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Discharging Your Loyal Soldier
Coaching for School Leaders in Transition

Principals, principal-managers, and executive directors: leave the old role cleanly, lead the new one with clarity, and execute.Ideas are never enough.


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1:1 Coaching

Discharging Your Loyal Soldier for School Leaders in Transition is for principals, principal -managers, and  executive directors  who are transitioning into new roles, new organizations or new projects.  Ideas  are never enough,  you have to execute.  I can help.

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Courage Gap and InfoGraphics

Lo-fi talks and rants about education. Nothing like them anywhere. I dare you to watch. But if you can't , check out the infographics.  You may be surprised.

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U-Turns

U-Turns: A Life in Schools is the title of my substack. It's part memoir, part field guide  and part critique of education. During the school year, I share the tactics we're using  at Project Reflect, where I serve as the executive director, to elevate the first charter school  founded in Middle  Tennessee. -- Smithson Craighead Academy.  In the summers, I go back to opinions, policy and the Courage Gap.

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