Episodes
May 19, 2025
Overcoming Education and Leading Purposeful Teams with Dr. Brad Gustafson - Ep 37
Access a workshop guide to ensure you are truly engaging as a team - https://bit.ly/JLgroupteam This virtual summit is for educators, school leaders, and anyone else who wants to increase their impact on student success. Don'...
May 12, 2025
Apply What We Know About Classrooms to Transform Your Teams with Dan Thomas - Ep 36
Looking to design a space for adult collaboration? Access this FREE guide, which includes a checklist to reference when creating your space - https://bit.ly/spacechecklist In this episode of Building a Culture of Collaborati...
May 5, 2025
Multiple Lenses Lead to a Clear Vision for English Language Learners with Andrea Bitner - Ep 35
Access a workshop guide to help your teams craft effective goals to guide their collaborative work - https://bit.ly/jlgoals In this episode of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis are joined by Andrea Bitner...
April 28, 2025
Establishing Systems That Reinforce Relationships and Distributed Leadership with Principal JL - Ep 34
Access a workshop guide to help your team STOP focusing on things outside of our locus of control - https://bit.ly/JLlocus In this episode of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis are joined by Jeff Linden, pr...
April 21, 2025
Clear Expectations, Goals and Communication as Foundational for Team Success with Dr. Dana Goodier - Ep 33
Transform your team meetings with this FREE guide, including an agenda template you could begin using today - https://bit.ly/5planningteams In this episode of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis are joined b...
April 15, 2025
Exploring the Craft of Clarity to Support High Impact Collaboration w/ Casey Watts - Ep 32
Access this FREE guide for leaders for establishing and reinforcing team norms, complete with a process you could use tomorrow to create norms with your team - http://bit.ly/teamnormsguide In this episode of Building a Cultur...
April 7, 2025
Building a Data-Informed Culture of Collaboration with Jessica Lane - Ep 31
Access a FREE webinar to learn about 5 mistakes leaders make when organizing data for teams…and how to correct those mistakes - https://bit.ly/5mistakesdata In this episode of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Ku...
April 5, 2025
Exciting Changes Announcement
In this special bonus episode, Kurtis and Lorna share some exciting changes coming next week for both the Leading Collaborative Response and Building a Culture of Collaboration podcasts, including a visual rebranding, new rel...
March 22, 2025
Leading With Hope: Building a System of Self Efficacy with Dr. Brandi Kelly - Ep 30
Looking to transform your team meetings? Check out this FREE guide for leaders, which includes a ready to use meeting agenda and notes template - https://bit.ly/5planningteams In this episode of Building a Culture of Collabo...
March 8, 2025
Dos and Don’ts When Strengthening Team Dynamics with Lucas Clarke - Ep 29
Access a workshop guide to help your team STOP focusing on things outside of our locus of control - https://bit.ly/JLlocus In this episode of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis are joined by Lucas Clarke, a...
Feb. 22, 2025
Importance of Vulnerability When Building a Culture of Collaboration - Ep 28
This week's episode, Kurtis and Lorna discuss the importance of establishing a culture of collaboration that values and encourages vulnerability. Connected Resources: Blog - Embracing Vulnerability: A Cornerstone of Effective...
Feb. 8, 2025
Building Thriving Collaborative Cultures for Rural Education Success with Kevin Van Langen - Ep 27
Explore the book Collaborative Response by downloading the introduction for FREE https://bit.ly/CR-intro Access the FREE Transform Your Team Meetings guide, including a meeting agenda template to copy and begin using today - ...
Jan. 25, 2025
The Value of Piloting Ideas - Ep 26
Kurtis and Lorna explore the idea of piloting rather than full scale change in this episode of the Building a Culture of Collaboration podcast. Piloting provides the opportunity to work through ideas with a small group and to...
Jan. 11, 2025
The Connection Between Self-Care and Sustaining Cultures of Collaboration w/ Barb Flowers - Ep 25
Access the FREE Guide for Leaders to Develop and Reinforce Team Norms - https://www.jigsawlearningonline.com/team-norms-guide In episode 25 of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis and joined by Barb Flowers, ...
Dec. 14, 2024
Ep 24 - Empowered Educators: Leveraging High Impact Collaboration Structures and Processes with David K Richards
Access the free article Transform Your Team Meetings: Five Planning Considerations for Leaders , which includes an editable meeting notes template you could begin using immediately! https://bit.ly/5planningteams In episode 24...
Nov. 30, 2024
Are you a Firefighter or a Leader? Reflecting on Leading a Team
Access the FREE webinar “5 Mistakes Leaders Make When Organizing Data” - https://bit.ly/5mistakesdata Access FREE Webinar “10 Considerations To Transform Your Team Meetings” - https://bit.ly/top10-cr In this episode of Buildi...
Nov. 16, 2024
Why a Lead Team Matters for Leading Change
Access the Introducing Collaborative Response guide for leaders for FREE - https://bit.ly/top10-cr In Episode 22, Kurtis and Lorna discuss the impact of a lead team at the school level and the potential for growth through imp...
Nov. 2, 2024
Engaging External Team Members to Support Diverse Needs of Students with Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan
Become a JL Insider to receive this exclusive offer and to also access newly added resources and video content, advance notice for sessions/workshops, discounts for learning events and resources, plus so much more! https://b...
Oct. 19, 2024
The Three Fundamental Elements for High Performing Teams with David Burkus
Check out the FREE leadership guide Five Planning Considerations to Transform Your Team Meetings - https://bit.ly/5planningteams In episode 20 of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Kurtis is joined by David Burkus, a former...
Oct. 5, 2024
Why the Principal Matters When It Comes to Building High Impact Teams with William D Parker
Check out the FREE webinar 10 Considerations to Transform Your Team Meetings - https://bit.ly/transformteams In episode 19 of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Kurtis has the opportunity to connect with Will Parker, founde...
Sept. 21, 2024
Building a Collaborative Culture for Literacy Success with Mark Onuscheck and Jeanne Spiller
This episode is part of the 2024 “National Literacy Month with RIF” campaign, a partnership between the BE Podcast Network and Reading Is Fundamental . In episode 18 of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis ar...
Sept. 7, 2024
Summer Replay #1 Leading with Intentionality and Human Interconnectedness with Peter DeWitt & Michael Nelson - Ep 13
Access the FREE PDF article Five Planning Considerations to Transform Your Team Meetings - https://bit.ly/5planningteams In this replay, episode 13 of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Kurtis is joined by Peter DeWitt and ...
Aug. 24, 2024
Summer Replay #2 Stop Chairing Your Team Meetings - Focus on Facilitation - Ep 5
In this replay, episode 5 of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Kurtis and Lorna Hewson debunk the idea of chairing team meetings, focusing on an essential mindshift towards facilitating that has a tremendous impact on coll...
Aug. 10, 2024
Summer Replay #3 Collaboration - It’s Really All About Me with Grayson James - Ep 8
In this replay, episode 8 of Building a Culture of Collaboration, we interview Grayson James. Grayson has been coaching executives, boards and senior management teams improve their collaborative business performance for over ...