Future Leaders Need Opportunities To Learn And Grow

Learning Forward

Equity and excellence in teaching and learning.

ADVISOR SPOTLIGHT

Future leaders need opportunities to learn and grow

Beverly Hutton is chief programs officer at the National Association of Secondary School Principals and an advisor to The Learning Professional. What is your professional learning focus? I am always thinking about how to grow the leadership pipeline, from teacher leaders to assistant principals to principals and up. We need to strengthen the whole pathway to leadership, and, to do that, educators need opportunities to learn and develop at every stage. In districts, professional development staff tend to work mostly with teacher leaders around building teachers’ capacity. But we need to also build those teacher leaders up for the future. How many districts include teacher leaders on horizontal leadership teams? They should include them so those future leaders can learn and grow into new roles.

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