Episode Details

Sharon Jayakumar owns a Reggio-inspired school of nearly 200 children in Philadelphia and a few years ago, she almost walked away from all of it. Not because her school was failing. Because growing without infrastructure was taking everything she had.

In this episode, Sharon and Chanie talk about what changed when she stopped going it alone. Key topics include:

• Building infrastructure that holds as your school grows
• What standards actually are -- and how to return to them after drift
• How one month of one-on-ones eliminated call-outs at her school
• Why buy-in comes after deployment, not before
• What it looks like to hire from a place of partnership instead of rescue

If you have been asking whether your school can ever really run without you, this one is for you.

Resources Mentioned:

• This Can't Be Normal by Chanie Wilschanski: https://thiscantbenormal.com
• Access Chapter One of This Can’t Be Normal for Free: https://thiscantbenormal.com/chapter-one

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