{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Assistant Principal Podcast","title":"Five Change Lessons","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":756,"description":"Five Change LessonsMarch 17, 2026Sponsor Spot 1:I’d like to thank Kaleidoscope Adventures for sponsoring today’s show. Lots of companies can help you organize class trips, but Kaleidoscope helps you organize adventures – because isn’t that what student trips should be? Kaleidscope is a full-service tour company offering a range of adventure opportunities and they excel at customizing trips based on your unique context, needs, and goals. Kaleidoscope offers exceptional travel experiences for students (and their group leaders). Thinking about student travel? Reach out to Kaleidoscope using the link in the show notes.Show IntroFriends/School leaders, When students practice math over the summer, math scores go up. So, what’s your summer math plan this year? Whether you have no summer math program, or are curious about what a research based program looks like. Check out Summer Pops for free. Get your FREE workbook samples today at Summer Pops Workbooks.com. The link is in the show notes.Celebrations: Colleagues and the kindness of strangersKey Points Part 1I invest so much of my time helping people avoid making big mistakes in change initiatives that it is super-frustrating to make those mistakes myself.I’m working with several schools on implementing my flywheel model to grow teacher capacity.In brief the flywheel has three components:Provide professional development/trainingFollow up training with targeted observations to monitor resultsUse data from observations to plan the next trainingIt’s a simple and powerful concept, but there are many places that implementing a flywheel can breakdown, and in my excitement to push some school leaders into implementing the flywheel, I made some critical mistakes.In today’s podcast I describe five frequent mistakes we make when it comes to implementing change. This is sector agnostic – if you ever lead change, these five things are critical.It can’t be my vision; it needs to be our vision. I think this is the most common mistake...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R9NMe_5dyHuYObgJIvbL7uDONkSHVV41r7Q-QyBj5Y8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE1MDYzLzE2MzEx/ODcxMjItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}