To me, instructional leadership is not about the leader at all, but about how the leader works as a team with their students, staff and parents to put the focus on learning.

What works? What doesn't? What is the new fad? What are the tried and true methods that have always worked?

In these days of quick fixes and fast moving initiatives, we spend most of our time at the surface level. We look at numbers and sometimes make rash decisions. We read a blog, article or book and quickly believe what we read will solve our problems, only to find we had surface level knowledge and the fix was more of a distraction.

Although we know reflection is important in what we do, we often don't do it until something goes wrong.  Even with our best intentions, our haste makes waste when we try to solve our issues without having a true understanding of what they are, and how to use the "fix" properly. This happens in leadership all the time.

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