Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:

• If progress in your school depends on your energy, it won't survive your exhaustion.
• Schools are one of the few institutions expected to get stronger… while everything around them is getting more unstable.
• Schools have always been community institutions. But right now they’re also becoming shock absorbers and the leadership tools we’ve been given weren’t built for that. 
• The expectations for schools have changed faster than the leadership playbook.
• Most principals don't audit their tools. They implement them, adjust them, push harder on them. Because that's what they were trained to do. But a tool designed for a different moment doesn't get better the harder you push it. It just makes you more tired.

Are you doing everything you were trained to do and still feeling stuck? The problem might not be you. It might be the playbook.

In this episode, I'm naming the three forces that have converged to make school leadership harder than it's ever been: widening academic gaps that didn't go away when the headlines did, community instability that walks through your front door every morning with your kids, and financial resources that are shrinking just when you need them most.

Then I'm going to show you why the traditional leadership playbook, even when you execute it beautifully, was never designed for a moment like this one.

If you’ve ever wondered why working harder isn’t moving the needle, this episode will help you see the real problem—and start thinking about your work differently #LikeaBuilder.

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