by Chanie Wilschanski
If you are an Early Childhood director or childcare owner, prepare to transform your school and life with the Schools of Excellence podcast. Tune in each week to learn from Chanie Wilschanski, the founder and host of the Schools of Excellence Podcast and a mom of 4 little kids. Each episode will be packed with tools and strategies - equipping school leaders to improve staff retention, increase teacher motivation, grow parent partnerships, create a collaborative culture, and enjoy a beautiful quality of life. Every week, Chanie shares the truth about childcare and early childhood school leadership for those striving towards excellence. If you are an early childhood or childcare school leader looking for strategies to grow your school, that are working TODAY, The Schools of Excellence Podcast is for you. In addition to weekly solo episodes, she'll also be inviting childcare and early childhood industry leaders to discuss the most pressing issues facing school leaders today. Don't miss an episode; subscribe today for everything you need for your school leadership journey!
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April 21, 2025
<p>If drama keeps showing up in your school—it’s not a people problem, it’s a design problem.</p><p> In this episode, Chanie unpacks how school leaders can move from managing chaos to designing a culture where drama simply can’t survive.</p><p>Using real (anonymized) stories from our work with school leaders, Chanie breaks down five signs of drama-fueled leadership—like gossip, victimhood, and constant complaining—and how they drain emotional and mental energy from your team.</p><p>Then, she offers clear tools to shift out of drama and into drama-free leadership that is grounded in emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and values-driven culture design.</p><h3>💡 What You’ll Learn:</h3><ul><li>Why gossip, complaining, and victimhood are not just annoying—but culture-damaging</li><li>How your personal habits around gossip and blame directly impact your school culture</li><li>What it really takes to shift from reactive leadership to intentional design</li><li>The secret to changing team behavior: start with your own</li></ul><br/><p>Drama-free leadership isn’t about control—it’s about clarity.</p><p>Let’s build a school culture where trust, ownership, and excellence are the norm.</p><p><a href="https://hub.schoolsofexcellence.com/fivegears" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download</strong></a><strong> your free 5 Gears Diagnostic to pinpoint exactly where drama is showing up—and where to start transforming your culture. </strong>https://hub.schoolsofexcellence.com/fivegears</p><p><br></p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>5 Gears Diagnostic</strong></p><p>Take the 5 Gears Diagnostic today!</p><p><a href="https://schools-of-excellence.captivate.fm/fivegears">5 Gears Diagnostic</a></p><p><strong>Profit & Growth Call</strong></p><p>Book your Profit & Growth Call today!</p><p><a href="https://schools-of-excellence.captivate.fm/profit">Profit & Growth Call</a></p>
April 9, 2025
<p>What if you had a Culture Decoder — a way to see exactly why your school feels stuck in constant chaos?</p><p>Every day, you're bombarded with decisions, interruptions, and team confusion. It's not just exhausting — it's cultural.</p><p> The truth is, your school culture runs on hidden systems. And when those systems are reactive and unclear, maintenance becomes a drain instead of a strength.</p><p>In the fourth episode of the 5 Gears series, we unlock the <strong>Culture Decoder</strong> hidden inside the Maintenance Gear.</p><p><strong>What you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li>How your daily operations reveal your real culture — and what it’s trying to tell you</li><li>The difference between reactive maintenance and culture-building systems</li><li>How to identify which tasks you shouldn’t be doing anymore</li><li>The mindset shift that allows leaders to stop operating from urgency</li><li>Why decoding your maintenance practices gives you a blueprint for sustainable growth</li></ul><br/><p>This episode is your guide to becoming the kind of leader who doesn’t just maintain — but transforms.</p><p><a href="https://hub.schoolsofexcellence.com/fivegears" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download your 5 Gears Diagnostic here</strong></a><strong>! It only takes 10 minutes and will show you exactly which gear you need to focus on to create momentum across your entire school. </strong>https://hub.schoolsofexcellence.com/fivegears</p><p><br></p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>5 Gears Diagnostic</strong></p><p>Take the 5 Gears Diagnostic today!</p><p><a href="https://schools-of-excellence.captivate.fm/fivegears">5 Gears Diagnostic</a></p><p><strong>Profit & Growth Call</strong></p><p>Book your Profit & Growth Call today!</p><p><a href="https://schools-of-excellence.captivate.fm/profit">Profit & Growth Call</a></p>
April 7, 2025
<p>The sixth and final episode in the 5 Gears series, today’s episode focuses on the Strategic Growth Gear. This episode looks a little different from others in the series because strategic growth is not just about building other systems or how to optimize other systems — it's about really understanding when and how to expand your impact.</p><p><strong>You’ll learn the four distinct paths of growth:</strong></p><ol><li><strong>Internal – Strengthening what you already have. This can look like creating leadership pipelines or enhancing your current programs. </strong></li><li><strong>External – Your traditional market expansion. It includes opening up new locations, expanding to new neighborhoods, and creating pop-up programs.</strong></li><li><strong>Vertical – Increasing your depth of impact. This is about adding advanced programs and extending your services.</strong></li><li><strong>Horizontal – Broadening your impact through new revenue streams. It could be creating new training programs, developing new educational materials, or taking things that you've done and actually writing curriculum books.</strong></li></ol><br/><p><strong>💡Important → Choosing the wrong path is not just ineffective. It can actually destabilize every single thing that you've built.</strong></p><p>Book your <a href="https://schoolsofexcellence.com/profit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Profit and Growth Call here</a> to determine which path is right for your strategic growth. https://schoolsofexcellence.com/profit</p><p>Download your 5 Gears Diagnostic <a href="https://schoolsofexcellence.com/gearsquiz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>! It only takes 10 minutes and will show you exactly which gear you need to focus on to create momentum across your entire school. https://schoolsofexcellence.com/gearsquiz</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>Profit & Growth Call</strong></p><p>Book your Profit & Growth Call today!</p><p><a href="https://schools-of-excellence.captivate.fm/profit">Profit & Growth Call</a></p><p><strong>5 Gears Diagnostic</strong></p><p>Take the 5 Gears Diagnostic today!</p><p><a href="https://schools-of-excellence.captivate.fm/fivegears">5 Gears Diagnostic</a></p>
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