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May 2025

Grades make learning worse for your students, and for you too
Listen now | In this episode, I talk with Arthur Ravalli, an administrator at the heart of Grow Beyond Grades.
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59:29
I just made an interesting realization.
About what people might not know about relationships
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How mad should you be when your students disrespect a sub?
Listen now | Season 2 Episode 5: In which Joe and I discuss what to do when you're seeing red
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48:53
How to handle conflict with people you really really don't agree with
In which I introduce some new Rules of Engagement
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How to handle conflict with a difficult employee
In which we apply the Rules of Engagement at the office
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From nearly quitting to a heart attack, now she coaches wellness and teachers
Season 2 Episode 4: In which a teacher tells her story of getting to sustainable wellness
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55:18

April 2025

How to tell people things they don't want to hear
In which I apply some helpful Rules of Engagement to an example of conflict some of us might want to avoid
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If you're a Conflict Avoider, you're part of the problem.
In which I -- sorry! I love you. I really do. But we've got to bust out of this epidemic of conflict aversion if we're going to save a world that really…
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Her class descended into chaos—so she tried something counter-intuitive
Season 2 Episode 3: In which Joe and I discuss how one teacher avoided what she thought was unavoidable insomnia
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1:02:42
A profound moment in the shower
In which I explore a psychodynamic mystery
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