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This mini-book is read to you by Digital Danny. (If reading is more your style — or you want to follow along with all the frameworks, tools, and resources — you can read the written version here.)
School leadership development fails most principals by design.
Here’s the doctrine Ruckus Makers use instead — and why it changes everything.
Self-mentorship is what separates principals who end the year asking great questions from those who end it relieved it’s over.
Kory Kane had 910 conversations with Digital Danny in five months — with a version of the tool that wasn’t even fully built yet. Nobody told him to. Nobody gave him a roadmap. He just decided his development was his responsibility. That decision is the practice.
The five practices inside: the accountability mirror, daily reflection, finding your mirror people, expanding your inputs beyond education, and designing a system that makes growth compound instead of staying random.
⌚️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The principal who named a category
00:51 - What permission-based development costs you
06:04 - The real development gap in school leadership
07:58 - How the principal pipeline was designed to fail
09:52 - Play-it-Safe Principals vs Ruckus Makers
13:37 - What self-mentorship actually is
15:28 - Self-mentorship in practice
22:47 - Practice 1: The accountability mirror
24:38 - Practice 2: Daily reflection system
26:31 - Practice 3: Finding your mirror people
27:22 - Practice 4: Expand beyond the education echo chamber
31:08 - Practice 5: Design your own development system
32:57 - Using AI as a self-mentorship tool
37:19 - The decision that changes everything
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