentionally Anti-Racist: Integrating Anti-Racism Education

245

Recruiting and Retaining Quality Teachers: Community Partner Leadership

246

Black Boys to Black Men: The Education Response in Baltimore

247

Endangered: Black Men in America

248

Advice for Parents on Providing Constructive Criticism

249

Learning Loss: Expectations for the Future & What Educators Can Do to Mitigate

250

How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Children's Learning? Unequally.

251

State Education Leadership Perspectives on Next Steps for Our Schools

252

Straight Talk About the Mental Health of Children & Adolescents During COVID-19

253

How Our Children Are Experiencing The COVID-19 Pandemic: Let's Hear From Them

254

What Students Will Need Post COVID-19: The Work Ahead for School Counselors

255

The Plight of Parents During COVID-19 Pandemic: How Parents Are Managing

256

Ensuring Education During COVID-19: What's Required of School & District Leaders

257

The Education of Special Needs Populations During The COVID-19 Pandemic

258

COVID-19 Impact on Global Education: What's Happening Around the World

259

Making the Most of Our Time: How We Can Keep Young People Learning during COVID

260

Coping with Covid-19: How Educators Feel in this Period of Social Isolation

261

Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline

262

Fighting Institutional Racism

263

Why We Need Trauma Informed Schools and Educators

264

Today's Parent Teacher Relationship: Getting Adult Caretakers Involved

265

Leading Crisis Response Teams in Urban Schools

266

The Controversy of "White Racism"

267

Engaging Introverted Students in the Classroom

268

Empowering Learning Through Connectedness

269

Tell Me So I Can Hear You: Giving Feedback to Educators

270

Finding A Balance In Our Digital Lives: How To Increase Productivity

271

The Mechanics of Meditation: Integration in Your Leadership Practice

272

Intelligence: Redefined - Reframing Giftedness & the Implications for Gifted Ed

273

Does Teaching Critical Thinking Really Help Students ?

274

The School Leaders Our Children Deserve

275

What Happens After preK: The effects of elementary school on early experiences

276

Connecting the Dots: Learning, Technology & Creativity

277

Why Civics Education Is More Important Than Ever Before: Election 2016

278

What Time the Bell Rings: New Start Times for American Schools

279

The Year in Review: What We Learned on Perkins Platform

280

Does Race Matter in the Schoolhouse? Teacher-Principal Race Congruence Effects

281

The Benefits of Culturally and Racially Diverse Classrooms

282

Trust & The Moral Molecule: The chemistry behind trusting relationships

283

Black Experiences in Public Education in the "Black Lives Matter" Era

284

Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience

285

The Psychology of Decision Making

286

Coaching Teachers and Leaders for Equity & Excellence

287

The Truth About Public Education in America

288

Expectations, Race & Class: The Importance of Teacher-Student Demographic Match

289

Double Feature Broadcast - The Racial Truth About Our Schools

290

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting in the Principal's Office?

291

Discipline in the Classroom - What We Can Learn from the SC School Incident

292

Teacher Evaluation Controversy: The Value Added Model

293

The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness

294

Equity in Education: What does it Mean?

295

Our Urban High Schools Are Failing Us: What Now?

296

The Importance of the School Experience: Context, Context, Context

297

OPEN FORUM: Implementing Programs for School Improvement

298

Putting Policy to Work in Education

299

SPECIAL BROADCAST - Ten Lessons from NYC Schools (Book Discussion)

300

No Child, No School, No Community Left Behind: The School Development Program

301

Success for All - Believing All Children Can Learn

302

Global Standards in Education: The International Baccalaureate Programme

303

Mental Health Challenges in Public Schools

304

Pay it Forward: The Benefits of Quality Preschool Experience

305

The Common Core Focus on Mathematics

306

The Schools We Need for Today's Student

307

The Price We Pay: Consequences of Inadequate Education

308

The Perkins Perspective: This Year in Education

309

New School Designs: Leadership for New Learning Experiences

310

When Rhetoric Trumps Reality: Test-based Teacher Evaluations

311

The Second Battle of New Orleans: Education at the Center

312

Urban School Board Assault: Accountability & Sustainability

313

School Turn-Around Efforts in Los Angeles:Policy & Practice

314

Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools

315

A Moratorium on Testing: Courageous Executive Leadership

316

The Politics of Urban Education

317

Memphis on Race, Schools, Politics, Poverty & Taxes

318

Parents and Public Education: How the Partnership Works

319

School Boards and The Fight for Public Education

320

The New Superintendency: Challenges and Opportunities