The Move Toward Podcast
Real conversations about what's in the way and what to do about it
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Most improvement efforts in organizations focus on the person displaying the problem. Move Toward: Unlocked is about what's underneath that person — the patterns, conditions, and systems that keep producing the same results no matter how hard everyone works.
Most improvement efforts in organizations focus on the person displaying the problem. Move Toward: Unlocked is about what's underneath that person — the patterns, conditions, and systems that keep producing the same results no matter how hard everyone works.
Each episode is 10–14 minutes. No ads, no lengthy intros. Just a specific idea, a real story, and something you can use.
Each episode is 10–14 minutes. No ads, no lengthy intros. Just a specific idea, a real story, and something you can use.
Episode 1: Assess. Uncover. Match. Monitor.
Most improvement efforts skip straight from identifying a problem to implementing a solution. The four steps in between are where real change happens. Assess. Uncover. Match. Monitor. This episode is about why skipping them leads to exhaustion, and what it looks like to do them well.
Most improvement efforts skip straight from identifying a problem to implementing a solution. The four steps in between are where real change happens. Assess. Uncover. Match. Monitor. This episode is about why skipping them leads to exhaustion, and what it looks like to do them well.
Read the blog: The Question Nobody is Asking
Read the blog: The Question Nobody is Asking
Companion to Podcast 1
by Jaye Barbeau read moreEpisode 2: Why Is This Happening In The First Place?
Most meetings are excellent at identifying who is struggling. They were never designed to ask why. This episode follows one story and the question nobody asked for over a year to show what changes when you shift from sorting people to understanding them.
Most meetings are excellent at identifying who is struggling. They were never designed to ask why. This episode follows one story and the question nobody asked for over a year to show what changes when you shift from sorting people to understanding them.
Read the blog: Why is this happening in the first place?
Read the blog: Why is this happening in the first place?
Companion to Podcast 2
by Jaye Barbeau read moreEpisode 3: Fix the Floor
When someone is struggling, the first instinct is to find that person and add support. But often the individual is struggling because the universal conditions underneath them are weak. This episode makes the case — through Jaye's own story as a first-year teacher — for fixing the floor before you fix the person.
When someone is struggling, the first instinct is to find that person and add support. But often the individual is struggling because the universal conditions underneath them are weak. This episode makes the case — through Jaye's own story as a first-year teacher — for fixing the floor before you fix the person.
Read the blog: Fix the Floor, Not the Person
Read the blog: Fix the Floor, Not the Person
Companion to Podcast 3
by Jaye Barbeau read moreEpisode 4: The Listening Episode
Jaye planned the perfect second date. For himself. His wife's shaking hands told him everything he missed. Also, a basketball coach who finally heard what his players were actually there for. Listening to understand is not the same as listening to reply.
Read the blog: We have a listing problem
Read the blog: We have a listing problem
Companion to Podcast 4
by Jaye Barbeau read moreEpisode 5: Finding the Right Match
Jaye spent weeks tracking a veteran teacher who was warm, consistent, and missing the same moment twelve times in a row. The problem wasn't her skill. It was that her greatest strength had become her blind spot. Getting the response right requires understanding what's underneath the behavior, not just what's visible on the surface.
Read the blog: The Match Is Everything
Companion to Podcast 5
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Episode 6: Behavior is Communication
Elliot refused to walk through the door. Not because he was difficult. Because walking through that door meant accepting a story about himself he wasn't willing to accept. Every behavior is saying something. This episode is about learning to hear it before you respond to it.
Read the blog: What Behavior Is Really Telling You
Companion to Podcast 6
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Episode 7: Clarity is the Most Underrated Skill
Michael Jordan oversaw the worst team in NBA history. The greatest player the sport has ever seen could not transfer what he knew to the people around him. This episode makes the case that clarity has two parts, and most leaders are only thinking about one of them.
Read the blog: Clarity is the Most Underrated Skill
Companion to Podcast 7
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Episode 8: The Part Nobody Talks About
Post-It Notes sat on a shelf for five years before anyone figured out what to do with them. A middle school food drive nearly collapsed in week three. Both nearly died in the messy middle. This episode is about what it costs to stay in it, and what happens when you don't.
Read the blog: The Part Nobody Talks about
Companion to Podcast 8
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Episode 9: Make Yourself Unnecessary
Jaye's dad let go of the seat before he knew he was riding. A young teacher named Kristen found her answer with a charming eighth grader named Wyatt, because someone finally stayed in their chair and let her handle it. The goal was never to be needed forever.
Read the blog: Make Yourself Unnecessary
Companion to Podcast 9
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Episode 10: Why I Built Move Toward
Twenty-five years of watching the same problems return with new names on the binder. This season finale names the frustration, the framework, and every person this work was built for, one at a time. The exception can become the rule. This is why.
Read the blog: Why I Built This
Companion to Podcast 10
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About the Host
Jaye Barbeau is the founder of Move Toward LLC and has spent 25 years in Wisconsin education as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and MTSS coordinator.
Jaye Barbeau is the founder of Move Toward LLC and has spent 25 years in Wisconsin education as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and MTSS coordinator.
The Move Toward Podcast is a direct extension of that work — the questions Jaye has been asking in schools for two and a half decades, brought into the open.
The Move Toward Podcast is a direct extension of that work — the questions Jaye has been asking in schools for two and a half decades, brought into the open.
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