
- Redefining adult culture: In order to focus on adult culture, I had to focus on my leadership team being the model of excellence. Together, we were able to redefine what it meant to be a leader at our school and rebuild trust amongst the adults.
- Collaborate with staff by listening to their feedback: It is extremely important to me that my staff members feel heard and as though their opinions matter.
- Invest in teachers by coaching and developing them: I set the expectation that coaching and development needed to be an integral part of school, which means that I needed to be the instructional leader of my school and my leadership team needed to be the instructional leader of their grades. We spent a disproportionate amount of time in classrooms, coaching teachers, leading planning meetings, and looking at scholar work in order to move our data.
