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.
The Names Haven't Changed
The Names Haven't Changed
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.
Your Data Meeting Has a Blind Spot
Your Data Meeting Has a Blind Spot
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.
Fix the Floor
Fix the Floor
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.
The Listening Episode
The Listening Episode
Companion to Podcast 4
by Jaye Barbeau read moreEpisode 5: Finding the Right Match
The right response is almost never the obvious one. Jaye works with a veteran teacher whose greatest strength had become her blind spot — and learns what it means to address the real gap.
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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