“The first step in having a courageous conversation is to stop having the one you are having now.”
– David Whyte
School leaders have been in pandemic driven boot camp since March 2020, discovering that under Covid conditions, some of their best skills are of little use. As unpredictability persists, leaders increasingly seek new ways of thinking about running schools and caring for their communities. It takes courage to see today’s challenges as bonafide opportunities and to believe that the adaptability, dedication and creativity the pandemic demands now can be the seeds of growing a stronger, value-centered school in the future.
Today’s conditions require leadership at every level of responsibility in the school community. Positional power and authority still matter, yet distributed leadership is the model for moving forward. When people are authorized to problem solve and carry out solutions for the unique circumstances in their day-to-day work, they feel greater ownership in and responsibility for their contributions to the school as a whole.
Your new value proposition calls for adaptive leadership.
The longing to “get back to normal” is a natural human response to chaos, but the instinct to hunker down and ride out the storm is not an effective response. Re-Set School will help you bring adaptive leadership to this crisis so that you can:
This is the opportunity to implement changes that may be long overdue, or that may be part of a dream you never thought feasible.