November 2025 Newsletter – Issue 6
We’re losing good principals to exhaustion, not incompetence.
I sat with a school leader last week who broke down in tears. Not because she’s failing—her school’s test scores are rising. But because she spent another day managing bus schedules, fielding parent complaints about mascot designs, and responding to board emails about bathroom policies. Meanwhile, the cultural shift her school desperately needs—building teacher collaboration, developing instructional leadership capacity, creating systems for student belonging—sits untouched. Again.