How Principals Can Slow Down, and Why They Might Want To, written by Jessica Cabeen, argues that while school leadership often defaults to relentless sprint-driven deadlines, crises, and initiatives, adopting a more deliberate and "slow" pace is the most effective way to achieve lasting institutional change and prevent burnout. A constant state of urgency, though initially exhilarating, eventually leads to exhaustion and the disorientation of not knowing how to maintain a sta

The reason I became a consultant was because I began to see the "small" work I did in my classroom ripple out and impact the large. Other teachers asked if I would teach them. Those teachers experienced big changes. Students asked for circles. On and on it went until I chose to become a consultant full time.