Educational Leadership with Principal JL

Connect with the Show Here! The biggest leadership wins in schools rarely look big in the moment. They show up as a quick hallway check-in, a follow-up after a hard day, or a decision made with a child’s future in mind. We sit down with Michelle Pourchot, a veteran educator who served 29 years in Title I schools and spent 20 years as an elementary principal, to get honest about what actually moves a campus forward. We talk about the leadership mindset she carried from kindergarten teacher to...

Connect with the Show Here! Every leader leaves an imprint, but the uncomfortable truth is that we’re doing it whether we mean to or not. So I’m putting a name to the daily work of educational leadership: LeadPrinting. Your LeadPrint is the impact you leave on your staff, students, teams, and school culture. LeadPrinting is the intentional process that creates that impact through the choices and behaviors you repeat every day. I walk through the LeadPrinting Framework I’ve been developing fr...

Connect with the Show Here! Leadership doesn’t fail because educators don’t care. It fails when we bury people under noise, overthinking, and systems no one can carry into a tough hallway moment. I sit down with Jove Stickle, a former social studies teacher, multi-sport coach, and middle school principal who now mentors and coaches other leaders, to talk about what actually holds up when the job gets heavy. We dig into the turning points in Jove’s educational leadership journey: the classroo...

Connect with the Show Here! One frustrated moment with a parent turned into a leadership habit that lasted for years: Todd Bloomer walked out of his office, sat on a literal red bench, and finally had space to breathe. That small reset became a bigger idea about sustainable educational leadership and it eventually became his new book, Finding Your Red Bench. We’re catching up with Todd after his first year as Director of School Leadership for the Archdiocese of San Antonio, where he supports ...

Connect with the Show Here! School leaders spend all year pushing professional development, coaching cycles, and growth plans but the hardest mirror to face is our own. We dig into what it really means to “Be The Change” as educational leaders: not with slogans, but with daily behaviors that shape school culture, protect staff morale, and influence how the community experiences education. We start with the reality that your presence sets the tone. The attitude you choose, the language you us...