“How to Run Meetings People Love (Using the 5-3-1 Framework)”

OFF CAMPUS

• 🎙️ 80/20: Students are with you 20% of their waking hours. Listen here to leverage the other 80%.

• 🍿Grab your popcorn: This is a great video. It’s about how leaders can earn respect.

• 🧱 Block Head: How do you handle direct reports who don’t “get it.” Doesn’t happen only in schools. Check out this discussion.

• 🫣 Drop the slides. Tell great stories if you want to create buy in. Here’s the best book I’ve ever read on storytelling.

DO SCHOOL DIFFERENT

Is the Ruckus Maker Mastermind Right For You?

Spring is the season of renewal. It's budget time and the most effective principals are setting the stage for transformative growth next year. Meanwhile, Play-It-Safe-Principals remain stuck in the status quo.

Here are 10 questions that will help you decide if The Ruckus Maker Mastermind is right for you:

• Do you feel like you're leading in isolation, with no one who truly understands your challenges?

• Is creating a legendary campus experience something you dream about, but never have the support to execute?

• Do you seek validation for your innovative ideas but have no peers to bounce them off?

• Are you planning your budget but unsure how to allocate resources for maximum impact next year?

• Do you crave meaningful connections with other visionary principals who are reimagining education?

• Are you tired of fighting the traditional system alone when you know students deserve better?

• Have you endured one-size-fits-all professional development that leaves you more frustrated than inspired?

• Have you made promising shifts on your campus, only to have self-doubt creep in when challenges arise?

• Are you hungry for proven frameworks that other innovative leaders are using to transform their schools?

• Do you long for a community that celebrates your wins and helps you troubleshoot your failures?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you're not alone.

Because the 50 Ruckus Makers in our mastermind all faced these exact same challenges. And found their breakthrough.

The Ruckus Maker Mastermind eliminates each of these roadblocks. When you join, you'll get:

• Peer-to-peer coaching

• Insights into how other innovators think

• Solutions to your biggest challenges

• Encouragement and energy to keep going

• Ideas and practical tools to Do School Different

• Access to the Ruckus Maker Flywheel

And more ...

And in case you're still wondering if this experience is right for you...

Here are the 3 most common "archetypes" of school leaders who thrive in our mastermind:

• The Lonely Leader: You're surrounded by people all day, but have nowhere to turn for help. You need a trusted circle of peers who can validate your ideas or poke holes in them without judgment.

• The Vision-Driven Principal: You know WHAT you want to accomplish, but you struggle with HOW. You need a strategic sounding board to refine your approach.

• The Growth-Minded Innovator: You refuse to be another forgettable principal. You want to build a campus experience worth showing up for – and need support to make that vision reality.

If you identify with any of these archetypes, The Ruckus Maker Mastermind could be exactly what you need.

Our community will help you make shifts:

• FROM isolation TO connection.

• FROM idea TO reality.

• FROM low-impact TO legendary.

• FROM old, traditional, and broken TO new, different, and creative.

The mastermind model meets you where you're at and helps you get to where you are going. The curriculum is you.

School leaders should get personalized support. Not what the district thinks you need. Not support that's Too-Little-Too-Late, Unhelpful, or Disconnected.

Experience Relevant, Responsive, and Results-Oriented Professional Development.

There's a reason why 90% of our members renew each year.

Set yourself up for success next year. What is possible with world-class support?

ALBA

I was playing with ChatGPT to make a toy model of myself and Alba. I don’t know who the guy is supposed to be, but I like how Alba turned out. I wonder if she’s agree with me.

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The Decision That Separates Legendary Principals From Ones That Vanish Into History.

I'm about to tell you something that might make you uncomfortable: 82% of school leaders will end 2025 exactly where they started it. Same problems. Same frustrations. Same results.

But not you. Not if you join the Ruckus Maker Mastermind this spring.

The Ruckus Makers who create legendary campus experiences all made ONE decision differently: they invested in themselves when others wouldn't.

Now accepting new members into our flagship coaching experience.

You deserve world-class support. What do you want your legacy to be?

Keep Making a Ruckus,

Danny

PS … The most successful principals I've coached all share one trait – they don't wait for permission to level up. When our members were asked what they regretted most, 91% said "not joining sooner." The other 9%? They said "not signing up my team." Decide now which group you'll join. Apply to the mastermind today!