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The Learning Model That Turned a Dropout Into the Class Speaker with Jenny Curtin
09/08/2026 | 42 mins.Jenny Curtin partners with schools and districts across New England on behalf of the Barr Foundation, where she helps build and scale Transformative Learning Experiences — rigorous, project-based units developed with partner Springpoint that pull students out of the classroom and into courtrooms, communities, and real business ventures.
Her work runs on a philanthropic value most funders don't practice: taking the long view, and staying with schools through the slow, unglamorous work of actual change.
A student named Buddha dropped out of high school after years of disconnected, irrelevant coursework — and became his graduation class speaker after enrolling somewhere that taught differently. Jenny Curtin of the Barr Foundation joins the show to explain the model behind that turnaround, and why most school transformation efforts stall before they ever reach a kid like him.
🫶 What You'll Learn
Why "taking the long view" beats chasing the next quick fix in school reform
How to design school changes around your most marginalized students first
What a Transformative Learning Experience unit actually looks like in practice
Why community with other school leaders is what sustains multi-year change efforts
🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules
🧠 Key Insight #1: Why School Transformation Requires Slowing Down First
What's broken: Schools chase quick fixes and bolt-on programs instead of questioning their actual purpose and vision.
The shift: Leaders take the long view — slowing down to investigate vision, gather empathy interviews, and study other school models before acting.
Impact: Change becomes sustainable enough to survive leadership turnover instead of collapsing the moment its champion leaves.
🧠 Key Insight #2: Why Centering Marginalized Students Redesigns the Whole School
What's broken: Most school redesign starts from the average student and treats the most marginalized students as an afterthought.
The shift: Design at the margins first — build for the students least served by the current system, then let that design benefit everyone.
Impact: A school that centred a disconnected, disengaged dropout re-enrolled him — and he graduated as class speaker.
🧠 Key Insight #3: Why Project-Based Learning Beats Traditional Coursework
What's broken: Traditional coursework asks students to check a box for a diploma without connecting it to their real lives.
The shift: Transformative Learning Experiences put students in real courtrooms for moot trials, real neighbourhoods for gentrification photography projects, and real business plans built with math skills.
Impact: Students report a deeper sense of their own potential, and even early-adopter teachers say the model shifted what they believe is possible for kids.
🎧 JENNY CURTIN QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST
"The silver bullets that are always coming on the scene for education are a trap."
— Jenny Curtin
"We're not interested in people just adding more decorations onto an existing cake."
— Jenny Curtin
"If we aren't ever designing at those margins of who isn't being served well, we're never going to get to those young people."
— Jenny Curtin
"There's like many different, beautiful high school models that can exist that do not have to look all the same."
— Jenny Curtin
"We're not interested in making marginal changes to make things marginally better for young people."
— Jenny Curtin
✍️ Your Do School Different Challenge
Ready to implement? Start here:
Tomorrow: Pull up your school's current improvement plan and circle every initiative that's a bolt-on program rather than a rebuilt foundation.
This Month: Shadow three students who are least served by your current model and document what they actually need.
This Semester: Pilot one project-based, community-connected unit — like a moot court trial or a local-issue investigation — with a single grade or department.
🚀 Episode Timestamps
00:00 - Why there are no quick fixes in education
03:28 - Buddha's story: from dropout to class speaker
08:18 - Why the system wasn't built to serve every student
10:38 - Centering the most marginalized students first
12:10 - The cake analogy: stop decorating, start re-baking
14:35 - What taking the long view actually means
19:33 - Why school leaders need community, not isolation
26:09 - Inside Transformative Learning Experiences: Students in the Law
28:31 - Taking learning beyond the school walls
30:40 - How project-based learning shifts staff mindset
33:26 - How high-impact leaders sustain change over years
37:23 - Jenny's marquee message and three principles for a dream school
💌 Connect With Jenny Curtin
Website: https://www.barrfoundation.org/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennycurtin
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META DESCRIPTION: Barr Foundation's Jenny Curtin on why real high school transformation starts with slowing down, not adding another program.- A principal and coach based in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, this episode's guest flips the usual format and turns the mic on Danny Bauer instead of the other way around. He brings the same coaching lens to the conversation that he uses inside the Better Leaders Better Schools Mastermind, where he works alongside other school leaders on the exact challenges this episode covers.
His questions push Danny past the usual talking points and into the mechanics of building a leadership vision that doesn't depend on him.
Most principals think the answer to burnout is working harder. Danny Bauer argues the opposite — that in an AI-accelerated world, grinding is the least effective thing a school leader can do, and the real work is learning to fire yourself from the things you love most.
🧠 What You'll Learn
Why treating leadership like a grind is now the least effective strategy in an AI-accelerated world
How to test whether your storytelling actually lands — instead of assuming it does
Why Danny deliberately fired himself from the mastermind he built
The reason narrowing an AI tool's focus makes it more useful, not less
How to think about your leadership across a 50-year or 200-year timeline
🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules
✅ Key Insight #1: Why Most Principals Are Bad at Storytelling and Don't Know It
What's broken: Principals assume they're strong communicators because staff nod, laugh, and lean in — but that's compliance to the boss, not honest feedback.
The shift: Test the story on people with zero reason to fake interest — strangers or students — and if they don't smile and lean in, the story isn't working yet.
Impact: Deliberately practiced storytelling turns abstract goals like "student engagement" into a moment staff actually remember, repeat, and act on.
💚 Key Insight #2: Sustainable School Leadership Means Firing Yourself From What You Love
What's broken: Most leaders equate their own importance with holding onto every program, room, and decision they built.
The shift: Danny intentionally handed away the mastermind he built to other coaches to run it, testing whether what he'd built was real or was always just about him.
Impact: The mastermind got better and more sustainable once more people owned it — proof that a vision built to outlast its founder is stronger than one that depends on him.
✅ Key Insight #3: The Best Leadership Tools Get Narrower, Not Broader
What's broken: Most AI tools, and most PD, try to be everything to everyone — trading depth for a wider audience.
The shift: Danny narrowed Digital Danny's training down to his core frameworks — entry plans, automatic school tools, coaching conversations — instead of everything he's ever written.
Impact: A narrower, specialist tool outperforms general-purpose AI for a principal working a specific problem, the same way a specialist coach outperforms a generalist consultant.
🎧 DANNY BAUER & DAN WATT QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST
"You might be the biggest bottleneck in your organization, not because you're incompetent, but because you're holding on to everything you're really good at."
— Danny Bauer
"What would happen if you disappeared tomorrow? Would your vision sustain, or would it collapse because it was always about you, not the system you built?"
— Danny Bauer
"Do you realize that most of what you're doing is all made up?"
— Danny Bauer
"If you don't like the game, change the rules, make up a new game."
— Danny Bauer
"The leader is the chief opportunity and bottleneck to every organization."
— Danny Bauer
"Tell it to strangers, and if they don't smile and lean in, you suck at storytelling."
— Danny Bauer
"Think of the context of a school leader that hopes their vision is a collective one and not solely theirs."
— Dan Watt
🚵♀️ Your Do School Different Challenge
Ready to implement? Start here:
Tomorrow: Tell your best "leadership story" to someone with zero context — a stranger, a student, anyone with no reason to fake interest — and watch whether they actually lean in.
This Month: Pick one responsibility you're gripping tightly and hand it fully to someone else on your team, then watch what happens without you in the loop.
This Semester: Map out what your school, program, or team would need to survive and thrive if you left tomorrow — then start building toward that, on purpose, before you're forced to.
⌚️ Episode Timestamps
00:00 - Why grinding harder is now a dead model
04:40 - The sleeping teacher story that changed everything
09:40 - Why most leaders are garbage storytellers
14:02 - Inside the rebuilt Digital Danny and automatic school tools
18:50 - Why narrowing the niche beats ChatGPT and Claude
21:14 - Trading the grind for play and creative rediscovery
24:24 - The false belief that grinding is the only choice
25:44 - Reframing leadership as a game with rules you can change
30:42 - The empty cup metaphor for overflowing leaders
32:00 - How improv unlocks fearlessness in leadership
34:48 - Firing himself from the mastermind he built
38:17 - Building toward a 50-year or 200-year legacy
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🫶 Today's RuckusCast Partners
ODP Business Solutions has been the behind-the-scenes partner for schools for three decades — not just competitive pricing, but negotiated cooperative contracts that stretch every dollar. They helped Baldwin School District overhaul its entire campus without blowing the budget, combining smart design with smarter purchasing. From essential supplies to cutting-edge tech to flexible furniture, it's one supplier instead of ten separate headaches.
Visit ODPbusiness.com/education to see what they can do for your district.
Frontline Education's 2026 K12 Lens Report makes one thing clear: retention, not just hiring, is what determines staffing stability. Districts running structured, automated professional growth software report easier hiring nearly half the time — compared to just 30% of districts without it. If you're building a campus where great educators actually want to stay, this report is your blueprint.
Get it free at FrontlineEducation.com/leaders
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META DESCRIPTION: Danny Bauer on why grinding harder fails school leaders, and how firing yourself from what you love builds a vision that outlasts you. - Zaretta Hammond has spent her career pushing school leaders past feel-good equity language and into the instructional core, where the real gaps live. Her latest book, Rebuilding Students' Learning Power: Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice, names a pattern she calls cognition redlining — the quiet, well-intentioned way schools underdevelop the thinking capacity of historically marginalized students.
She's the author behind Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, a text already sitting on most instructional coaches' shelves.
Districts have poured billions into equity work for three decades, and the outcomes for Black, brown, Indigenous, and linguistically diverse students haven't moved. Zaretta Hammond says that's not a funding problem or an effort problem — it's a cognition problem, and most principals have never been trained to see it.
🫶 What You'll Learn
Why most equity initiatives never touch the instructional core
The real difference between information processing and executive function — and why leaders confuse the two
What cognition redlining looks like inside a compliance-driven classroom
How to introduce a new instructional practice without teachers abandoning it in six weeks
Why treating teachers as "personal trainers of cognition" changes everything about instructional leadership
🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules
🎯 Key Insight #1: Cognition Redlining Is Blocking Your Equity Work
What's broken: Schools chase equity through better relationships, high-quality materials, and effort — while the instructional core keeps underdeveloping students' actual thinking capacity.
The shift: Treat teachers as the personal trainer of a student's cognition — coaching and assessing, not doing the thinking for them.
Impact: Students move from being managed through lessons to actually building the learning power that raises achievement.
💥 Key Insight #2: Information Processing Is Not Executive Function
What's broken: Leaders default to teaching study skills, binder organization, and time management, assuming that builds understanding — it doesn't.
The shift: Explicitly teach students how to turn new, random information into meaning-laden, usable knowledge — a distinct skill from staying organized.
Impact: Students stop being "dutiful" task-completers and start being able to close their own knowledge gaps without a teacher hovering every ten minutes.
🚀 Key Insight #3: Scaling Change Requires the First Pancake
What's broken: Leaders launch new practices school-wide, all at once, out of urgency — then abandon them within weeks when they don't take.
The shift: Start with a small band of willing teachers, let the first attempt be imperfect, make adjustments, and expand concentrically over time.
Impact: Practices actually take hold instead of becoming one more initiative teachers quietly wait out.
🗣️ ZARETTA HAMMOND QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST
"Getting students through the lesson doesn't build their learning power. That's the trap."
— Zaretta Hammond
"The personal trainer doesn't do the push-ups for you. They assess you, design a program, and coach you through the obstacles."
— Zaretta Hammond
"Be closer to hearing students talk about their understanding. Not their look-busyness."
— Zaretta Hammond
"Information processing is not the same as executive function. An organized binder won't get you conceptual understanding."
— Zaretta Hammond
"Change takes a dip before it levels off. That first pancake is bad, but you don't shut the kitchen down."
— Zaretta Hammond
"You let go of one bar and hang in the air before you grab the other. If leaders can't hold that space, people go back to what wasn't working."
— Zaretta Hammond
"Instructional leadership is not instructional management. A pacing guide is management — a personal trainer gives you skills for outside the hour."
— Zaretta Hammond
"You have to set up a culture of errors before you ask students to struggle. Mistakes are data."
— Zaretta Hammond
🚵♀️ Your Do School Different Challenge
Ready to implement? Start here:
Tomorrow: Ask three students in one lesson to explain their thinking out loud instead of just showing you the answer.
This Month: Audit one schoolwide practice — like turn-and-talks or sentence starters — and ask whether it builds understanding or just looks busy.
This Semester: Pilot one new cognition-building practice with a small group of willing teachers before rolling it out to the whole building.
⏰ Episode Timestamps
00:00 - Why equity efforts keep missing the mark
05:05 - Naming cognition redlining in schools
07:25 - How equity work quietly lowers the bar
09:38 - What learning power actually means
13:46 - Measuring learning power instead of test scores
16:28 - Why compliance is baked into school DNA
20:17 - What true cognitive independence requires
26:26 - The seductive shortcuts that derail real change
30:00 - The first pancake theory of scaling change
31:58 - The Costco lesson on how change spreads
34:31 - The liminal space leaders must hold
40:38 - The brain science behind real progress
42:08 - Instructional leadership vs instructional management
44:52 - Zaretta's message for every school marquee
🔗 Connect With Zaretta Hammond
Website: https://ready4rigor.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaretta-hammond-2b122ba/
🎙️ Listen & Subscribe
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Meet Digital Danny — your SelfMentorship guide. Always available, never forgets, and evolves with you. Think through your next leadership move at myprincipalcoach.com
🫶 Today's RuckusCast Partners
ODP Business Solutions has spent 30 years helping schools move from whiteboards to smart boards. They don't just deliver supplies — they design dynamic, flexible learning spaces from a single supplier, so ordering and budgeting stay simple while you stay compliant with cooperative contracts.
🔎 Visit ODPbusiness.com/education to see what's possible for your campus.
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🔎 Download the full report at frontlineeducation.com/leaders
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META DESCRIPTION: Zaretta Hammond on cognition redlining, closing the learning power gap, and what real instructional equity looks like for principals. The Real Reason Principals Burn Out (And How to Fix It): Adorable Red Hats with Dan Watt
22/07/2026 | 52 mins.Running an elementary school in rural British Columbia hasn't stopped this Ruckus Maker from building an indoor worm farm, growing hydroponic lettuce, and taking a self-funded year off to reset — proof that a principal's personality is not a distraction from the job.
Dan Watt is a Mastermind Coach inside the Ruckus Maker community and a recurring co-host of the Ruckuscast, known for turning "pay yourself first" into a leadership philosophy that's kept him energized four years into the role.
Joining him is Mitch Weathers, CEO and author of Executive Functions for Every Classroom, whose work on entry plans and executive functioning has become required reading for school leaders trying to build systems that actually stick. Find them both at betterleadersbetterschools.com.
Principal burnout doesn't start with too many emails — it starts the moment you decide the job requires you to leave your actual personality at the door. This episode is an Adorable Red Hats reunion where two veteran school leaders make the case that worm farms, hydroponics, and paying yourself first aren't distractions from leadership — they're the thing that makes it sustainable.
📚 What You'll Learn
How bringing real hobbies into your building turns staff and students into willing "conspirators" instead of compliant bystanders.
Why "pay yourself first" works as both a financial strategy and a burnout-prevention system for principals.
What a self-funded sabbatical actually looks like, and how to plan one even without full district support.
How the Harada Method turns a single big goal into a flexible daily practice instead of another thing to fail at.
Why trying to please every stakeholder is the fastest way to lose the ones who matter most.
✍️ Breaking Down the Old Rules
☝ Key Insight #1: Why Bringing Your Personality to School Prevents Principal Burnout
What's broken: Principals believe professionalism means suppressing personal interests to look serious and in control.
The shift: Ruckus Makers build hobbies like worm farms and hydroponics directly into the school day and invite students, staff, and families in.
Impact: A classroom of second graders now runs a full worm-composting system, a school secretary bought her own home worm bin after watching it happen, and a principal four years into the role reports feeling joyful instead of burned out.
☝️Key Insight #2: The "Pay Yourself First" Framework for Principal Wellness
What's broken: School leaders wait for the district to hand them time off or wellness support, and it rarely comes on its own.
The shift: Treat rest like a budget line — reduce your income by a set percentage for a few years to fund a planned sabbatical, the same way businesses run "Profit First."
Impact: One principal banked a full year of paid leave after three years of reduced income, came back four years later still sustainable in the role, and never had to choose between burning out and quitting.
☝️Key Insight #3: Why the Harada Method Beats a Rigid Self-Care Routine
What's broken: Traditional self-care plans demand daily perfection — miss one gym day and the whole system feels like it failed.
The shift: The Harada Method sets one long-term "super goal" surrounded by a flexible menu of daily habit options instead of a mandatory checklist.
Impact: Leaders report steady forward progress on wellness goals without the guilt spiral that kills most New Year's-style resolutions by February.
🫶 DANNY BAUER, DAN WATT & MITCH WEATHERS QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST
"Most school leaders think professionalism means leaving their personality at the door."
— Danny Bauer
"The best schools aren't run by heroes. They're run by leaders who know how to enroll conspirators."
— Danny Bauer
"It becomes the work. It makes the work sustainable because folks are having fun showing up."
— Dan Watt
"It's a human system and it's prioritizing human well being."
— Dan Watt
"When I write those newsletters on Sunday, I try to write them with a smile on my face."
— Dan Watt
"Are we prepared to lessen the amount of content we teach in order to provide more meaningful learning experiences that have a greater chance of leading to deeper learning, increased storage and long term memory, and the acquisition of new skills?"
— Mitch Weathers
"If school leaders put into action the entry plan carefully outlined in this book, the stress they are used to carrying into the school year will vanish."
— Mitch Weathers
🚵♀️ Your Do School Different Challenge
Ready to implement? Start here:
Tomorrow: Pick one personal hobby you've been keeping separate from work and find five minutes today to bring a piece of it into your building.
This Month: Draft a "pay yourself first" plan — even a small one — mapping how many months of reduced spending would fund a real break from the job.
This Semester: Build your own Harada-style template: one super goal, a ring of supporting pillars, and a flexible daily habit menu you check instead of chase perfection on.
⌚️ Episode Timestamps
00:00 - Why professionalism doesn't mean losing your personality
04:24 - The Adorable Red Hats reunion kicks off
05:36 - Dan Watt's self-funded year-long leave story
09:29 - Bringing hobbies back into the building
12:41 - Inside the classroom worm farm and compost system
17:33 - Enrolling conspirators instead of managing compliance
19:47 - Pay yourself first, financially and figuratively
24:55 - Figuring out what actually fills your cup
26:09 - The Harada Method and the Resilient Leader program
33:29 - Why trying to please everyone backfires
39:54 - Dan Watt on rediscovering his mojo
42:27 - Mitch Weathers on his new book and tour
48:02 - Closing takeaways on joyful leadership
🔗 Connect With Dan Watt & Mitch Weathers
👩🏻💻 Mitch Weathers
Website: organizedbinder.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mitchweathers
👩🏻💻 Dan Watt:
Website: https://www.danwattcoaching.ca/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danwatt57
🎙️ Listen & Subscribe
Listen to Better Leaders Better Schools on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts. If today's episode moved you, leave a review — it helps more Ruckus Makers find the show.
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🫶 Today's RuckusCast Partners
ODP Business Solutions has been the trusted supply partner for schools for 30 years — and they've moved way past pencils and paper. Want to turn a tired computer lab into a STEAM innovation center, or upgrade every classroom from whiteboards to interactive displays? Their team designs it, and you order it all from a single supplier with access to cooperative contracts that simplify budgeting and keep you compliant.
⚡️ Learn more at ODPbusiness.com/education
Frontline Education's 2026 K12 Lens report tracked how professional learning design connects to staffing stability across districts — and the findings are a wake-up call for anyone planning next year's PD calendar. Districts with structured, individually targeted professional growth report easier hiring; nearly half of districts using software to manage that growth say hiring has gotten easier, compared to just 30% of districts that don't.
⚡️ Download the full report at frontlineeducation.com/leaders
IXL is the adaptive platform teachers already trust to make differentiated instruction simple — and for Ruckus Makers, it does even more. Its dashboard gives school leaders a real-time pulse on student performance, drillable down to the individual student, with reports you can customize to whatever matters most to your building.
⚡️ Get started today at ixl.com/leaders
META DESCRIPTION: Why principal burnout starts with hiding your personality at work — and how pay yourself first and the Harada Method fix it.- Confidence as a principal isn't something you're born with — it's something you build. I've been asking new Mastermind members and Digital Danny users why they're signing up, and I keep hearing the same thing: they're working on their confidence. Most won't say it out loud. Most think their doubt means they're not cut out for this.
That's the pattern I'm noticing. Here are three concrete practices — starting with a 90-second daily routine — that transform how you show up next year. You'll stop questioning every decision. You'll start trusting your gut. You'll lead like you mean it.
THINK THROUGH YOUR NEXT LEADERSHIP MOVE
https://myprincipalcoach.com — your AI-powered principal coach, available 24/7.
⌚️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Cold open: Building confidence with an unconventional story
01:57 - Why so many principals struggle with self-doubt
03:41 - Method 1: The EPS Journal for a 90-second daily boost
05:17 - How the EPS Journal builds your personal highlight reel
07:02 - Method 2: Watch the language that sabotages your confidence
08:47 - Common self-sabotaging phrases principals use
10:42 - Method 3: Stop leading in isolation
12:42 - Why doing leadership alone is holding you back
14:25 - Digital Danny: Your AI-powered principal coach
15:25 - The Mastermind: Weekly support and peer mentorship
16:19 - Options to build confidence this summer
CONNECT & CONTINUE
WHENEVER YOU ARE READY, HERE'S 3 WAYS TO HELP YOU DO SCHOOL DIFFERENT:
Start chatting with Digital Danny: https://myprincipalcoach.com/
Apply to the mastermind: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mastermind
Email to work 1-on-1 with Danny: danny@betterleadersbetterschools.com
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