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The Perkins Platform — 331 episodes
Embracing Yourself As An Imperfect Leader
Supporting Smart and Capable Children
Leading Cognitively Diverse Teams
When Leadership Becomes a Moral Decision
Stay True to You: Being Yourself Amidst Pressure to Lead Others
The Importance of Discovering Self in Leadership
The Leadership Trap of Quick Fixes
Listening to Lead: What Listening Really Means in Leadership
Why Some Leaders Get Heard & Others Dont (And Other Musings on Strategic Leadership)
Teams Follow Behavior, Not Intention
The Well-Being Advantage: How Caring Drives Performance
Leading at Large Scale: It's Not At 30,000 Feet After All
AI Is Coming Faster Than We Think: Lessons From the Pandemic
Cybersecurity Isn't Just for the IT Team: Leaders Are Now On The Hook
At The Junction of AI and Creativity: What Qualifies as Your Work?
Legacy: The Psychology of Being Remembered
Courage Has No Color: Writing About The Truth for Children
How Top Leaders Leverage Their Life Experiences and Create the Perfect Pitch
Leading with Emotion: The Hidden Edge of Great Leaders
Stop Performing & Start Leading: The Science of the True Self
Breaking the Cycle of Surface Acting: Advice for Leaders
Breaking Old Habits and Making New Ones: The Science & Application
The Not-So-Subtle Costs of Change Leadership
Power, Influence and Social Media Accountability
Peril and Promise: A Conversation with Beverly Daniel Tatum
Stress, Worrying & Leadership: Overcoming the Threat of Chronic Stress
Parenting Lessons from a Harvard-Bound Teen
Leadership Lessons from a Former KGB Spy
Self Control & Leadership: Moving Beyond Just Willpower
Using Persuasion in Leadership: Aristotle's Advice
Thriving Under Pressure: Leadership Mindset & Mastery
The Price of Nice: Advice for Saying What Needs to be Said
Justice A.I. - The Decolonization of Artificial Intelligence
Dealing With High (And Sometimes Unreasonable) Expectations in Leadership
The Silent Cost of High Achievement: "Physician, heal thyself"
Detonate, Provoke & Hone: Strategies for Moving Past What You've Always Done That Way
Lessons from Healthcare Leadership: Vision Matters
Kindness as a Leadership Strategy
The Black Woman's Rest Revolution: Restoration and Self-Care Are Priority
The Connection Between Strategic Thinking and Organizational Growth
Raising Culturally Competent Kids
The Advantages to an Unfocused Mind: A New Strategy for Productivity & Creativity
The Role of Children's Literature in Identity Formation
The Mentally Strong Leader: Building Habits That Work
Asian-American is Not A Color
Understanding Generation Z in the Workplace
F Your Office Snacks: Advice from NOT the HR Lady
Special Segment w Dr. Uma Naidoo: Food Satisfaction and Mental Wellbeing
AI in Schools: Okay or Not?
The Future of DEI: Expert Advice for Leaders
Why Simple Wins: Cutting Through Complexity to Drive Innovation
The Curse of Knowledge: How Information Impacts Your Decisions and Leadership
Masterpiece: Developing the Whole Self
Leadership Planning, Reflection & Self Assessment
Leadership Planning, Reflection and Self-Assement: The Life Brief
Trust and Influence: Putting it Together for Leadership Success
Thinking, Working and Making Decisions After Midnight: The Research
Exploring the Fallacies of Racism: Even If Some of Your Best Friends Are Black
Are School Boards Broken? A Discussion on Politics, School Boards & Education
Women in Leadership: Addressing Retention and Growth Opportunities
Why Reducing Teacher Qualifications is A Bad Idea
Logical Thinking + Empathy = Wisdom: The Evidence
Seeking Mastery? Stop Worrying About What People Think About You!
How and Why Influence Matters in Leadership: You Have More than You Think
Understanding Racial and Multi-Racial Experiences
Philosophy and Leadership
Our Fight Over Morality and Politics
How Games Have Shaped Our World
Special Segment: Energy Foods - Not Energy Drinks (w Dr. Uma Nadoo)
Nurturing Children To Achieve Their Dreams
Religion in Schools: The Debate Resumes
A Leader's Role in Reducing Workplace Burnout
Pulling All-Nighters Might Not Be A Good Idea: The Science on Working Late
On the Development of Pre-School Girls: What the Latest Psychology Research Says
What Leaders Can Do to Create an Inclusive LGBTQ+ Workplace
From Adversity to Superpower: A Professor's Transformative Narrative
Strategy: A Leadership Skill
Communicating Change: How Leaders Can Talk About Organizational Movement
Raising Good Humans: Advice for Parents and Everybody Else
Leaders Get Angry Too: Strategies for Dealing with Anger & Frustration
Leadership and Applied Critical Thinking
Shutting Off The Pre-school to Prison Pipeline Once and For All
How Bad Became The New Good...And Other Contemplations About Now
Establishing Your Brand: What Leaders Need To Know
The Art & Science to 1:1 Meetings
Democracy and Education: Looking at Dewey's Ideas with A New Lens
Teaching Children to Be Responsible Consumers of Information: The Essentials
Understanding Conflict and Communication
Women in Leadership: Challenges & Opportunities
Just How Important Is Happiness? Reframing How We Think About Work & Happiness
Stop Talking Start Influencing: Messaging and Brain Science
It's Important to Teach the Truth (Even When Its Challenging)
Inspiration for Writing: In the Presence of the Ancestors
AI in Schools: Why We Can't Afford to Fear It
The Secret to Happiness At Work
Etiquette: What Leaders Need to Know
Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace (And What Happens For Suggesting It)
The Battle For Equity in Schools: Leadership Practices That Work
Political Expression & Participation: How Today's Youth Are Involved
The Thing About Food - with Dr. Uma Naidoo (Episode 1)
How Minds Change: An Exploration of Opinion and Persuasion
The Disruptive Truth
Toxic Achievement Culture in Schools: What We Can Do
The Truth About College Admissions
Confidence: A Leadership Necessity
What Happens When We Exclude & Include People
Nobody's Fool - What Leaders Can Do To Avoid Being Taken In
Leadership Coaching: Sometimes It Doesn't Work
Presence: How to Command the Respect You Need to Lead
Understanding the Rise and Impact of Mass Incarceration
Responding to Questions You Can't Answer
Using Neuropsychology In Your Leadership Practice
Leaders Need to Maximize Their Time, Energy & Attention
Intelligence Isn't Enough: Black Professionals in the Workplace
How to Master Change
Getting Unstuck in Decision-Making
1% Leadership: Small Improvements That Set Great Leaders Apart
Aligning How You Lead With Who You Are
The Psychology of Success
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When The Stakes Are High
The Emotional Leader
Beating Busywork: Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff
Quitting: A Life Strategy
The Connection Between Race, Maternal Health, Healthcare and Life Outcomes
ChatGPT: Friend or Foe?
How to Lead School Turn-Around: Strategies from the Field
Magic Words: What to Say, When and How
Not Everyone Is A Coach: Training Matters
Never Go With Your Gut: Decision-Making That Works
The Truth About Teachers
Using Intrinsic Motivation: Learning to Look Within
How to Raise Kids That Aren't A-holes
The Adultification of Black Children
Lest We Forget: The Ban of African American History in Our Schools
The Age-Proof Brain: What You Can Do To Improve Your Memory & Brain Function
Why Black Boys' Sneakers Should Matter to Educators
You're a Leader Now What?
Toxic Workplaces: How Leaders Can End & Prevent Them
Understanding Super-Helper Syndrome
Attention Span: Focusing on Balance, Happiness & Productivity
Leadership: Two Words At A Time
Training Your Brain and Understanding Emotional Anchors
The Importance of Setting Boundaries in Leadership
This Is Your Brain on Food: Nutrition and Mental Health
The Illusion of School: Why Children Fail and What We Can Do
I’m Not Yelling: Perspective on a Black Woman’s Workplace Communication
Integrating Storytelling Into Your Leadership Skill Portfolio
Reset or Perish: Adaptive Leadership For Uncertain Times
Why the Modern Male is Struggling
No BS (Bad Stats) Allowed
Creating Extraordinary Work Environments: Advice for Leaders
How Discomfort Can Help You As A Leader
The Uncomfortable Truth: Understanding Institutional Racism
The Keys To Successful 1:1 Meetings
On Religion: Sikhism
Teaching About Racism in Schools: Success Facilitating Student Discourse
Using Language to Get What You Want: How Persuasion Works
Making the World What We Teach
Beyond Special Education: One Man's Journey to Success
Why Representation Matters: On screen & In Life
Why It's So Hard to Talk About Race in Schools - Especially Now
Conscious Accountability: Leading for the Results You Want
Twelve Steps to Effective Leadership
Monkey Pox, COVID and Flu: Addressing Challenges of School-Based Nursing Today
How to Detect Deception: Using Body Language and Verbal Cues in Your Leadership
Five Negative Mindsets That Can Wreck Your Judgement
The Impact of Digital Media on Children's Intelligence
Open Forum on Educational Leadership - Ten Years of Perkins Platform!
What's Changed in School Leadership
Why Leaders Lie
Black Men Don't Cry
When Grades and Test Scores Don't Match Parents Are Confused
On Religion: Buddhism (RESCHEDULED BROADCAST)
Seven Components to Decision- Making
How to Deal with Narcissistic Behaviors: Expert Advice for Work and Life
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children: Advice for Educators and Parents
The Art of Insubordination
Turn It Off: How Powering Off Your Smart Device Can Help You
Forgiveness: For Us or Them?
Authenticity & The Workplace: How Should You Show Up?
The Lighthouse Effect: Extraordinary Impact from Ordinary People
Raising a Thinking Child: How to Support Critical Thinking & Questioning
SPECIAL BROADCAST: What I Told My Students About The Buffalo Shooting
Understanding the Science of Motivation: How to Get Things Done
Wellbotics: Learning Technology With a Purpose
Tackling Human Trafficking: What School Leaders Need to Know
Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover: Bias In and Out of The Courtroom
Building Realistic Optimism in your Organization
Am I Supposed to Be Here? Confronting and Understanding Imposter Syndrome
Monotasking: Doing One Thing At A Time...Better
How Media Impacts Our Thinking & Actions
What You Should Know About Schools Right Now: Leaders Talk About The Pandemic
Overthinking: Getting Over Hurdles in Your Mind
Freire: What Relevance Is His Philosophy Today?
SPECIAL HOUR: Don't Talk About Race in Schools! What Teachers Are Saying
SPECIAL AUDIO & VIDEO SIMULCAST: The Leaders Needed for a Post-COVID World
Addressing the Adultification of Black Girls in Schools and Society
Open-mindedness: Perspectives from a Rabbi
I Built A School to Close A Prison: One Woman's Extraordinary Mission and Vision
How to Disrupt A System That Was Designed to Hold You Back
Put the Mask on Yourself First: Tips for Leaders on Managing Stress
Water: A Biography - Our Relationship to A Fundamental Life Source
Primetime Broadcast: A Reckoning with The Myth of the Lost Cause
On Leadership: Guilt-Free Strategies for Making Time for Yourself
On Leadership: Navigating an Uncertain Future
The American Dream: A School Providing A Foundation For Immigrant Families
The Truth About Inequality: An Examination of the Gender and Racial Wage Gap
Empathy: A Leader's Essential Tool
The Truth About Our Democracy: Rethinking What We Teach in Our Schools.
Using STEM to Expose, Inspire & Engage Students from Low-Income Backgrounds
Our World Goes Beyond Our Five Senses
White Supremacy, With A Tan
Artificial Intelligence: Do Computers Really Understand the World?
Bringing Historically Marginalized Parents Into the Fold
The Indigenous Voice: Education, Voting and Community Organizing for the Navajo
Good Trouble Principals: De-Centering Whiteness & Serving Students of Color
Back to School Broadcast: Informing Our Schools With Black Psychology
Update Haiti: What's Happening in the Wake of Political & Social Disruption
The Gap Between Teacher Expectations and Black Students' Potential
Voices in Our Head: Understanding the Conscious
The Impact of Sleep on Decision-Making and Leadership
Advice for Teachers: How to Disrupt Outdated Behavior Management Models
Science Ed in Public Schools: Evolution, Climate Change & Other Hot Topics
Critical Race Theory: What It IS and What It Is NOT
The 1619 Project: Fact, Fiction or History?
American History Perspective: What Our Public Schools Need
The 1776 Commission Report: What We Need to Know
Humor is a Skill
The Education System We Need: Thinking of the Future for Today's Children
Making Social Justice Relevant in School
Domination Culture, White Supremacy and What We Need to Do to Fix Things
100th Broadcast: Changing the Southern Landscape - Literally & Figuratively
Environmental Injustice: The Flint Water Crisis
Truancy Intervention: Approaches to Increased Attendance and School Success
The Reason Why I Serve: A Story of Dedication to an Urban School Community
The Invisibility of Asian Americans: Reality and Myth for the "Model Minority"
Black Mothers, Black Daughters & American Society
The Talk: Why The Conversation Black Men Have With Their Boys is Necessary
Time Capsule Circa 1960: Anything Changed?
Book Club: The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
African American Teen Crisis: Suicide During the Pandemic
Keeping Millennial Teachers: What Motivates Them To Stay At Your School
Teen Suicide During COVID-19: The Second Crisis In Our Schools
Consciousness - The Final Frontier: What Leaders Need to Know
Lessons from the Playground: I Was Almost A School Shooter
Gender Matters: Understanding The Pervasive Role of Gender in Our Daily Lives
Grasping The Power of Neuroplasticity: Using Neuroscience In Our Daily Lives
Applying Game Theory to Vaccination Planning
The Virus, The Vaccine & The Pandemic Explained for Non-Scientists
How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias
The Case for Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Pandemic Impact: Reporting from Households with Small Children
Remote Schooling Under COVID: The Challenges School Leaders Face
COVID and Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Cumulative Effect of Trauma
Deliberately and Intentionally Anti-Racist: Integrating Anti-Racism Education
Recruiting and Retaining Quality Teachers: Community Partner Leadership
Black Boys to Black Men: The Education Response in Baltimore
Endangered: Black Men in America
Advice for Parents on Providing Constructive Criticism
Learning Loss: Expectations for the Future & What Educators Can Do to Mitigate
How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Children's Learning? Unequally.
State Education Leadership Perspectives on Next Steps for Our Schools
Straight Talk About the Mental Health of Children & Adolescents During COVID-19
How Our Children Are Experiencing The COVID-19 Pandemic: Let's Hear From Them
What Students Will Need Post COVID-19: The Work Ahead for School Counselors
The Plight of Parents During COVID-19 Pandemic: How Parents Are Managing
Ensuring Education During COVID-19: What's Required of School & District Leaders
The Education of Special Needs Populations During The COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Impact on Global Education: What's Happening Around the World
Making the Most of Our Time: How We Can Keep Young People Learning during COVID
Coping with Covid-19: How Educators Feel in this Period of Social Isolation
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
Fighting Institutional Racism
Why We Need Trauma Informed Schools and Educators
Today's Parent Teacher Relationship: Getting Adult Caretakers Involved
Leading Crisis Response Teams in Urban Schools
The Controversy of "White Racism"
Engaging Introverted Students in the Classroom
Empowering Learning Through Connectedness
Tell Me So I Can Hear You: Giving Feedback to Educators
Finding A Balance In Our Digital Lives: How To Increase Productivity
The Mechanics of Meditation: Integration in Your Leadership Practice
Intelligence: Redefined - Reframing Giftedness & the Implications for Gifted Ed
Does Teaching Critical Thinking Really Help Students ?
The School Leaders Our Children Deserve
What Happens After preK: The effects of elementary school on early experiences
Connecting the Dots: Learning, Technology & Creativity
Why Civics Education Is More Important Than Ever Before: Election 2016
What Time the Bell Rings: New Start Times for American Schools
The Year in Review: What We Learned on Perkins Platform
Does Race Matter in the Schoolhouse? Teacher-Principal Race Congruence Effects
The Benefits of Culturally and Racially Diverse Classrooms
Trust & The Moral Molecule: The chemistry behind trusting relationships
Black Experiences in Public Education in the "Black Lives Matter" Era
Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience
The Psychology of Decision Making
Coaching Teachers and Leaders for Equity & Excellence
The Truth About Public Education in America
Expectations, Race & Class: The Importance of Teacher-Student Demographic Match
Double Feature Broadcast - The Racial Truth About Our Schools
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting in the Principal's Office?
Discipline in the Classroom - What We Can Learn from the SC School Incident
Teacher Evaluation Controversy: The Value Added Model
The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness
Equity in Education: What does it Mean?
Our Urban High Schools Are Failing Us: What Now?
The Importance of the School Experience: Context, Context, Context
OPEN FORUM: Implementing Programs for School Improvement
Putting Policy to Work in Education
SPECIAL BROADCAST - Ten Lessons from NYC Schools (Book Discussion)
No Child, No School, No Community Left Behind: The School Development Program
Success for All - Believing All Children Can Learn
Global Standards in Education: The International Baccalaureate Programme
Mental Health Challenges in Public Schools
Pay it Forward: The Benefits of Quality Preschool Experience
The Common Core Focus on Mathematics
The Schools We Need for Today's Student
The Price We Pay: Consequences of Inadequate Education
The Perkins Perspective: This Year in Education
New School Designs: Leadership for New Learning Experiences
When Rhetoric Trumps Reality: Test-based Teacher Evaluations
The Second Battle of New Orleans: Education at the Center
Urban School Board Assault: Accountability & Sustainability
School Turn-Around Efforts in Los Angeles:Policy & Practice
Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools
A Moratorium on Testing: Courageous Executive Leadership
The Politics of Urban Education
Memphis on Race, Schools, Politics, Poverty & Taxes
Parents and Public Education: How the Partnership Works
School Boards and The Fight for Public Education
The New Superintendency: Challenges and Opportunities