A Cautionary Note To Burgeoning Teacher Leaders [The Eagle vs The Hummingbird]
Dear burgeoning teacher leader,
Congratulations. You’ve been chosen / selected / promoted to a position of leadership in your school. Whether you’re an instructional coach, an assistant principal, or a lead teacher, your achievements up to this point merit applause. I hope that the benefits and challenges of the position you’re about to undertake in your current post have been outlined for you. If not, rest assured that it’s going to be hard as hell, starting with your attire and ending with your aptitude for the job. But someone needed you somewhere and so I suppose they saw something in you that the school or district needed.
Yet, if you’re coming from the classroom, I should caution you: you’re trading in intimacy for effect.
When people talk to me about the possibility of becoming an administrator, they tell me that I’m taking my