What's the silver bullet that will solve all of our problems? What are the new shiny toys we should chase after in our districts? Is there a box we can buy and open that will give us all we need.
We know the answer is no to all of those questions but we go after them any way. Why? It's the easy thing to do. But, what we forget is that we tell students that learning can be hard work, and then we look for the easy answers as adults. Sometimes we just wish it wasn't so hard...
No initiative will work effectively, or change will take place without issue, if we haven't fostered positive relationships in school. That, of course, includes fostering positive relationships with students, parents, teachers and staff. No one should feel left out.
All of which takes leadership.
Leadership is much, much more than doing discipline and sending out blanker e-mails. Our leadership focus should be authentic engagement among stakeholders where they can question the process before they have to trust it. This requires authentic engagement and not compliant engagement.
