Hello everyone! Leadership is challenging. Everyone has an opinion and many think they can do it better than whoever is currently in a leadership role. In a way, it’s just like what teachers face in many circles of the public.

Regardless, leadership is essential to any healthy organization. It can make or break the focus of a campus, at times, and it can be the change agent many teachers and families need.

But what makes a good leader? What are pitfalls to avoid and perspectives to shift? More importantly, what does it take to be a leader that supports students and staff and also create a highly effective learning environment?

To answer these questions and whole lot more, we have brought on Rhonda Roos, author of The Deliberate and Courages Principal.

Part one aired last week here.

Rhonda is an educational speaker who coaches principals, district leaders, and administrative teams in the complex and ever-challenging work of leading schools. She is a former director of middle schools in New Albany, Indiana, where she led curricular improvement, aligning those efforts with the district’s progress in becoming a professional learning community.

Rhonda serves on the leadership team of the Indiana Principal Leadership Institute and is a regular keynote speaker. Her honors include the 2009 Indiana Middle School Principal of the Year, the 2011 Solution Tree Redefining Excellence District Award, and the 2015 Indiana University Southeast Educator of the Year.