E126
Challenging the Status Quo: with Dr. Rachel Roberts
From Better Leaders Better Schools · Hosted by Daniel Bauer
Episode summary
In this episode of Better Leaders Better Schools: Dr. Rachel Roberts has served in various leadership roles in education for over 20 years as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, principal, and principal supervisor. Rachel is passionate about women in leadership and believes that relational leadership is key to high-performing schools.
Original publisher description
Dr. Rachel Roberts has served in various leadership roles in education for over 20 years as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, principal, and principal supervisor. Rachel is passionate about women in leadership and believes that relational leadership is key to high-performing schools. Rachel lives with her wife Jules, and a menagerie of pets and enjoys biking, reading, and fishing. Show Highlights Bucking the status quo yields the greatest results when dropping the archetype of a "leader." The importance of informal check-ins with team members. Challenges faced by highly qualified female leaders that can cause them to drift from their authentic selves and the strategies for combating this. Adopt relational leadership to foster authentic connections that allow you to know the humanity of your team. Rachel shares other models of leadership to consider for transformational leadership to challenge the impact of current systems. Empower everyone to be a learner by emphasizing the importance of questioning. Intentionality and the power of having protocols. "And the success that I had over the years has really been closely related to my ability to let down my guard, to...