Leveraging Responsibilities to Strengthen Leadership

Author(s): Correy Watkins, Michael McDonald, & Sherri Williams

Publication Date: May 2025

Frameworks: Drivers

Resource Type: Read

Leaders are vital to successful implementation! They remove barriers and empower practitioners to create system-wide change. Leaders are typically driven, motivated, high-performing individuals who aim to reach their goals. High performers tend to take on more tasks than others because they believe in their abilities. Frequently, we discuss teacher burnout, but have we ever considered that leaders are burning out at an alarming rate as they are tasked with more responsibility than ever? (Rogers, 2025). The question is, how can we empower leaders without burning them out? Leaders must realize that they can’t control everything or be everything. Leaders must relinquish some power to improve their productivity and effectiveness.

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