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Principal Center Radio brings you the best in professional practice for school leaders, in an audio format that you can access in the car, on the treadmill, or anywhere you’d like to listen.

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Aly Murray—UPchieve: Free Online Tutoring & College Counseling Oct 11, 2025

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Read Aly’s post on AI vs human tutors

Visit Upchieve's School Partnership page

Math scores study

About The Guest Aly Murray is the Founder and Executive Director of UPchieve. She’s also a proud Latina, math nerd, and community college grad. After earning an associate’s degree, Aly transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Mathematics. Following Penn, Aly worked on the trading floor at J.P. Morgan for two years before leaving to commit to UPchieve full-time. Her personal experience as a low-income student drives her to fight for educational equity and work towards a world in which all students have an equal opportunity to achieve upward mobility. To date, UPchieve has provided free tutoring to more than 60,000 students nationwide and matched nearly 200,000 tutoring requests— and for her work on UPchieve, Aly has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Education (2021) and honored as a Roddenberry Fellow (2021).

Barbara Blackburn—Rigor & Assessment in the Classroom: Strategies & Tools, 2nd Edition Oct 04, 2025

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Get the book, Rigor & Assessment in the Classroom: Strategies & Tools, 2nd Edition

Visit Barbara's website www.BarbaraBlackburnOnline.com

About The Author Barbara Blackburn, PhD is the author of more than 38 books and a full-time consultant who works with schools around the world to help raise the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. Dr. Blackburn has been repeatedly named to the Top 30 Education Gurus and Top 10 Professional Development Programs by Global Gurus.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.

Discover the power of data-driven instruction in your school with IXL—it gives you everything you need to maximize learning, from a comprehensive curriculum to meaningful school-wide data.
Visit IXL.com/center to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

Decoteau Irby & Ann Ishimaru—Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change Sep 27, 2025

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Get the book, Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
Visit Decoteau's website, www.DecoteauIrby.com

About The Author Decoteau J. Irby’s life work focuses on creating and sustaining organizations that contribute to Black people’s self-determined well-being, development, and positive life outcomes. He is Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is the author of Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership.
Dr. Ann M. Ishimaru is an award-winning scholar, writer, educator and the Killinger Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy at the University of Washington College of Education. Through her work, she cultivates the leadership and solidarities of educators, organizational leaders and racially minoritized youth, families and communities to realize more transformative futures. In addition to many peer-reviewed articles in top-tier educational research journals, she is also the author of Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities. They are the editors of the new volume Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change.

Doug Lemov—The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading Sep 19, 2025

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Get the book, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading

Visit the Teach Like a Champion website, teachlikeachampion.org/blog/

About The Author Doug Lemov is the bestselling author of Teach Like a Champion 3.0 and is Co-Managing Director of Teach Like a Champion, designing and implementing teacher training based on the study of high-performing teachers and exceptional classrooms. He has taught English and history at the university, high school, and middle school levels.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.

James Lane—Leading with Laser Focus: The Seven Steps to School Success Sep 12, 2025

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Follow Dr. Lane on Instagram @drjameslane

Visit the ETS website, www.ets.org

About The Author Dr. James Lane is Managing Director of K-16 at ETS, and has served as the CEO of PDK International and held senior leadership roles in the U.S. Department of Education. He served as Virginia’s 25th Superintendent of Public Instruction after a career as a band director and then superintendent in three districts. Dr. Lane holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, as well as a doctorate from the University of Virginia.

Adam Tyner—"Equitable" Grading Through the Eyes of Teachers Aug 30, 2025

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About The Author

Adam Tyner is national research director at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Dr. Tyner served as senior quantitative analyst at Hanover Research, and has taught English as a second language in China and California and taught courses at the University of California, San Diego. His research and commentary have appeared and been cited in national and international media such as The Economist, Forbes, BBC, NBC, The New York Times, Education Week, Education Next, and The Diplomat. His scholarly work has appeared in outlets such as Economics of Education Review and the Journal of East Asian Studies, and he is an executive editor of the Oklahoma Education Journal. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on the integration of rural-to-urban migrant workers in China’s cities.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.

Christina Hidek—The Principal's Parent Group Playbook Aug 23, 2025

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Visit Christina's website, www.PTOAnswers.com

Free resource: PTO Family Engagement Opportunity Assessment

Free resource: 5 No Brainer Ways to Improve the Teacher/Parent Relationship

Learn more about The Principal’s Parent Group Playbook

About The Author Christina Hidek is a former attorney and Professional Organizer with a keen sense for developing systems to simplify and ease management of the most complex situations. With over 15 years of PTA volunteer and leadership experience, Christina knows what it takes to run wildly successful PTA/PTOs. She runs an international 8,000 member Facebook group for school parent group volunteers and leaders, and it's her mission to make life easier for all volunteers, parent leaders, Principals and school leaders.

Sharon Kramer & Sarah Schuhl—Acceleration for All: A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps Aug 16, 2025

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Get the book, Acceleration for All: A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps

About The Authors Sharon Kramer, PhD, knows firsthand the demands and rewards of working in a professional learning community (PLC). As a leader in the field, she has done priority schools work with districts across the United States, emphasizing the importance of creating and using quality assessments and utilizing the PLC continuous-improvement process to raise student achievement. Sharon served as assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction of Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 in Illinois. In this position, she ensured all students were prepared to enter Adlai E. Stevenson High School, a Model PLC started and formerly led by PLC architect Richard DuFour. Sharon holds a PhD in educational leadership and policy studies from Loyola University Chicago. To learn more about Sharon’s work, follow @DrKramer1 on Twitter. Sarah Schuhl (Shool), MS, is an educational coach and consultant specializing in mathematics, professional learning communities (PLCs), common formative and summative assessments, priority school improvement, and response to intervention (RTI). She has worked in schools as a secondary mathematics teacher, high school instructional coach, and K–12 mathematics specialist. Schuhl was instrumental in the creation of a PLC in the Centennial School District in Oregon, helping teachers make large gains in student achievement. She earned the Centennial School District Triple C Award in 2012. She holds a bachelor of science in mathematics from Eastern Oregon University and a master of science in mathematics education from Portland State University.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.

Justin Baeder—Announcing The Eduleadership Show Aug 12, 2025

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Learn more about The Eduleadership Show at www.Eduleadership.org

About Justin Baeder PhD Justin Baeder, PhD. is author of Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership (Solution Tree), co-author of Mapping Professional Practice (Solution Tree),and creator of the Instructional Leadership Challenge, which has helped more than 10,000 leaders in 50 countries make a daily habit of classroom visits. He holds a PhD in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies from the University of Washington, and helps senior leaders in K-12 organizations build capacity for instructional leadership.

Tom Sherrington—Rosenshine's Principles in Action Aug 02, 2025

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Get the book, Rosenshine's Principles in Action

Visit Tom's website WalkThrus.co.uk

About The Author Tom Sherrington has more than 30 years of experience as a math and science teacher and headteacher in the UK and around the world. He co-hosts the podcast Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe with Emma Turner, and consults with schools around the UK and internationally, and he is the co-founder of Teaching Walkthrus. He is the author of several books, including Rosenshine's Principles in Action.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.

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