Standing Tall: Voices in Leadership Receipts for Leadership: How Visionary Leaders Turn Values Into Results
Dec 16, 2024
Naomi Norman, Superintendent of Washtenaw ISD, is committed to equity and community partnerships. She shares her insights on critical humility, emphasizing the need for leaders to embrace vulnerability and feedback. The conversation highlights innovative teacher recruitment initiatives transforming paraprofessionals into certified educators. Naomi also tackles equity in career and technical education and discusses the Reading Apprenticeship model for improving adolescent literacy, focusing on student agency and metacognition.
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No One-Size Leadership Fit
- The most important leadership quality is to lean into your own strengths and gifts.
- There is no single right way to be a good leader for systems or otherwise.
Practice Critical Humility
- Embrace critical humility by being open to what you don't know and to feedback.
- Build and sustain authentic relationships to work through tough equity challenges.
Learning Shapes Identity
- Learning shapes identity; it's about who you are becoming, not just gaining skills.
- Fostering teacher learning communities enhances implementation of new approaches like Reading Apprenticeship.