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When principals step into leadership, it often starts with the best intentions.
You want to help. You want to support your staff. You want to solve problems, remove obstacles, and make life easier for the people around you. But over time, that desire to help can quietly turn into something else—the belief that you have to be the one who fixes everything.
In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of “hero leadership” and why constantly rescuing, solving, and stepping in can actually weaken systems, limit leadership growth in others, and leave principals carrying more than they were ever meant to carry. From building leadership capacity to creating systems that work without you, this conversation reframes what strong leadership really looks like.
Because great principals don’t build schools that constantly need saving—they build schools that can thrive because leadership is shared.
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