Episode Details

Michael Lehan competed for six years in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns before getting tapped to become a dean of students and assistant principal for the Osseo Area Schools, and then principal of Osseo Senior High School, which he guided to its first ranking as one of "The Best High Schools" in the nation by US News and World Report. In February 2022, he was named IMG Academy's head of school, where he oversees, organizes, and grows the world-renowned school's academic programs while assisting with various aspects of its athletic program.

Show Highlights

• Stop stealing the identity of your student athletes with tips to transform from being an athlete and a scholar, to a scholar athlete.

• Reframing and reconditioning minds to avoid discrediting what is inherently brilliant in your students.

• Dive in and access untapped rigor and avoid limiting opportunities.

• Know the difference between windows and mirrors to avoid putting productive tension on yourself and others.

• Know what necessary static and unnecessary static is to reach meaningful outcomes for your learning community.

• Allow students to fail safely by building cognitive endurance to hone in on what is important.

• Check out IMG's resources and training to build capacity and ownership and avoid empathy fatigue.

"As educators, we wanna put a reflection of our students inside the curriculum, and give them opportunities to expand beyond what their lived experience is. A global perspective is gold."

-Michael Lehan

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