Although school leaders are responsible for leading everything in a school, many educators I know tell me they frequently feel unprepared to lead a school’s mission and vision. They believe they can manage the day-to-day operations, but serving as the education leader is another matter. I’ve seen how the role of the school leader in ensuring equity and equality for all students has become increasingly necessary and complex. How can these leaders move their schools or districts beyond providing equity of access to achieve equity of outcomes? From where I sit, neither policies nor practices are creating the paradigms that align professional learning with the demands school leaders need to meet to help today’s students. Here’s what I’m seeing that school leaders need to respond