
S6 E5: Leading with the head and the heart: Enacting lasting literacy change with Mitchell Brookins
Science of Reading: The Podcast
The Importance of Mastery in Leadership
When I left one school to move to that turnaround school, I still was unsettled because it was not okay to me to be a leader. And you're going to say that you still have 40 to 50% of your kids who are not reading on grade level? That is unacceptable. It shifted my mindset where I said, no, you have to expect that children are going to be proficient. You have to set goals and communicate those goals to your staff. Because these children have to have access. So if we don't reach this goal, they don't get access.
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