I don’t mean this as a burden for leaders. But what if it is actually the most effective way to frame a conversation?

If what was intended doesn’t show in the classroom, or if a system is not working, would it change our reality if we stopped looking for individual deficits and started looking at how the school actually works?

If we adopt the mindset that it is always a leadership issue, our questions change:

→ If a teacher is struggling, what led to those circumstances being possible?

→ What system, process, or aspect of understanding was missing that enabled that to happen?

→ Are we trying to fix the problem itself, or are we brave enough to fix the cause of the problem?

Would this way of thinking actually work in your context, or would it simply increase the pressure on already stretched senior teams?

If a teacher struggles or fails, a productive leader doesn't place the blame on the individual. Instead, the leader zooms out to ask what systems, processes, or support mechanisms were missing that allowed the failure to occur in the first place. I am genuinely curious, do you agree? Is this even possible?