Hopefully, leadership in most school looks different from a decade ago. In most cases, principals stayed out of classrooms because they had other duties that were more...administrative. They managed the budget, were the deans of discipline, and met with other administrators to focus on district initiatives. From time to time they worked with parents...mostly at PTA meetings.

The boundary lines were drawn, and principals stayed in their office or were usually seen in the hallways making sure teachers were bringing their students to lunch or specials on time. They worked as lunch monitors to make sure students behaved, and hopefully tried to create relationships with students, especially if they truly cared about creating a safe school culture.

Most times though, school leaders did not consider themselves instructional leaders.

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