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Build a Leadership Legacy That LASTS – Ditch Fear, Embrace Navigate Power!

Fear running your decisions? People-pleasing eroding your impact? It's time to lead like a humble legend – from core values, not chaos.Hosts Alex and Janin drop the "Navigate Power" blueprint on The Humility Advantage. Debrief fears, realign with your values, and craft a purpose-driven legacy that outlives you.Unlock inside:✅ Fear vs. Values audit – spot what's hijacking your leadership✅ 10-min debrief: Reconnect, navigate, vision your 5-year legacy✅ Purpose hacks for high-stakes worlds like healthcare (neurodivergent-proof!)Stop surviving – start thriving as a values-led leader. Your team, your legacy, deserves it.👉 Play now, lead bolder, and share #NavigatePower on LinkedIn!Subscribe for humility-fueled wins on culture, burnout, and unbreakable teams.

Great On Their Behalf with AJ Crabill

AJ Crabill explains that school boards should represent community values and set student outcome goals—not micromanage operations. Effective boards match words with actions by consistently monitoring learning data, while most fail by getting distracted from their core mission: ensuring children actually learn.AJ Crabill serves as National Director of Governance at Council of the Great City Schools. He recently served as the Conservator at DeSoto (TX) ISD, as Deputy Commissioner at the Texas Education Agency, and as board chair of Kansas City (MO) Public Schools. The 3rd edition of his bestselling book, "Great On Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective” was released last month.Links:YouTube: Bing VideosWebsite: Airick Journey Crabill | AJ Crabill | aj-crabill.com

Onboarding New Teachers – Setting the Foundation for Long-Term Success

A strong onboarding experience doesn’t just help a new teacher survive the first weeks—it sets the tone for classroom success and increases the odds they’ll stay with your school long-term. In this episode, we break onboarding into three essentials: a point person (mentor) who provides relational support, clear operations and expectations (schedule, procedures, safety, materials, communication norms), and practical curriculum/tech readiness (SIS, gradebook, devices, classroom tools). We also explore what a “dream scenario” looks like—small gestures, consistency, and meaningful ways for new teachers to contribute without being buried in extra duties. The takeaway: make support visible, make information easy to find, and make community connection intentional.If you need help with your onboarding new teacher process, please schedule a time to talk with us today. https://bit.ly/Build-IT-Better-TogetherTo get a copy of the New Teacher Launch Kit, please visit us here.  Becky Wong has been a teacher, admin, tech coordinator and innovator in Catholic Schools for over 25 years.  She not only assists schools as part of the Tech Team but has been instrumental in guiding the Archdiocese of San Francisco as it navigates the edtech decisions and ever-changing landscape of classroom technology. The In Search of Catholic School Excellence Podcast is brought to you by I Love My Tech Team. When technology doesn’t work, Catholic school leaders lose time, trust, and momentum. We partner with schools to restore reliable systems, empower teachers, and create the foundation for innovative learning centered on students.Lead Your School Into What’s Possible with I Love My Tech Team.Restoring What’s Broken. Advancing What’s Possible.Find out more at https://ilovemytechteam.com

What Does Representative Governance Mean for Our Future? - Nathán Goldberg

In this episode, Priten speaks with Nathán Goldberg, a philosopher-statistician whose career weaves together two unlikely threads: professional soccer and democratic activism. As Vice President of the US Soccer Federation and founder of both Harvard Forward and Bluebonnet Data, Nathán has spent years thinking about who gets to sit in the rooms where decisions are made—and why it matters.Key Takeaways:Voting isn't enough—perspective is. The people impacted by decisions need to be in the rooms where those decisions get made.Outsiders can win. Harvard Forward gathered 4,500 signatures on parchment paper, won board seats, and a decade of resistance to divestment collapsed within a year.Institutions resist until they can't. Harvard ignored them, then attacked them. It didn't work.The model scales. The same playbook worked at Yale and Penn State. One elected climate scientist shifted Penn State's investment policy.Soccer has the same problem. 4 million youth players, zero recent youth players in governance. About Nathán Goldberg:Born and raised in México, Nathán Goldberg Crenier is a new(ish) American who is passionate about using the power of democracy and sports to make the world a better place. He has been recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work in progressive politics and nonprofit management, in the New York Times for his work as an electoral organizer and climate advocate, and in the Sports Business Journal New Voices Under 30 list for his work as a soccer executive. He is also a proud recipient of the 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans as he pursues his JD at Harvard Law School, having graduated with a joint degree in philosophy and statistics from Harvard College, where he played for and captained the D1 varsity men’s soccer team.

The End of Specialization: Raising Polymaths | Aksinya Staar

For more than two centuries, we’ve organized intelligence around specialization — go deep, pick a lane, master a subject. That model powered the industrial era. But what happens when the challenges our children will inherit refuse to stay in lanes?In this episode of Futurist(Mom), I’m joined by futurist and author Aksinya Staar to explore a bold shift: from compartmentalized thinking to integrative intelligence.Aksinya’s work centers on the polymathic mindset — a cognitive approach that blends depth with breadth, curiosity with synthesis, and knowledge with systems awareness. As AI increasingly performs narrow expert tasks, the human advantage may lie not in specialization alone, but in the ability to connect disciplines, see patterns, and navigate complexity.Together we explore:why specialization became the dominant model of intelligencehow AI is reshaping what kinds of thinking are most valuablewhy siloed learning no longer reflects the real worldwhat “raising synthesists” actually looks like at homeand how parents can cultivate systems thinking in everyday lifeThis episode is about the architecture of intelligence — and how rethinking it could transform the way we prepare the next generation.Why This Matters:→ Industrial-era thinking trained us to compartmentalize. The AI age demands integration.Specialization made sense in a world of predictable roles and stable industries. But as AI handles more narrow expertise, human advantage shifts toward synthesis — the ability to connect domains, interpret context, and navigate complexity.→ Siloed learning no longer reflects how the real world works.We still teach subjects in isolation, even though the biggest challenges our children will face — climate, technology, health, economics — are interconnected systems. Without cross-domain thinking, kids may master content but miss connection.→ Systems thinking is a life skill, not an abstraction.When children understand how parts influence one another — how incentives shape behavior, how technology reshapes culture — they gain resilience and agency. Raising synthesists means helping them see not just what to learn, but how everything fits together.

Hosts

Jethro Jones

Jethro Jones

Host of The Authority Podcast — Expert Insights and Fresh Ideas for Education Leaders
Ross Romano

Ross Romano

Host of The Authority Podcast — Expert Insights and Fresh Ideas for Education Leaders
A Jethro Jones

A Jethro Jones

Host of Transformative Principal
Mike Caldwell

Mike Caldwell

Host of Transformative Principal