What does leadership become when compliance rules the day? Is the conversation how to get the job done and make people feel good about it? There is new curriculum, a teacher evaluation process, new standardized tests, new assessments, more data and new technology. None come with new resources to support the work.  All purportedly are intended to improve teacher performance and student achievement. The messages come fast and furious through administration, through teachers, and land on the students. It is not the intended outcome; compliance is. But compliance, only, is short sighted and has unintended negative consequences unless the leader is able to infuse a bigger picture that gives meaningfulness to the work. Read more...