All Episodes

50. Community engagement, trust-building, and tax tolerance (WASBO presentation)

49. Watering Parent Confidence Daily

48. Forward Together (w/ WASDA's Damian LaCroix)

47. Which Improvement Approaches Really Work and Why?

46. What Surveys Can Tell You That Nothing Else Can

45. There's a Lot of Hope in this Survey Data: Student Engagement through the Pandemic

44. You Can't Walk Up to a Stranger and Ask Them for Money

43. If You Want to Predict Teacher Retention, Ask... Parents?

42. Why Are Staff So Unhappy with Discipline?

41. Five Trends We're Seeing in Our Surveys

40. The Fish Fry Rule, or Why We Survey Like We Do

39. What Works to Address Absenteeism?

38. What Should New Board Members Know about School Finance?

37. Why Involve Your Community At All?

36. Why Integrity > Fidelity in Research Implementation

35. How Does Career Education Work Out for Students?

34. Tying Staff Engagement to Continuous Improvement

33. April 2026 Referendum Recap

32. How Does District Consolidation and Dissolution Work in Wisconsin?

31. A Process to Trust: Guided Strategic Planning

30. From Surveys to Strategy

29. What's Up and What's Down in Our Surveys So Far?

28. You've Got Your Data: Now What?

27. Needs Aren't Going Away: Getting Facilities Right

26. WASB Round-Up

25. WASB Preview '26

24. Clarity, Communication, Consistency: Implementing Cell Phone Policies Well

23. Why Ban Phones? A Data Deep Dive.

22. From Chaos to Consistency in Hastings Middle School

21. Getting Pay Scales Right after Act 10

20. Responsive Leadership and Response Rates

19. Data Detective Work

18. Discipline Is a Lesson

17. Build Trust Before You Need It: How School Boards Can Help New Superintendents Set the Tone

16. Don’t Do Math in Public: How to Talk School Finance with Your Communities

15. Decoding the 2025-2027 Wisconsin Budget, with Anne Chapman

14. You Can't Improve Discipline in Isolation

13. How Community Engagement Built a Welding Academy, a Health Program, and Trust

12. On the Uses of Summer (for Planning), with Aaron Tarnutzer

11. Deep Diving into Our Data, with Rob DeMeuse

10. We're in the Buffet Business: Strategic Planning amid Multiple Goals and Stakeholders

9. From Binders to Bylaws: The Evolution of Strategic Planning, with Ted Neitzke

8. It's All Relationships: How to Build Career Academies, with Eric Burke and Lexi Allen

7. School Stores and Life Skills, with Kim Smessaert and Phil Ourada

6. Strategic Planning Is a Win-Win, with Gail Gilman and Chris Thompson

5. Retention is the New Recruitment, with Tonya Olson

4. April Referendum Recap

3. Opening Doors for Students, with Bill Foster

2. What's Going On With Superintendent Turnover? with Rachel White and Rob DeMeuse

1. Superintendent Transitions, with Dennis Pauli and Anna Young

0. Introducing the show