Education Leaders LIVE | February Reflections

Education Leaders | The Chart-Topping School Leadership Podcast · Mar 6, 2026 · 51m

Teachers spend years learning to coach people. Ask questions, not give answers. Build trust before expecting vulnerability. Hold space. Stay quiet when staying quiet is the hardest thing.

Then they get promoted. And most of it disappears.

Chris Scorer — school leader, data specialist, and co-host of Education Leaders Live — said it plainly this month: "You'd never walk into a classroom and tell kids to do something just because you're telling them to. Yet leadership very often does exactly that."

If you've ever watched that gap open up — between what you know good leadership looks like and…