Do not fight. Kids and teachers alike were now free to focus on learning. Monroe left Frederick Douglass in 1997 to found the School Leadership Academy at the Center for Educational Innovation. A companion volume, tentatively titled 100 Things That Great Bosses Do, is due next year. When Fast Company caught up with her, she was working on item number 72 on that list of 100.
People are hungry for leadership.
They'll gravitate toward leaders who have a vision. When people see that you love your work, they want to catch your energy. People want to be about good things. There are a lot of people in schools who want to have the best in themselves called out. They want to believe that the work they do has some meaning, some purpose beyond simply making a salary.