Leading From Where You Are

Walking with intention, connection and direction can help everyone in our schools move from point A to B

The advice that you get when you are appointed as the fifth superintendent in six years tends to be two-fold: good luck and rent.

I took the first piece of advice, but the second I decided to go in exactly the opposite direction, purchasing the house right across the street from school, literally 89 steps from door to door. That decision came with a number of positives, such as the ability to get done with a school board meeting at 9:30 p.m. and be in my house by 9:35, but also some negatives such as when my then 10-year-old tied my 5-year-old to a tree and one of the kindergarten teachers took a photo from her classroom and texted it to me with the caption, “How is your behavior management program working at home?”