2021- 2022 Lessons in leadership
This school year has by far been the most challenging of my career. After the past two school years, I thought we might begin to move forward in education. We have not, we have fallen back to old structures and patterns as the chicken soup we have craved during times of uncertainty. Teachers have shown up everyday relentlessly trying to close learning gaps and help to support students understand again what being a good student looks like and perhaps more importantly prepare them to be good people and citizens of the world. Teachers are tired and deserve the summer break more this year than ever. The work has been hard and yet we have had some huge successes. Watching the Class of 2022 walk across the stage yesterday into their future reminded me once again why being in education is the right work, right now. While the discipline matters with students this year have been seemingly never ending and complex with multiple perspectives that are not right or wrong, just diff...