“Every decision I made that was ill-informed meant that people were losing a little bit of faith in me.”
Dan Edwards is the principal of Woodstock Primary Academy, a large primary school in the heart of Leicester City. He shares the best piece of advice he was ever given as a school leader, and how that's shaped his leadership today.
This episode is especially helpful for those new to leadership or starting a new position in the next academic year.
We talk about:
"(New leaders...) sometimes misplace trust by professing to know everything “the saviour is here - someone’s going to give us all the answers” and that’s wrong because we don’t know all the answers."
You can connect with Dan
His website is leadinginthenow.org
Twitter @danedwards_77
Woodstock Primary Academy @woodstockacad
Instagram dan_edwardsed
Also mentioned in this podcast
Kate Jones @KateJones_teach
Sinead Moxham @SineadMoxham
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