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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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Anthony Muhammad—Culture Champions: Teachers Supporting a Healthy Classroom Culture Mar 10, 2025

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Get the book, Culture Champions: Teachers Supporting a Healthy Classroom Culture

Visit Anthony's website, www.newfrontier21.com

Follow Anthony on Facebook

Connect with Anthony on LinkedIn

About The Author

Anthony Muhammad, PhD, is an internationally known educational consultant, a former middle and high school principal, and the author or editor of 12 books, including Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division, Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap, and Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders, and he's the editor of the new book Culture Champions: Teachers Supporting a Healthy Classroom Culture.

Mike Anderson—Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, or Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems Mar 03, 2025

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Get the book, Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, or Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems

Visit Mike's website LeadingGreatLearning.com

About The Author Mike Anderson is a full time education consultant who works with diverse schools across the United States and beyond. He was a classroom teacher for 15 years and then a Responsive Classroom consultant and developer for 6 years. He is also the author of many books about great teaching and learning.

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.

Sarah Frank—OpenLiteracy Feb 24, 2025

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Visit the OpenLiteracy Website, www.OpenLiteracy.com

About The Author

Dr. Sarah Frank is the founder of OpenLiteracy, bringing with her two decades of working in schools and universities. Sarah has worked as a teacher, teacher educator, and professor in elementary schools and universities across the United States including the University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, Duke University, and Wayne State University. She has a Master's in Language and Literacy from Harvard, and a PhD in Literacy, Language, and Culture from the University of Michigan.

Erik Palmer—Before You Say a Word: A School Leader's Guide to Clear and Compelling Communication Feb 17, 2025

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Get the book, Before You Say a Word: A School Leader's Guide to Clear and Compelling Communication

Visit Erik's website, www.ErikPalmer.net

Visit the PVLEGS website, www.PVLEGS.com

About The Author Erik Palmer is a professional speaker and educational consultant from Denver, Colorado, whose passion for speaking has been part of every one of his multiple careers. After several years in the business world, he became a teacher, spending 21 years in the classroom, primarily as an English teacher but also as a teacher of math, science, and civics. The author of several books, Palmer presents frequently at conferences and has given keynotes and led in-service training in school districts across the United States and around the world. He focuses on giving teachers practical, engaging ways to teach oral communication skills and showing education leaders how to be more effective communicators.

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

Michael Petrilli—National Assessment of Educational Progress Feb 10, 2025

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Visit the Fordham Institute Website, www.FordhamInstitute.org

Visit the NAEP Website, www.NCES.ED.Gov/NationsReportCard

About The Author

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Executive Editor of Education Next, and research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. An award-winning writer, he is the author of The Diverse Schools Dilemma, editor of the book Education for Upward Mobility, and co-editor of How to Educate an American and Follow the Science to School. An expert on charter schools, school accountability, evidence-based practices, and trends in test scores and other student outcomes, Petrilli has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, and his Education Gadfly column and podcast at Fordham, and appears frequently on television and radio. Petrilli helped to create the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement and the Policy Innovators in Education Network, and serves on the board of the Association of American Educators Foundation. He lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland.

Robert Barnett—Meet Every Learner’s Needs: Redesigning Instruction So All Students Can Succeed Feb 03, 2025

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Get the book, Meet Every Learner’s Needs: Redesigning Instruction So All Students Can Succeed

Visit the Meet Every Learner's Needs website, www.MeetE eryLearnersNeeds.org

Visit Robert's website, www.ModernClassrooms.org

About The Author Robert Barnett is the co-founder of the Modern Classrooms Project. He has taught math, English, and social studies at the secondary and post-secondary levels in the United States and abroad. He hopes his own children will learn in Modern Classrooms someday. He's the author of Meet Every Learner’s Needs: Redesigning Instruction So All Students Can Succeed

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

Mike Anderson—Rekindle Your Professional Fire: Powerful Habits for Becoming a More Well-Balanced Teacher Jan 27, 2025

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Get the book, Rekindle Your Professional Fire: Powerful Habits for Becoming a More Well-Balanced Teacher

Listen to Mike's Principal Center Radio interview on his book, Learning to Choose, Choosing to Learn: The Key to Student Motivation and Achievement

Visit Mike's website LeadingGreatLearning.com

About The Author

Mike Anderson of Leading Great Learning is a full time education consultant who has worked with diverse schools across the United States and beyond for more than a decade. He was a classroom teacher for 15 years and then a Responsive Classroom consultant and developer for 6 years. He is a Milken National Educator Award winner, and was a finalist for New Hampshire Teacher of the Year. He is the author of 10 books, including three that were selected as ASCD member books.

Jill Handley & Lara Donnelly—What Can I Take Off Your Plate? A Structural—and Sustainable—Approach to Countering Teacher Burnout Jan 20, 2025

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Get the book, What Can I Take Off Your Plate? A Structural—and Sustainable—Approach to Countering Teacher Burnout

Visit Lara's Website www.LaraCDonnelly.com

Visit Jill's Website www.BeTheLeaderYouDeserve.com

About The Author Lara Donnelly, EdD, is a veteran teacher and school counselor in Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky). She is an education consultant, speaker, and author supporting schools and administrators with burnout, family engagement, and multilingual learners with trauma and mental health concerns. Donnelly has been featured in podcasts, news articles, and televised interviews for her expertise in supporting mental health. Jill Handley, EdD, is the assistant superintendent of multilingual learners in Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky). Prior to this role, she was the award-winning principal of Kenwood Elementary. During her 16-year tenure as principal, she led her school to be recognized for several achievements, including National School of Character, National Distinguished ESEA School, and the first Family Friendly Certified school in the state of Kentucky.

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

Baruti Kafele—What Is My Value Instructionally to the Teachers I Supervise? Jan 13, 2025

Show notes

Get the book, What Is My Value Instructionally to the Teachers I Supervise?

Go to the AP and New Principal's Academy YouTube Channel

About The Author

Baruti Kafele is one of the most sought-after school leadership experts in North America. A highly regarded urban educator in New Jersey for more than 20 years, he was named East Orange School District and Essex County Public Schools Teacher of the Year, and he was a finalist for New Jersey State Teacher of the Year. As a middle and high school principal, he led the transformation of four different New Jersey urban schools. He is the author of 14 books, including The Assistant Principal 50, Is My School A Better School Because I Lead It, and What is My Value Instructionally to the Teachers I Supervise Today.

Peter Marshall—Today's Teachers, Tomorrow's Leaders: A Guide to Identifying and Developing Future Administrators Jan 06, 2025

Show notes

Get the book, Today's Teachers, Tomorrow's Leaders: A Guide to Identifying and Developing Future Administrators

Visit Peter's website, www.PeterMarshallConsulting.com

About The Author

Peter Marshall has more than thirty-five years of experience as an educator. He has served as a teacher, school administrator, and system leader in Ontario, working in leadership and staff development as well as opening a new school. He currently serves as a Solution Tree Assessment Center Associate.

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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