Leadership Changes Everything
Patricia Otway-Drummond
New Leaders Alum, 2011
New Leaders Alum, 2011
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Instructional Leadership
Distributed Leadership
Family and Community Engagement
Equity-Focused Leadership
8 Reasons to Celebrate Education Leaders in 2021
Eight big reasons why you and your work need to be celebrated. While school leadership has its share of challenges, there can also be plenty of joy.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Personal Leadership
Resilient Leadership
Equity-Focused Leadership
Leading While Black: Negotiating Race and Role in School Leadership
A career educator reflects upon the impact of negotiating his racial identity with his role as a leader—a critical balance that leaders of color need to be successful.
Adaptive Leadership
Personal Leadership
Voices From The Field
Adaptive Leadership
Ground Zero: What I Learned About Leadership in My First Week as Principal
9/11 changed how one school leader saw the role of the principal and reinforced the deliberate dance between the “person” and the “position” of being a school leader.
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Observation & Coaching
Instructional Leadership
Observation & Coaching
How Effective Coaching is Rooted in the Lived Realities of Students
Good coaching leaves a legacy. Here’s how an instructional coach forever changed the way one school leader taught his high school students and later led his school.
Observation & Coaching
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Observation & Coaching
Coaching Works for School Leaders, Too
Learn why a leadership coach is an important part of your support system, and how a coach can help you cut through the clutter, get clear on goals, and take action.
Resilient Leadership
Personal Leadership
Social-Emotional Learning
Resilient Leadership
Great School Leadership Includes Self-Care
Education leaders need to not only practice self-care but model it for the people they lead. Here are ways to get more confident in strengthening your self-care muscles.
Instructional Leadership
Personal Leadership
Equity-Focused Leadership
Equity-Focused Leadership
The Qualities of a Great Principal
Behind every great teacher is a great principal. Here’s what we know—and what research confirms—to be the qualities of a transformational school leader.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Instructional Leadership
Adaptive Leadership
Equity-Focused Leadership
Five Differences a Great School Principal Makes
Great principals build great schools. The difference a good principal makes is lasting—for students, teachers, families, and communities. Here are the top five ways good principals create great schools.
Instructional Leadership
Observation & Coaching
Voices From The Field
Instructional Leadership
Back to School: How small changes can lead to big wins for school leaders
A New Leaders alum reflects on the power of small changes to enhance her leadership and team meetings. After a year of disrupted learning, these tips can deliver big wins.
Personal Leadership
High-Performing Teams
Voices From The Field
Personal Leadership
How one principal is motivating his school to keep doing better
A New Leaders alum and principal shares five leadership actions that carry him through the demands of this historic time and motivate his school to continue to do better.
Personal Leadership
Instructional Leadership
Voices From The Field
Personal Leadership
Believe
Leading through crisis requires that we magnify students' strengths and put them on a path toward success. Learn how one New Leaders alum and principal did just that.
Family and Community Engagement
Voices From The Field
Family and Community Engagement
Partner
How can you reimagine the roles parents play as we build more equitable schools? Partnership is one of four key leadership shifts we’re exploring this July.
Adaptive Leadership
Observation & Coaching
Distributed Leadership
Adaptive Leadership
Empowering Principals to Empower Their Schools
Two former principals and current leadership coaches (as well as New Leaders alumni) share three essential supports that made a transformative difference in their leadership.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Voices From The Field
Equity-Focused Leadership
More than a Detour: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
A New Leaders alum and principal reflects on what cultural competency, Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) month, and representation in leadership mean to him as a school leader.
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Instructional Leadership
Distributed Leadership
Professional Learning & Collaboration
We’re All in This Together: Developing Teacher Leaders
Why invest in teacher leadership? Principals can’t do it all. Teaching and leading are different skill sets. And strong teachers with job-embedded training can have a greater impact on more students.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Distributed Leadership
Equity-Focused Leadership
Women Empowering Women to Lead
Motivating other aspiring leaders, particularly women and teachers of color, to stretch beyond their role enables them to influence positive outcomes for more students, more teachers, and more communities.
Instructional Leadership
Distributed Leadership
Voices From The Field
Instructional Leadership
Distributed Leadership: Empowering Teachers to Make a Lasting Difference for Students
A New Leaders alum and coach reflects on distributed leadership: “I knew if I created a partnership with my team, we could build the culture our students needed to thrive.”
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Personal Leadership
Distributed Leadership
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Why Investing in School Leadership Matters
Principals matter, a new report from the Wallace Foundation concludes. We could not agree more. Charged with driving excellence and equity within their school communities, principals challenge the status quo.
Adaptive Leadership
Equity-Focused Leadership
Social-Emotional Learning
Adaptive Leadership
Confronting History in Real Time: A Principal’s Role
School leaders are instrumental to the endurance of our democracy. Here is how you can prepare and support teachers to lead ongoing discussions that reinforce our nation’s democratic values.
Instructional Leadership
Voices From The Field
Instructional Leadership
Back-to-School: Making Virtual Instruction Relevant in a Pandemic
New Leaders alum and assistant principal rethinks their curricula to zero in on student voice and identity. “One thing we have control over is how we engage students in learning.”
Goal Setting & Action Planning
Voices From The Field
Goal Setting & Action Planning
Setting Our Students Up for Success in 2020
In-person instruction? Remote? Hybrid? The options are swirling. One New Leaders alum and principal reflects on the power of our Transformational Leadership Framework to ground his leadership choices.
Goal Setting & Action Planning
Voices From The Field
Goal Setting & Action Planning
Transforming Schools for a New Reality in the Year Ahead
Educators are deep into planning this summer. Here’s how one New Leaders alum and principal is engaging all voices in creating a new vision for their school community.
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Meeting the Moment with Innovative Online Leader Preparation
Learn how one online-by-design principal preparation program is training transformational school leaders. In partnership with New Leaders, this program offers a unique blueprint for remote professional learning options.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Family and Community Engagement
Voices From The Field
Equity-Focused Leadership
How to Bring Your School Community Together to Advance Racial Justice
How to keep the dialogue going, focus on solutions, and engage your school community in addressing racism and rethinking the upcoming school year. One New Leaders alum shares her story.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Voices From The Field
Equity-Focused Leadership
Everybody Wants to Do Something: How Two Leaders are Hoping to Address Systemic Racism in Schools
Two New Leaders alumni and principals are rethinking the systems and structures that disproportionately impact Black students. Here’s what they are doing and how you can do it, too.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Voices From The Field
Equity-Focused Leadership
The Presence of Hope: How School Leaders Can Lead After the Loss of George Floyd
With the unjust losses of Black lives taken too soon, and social unrest from coast to coast, here is how education leaders can respond and advance equity in their schools.
Goal Setting & Action Planning
Voices From The Field
Goal Setting & Action Planning
Rethinking What’s Ahead: How One Principal is Looking Back to Move Forward
Now more than ever, education leaders need time to pause, reflect, and rethink how they want to lead moving forward. One New Leaders alum and principal shows us how.
Adaptive Leadership
Voices From The Field
Adaptive Leadership
Plan B and C and D: How Two Principals are Hoping to Avoid the Summer Slide
Two New Leaders alumni and school principals discuss how they plan to advance summer learning, overcome communication challenges, and adapt their leadership to move forward in new ways.
Personal Leadership
Social-Emotional Learning
Voices From The Field
Personal Leadership
“It Feels Good to Be Heard.” How Three Principals are Caring for Vulnerable Students and their Families
Three New Leaders alumni and school leaders speak to how they are protecting the learning of their most vulnerable students and caring for the well-being of families during this crisis.
Instructional Leadership
Voices From The Field
Personal Leadership
“Give Yourself Some Grace." How One Principal is Redefining Virtual Instruction
A New Leaders alum and principal is creating a brand-new blueprint for instruction in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out what is working well for students, staff, and families.
Adaptive Leadership
Resilient Leadership
Adaptive Leadership
“What Defines Us as Leaders Now?” How District Leaders Wrestle with Equity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Like districts across the country, Guilford County Schools is experiencing a heightened awareness of inequity amid the pandemic. Here is how their top leaders are planning to address it.
Adaptive Leadership
Resilient Leadership
Voices From The Field
Adaptive Leadership
“We Will Get Through This Ordeal Together." How One Principal is Motivating His School to Stay Connected
“I can’t tell what day it is,” Principal Felipe Jackson reflects. Learn how this New Leaders alum is leading through crisis and motivating his school to get through the pandemic together.
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