Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast

This week's Aspire guest is Todd Whitaker. Todd is a professor of educational leadership at the University of Missouri, former principal at the middle school, junior high, and high school levels, consultant, national presenter, and author. Todd has written over 50 books including the national best seller, “What Great Teachers Do Differently”. In addition, Todd has written popular titles such as: - “Dealing With Difficult Teachers” - "Ten-Minute Inservice" - "Your First Year" - "What Great Principals Do Differently" - "Motivating and Inspiring Teachers" - and "Dealing With Difficult Parents" (Music by Ben Lundquist) Support the Podcast: - iTunes Subscribe - Leave a 5-Star Rating and Review!

This week's Aspire guest is Denis Sheeran, the director of student Achievement in Weehawken Township School District, presenter, blogger, podcaster and the author of “Instant Relevance” and “Hacking Mathematics”. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Sean Gaillard, the principal of Lexington Middle School, presenter, blogger and the author of “The Pepper Effect”. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week is a very special episode for me because I have the pleasure of being joined by my mentor and former principal, Sonja Pegram. Sonja was a middle school principal at Renner Middle School and now is a high school principal at the Guinn Center in Plano, TX. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Amber Teamann. Amber is the proud principal of Whitt Elementary in Wylie, Texas, speaker, consultant, blogger, and contributor to “Education Write Now”. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Danny “Sunshine” Bauer. Danny is the founder of Better Leaders Better Schools, a popular blog and most-downloaded podcast for leaders in education. He helps school leaders fight isolation and frustration through his leadership community, “The Mastermind,” in order to gain clarity and find solutions to their greatest challenges. Danny is also the author of a “#1 Hot New Release" on Amazon, The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap, which helps educators create legendary schools. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Ben Gilpin. Ben is the principal at Warner Elementary in Spring Arbor, Michigan, blogger, presenter, and co-host of the School Leadership Unearth ED Podcast. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Rich Czyz, a principal at an elementary School in New Jersey, blogger, presenter, and the author of “4 O’Clock Faculty”. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Allyson Apsey, the principal of Quincy Elementary in Zeeland, MI and the author of "The Path to Serendipity". (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Evan Robb, the Principal of Johnson-Williams Middle School in Berryville, Virginia. Prior to this, Evan was an English teacher, department chair, assistant principal, and a junior high school principal. Evan is the author of “The Principal’s Leadership Sourcebook: Practices, Tools, and Strategies for Building a Thriving School Community” and is currently working on two new books, “The Ten-Minute Principal” & “Making Star Pudding”. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Dr. Neil Gupta. Neil is currently the director of secondary Education in Worthington City Schools. He has been a teacher, Assistant Principal, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Director of Curriculum of Teaching, Director of Assessment and Programming and #LeadUpChat Moderator. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Jennifer Hogan. Jennifer is currently the Assistant Principal of Curriculum and Technology at Hoover High School. She has been a teacher, coach, assistant principal, principal and she is the author of the “Handbook for Courageous Leaders”. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Adam Dovico, an accomplished teacher, principal, speaker, professor and co-author of “The Limitless School”. (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Shelley Burgess, best known as the co-author of "Lead Like A Pirate" and full-time partner at Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. Shelley has also served as an award-winning teacher, principal, Director of Student Achievement, and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Leadership. #LeadLAP (Music by Ben Lundquist)

This week's Aspire guest is Jessica Cabeen, principal in Austin, MN, the 2016 NAESP/ VINCI Digital Leader of early learning award winner, 2017 Minnesota Distinguished principal, Author of “Hacking Early Learning” and co-author of "Balance Like A Pirate". (Music by Ben Lundquist)