Top Challenges in School Leadership Student Engagement & True Collaboration

Welcome back to Your Morning Boost! As we continue our deep dive into the Grundmeyer Leader Services Fitting Five newsletter, we tackle an incredibly relevant opinion piece from Education Week titled, "Asked 100 Leaders for Their Top Challenges. Here's what we learned."This article, authored by Michael and John SFW of the Education Trust, shares powerful insights from leaders like you on the most pressing problems of practice in schools today.We break down two striking findings: student engagement and a culture of collaboration. Engagement, the authors stress, is less about time on task and more about relevance and student ownership. Leaders must ask: How do we cultivate student voice and agency?We also discuss the essential shift from contrived collaboration to joint work, where risks are shared, and feedback fuels improvement. How do you, as a leader, move from a top-down mandate to a truly collaborative partnership with your staff?Finally, we address the critical issue of leaders lacking the time or systems to effectively use the data they collect. The real challenge lies in moving beyond simply looking at data to creating a concrete theory of action that ties back to daily classroom practices.  This episode is a clear map of the challenges—it's up to you to start drawing the routes to a more effective, supportive school culture.

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