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The RESCUE principle will help us increase the success of others as well as ourselves. Take a listen as Ted breaks down the behaviors of great friends and colleagues to support wellbeing, engagement, and the application of our strengths.
ResourcesEmpathySupport their strengthsChallengeUnderstand ExpectationsBuy Ted's book Duke's Storm here.
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How good are you or your organization at proactively anticipating what could happen? This episode shares a process borrowed from emergency management and discusses the positive impact of using the wisdom of the crowd to proactively plan for the future. This way everyone understands their role and can support the system in better ways.
Describe where you could apply this process to increase team ownership and understanding.List people that need to always be in the room when proactively planning.Describe a past experience that would have been more successful had you done a tabletop.Buy Duke's Storm here: https://store.cesa6.org/products/dukes-storm
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There is now a name to our buffalo... Duke! Ted is now the author of a children's book entitled: Duke's Storm: A Story of Courage.
This episode is the story about the story and how Ted was "nudged" by a high school sophomore that had participated in his student leadership training. Listen and hear how their shared experience has created a beautiful book.
This episode details how multi-generational people can do great things together. Ted and Allison combined their talents to create an amazing book!
Buy book here: https://store.cesa6.org/products/dukes-storm
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What is your process to provide energy whenever you are midway through a process, project or year? This process introduces an engaging practice to support what Ted calls MC Squared. Milestones, Communicated, and Celebrated for engagement and empowerment. All by playing BINGO!
List current initiatives that could use a boost.Describe how you provide energy midway in your classroom, school, department, or office.Determine how you’re going to celebrate effort to bring energyResource: https://myfreebingocards.com
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This week Ted continues his tradition of bringing you books in the context of your life. This "pile" is all about you developing you! Listen as he breaks down five texts that are best read in order. These books will help you plan forward your life and leadership.
The books:
Build the Life You Want, Brooks and Winfrey (Not a country band)Principles, DalioThe Mountain is You, WiestTiny Habits, Fogg10 to 25 The Science of Motivating Young People, YeagerSong: Somnolent Love, James Tutson
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Did you know that only 1% of the people who make resolutions succeed after one year? Let's disrupt that pattern by taking a new approach. The approach? Resolution by committee. Get a group together to increase your success, hold each other accountable, and make micro changes for macro outcomes!
List who your resolution committee will be.Describe your commitment to self growth and improvement.List the people who would benefit from this process.BONUS: describe how you will be different on December 31, 2025.Ted has also started a playlist that you can follow on Spotify
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Great leaders apply empathy to every situation. They also practice self-empathy. This conversation with Meredith about her learning and tactics around overthinking will help you in many ways. First, empathy/self-empathy. Second, identifying what is going on in your heart and head. Third, providing you with strategies to support yourself and others. Finally, a language to help you claim and tame what causes you to be mentally or emotionally restless.
Book: Get Out Of My Head. Inspiration for overthinkers in an anxious world. Meredith Arthur.
Meredith is the founder of Beautiful Voyager
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As we close out 2025, there are opportunities to support reflection and planning. Take a listen on this spin of a classic Charles Dickens tale and how Ted created reflection prompts to support those that you lead.
Here are the prompts:
Please share advice you would give yourself when visiting 14-year-old you.Please share advice you would give yourself when visiting you your first-year teaching/in your career.Please share something you successfully challenged and overcame this year.Please share a way in which someone else on our team impacted you this year.Please describe an area you want to learn more about, so your future self is more empowered.In a single word - describe your career when you retire. -
This episode is a great conversation between Emily, Tim and Ted about all things recognition, engagement and how using your Clifton Strengths can amplify the world around you. Listen in for great new research, tips for coaching others and some new ways to support others.
The research on great recognition practices. It must be:
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Have you ever asked a kid for advice? If not, you should start. Take a listen as Ted shares the wisdom of nearly 200 middle school students. These young people gave great advice for the adults in their lives. Use his process to amplify your teams, friends and family this Thanksgiving.
Describe the advice you’ll take from the students.List who would benefit from getting this type of advice.Describe how you could use this process to elevate others. -
Join Ted and listen to him with what might be the most enthusiasm he's had yet on the podcast. He found a new Google tool called NotebookLM and he breaks down the power of this AI for use in leadership, organizations, and classrooms. There is a AI generated podcast within the podcast. Super smart thinking this week.
List application you have for NotebookLM.Describe your wonderings around applying AI in your work.List you worries about applying storm generating technologies.Click here to take you to NotebookLM
Click here to take you to CESA 6 AI trainings
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A behavior ignored, is a behavior reinforced. In your culture what are you expecting and what are you tolerating? Listen as Ted describes a mindset and tool to help you have the needed conversations so that your culture grows in a positive way and people are either coached up to the expectations or coached out of the situation.
List the people coming with you and who is notDescribe what you need to do in order to grow your invitation listDescribe what you need to do different within your culture -
When people are stubborn it is usually for a good reason. Likely fear of change or of the unknown consequences of taking the "risk." Take a listen as Ted explore how to support good people who seem unwilling to change or move into the direction of the storm they are facing.
List people who can help you move past a stubborn moment you are facing.Describe how you can support others who have the wrong gear but right mindset.List the ways in which you can support others in finding their way. -
Transactional relationships and mindsets create disengagement, sadness, and resentment. Transactional thinking is the opposite of leadership and keeping score needs to stop.
Listen as Ted explores how to shift to a zero-zero mindset and support a positive narrative in your noggin and help you - help others grow.
Describe where in your life you are keeping scoreList the people in your life that need to be modeled 0-0Describe how you can lead with a 0-0 mindset -
Recess might actually be the process to help children learn more, decrease classroom behavioral issues, and increase teacher retention.
Wait, how could that be? In this episode Ted shares research that shows how increasing recess - decreases all the negative things occurring in school and increases all of the positive things. The answer for improvement has likely been in front of us the entire time (recess). However, we’re going to need to be buffaloes and charge into several storms to create the ideal conditions.
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Listen as Ted shares great resources to help you grow and support others. These resources are building off of themes presented this season on the podcast and will help you support parents, fuel your inner buffalo and frame your mindset.
Studies:
The Evolving Needs of Working Parent’s: Kindercare StudyWalton Family Foundation Voices of Gen Z Study: Gallup/Walton Family FoundationBooks:
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay GibsonThe Anxious Generation, Jonathan HaidtTwelve and A Half, Gary VaynerchukThe Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie JakuAlbums:
Coldplay: Moon MusicLeon Bridges: Leon -
How does your system support parents? Too often we are casting blame on the parents and not recognizing the opportunities and responsibilities we have to empower parents.
Take a listen as Ted challenges us to create systems of support and empowerment while the children are on their educational journey. You can't meet unspoken expectations and parenting is an anxiety riddled journey and everyone has questions. That anxiety turns to defensiveness very quickly, so let's make navigating schools less worrisome and help parents support their children in new ways.
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Are you wise enough to be a Sage? YES! This week join us as we discuss the IMPACT our words can have on others as Ted reviews the people who've impacted him and how we can all grow from those around us. Listen to the very end..... for some really sage advice.
Here are the 180 degree cards for purchase: https://store.cesa6.org/products/buffalo-note-cards
List the sages in your lifeDescribe your ability to support others with your collected wisdomList who needs you to step into their storm with IMPACT? -
How well do you celebrate failure? In this episode, Ted discusses how we can all learn from slime mold to get ourselves into a routine of never losing and instead, always learning.
The road to excellence has no destination and is filled with failures. To keep moving forward - we have to celebrate all the learning! We're never losing -- we're always learning.
Describe where you can apply slime mold strategies.List where this process would be helpful in increasing risk.Describe a recent failure that should be celebrated. -
Join Ted as he discusses the importance of having a process that allows for people to contribute instead of simply complaining. The tool and mindset are simple- operate in “AND” mode not “BUT” mode. This episode has a bonus process tool using wisdom and conjunctions to create a great cultural reflection process (this is what happens when Ted has an idea while recording).
List where this process would benefit the mostDescribe your ability to move from “yeah but” to “and”List the people who would go noticed if you employed processes like this.Song: Brad & Kate- Flame
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