The Assistant Principal Workshop is a mentor-style leadership podcast for current assistant principals and aspiring school leaders navigating the messy middle of school leadership. Hosted by a middle school AP and former music teacher, this show blends real stories from the trenches with practical, actionable strategies you can use immediately. In 20–25 minute episodes, you’ll gain tools for instructional leadership, discipline with dignity, credibility building, and leading well without burning out.
The Assistant Principal Workshop
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The Assistant Principal Workshop is a mentor-style leadership podcast for current assistant principals and aspiring school leaders navigating the messy middle of school leadership. Hosted by a middle school AP and former music teacher, this show blends real stories from the trenches with practical, actionable strategies you can use immediately. In 20–25 minute episodes, you’ll gain tools for instructional leadership, discipline with dignity, credibility building, and leading well without burning out.
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July 13, 2026
Assistant Principal Summer Bootcamp #5: Prevent the Problems You Can Predict
<p>In Episode 5 of the <strong>Assistant Principal Summer Bootcamp</strong>, we focus on the systems assistant principals can build before students arrive to prevent confusion, crowding, downtime, and discipline issues later.</p><p>This episode is all about “Tier 0 leadership” — the proactive work that happens before referrals, interventions, and consequences are needed.</p><p>In this episode, I discuss:</p><ul><li>Why a master schedule is not just an academic document, but a behavior prevention tool.</li><li>How first-year assistant principals can use data, staff input, class sizes, and teacher preps to make the best scheduling decisions possible.</li><li>How second-year assistant principals can use experience to separate challenging student combinations, support academic needs, and think more strategically.</li><li>Why assistant principals should walk through the entire student day before students do.</li><li>How arrival, breakfast, lockers, homeroom, announcements, lunch, bathrooms, dismissal, and phone procedures can either support or disrupt the school day.</li><li>Why unstructured time still needs structure.</li><li>How modified schedules and orientation days help younger grade levels learn the building, routines, and expectations.</li><li>The importance of practicing procedures like hallway expectations, dismissal routines, phone pouch systems, and fire drills before problems happen.</li></ul><p>This week’s <strong>Leadership Challenge</strong> asks you to choose one student routine, walk it from start to finish, and identify where students may be confused, crowded, waiting, or unsupervised.</p><p>Because a lot of school-year problems are not solved in the moment. They are prevented by the systems we build before the moment ever happens.</p>
July 9, 2026
Assistant Principal Summer Bootcamp #4: Make Committee Work Actually Work
<p>In Episode 4 of the <strong>Assistant Principal Summer Bootcamp</strong>, we move from organizing your leadership systems to leading the work that happens inside committees and recurring meetings.</p><p>This episode focuses on how assistant principals can make committee work more purposeful, practical, and action-oriented instead of simply gathering people in a room to review information.</p><p>In this episode, I discuss:</p><ul><li>Lessons learned from leading a discipline committee.</li><li>Why bringing data is not the same as preparing the conversation.</li><li>How clear discussion points help committee members move from listening to contributing.</li><li>The value of strategic grouping with new staff, veteran staff, and different content areas.</li><li>Why a simple agenda with attendance, old business, new business, discussion points, and action items is usually enough.</li><li>How meeting notes, follow-up summaries, and action items help turn committee conversations into real progress.</li><li>Why norms matter, even when they feel simple or obvious.</li><li>How discipline and PBIS committees can help shape school culture.</li><li>Why assistant principals should read IEPs, 504 plans, and key documents before they are sitting in meetings making decisions.</li></ul><p>This week’s <strong>Leadership Challenge</strong> asks you to choose one committee, team, or recurring meeting and build a simple structure for it before the school year begins.</p><p>Because a committee is not just a group of people who meet. A strong committee is a group of people who help move the work forward.</p>
July 6, 2026
Assistant Principal Summer Bootcamp #3: Organize Your Leadership Before the Year Organizes You
<p>In Episode 3 of the <strong>Assistant Principal Summer Bootcamp</strong>, we move from organizing your physical space to organizing your leadership systems.</p><p>This episode is all about creating practical systems that help assistant principals reduce mental clutter, follow up more consistently, and lead with more clarity before the school year takes over.</p><p>In this episode, I discuss:</p><ul><li>Using Outlook as a main school calendar while balancing family life through a shared Google Calendar.</li><li>Creating a monthly Canva calendar for families and sharing it through a weekly Smore newsletter.</li><li>Why I am not a “planner person” and why your system has to match how you actually work.</li><li>My single notebook method for meeting notes, hallway conversations, parent calls, and follow-up items.</li><li>My plan to use a Kindle Scribe for handwritten digital notes.</li><li>How I use a Five Star Flex binder for reference materials like agendas, walkthrough tools, the School Improvement Plan, SMART goals, PSELs, and the master schedule.</li><li>Why a printed master schedule with penciled-in roster numbers has been a lifesaver.</li><li>A new inbox method where email becomes a workspace instead of a storage unit.</li><li>The importance of having walkthrough tools ready so instructional leadership becomes easier to act on.</li></ul><p>This week’s <strong>Leadership Challenge</strong> asks you to identify one place where information currently gets lost and tighten up that system before the year begins.</p><p>Because strong leadership is not built on remembering everything. It is built on creating systems that help you focus on what matters most.</p>
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