Theme

Leadership

What leading looks like between the meetings rather than inside them.

Journal entries

Feb 7, 2026 · Leading in Schools

What a principal hears in silence

After a whole week of observation I realized the office is the busiest room in the building, and the only one with no doors to open. Leadership here is mostly listening.

Nov 18, 2025 · Organizational Culture & Change

The meeting that changed my mind

I walked in to manage a conversation. I walked out with a genuinely new question about whose expertise counts in a room.

Milestones

Fall 2025 · Course

Organizational Culture & Change

Read culture theory against a building I already knew — two very different pictures of the same school.

Open questions

live

Whose expertise gets to count in a school, and who decides?

Projects

Organizational Culture & Change · Fall 2025

Culture audit of a middle school

A semester-long audit mapping the stated values of one building against its observable routines, using documents, schedules, and three staff interviews.

Reading & influences

Book · Course text

The wisdom of practice

A quiet reframe of what I had been calling instinct. It deserves to be studied rather than simply trusted — that line rearranged my dissertation instincts.

Article · Assorted articles

The critics of distributed leadership

Useful corrective. Distributing leadership without distributing time is just distributing work, and I had been sloppy about the difference.