We talk with Dr. Matthew Montgomery, Superintendent at Revere Local Schools, in Richfield, Ohio. They are fully opened up, unlike his counterpart up in northeast Ohio, Dr. Lloyd, who went fully remote. Here is a link to that episode. He gives u

Dr. Jim Lloyd, Superintendent at Olmsted Falls City Schools

Sep 18th, 2020 20m 41s

Joining me in this episode is Dr. Jim Lloyd, Superintendent of the Olmsted Falls City Schools. What we cover is how their school district is handling the COVID-19 crisis that is affecting public education. He has a fairly unique story about goi

Chris McCully, Superintendent at EHOVE Career Center

Sep 18th, 2020 19m 16s

Chris McCully, Superintendent at EHOVE Career Center (Milan, OH), is our guest. EHOVE Career Center is a leading career tech school in Milan Township that offers advanced training for high school and adult education students in Erie, Huron and

Prepping for a School Year When You Don't Know What It Will Look Like

May 26th, 2020 14m 7s

The truth is, administrators start planning for the next school year in January and February. Here we are at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, a year stifled by COVID-19. And we are still in the dark on what the next school year can and w

Agile Leadership In Uncertain Times

May 18th, 2020 10m 49s

In uncertain times, how important is agile leadership? Our guest is Diane Egbers. She's pretty much our resident leadership guru here on the podcast. And she heads up a company called Leadership Excelleration. Why is agile leadership so importa

The Looming Fiscal Crisis for Schools: Four Ways to Talk with Your Community About Finances

May 11th, 2020 10m 42s

In our first of two episodes on the emerging fiscal crisis facing schools, we talked about the 2008 fiscal crisis, the Great Recession, as it was called, and what schools experienced. It is instructive as we look forward to this current crisis

The Looming Fiscal Crisis for Schools: Four Takeaways from 2008 Great Recession

May 11th, 2020 14m 1s

This episode is the first of a two part series focusing on the looming fiscal crisis that public schools will be facing. This is something that's fast coming down the track, we want you to be prepared. We reflect back on 2008 within the podcast

COVID-19 Crisis: What’s Ahead With Communication

Apr 20th, 2020 12m 46s

We are so glad to be back again. We feel like I've been on a little bit of a hiatus. And we're sure you have been as well while dealing with the COVID virus. With episode I'm back with my co-host Joel Gagne. We sometimes podcast together on dif

COVID-19 Crisis: Where We Are Right Now With Communication

Apr 20th, 2020 13m 59s

Leadership Development with Diane Egbers

Jan 22nd, 2020 8m 7s

Are you ready to break through barriers to higher levels of achievement for you and the leaders around you? In this episode we talk about leadership development. What is leadership development? Well, we all have our own ideas, but when done rig

How Career Centers Can Form Partnerships With The Business Community

Dec 2nd, 2019 22m 44s

We welcome Superintendent Rick Smith of the Ohio Hi-Point Career Center, which is in Bellefontaine, Ohio, northwest of Columbus, Ohio. We talk about the importance of working with the business industry to form effective partnerships. This is de

Developing Work Ethic in Today's Students

Nov 18th, 2019 20m 27s

In this episode we interview Superintendent Dennis Blatt of the Washington County Career Center, located in Marietta, Ohio. What we talk about is something of an unusual subject, but we think a necessary one. That is work ethic, and the value

What Do Parents Need To Know About Career Technical Education?

Nov 4th, 2019 26m 57s

In this episode, we interview Greg Edinger, Superintendent of the Vanguard Sentinel Career and Technology Center, based in Fremont, Ohio, which is in Northwest Ohio. Today's topic is "What do parents need to know about career technical educatio

Part 3 - Being an Agile Leader with Diane Egbers

Oct 15th, 2019 8m 21s

Today's an exciting episode as it marks the last installment of the Agile leadership series with Diane Egbers with Leadership Excelleration: Organizational Leadership Consulting. In the two previous podcasts, we talked about the important compo

Authentic Leadership - Meet Your Community Where They Are

Oct 2nd, 2019 19m 54s

It is great to have Tom Bailey, Superintendent of the Washington Court House (OH) Schools, on the podcast today. He's a repeat guest and he brings so much energy, creativity and care to what he does in his school district and community. He talk

Part 2 - Being an Agile Leader with Diane Egbers

Sep 11th, 2019 8m 38s

A few weeks ago we started a new leadership series with Diane Egbers of Leadership Excelleration. Specifically, this podcast series is about agile leadership. In Part 1 - Agile Leadership with Diane Egbers, we talked about some of the core elem

Getting To Know A Community As A Superintendent

Sep 3rd, 2019 19m 44s

Kirk Koennecke is the current and new superintendent at the Indian Hills Schools in the Cincinnati (OH) area. He's not new to the superintendent position. He's been a superintendent before, but he just now stepped into this role at Indian Hills

Part 1 - Being An Agile Leader with Diane Egbers

Aug 28th, 2019 10m 34s

In this first episode of our series of three we are calling Being An Agile Leader in Today's Educational Market, we cover Adventure. Diane Egbers, from Leadership Excelleration (LEI) and co-author of The Ascending Leader, joins Carole Dorn-Bell

Offering Fresh Locally Grown Foods Students Will Eat

Jul 2nd, 2019 29m 21s

Summer is a great time to talk about food fresh, locally grown food. Some incredible things are underway at the Van Buren Schools, where the Black Knights have done just that. In this episode I talk with Jay Clark, the middle school principal,

Big Blue Bus

Jun 5th, 2019 25m 19s

I talk with Tom Bailey, Superintendent of the Washington Court House (OH) Schools, about a big and blue solution that his school district came up with as a way to meet three needs for students over the summer. The need to feed every child, to p

The New Ohio Department of Education Strategic Plan

May 29th, 2019 7m 56s

Diane Egbers from Leadership Excelleration (LEI) and co-author of The Ascending Leader joins Carole Dorn-Bell on the podcast once again. The Ohio Department of Education introduced a new five-year education plan that aims to put less emphasis o

The Triple A's To Nurture Educators - Alignment

Apr 8th, 2019 10m 58s

In this third episode of our series of three we are calling The Triple A's To Nurture Educators -Advocacy, Authenticity and Alignment, we cover Alignment. Diane Egbers from Leadership Excelleration (LEI) and co-author of The Ascending Leader jo

Organic Time

Mar 26th, 2019 19m 33s

Organic time. What is that? So often we're conditioned that time is linear. That learning is linear. But it's not necessarily. And in today's podcast we talk with K-12 music teacher Bill Manchester. We came to know Bill from a TED Talk that he

The Triple A's To Nurture Educators - Authenticity

Mar 7th, 2019 14m 21s

In this second episode of our series of three we are calling The Triple A's To Nurture Educators -Advocacy, Authenticity and Alignment, we cover Authenticity. Diane Egbers from Leadership Excelleration (LEI) and co-author of The Ascending Leade

Top 'Must Do’s' From A Recent School Construction Project

Feb 20th, 2019 24m 22s

Want to know all about how to do a school construction project? Not just to do one, but do it well? That is what we're covering in this podcast. We talk with Matt Montgomery from the Revere Local Schools in Ohio. He's the superintendent there a