Empower Through Understanding
Principals need help in shaping the vision of how to personalize their school. Many initiatives are too dramatic to go forward just on the principal’s word. They require the support of many others. Obtaining this support requires principals to have the ability to understand others’ viewpoints and the self-confidence to allow other ideas to be seen as valuable. As Awakuni put it, “I have...what I call my ‘dream team teachers’—an exemplary group of teacher leaders. It empowers them to be teacher leaders.”