Todd Wright's Profile

I think one of the biggest challenges facing them is the lack of time

think they can teach themselves much of what teachers need to be learning to be able to modernise their classroom

The principalship, like teaching, can be an isolating profession. Rick DuFour and colleagues¹ 
have promoted professional learning communities as a way for teachers to meet regularly to catalyze one another's learning. But what about community for principals?

It's a novel concept: school improvement emerging from two practitioners who meet informally to air problems, float ideas, and share our latest learning rather than emerging from the formal "school improvement" meetings we both still attend. Our discussions and brief observations of each other's schools have yielded, refined, and helped us put in practice some of our best ideas.

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