ascd April 2, 2026 by Jenn David-Long
Lawyers read. Doctors read. But principals? How often do you hear that they’re just too busy, that their day-to-day job of managing schools simply doesn’t allow any time for professional reading? The solution isn’t to wait for the day when the principal’s job becomes manageable. I don’t think any of us will live to see that.
The solution lies in a commitment to ongoing learning. We expect students to learn and teachers to learn, but we often don’t expect ourselves, the leaders, to engage in such learning. And yet, if we want schools to be learning organizations, we need to model this at the top.
