The School Perceptions Podcast

A summary of a summer's worth of research on all of our climate surveys and what they mean for the outcomes that districts and states tend to track, with a bonus section on Wisconsin referendums -- what impacts they...

Dr. Ashley Carey joins us to talk about her recently-published study on students' experience of the Covid years. Tracking student survey data across six years and nearly 100,000 survey responses from Massachusetts...

This week, Mia Trippi , Senior Director of Public Affairs at Mueller Communications , joins us to unpack how public institutions build — and lose — the trust that makes hard conversations possible. She talks about why...

We're not out of the nerd woods yet, folks! Continuing in our summer deep-dive series into our own survey data, today we're testing candidate predictors of teacher retention. We have now sorted through literally every...

Across every kind of district, "Our school's discipline policies and practices are effective" remains one of the lowest-ranked items on our staff surveys. It's been that way for five years (at least). Even as the...

By popular demand (as measured by frequently-asked questions), I invited Rob DeMeuse and Scott Girard to stop by the old podcast studio to talk a little bit about the survey methodology we use, and why we use it rather...

Jeremy Singer , professor at University of Michigan-Flint, talks to us about his exhaustive study of how principals are stemming the tide of absenteeism -- what's proving effective, and what isn't? (It's a big deal! The...

With a host of new school board members taking their seats after April elections, Mike Barry and Danielle Bosanec of WASBO stopped by to talk about what makes school finance difficult to understand, what sorts of...

Jack Schneider joins us from UMass-Amherst to talk about what community members have to offer local schools beyond tax dollars, and what schools have to offer community members beyond test scores (to coin a phrase). You...

Cara Jackson , recent President of the Association of Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), joins us to talk about her presidential essay and what she's learned over two decades of work in the "evidence-informed...

Professor Jay Plasman, of Ohio State, joins us to talk about a recent report he published with the Fordham Institute , entitled "College or Career Readiness: Postsecondary and Labor Market Outcomes for Ohio High School...

Superintendent Kyle Luedtke, of Frederic, joins the podcast today to talk through his well-honed approach to improving staff engagement, and using that positivity to drive educational growth.

Our VP of research stops by the podcast to talk about what happened in Wisconsin referendums in the Spring of 2026. How did this April compare to previous Aprils? What trends are we seeing? What does it all mean? I...

Bob Soldner sits down with Derek to talk about the processes, actors, and decisions involved when Wisconsin school districts need to fold or join their neighbors in order to provide a quality education. What role do...

Veteran guests Ross Herdina and Dennis Pauli are back with us in this episode to talk us through The strategic challenges school districts are facing How facilitated planning processes can help How facilitation works in...