Using the Power of Compassion, Curiosity, and Creativity to Lead During Times of Change


Using the Power of Compassion, Curiosity, and Creativity to Lead During Times of Change

By Michael McDowell 
edutopia.org
3 min
May 4, 2023



Leading from the ‘tragic gap’ between how we’d like things to be and how they are is tough but can be done with the right mindset.


Leaders are inundated with competing pressures: a viral tweet about the latest innovation, a new source of funding, interim benchmark data, an observation in a classroom, a complaint, another book someone wants to ban, and the messaging about a successful intervention from a neighboring school. These pressures can cause leaders to struggle with navigating what Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach, coined “the tragic gap.”

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