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The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast | The #1 Downloaded School Leadership Show

Daniel Bauer

Booking Overview

An interview-led K-12 education leadership show focused on principals, school culture, decision-making, creativity, and sustainable administration, with recurring guests who are school leaders, education researchers, authors, and nonprofit education executives. Agencies could credibly pitch experienced principals, education authors and researchers, school-culture specialists, and leaders of education-focused organizations; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need substantial leadership experience or recognized subject expertise.

Metrics

Episodes: 300

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 850 subscribers

Instagram: 1.7k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

daniel@betterleadersbetterschools.com

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Host

Daniel Bauer - School leadership coach, author, and host focused on helping K-12 principals and other education leaders challenge conventional practices and build stronger school communities.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Experienced K-12 principals and school leaders, education researchers and authors, school-culture or student-behavior specialists, and executives or policy leaders at education-focused organizations.
Required Achievements:  
Senior leadership roles in schools or education organizations, Published books or established research in education and leadership, Development of recognized education frameworks, programs, or professional-learning systems, Demonstrated improvements in school culture, staff stability, decision-making, or student outcomes

Recent Guest Discussions

Susan Riley - Building Creativity As A Trainable System, The Four Branches Of Creativity, Creative Habits, AI And Critical Thinking, And Designing School Environments That Support Creative Work.

Kati Cahill - Delegation, Documenting School Processes, Leading Without An Assistant Principal, Admissions And Scheduling Systems, Staff Morale, And Sustainable School Leadership.

Bill Renner - Using AI Thoughtfully In Leadership, Slowing Down Before Making Changes At A New School, Reflective Decision-making, Staff Support, And Leading With Purpose And Joy.

Sarah Sicht - Adult-first Approaches To Student Behavior, Teacher And Parent Relationships, Staff Regulation, School Culture, And Improving Outcomes Without Changing The Student Population.

Jill Molli - Adult Self-regulation, School Discipline, The SAFE Framework, School Culture, And Changing Student Behavior By Changing Adult Practices.

Recent Topics

Education, School Leadership, K 12 Education, School Culture, Student Behavior

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast | The #1 Downloaded School Leadership Show
:

Why "Just Be Resilient" Is Burning Out Your Staff with Steph Hawkins

September 30, 2026

Teacher burnout won't be fixed with more grit. When resilience becomes the plan, schools stop redesigning the work that's draining staff. Teacher burnout and staff wellbeing get the headlines, but school leaders are missing two quieter problems: toxic resilience and bore out. Steph Hawkins, founder of Well Well Well, brings two decades of leadership across the UK and internationally, plus postgraduate work in applied positive psychology. She explains how "just dig deeper" became the bridge be...

Why Classroom Management Is Killing Student Leadership with Rachael Thrash

September 27, 2026

Leads education and innovation at Big Bad Boo Studios, where she builds multicultural animated content that helps kids navigate conflict, identity, and belonging. Rachael Thrash has spent 25 years designing curriculum and student leadership systems in international and public schools, from Helsinki to Portland, Maine. Her book, Let the Learners Lead, gives school leaders a field-tested toolkit for turning students from passengers into co-owners of their school culture. Most classroom manageme...

The 4 Branches of Creativity Most School Leaders Ignore with Susan Riley

September 23, 2026

Creativity in schools isn't about talent, it's a system. Budget cuts and constraints make your team more creative, not less.Creativity in schools gets treated like an elective — something reserved for art class and cut the moment budgets tighten. Creativity researcher and author Susan Riley joins the show to make the case that creativity is a trainable system every school leader can build, not a talent some people have and others don't. Susan breaks creativity into four branches — creative sk...

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