Collaborative Leadership in Schools: Aligning District Teams for Student Success

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of collaborative leadership and alignment among educational leaders for district success.

Strong schools are built on aligned leadership. In this episode of Leading the Way, host Scott Gerfen is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Lolli and Mike Trego from the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC) to discuss collaborative leadership and why alignment among school boards, superintendents, principals and teachers is critical to district success. The conversation explores how leadership teams move from isolated decision-making to shared direction, common goals, and sustainable improvement. Gue...

People in this episode

Host: Scott Gerfen

Guests: Dr. Elizabeth Lolli, Mike Trego

Topics covered

• collaborative leadership
• school alignment
• district success
• leadership teams
• shared direction
• sustainable improvement

Keywords

• collaborative leadership
• school boards
• superintendents
• principals
• teachers
• district success
• leadership teams

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ohio Leadership Advisory Council

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