Contagious Culture
Contagious Culture
Kyle S. King
#187 | Adults First: Lindsey Fuller on the Culture Crisis No One Can Afford to Ignore
37 minutes Posted Jun 16, 2026 at 9:00 am.
— Introduction00:20 — Meet Lindsey Fuller01:15 — Lindsey’s background and love of learning02:30 — Childhood, trauma, and becoming a leader03:30 — Teaching as inheritance04:30 — School as both sanctuary and harm05:30 — What it means to build human-centered schools06:00 — Why the education system is sick, not broken07:30 — What practices need to be preserved or reimagined08:45 — Critical hope and why children keep Lindsey hopeful09:30 — Where school change begins10:30 — Why most school problems are adult problems11:30 — Adult behavior, regulation, and school culture13:00 — Why schools must invest in educators14:30 — Educator mental health as a public health crisis16:30 — Caring for the caregivers17:00 — What Lindsey would change if she had the keys18:00 — Coaching, therapy, benefits, and professional development19:30 — Funding, accountability, and philanthropy20:30 — Why teachers and school leaders are the key levers21:30 — Seeing the full puzzle of school transformation
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In this episode of the Contagious Culture Podcast, Kyle King sits down with Lindsey Fuller, Executive Director of The Teaching Well, leadership coach, keynote speaker, and organizational wellness consultant.
Lindsey shares why strong adult culture is the engine of strong student outcomes. She explains why schools cannot expect students to regulate, learn, and thrive if the adults leading them are burned out, unsupported, and disconnected from their own wellness.
Kyle and Lindsey also discuss educator burnout, adult behavior in schools, restorative leadership, the need to invest in teachers and school leaders, and what it would take to build school systems that are more human-centered, healing-centered, and sustainable.
Key Topics:
Why adult culture shapes student outcomes
How educator burnout impacts school communities
Why schools need to invest in adults, not just programs
The difference between a broken system and a sick system
Why most school problems are adult problems
Restorative leadership and repairing relationships
The importance of therapy, coaching, and stronger benefits for educators
Why school leaders need support, training, and accountability
How philanthropy can better support educator wellness
Building schools where adults stay whole so students can thrive
Episode History
Lindsey Fuller is the Executive Director of The Teaching Well, a leadership coach, keynote speaker, and organizational wellness consultant. Her work focuses on helping schools and districts build strong adult culture, improve educator wellness, strengthen leadership practices, and create environments where adults can stay whole so students can thrive.
 
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