What is Brick-and-Mortar

Principal leadership is a role that revolves around quickly changing tasks. In a broad sense, the ability of a principal leader to communicate clearly, build culture, and empower others has positive benefits that lead to school progress. Along with these skills, another skill to consider mastering is plan development and follow-through. Besides skill-related tasks, taking time to meet with staff to connect on a personal level and empowering staff to continue their professional development is a great method for building work culture, just as the leader would expect staff to connect with students. This is one technique for modeling how one would like his or her staff to interact with students. Lastly, this chapter will focus on some lessons learned from the pandemic, specifically revolved around leading through unknown territory, being comfortable with being uncomfortable, and focusing on the fundamentals of the organization.