Building Connected School Systems Launching a National Conversation About the Future of Educational Leadership

How do we create stronger alignment, reduce initiative fatigue, sustain innovation through change, and build school systems that grow stronger over time? Leaders across the country are asking the same questions. This interactive session launches a national conversation around them and introduces an ongoing research initiative exploring how educational leaders are creating more connected school systems. You will examine the emerging questions shaping educational leadership and consider how connected systems thinking may help address growing organizational complexity. Share your perspective and help shape future research that will inform leadership practice across the profession. You will leave with reflection questions and discussion protocols you can use right away with leadership teams and stakeholders to examine alignment, interconnectedness, and sustainable improvement in your own schools and districts.