The Leading Learning Podcast

Jocelyn Seamer

This podcast is for school leaders who are ready to level up and scale their school improvement journey.

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  1. 20. Juni

    S1 E8 - The Instructional Principle That Can Change Everything

    In this episode, Jocelyn tackles one important question: Do your students have the prerequisite knowledge for this learning? The spread of answers reveals whether a school is focused on delivering content or ensuring students actually learn. Key points include: Introducing content does not equal learning it.Overload drives behaviour issues.Reframing the teacher's role, from "deliverer of content" to "engineer of student success."Listening, not blaming.

    19 Min.

  2. 13. Juni

    S1 E7 - We've Done the PL, but Our Team Can't Get Started

    In this episode, Jocelyn explores why new teaching practices often fail to take hold after professional learning sessions, and how giving teachers one clear, concrete starting point - rather than open-ended freedom - better supports beginners in building consistent, effective habits.

    16 Min.

  3. 6. Juni

    S1 E6 - Data, Data Everywhere: But Learning Still Won't Stick

    In this episode, Jocelyn explores how to close the gap between assessment data and classroom instruction. She argues that diagnostic and formative assessment need to be built directly into school-wide systems, not treated as separate from planning, and offers three practical questions and simple tools to help leaders and teachers make data actually drive what happens in classrooms.

    21 Min.

  4. 30. Mai

    S1 E5 - The Real Work Begins Where the Program Runs Out

    Jocelyn reflects on what happens when a well-built instructional program stops providing answers, and what leadership teams must do next. This episode explores the difference between building a minimum viable system and the deeper, more demanding work of continuous improvement, offering practical frameworks for diagnosing why a subset of students isn't progressing and how to design targeted responses grounded in evidence rather than chasing new programs.

    28 Min.

  5. 23. Mai

    S1 E4 - Why Teachers 'Go Rogue'

    In this episode, Jocelyn explores why instructional initiatives lose consistency during implementation, and offers a practical five-step framework to reset and strengthen practice across a school.

    20 Min.

  6. 16. Mai

    S1 E3 - Who Makes Decisions in Your School?

    Today's episode forcuses on school leadership, exploring who truly holds decision-making power in school improvement... and why it matters. Jocelyn unpacks how even capable leaders accidentally hand over authority through outsourcing to consultants, blindly following system guidance, or over-delegating to staff.

    35 Min.

  7. 2. Mai

    S1 E2 - How to Steer Clear of Bright and Shiny Things

    In this second episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, Jocelyn explores how school leaders can avoid the trap of chasing every new initiative and instead make strategic, high-impact decisions.  Drawing on Jim Collins' Hedgehog Principle from Good to Great, she introduces the NICE framework a practical four-part test to help leaders evaluate new work before committing to it.  Whether you're weighing a new program, platform, or approach, NICE gives you the discipline to say no to the bright and shiny so you can say yes to what genuinely moves the needle for students.

    26 Min.

  8. 7. Apr.

    S1 E1 - Launching the Leading Learning Podcast

    What does it actually take to lead school improvement that sticks? In this first episode, Jocelyn introduces the Leading Learning Podcast by sharing the leadership journey that shaped everything she now believes about what schools need. From corporate training rooms to a remote Northern Territory classroom, to leading small and complex schools as a full-time teaching principal — and later a school of over 500 students in an extremely complex setting — Jocelyn traces the three things she had to learn the hard way: how to communicate differently with different people, how adults actually experience change, and how to build a school culture deliberately rather than hope it emerges. The thesis of the show in one line: this is fixable.

    21 Min.
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This podcast is for school leaders who are ready to level up and scale their school improvement journey.

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    Jocelyn Seamer
  • Jahre aktiv
    2026
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    8
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