Personal Leadership
Patricia Otway-Drummond
New Leaders Alum, 2011
New Leaders Alum, 2011

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School Culture
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School Culture
Creating Safe and Brave Spaces: Fostering Psychological Safety In Schools
When teachers and staff are psychologically safe, they feel comfortable contributing ideas and feedback without fear of repercussion. Here’s why that matters and how you can cultivate it in your school.
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Personal Leadership

Professional Learning & Collaboration
Tapping the Next Generation of School Principals
The “shoulder tap”—when someone sees your leadership potential and helps you navigate a path forward—can be life-changing. Start more of those conversations with the future leaders you know. Here’s how.
School Culture
Family and Community Engagement
Personal Leadership

School Culture
Best Practices to Improve Communication at Your School
The pandemic changed the way school leaders communicate with their communities. These best practices can help you continue the trend of clear and concise communication—no matter the situation.
Family and Community Engagement
Personal Leadership

Family and Community Engagement
Family Engagement: Aligning Values and Beliefs Within Your School Community
Create a shared vision for family engagement by reflecting on your personal leadership, stepping outside of your comfort zone, and asking families directly what their beliefs and values are.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Personal Leadership
Resilient Leadership

Equity-Focused Leadership
Finding Your Voice, Remembering Your “Why” as a School Leader
What is at the core of your leadership? Remembering your “why” can turn challenges into opportunities. Here’s what drives one former principal to help other leaders stay strong.
School Culture
Family and Community Engagement
Personal Leadership

School Culture
How to Center Your Teachers & Staff in Your School’s Culture
Creating a positive school culture for students and families means setting your teachers and staff up for success. Here are a few ways to ensure they have what they need to thrive.
School Culture
Family and Community Engagement
Personal Leadership

School Culture
Innovative Ways to Create A Positive School (and District) Culture
Building a strong school and district culture is the foundation of effective schools. To do so requires consistent and intentional effort. Here are resources to support you.
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Adaptive Leadership

Personal Leadership
Harnessing Optimism, Handling Overwhelm: Strategies for the New School Year
Whether you’re a seasoned school leader or a first-time principal, a new school year is a one-of-a-kind mix of optimism and overwhelm. We’ve got some tips to help you manage.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Personal Leadership
Professional Learning & Collaboration

Equity-Focused Leadership
5 Proven Strategies for Equity-Focused Leadership
Read the second paper in our series on reshaping educational leadership for the future. Learn how school leaders can accelerate student learning and keep great teachers.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Personal Leadership
Voices From The Field

Equity-Focused Leadership
5 School Leadership Actions to Prioritize Joy and Student Learning This Year
Learn how one New Leaders alum and his team are building a learning environment filled with joy and a school culture where the adults and students want to be there.
Professional Learning & Collaboration
Personal Leadership
Resilient Leadership

Professional Learning & Collaboration
How Education Leaders Can Restore, Retool, Recommit Now—And All School Year Long
Now is the time to recommit to your passion as an education leader—and to building your resilience, too, in this new school year. Here are resources to get you started.
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Voices From The Field
Professional Learning & Collaboration

Professional Learning & Collaboration
5 Inspiring TED Talks All Education Leaders Should Watch
Need a dose of inspiration? Ideas to enhance your leadership? Here are five TED Talks from influential leaders that you can watch on your own or reflect on with your team.
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Voices From The Field
Professional Learning & Collaboration

Professional Learning & Collaboration
6 Podcasts for Education Leaders This Summer (And Beyond!)
Podcasts are a convenient way to stay current and learn something new. Here are six podcasts to try as you move through the final few weeks of summer and beyond.
Voices From The Field
Adaptive Leadership
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Voices From The Field
From Aspiring Principals to Transformational Leaders
Six New Leaders alumni share their leadership journey and offer insights, advice, and strategies for education leaders to transform our schools and districts for the better.
Social-Emotional Learning
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Social-Emotional Learning
Social-Emotional Learning: Ways for School Leaders to Support Students
School leaders play a key role in building positive school culture, and social-emotional learning is a critical part of those efforts. Here are a few ways to maximize your impact.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Personal Leadership
Professional Learning & Collaboration

Equity-Focused Leadership
5 Equity-Focused Education Thought Leaders to Learn From
Looking to trailblazers in the field can be inspiring and motivating. Check out these up-and-coming equity-focused thought leaders in education to discover new ideas and shape your own perspective.
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Professional Learning & Collaboration

Personal Leadership
Fuel Your Professional Growth This Summer: 4 Leadership Practices to Cultivate
Summer break is a time to discover new ideas for your professional growth. We looked across industries—from business to healthcare—to compile four tried-and-true leadership practices to add to your toolbox.
Equity-Focused Leadership
Voices From The Field
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Equity-Focused Leadership
Representation Matters: Advice From One Black Female Leader to Another
Seeing yourself in leadership—also known as representation—allows students to imagine what they can become. The same is true for adults. Hear from one leader about why that matters.
Voices From The Field
Personal Leadership
Professional Learning & Collaboration

Professional Learning & Collaboration
8 Summer Reads for Education Leaders
Summer break is a time to focus on your own learning and add to your leadership toolkit. Here are eight books for your summer reading list recommended by our staff.
Voices From The Field
Personal Leadership
Professional Learning & Collaboration

Professional Learning & Collaboration
How to Recover From the Past School Year
It’s been a year—and no doubt your leadership made all the difference. Now it’s time to catch your breath. Learn how to restore, retool, and recommit this summer.
Adaptive Leadership
Family and Community Engagement
Personal Leadership

Adaptive Leadership
Words of Wisdom From Leaders Leading Through Adversity
Gain insights from school leaders who led through past national crises as you continue to navigate the demands of leading schools in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting.
Resilient Leadership
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Resilient Leadership
The Relationship Between Resilient Leaders and Resilient Students
Even with the many effects on student well-being, the pandemic showed that students are also capable of incredible resilience. Here’s how to continue to foster and learn from that resilience.
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Personal Leadership

Equity-Focused Leadership
Strengthening Your Equity-Focused Leadership: 6 Questions for Self-Reflection
The beginning of a new year is a great time to assess your commitment to being an equity-focused leader. Reflect on the work you’re doing by asking yourself these six questions.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.