With strong leaders, teachers and students thrive.
Campus and district leadership is not just important, it is crucial to teachers. They give us what we need to thrive.
Campus and district leadership is not just important, it is crucial to teachers. They give us what we need to thrive.
Leadership is not a skill people are born with—it can be taught.
As a leader, I always felt I had to have all the answers and solve all the problems. The learning and strategies I gained through Holdsworth helped me realize solutions that impact students at the deepest levels come from collaboration with a team.
Great principals create schools where teachers and students excel
Of the 72 schools who completed our Campus Leadership Program in 2022-23, 90 percent made progress toward an ambitious student achievement goal they set and worked to achieve for their most underserved students.
Since 2017, Holdsworth has served 329 schools, focusing on campuses with large populations of economically disadvantaged students.
At two-thirds of those schools, a large majority of students experience economic instability.
SCHOOL IMPACT SPOTLIGHT
Wunsche Sr. High School
Spring ISD
When teachers are encouraged to innovate, students win
A big, red, Merriam-Webster dictionary. Of all the strategies the team at Wunsche Sr. High School in Spring ISD tried in their quest to help bilingual students pass their state-mandated English 1 exam, a dictionary turned out to be the tipping point. While the solution may seem simple, the real story is in the journey a group of educators took to get there, and how it changed much more than one test outcome.
To innovate, you must have the freedom to make mistakes. And to do that, you need leadership with the mindset that failure is OK because it’s a step in the right direction.
SCHOOL IMPACT SPOTLIGHT
Garcia-Leza Elementary
Aldine ISD
Empowering leaders to design solutions pays off for students
After two years of dismal reading scores, the principal and teachers at Garcia-Leza Primary felt lost and defeated. With time, space and guidance from Holdsworth, their team collaborated on a plan to turn things around. Last year, Kindergartners at Garcia-Leza earned the highest reading scores in the district.
Because of the Holdsworth experience I am a stronger, more confident person. If I have a problem, I will offer my solution of how I am going to fix it in a way that works for my students.
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