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LeaderShift 2020 Is it any surprise that instructional leadership is a relatively
low priority for many principals and superintendents? For MOVIE LeaderShift 2020.1 What it takes to be a great leader. them, the safer survival strategy is just to focus on dealing
with what’s in front of you now and not worry about attempting new or innovative things. Besides, if you try to lead your organization in some new direction, there’s always the fear that teachers, the unions, parents, students, and/or the school board won’t like what you’re doing. Sometimes, leadership just seems like too much work.
That said, it’s our opinion that in these turbulent times, those who choose to play it safe and just be educational managers—and not be educational leaders—may experience short-term success. However, if you’re just an educational manager and spend the majority of your time focusing on a short-term management, reactive approach that is driven by the tyranny of the urgent, in the long term you’ll let your organization—and, ultimately your, students —down.
That’s because the changes and challenges in the world outside the school system are real, and they’re transforming every aspect of what’s needed to be successful in modern times. And these changes are placing increasing pressure on educators to prepare students in a fundamentally different way.
Roselinde Torres
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