Decoding Your School Culture
What if you had a Culture Decoder — a way to see exactly why your school feels stuck in constant chaos?
Every day, you’re bombarded with decisions, interruptions, and team confusion. It’s not just exhausting — it’s cultural.
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.
In the fourth episode of the 5 Gears series, we unlock the Culture Decoder hidden inside the Maintenance Gear.
What you’ll learn:
- How your daily operations reveal your real culture — and what it’s trying to tell you
- The difference between reactive maintenance and culture-building systems
- How to identify which tasks you shouldn’t be doing anymore
- The mindset shift that allows leaders to stop operating from urgency
- Why decoding your maintenance practices gives you a blueprint for sustainable growth
This episode is your guide to becoming the kind of leader who doesn’t just maintain — but transforms.
Discover your school's hidden breaking points
Stop Guessing & Start Knowing
with The 5 Gears Diagnostic
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More about the show:
If you are an Early Childhood director or 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 you to build schools with higher staff retention, teacher motivation, parent partnership, collaborative culture, and beautiful quality of life.
Every week, Chanie shares the truth about the journey to excellence, the strategies that are working TODAY, and the mindset about the critical decisions and choices that you make every day which impact yourself, your teachers, parents, family, and children who you serve every day.
In addition to weekly solo episodes, she’ll also be inviting industry leaders and the changing makers of the landscape of education to give listeners the inside knowledge of what it takes to sustain excellence.
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