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Why Invest in Leadership? It Matters We all know how precarious the education landscape is these days. Between funding and political/social strife, finding and retaining teachers is a national problem. And now this problem is becoming a national issue for leaders, too. The pressures are enormous on our district and campus leaders to attract and retain their best teachers – and themselves. The Wallace Foundation has published a series of reports on how essential it
{…}Let us face it. Leaders have just experienced the two most trying years of their careers. The pandemic and increasingly intense political and social issues are fueling the pressures that are driving leaders, often amazing leaders, away from the profession. In fact, in 2022, NASSP’s annual survey reported that “Three-quarters of school leaders (73%) … report they needed help with their mental or emotional health last year.” In the same study, one principal remarked, “The
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Education leaders are being challenged and leaned on like never before. We recommend EVERY leader needs a leadership coach in 2020-2021, and we offer nine compelling benefits. (Five Minute Read) In a previous blog, we recommended one support structure campus and district leaders need during the pandemic: Leadership Coaching. Think about it. Leaders just went through the hardest spring semester they ever faced, and with little or no time off this summer, have to pivot
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District and campus leaders will need highly specialized professional learning as 2020 moves forward. We have three essential recommendations for them. (5 minute-read) We are in uncharted waters in Texas and the rest of the United States as school and district leaders. We are charged with “building the plane while flying it” in new and unique ways as we struggle with two tremendous challenges. First, Covid-19 has presented challenges unheard of in education until 2020.
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