Drama-Free Schools Start With Design, Not Discipline
If drama keeps showing up in your school—it’s not a people problem, it’s a design problem.
In this episode, Chanie unpacks how school leaders can move from managing chaos to designing a culture where drama simply can’t survive.
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.
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.
💡 What You’ll Learn:
- Why gossip, complaining, and victimhood are not just annoying—but culture-damaging
- How your personal habits around gossip and blame directly impact your school culture
- What it really takes to shift from reactive leadership to intentional design
- The secret to changing team behavior: start with your own
Drama-free leadership isn’t about control—it’s about clarity.
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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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