Dr. David Lipman joins Jethro to talk about critical aspects of health optimization and its impact on our well-being in a modern world filled with physical and environmental stressors. Dr. Lipman discusses how everyday stress activates our fight-or-flight response, depleting energy at a cellular level and affecting our health. He advocates for grounding practices like walking barefoot on natural surfaces, deep breathing techniques like the Wim Hof method, and the importance of proper nutrition.

Dr. Lipman also emphasizes removing obstacles at the spinal level to improve nervous system function, a topic aligned with his expertise as a chiropractic physician. Listeners will gain insights on how simple changes, such as hydration with salt, can initiate transformative health improvements. Through his conversation, Dr. Lipman challenges common misconceptions about work-life balance and stresses the importance of making proactive health investments to thrive in both personal and professional life.

Learn how to optimize your health and make small, impactful changes, and discover how Dr. Lipman's bio-optimization methods can help you lead a healthier, more balanced life.

• Stress is activating our sympathetic nervous system, fight or flight.
• Losing energy at the cell level -
• Modern world that we live in has many attacks against us.
• All that the modern world is hurting us with.
• Shoes and socks off, bare feet on the grass and dirt.
• Getting enough oxygen
• Wymhoff deep breathing.
• Bio-optimization center
• Removing obstacles at the spinal level in how our nervous system is treating our whole system
• Nutrition is important as well.
• Gym class vs. teaching kids to play sports
• President’s council on physical fitness
• Remediation before basic training
• Does everyone need to take the same
• Invest in the incline of our health
• The more we strive for the easy life…
• Growth requires stress and challenge
• We’re either growing or we are degenerating
• How to be a transformative principal? Choose the one thing to do to to make things better, maybe drinking water with a little salt.
• Connect with David Lipman

About Dr. David Lipman

Dr. David Lipman owns Physical Evidence Chiropractic and is a seasoned chiropractic physician who has successfully treated thousands of patients. With a deep personal commitment to bio-optimization, Dr. Lipman has achieved extraordinary levels of strength, endurance, and overall health well into his 60s. His mission is to share the knowledge and processes that have profoundly benefited his own life, helping others to achieve optimal health and wellness.

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.

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• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

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In this episode, Mike Duncan, president and CEO of Battelle for Kids, explores the concept of a portrait of a graduate and its importance in shaping education. He discusses the need to include all voices in creating a portrait that reflects the competencies most important to students' success.

Duncan emphasizes the value of inquiry-based learning, self-direction, and creating products that have an impact beyond the classroom. He also highlights the importance of leveraging the talent within schools to build capacity and co-create the design process.

The episode also touches on the importance of psychological safety in creating an environment where students and educators feel comfortable taking risks and failing. Duncan shares his insights on how to be a transformative principal and the resources available to support principals in their leadership journey, such as the EdLeader21 network and the Future Cast report.

This episode provides valuable insights into the role of a portrait of a graduate in shaping education and the essential qualities of transformative principals.

• Locally developed, globally positioned
• Including all voices in creating a portrait of a graduate
• What competencies are most important in a portrait of a graduate?
• Being good people and a good citizen.
• Put their perspectives on the table, and let people do their
• 5-7 most powerful.
• Portrait is the very beginning of that journey.
• Inquiry based learning, self-direction, products that have impact beyond the classroom
• Portrait of a graduate as a catalyst.
• Knowing vs. doing curriculum
• Learning expo -
• Leveraging the talent in our schools already to build capacity on
• Cocreating the process of designing
• It’s about time, you need coaching, support, and help in doing it efficiently
• How to be a transformative principal? Create Psychological safety to create and fail.
• Bill Daggett Episode
• EdLeader
• Future Cast

About Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan is the president and CEO of the national nonprofit Battelle for Kids. Prior to his role, he was one of the longest-serving superintendents in the state of Georgia, having been the superintendent at Pike County Schools since 2005. Before arriving in Pike, he was a high school principal, high school and middle school assistant principal, and a middle school teacher. Mike earned a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Georgia in 2004. He has been a member of EdLeader21, the national network of Battelle for Kids, for over a decade and previously served as the network’s advisory vice chair.

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

In this episode, David Schipper, director of the Strategic Learning Clinic, discusses the challenges that students face in reaching their full potential. He highlights the prevalence of SAD (Stubborn Adult Disorder) as a major obstacle and emphasizes the need to address the soft bigotry of low expectations. Schipper argues that learning to read is the number one civil rights issue of our time and stresses the importance of testing all children by age 1 to identify those who may need additional support. He recommends high-impact tutoring and emphasizes the need to put the right emphasis on the right syllable when teaching reading. Schipper also discusses the role of transformative principals in identifying students who are struggling and provides practical tips for educators.

• The #1 obstacle to helping students become the best they can be - SAD
• Huge resistance to many ideas.
• Sold a story that if students would just memorize all the words.
• Soft bigotry of low expectations
• Test all kids by age 1.
• It’s a total mystery why students struggle.
• High-Impact Tutoring
• Put the right emphasis on the right syllable.
• Learning to read is the number 1 civil rights issue of our time.
• If teachers are taught how to teach, they’ll be more effective.
• How to be a transformative principal? Test the phonological processing skills of students. Note who is struggling.

About David Schipper

David Schipper is the director of Strategic Learning Clinic, a position he has held since 2013. David obtained a B.A. in English Literature from Concordia University in 1998 as well as a B.Ed. in Secondary Education (English and History) from McGill University in 2002. After some work as a local teacher in Montreal, David founded 2Torial Educational Centre in 2007. Aside from his ability to put both parents and students at ease, David uses his clinic's fairly unique approach to help get to the root of students' learning challenges and propose the most suitable remediation to resolve these weaknesses. As a father of two children, David knows how to relate to the concerns of parents and as an experienced educator, thoroughly understands the struggles of students. His passion and dedication to teaching and learning is second to none.

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

On June 10, 2024, Passion Driven Leadership celebrated two schools in the Orange Township School District with the designation of being Passion Driven Schools. (see links below)

PDL - Orange Recap June 2024.mp4

Passion Driven Schools - Dr. Fitzhugh Interview .mov

This means that they have decided to make Intentional Self-Care a priority for the adults in schools and completed our two-year process.

• Previous interview with Tyrone here.
• We work in a system that is broken by design.
• Accountable vs. Responsible
• We work at the point of exhaustion
• EAP, too little too late.
• Starts with leadership.
• Process has six frames, SEL, instructional, teacher, parent involvement, school review
• Data driven vs. data informed
• Dashboard for SEL
• Wellness & culture & climate surveys that teachers take on a regular basis.
• The value of the psychometric analysis is that it helps people see themselves and who their teammates are.
• Teachers came to work happier and more productive, fewer sick days, ownership.
• Students are more relaxed because of the impact of the teacher attitudes and perspectives.
• Passion Driven Schools for adults.
• Parent involvement - helping parents understand their kids better.
• Passion-Driven Leadership web site.

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Dr. Tyrone D. Burton is an author, speaker, and Founder of Passion Driven Leadership. With over 40 years’ experience in education Dr. Burton is recognized and sought after as a proven leader in education. He has served as a Distinguished Principal, mentoring other Principals in his proud state of Louisiana. He has worked as a School Turnaround Specialist, successfully helping, and supporting Principals turn around schools in Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Cayman Island and Connecticut. He has served as an adjunct professor teaching aspiring principals to lead. He has been featured on notable podcast such as, Courtney Bowden, The Transformative Principal and Leading Lane hosted by award winning Principal Adam Lane. He is a regular featured speaker at Alabama`s MEGA Conference. He has authored two books, More Than a Notion, A Journey in Educational Leadership in the Age of Accountability and The Reframing of American Education, A Framework for Understanding American Education Post COVID-19. Both books are used at the University level to train educational leaders. His company Passion Driven Leadership was awarded a New Schools Venture Fund Grant, which he used to pilot his program to help educators lead lives filled with “Intentional Self-Care”! He has helped hundreds of educators to restore and revitalize their emotional health and wellbeing. His vision to create a community of educators who become emotionally literate and emotionally Intelligent through the development of human capital. His mission is to help educators realize and recognize that “Intentional Self-Care” is not selfish!

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Welcome to our National Literacy Month series of podcasts, presented in partnership between the Be Podcast Network and Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).

In this episode of Transformative Principal, Jodi Rubin, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships at Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), discusses the "Rally to Read 100" initiative. Launched in response to declining reading frequency and motivation among children, this initiative aims to encourage children to read 100 books by the end of March. Anyone can participate, and there are incentives for schools and individuals, including book giveaways and social media contests. RIF provides various resources to support the initiative, such as videos, activity sheets, and purposeful questions for each book. Rubin emphasizes the importance of early reading experiences, reading aloud, and community involvement in fostering a love of reading in children. She also highlights the "RIF Literacy Central" website, which offers over 30,000 resources for educators and families.

• Rally to Read 100
• Frequency and motivation of reading was way down
• 100,000,000th
• B&N storytime pick and Random House partnerships
• Read 100 books by the end of the month of March.
• Anyone can participate
• Why community is so important!
• Competition in individual groups.
• Motivation - giving away 10,000 books.
• 100 schools to win 100 books.
• Social media contests
• Every month 2 new videos will appear for the month’s theme (community, nature, changemakers, and more).
• Packets, coloring sheets, and more activities for students to do and use.
• 12 titles for read-alouds - Maxine Gets a Job and Built to Last, for example.
• Purposeful questions for each book they read.
• The power of early reading experiences.
• Importance of reading aloud.
• Enter to get your classroom sets.
• Celebratory event live at Union Square in NY.
• RIF Literacy Central - over 30,000 resources

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Jodi Rubin is a marketing strategy and project management leader with more than 25 years of experience in the areas of strategic marketing, brand management, partnership marketing, communications, and strategy development. Jodi currently serves as RIF’s Senior Vice President Marketing & Partnerships and is responsible for the organization’s marketing strategy, communications, and partnership marketing to drive awareness and engagement with the RIF brand and its programs.

Prior to RIF, Jodi was with Discovery Communications serving in a variety of strategic marketing roles in Domestic Distribution and Discovery Education. Jodi oversaw international educational marketing initiatives, new content provider partner efforts, and worked with Discovery’s various networks to bring key initiatives to teachers and students with unique educational content and resources to inspire and engage students.

Jodi also held prior positions at Comsat International, W.B Doner Advertising, and Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Jodi holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Dr. Daris McInnis joins Jethro to explore the complex nature of the reading process and the pivotal role that parents play in building literacy foundations at home. Dr. McInnis emphasizes the expertise that parents bring to the table, urging schools to honor and tap into that knowledge. He challenges the assumptions that parents inherently have everything they need to support their child's learning or that lack of engagement signals disinterest. Instead, he advocates for creating meaningful partnerships with parents, giving them a seat at the table, and understanding the pressures they face, such as time constraints.

Throughout the discussion, Dr. McInnis highlights the value of programs like Reading is Fundamental (RIF) and literacy nights, which provide families with tools and strategies to support their children's learning. He also encourages educators to rethink their roles as learners themselves, emphasizing the importance of linguistic expression and understanding students as cosmopolitan intellectuals.

Tune in to discover how schools can better engage families in the literacy process and how transformative leadership begins with meaningful, student-centered conversations.

• Reading process is complex. Starts at home
• At home start understanding the literacy foundations
• Parents have expertise, and we need to acknowledge it.
• Parents' knowledge of how their students’ everyday life impacts learning.
• Schools should honor and seek that expertise out.
• Schools don’t honor parent expertise because they don’t have expertise
• Grandma’s statistics
• Assumption: Parents have everything they need to support student learning (in the way we do it).
• Assumption: People have time.
• Uninvolved or don’t care is not what silence always means
• Giving them a seat at the table.
• What do they need from the school district?
• RIF is a great resource
• Literacy nights - valuable for many reason
• Strategies and tools for parents.
• Linguistic expression
• How do we rethink about ourselves as learners as well.
• How to be a transformative principal? Identify a student that a teacher is struggling to reach, then go into the classroom, and have a conversation with that student. Frame them as the cosmopolitan intellectuals they are.

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Dr. Daris McInnis is an assistant professor of literacy in the College of Education and Social Work at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include family literacy, reading research, critical literacy, family-school partnerships, and early childhood education. Daris holds a doctorate in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania, serves on multiple advisory boards with Reading is Fundamental, previously taught early elementary grades in Washington, D.C., and currently volunteers as a reading specialist in New Castle County, Delaware. He is also a Pat Tillman Scholar, and an Army veteran who served five years on active duty as an Ordnance Logistics Officer.

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.