{"podcast":{"title":"Leaning into Leadership","slug":"leaning-into-leadership-4658926","podcast_index_feed_id":4658926,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/leaning-into-leadership/","website_url":"https://leaning-into-leadership.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/26612668-4329-493a-9769-3d139ea604b8/oY99Rab2W7NdcuUukmAYxLbN.jpg","author":"Darrin Peppard","episode_count":302,"summary":"We all want to see successes in both our personal and professional lives. Often, that requires strong leadership. In a time when leadership can be more challenging than ever, this podcast is dedicated to cultivating leaders by elevating the voices of leaders and promoting positivity. Join Dr. Darrin Peppard, lifelong educator and best-selling author, for this mixed platform podcast (some solo, some guest interview) for inspiration and insight, and some great leadership stories from those are living it, excelling at it, and celebrating it. Together, let's lean into leadership.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-27T16:17:33.437833+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 296: Beyond Compliance - Building Classrooms Where Students Want to Engage","slug":"episode-296-beyond-compliance-building-classrooms-where-students-want-to-engage","published_at":"2026-08-30T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926/episode-296-beyond-compliance-building-classrooms-where-students-want-to-engage","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926","url":"https://leaning-into-leadership.captivate.fm/episode/episode-296-beyond-compliance-building-classrooms-where-students-want-to-engage","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3663d2c3-6e54-41ae-8248-224c6be88e47.mp3","summary":"What if the goal of great teaching isn’t getting students to comply, but creating the conditions where they genuinely want to engage? In this episode of Leaning Into Leadership , Dr. Darrin Peppard sits down with educator, school leader, author, and founder of Terry Leadership Group, Kendall Terry , for a conversation about what happens when schools stop focusing primarily on what teachers are doing and start paying closer attention to what students are actually learning. Kendall shares his experience helping build Clayton-Bradley Academy from its early years and the unique opportunity that came with designing educational systems from the ground up. Rather than inheriting decades of “this is how we’ve always done it,” Kendall and his colleagues were able to ask a different question: What does research tell us about how the brain learns, and how should that change what happens in our classrooms? That question eventually helped shape the Learning-Centered School Model , where the learner—not the teacher, the curriculum, or the test—is at the center of instructional decisions. Kendall and Darrin explore what that actually looks like in practice, from something as simple as welcoming every student into the classroom to making learning relevant, interactive, safe, and meaningful. The conversation then moves into Kendall’s BRACE Framework , five conditions that can dramatically influence engagement: B — Belonging: Students and teachers need to know they are valued and that their voices matter. R — Relevance: Learners need to understand what they are learning and why it matters. A — Agency: Students and teachers need autonomy, ownership, and opportunities to create, try, fail, and try again. C — Challenge: Learning should stretch people appropriately while providing the suppo…","meta_description":"What if the goal of great teaching isn’t getting students to comply, but creating the conditions where they genuinely want to engage? In this episode of L…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2118,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leaning-into-leadership-4658926/episodes/episode-296-beyond-compliance-building-classrooms-where-students-want-to-engage/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926/episode-296-beyond-compliance-building-classrooms-where-students-want-to-engage.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}