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Your Morning Boost - Starting with a Burst: Kickstarting Parent Engagement with Shaka Mitchell

From Your Morning Boost: A School Leadership Podcast · Hosted by

2025-09-11·06:31

Episode summary

In this episode of Your Morning Boost: A School Leadership Podcast: Welcome back to Your Morning Boost! Our guest, Shaka Mitchell, returns today to share a powerful concept for school leaders: "starting with a burst. " Building on the previous days' discussions on identifying goals, studying bright spots, and targeting constraints, Shaka now advocates for an intense period of focused work at the beginning of the school year.

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Welcome back to Your Morning Boost! Our guest, Shaka Mitchell, returns today to share a powerful concept for school leaders: "starting with a burst." Building on the previous days' discussions on identifying goals, studying bright spots, and targeting constraints, Shaka now advocates for an intense period of focused work at the beginning of the school year. He draws an analogy from the tech world's "design sprint" and applies it to education, suggesting a dramatic action like home visits. Shaka…