Episode Details

Dr. Rachel Roberts has served in various leadership roles in education for over 20 years as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, principal, and principal supervisor. Rachel is passionate about women in leadership and believes that relational leadership is key to high-performing schools. Rachel lives with her wife Jules, and a menagerie of pets and enjoys biking, reading, and fishing.

Show Highlights

• Bucking the status quo yields the greatest results when dropping the archetype of a "leader."

• The importance of informal check-ins with team members.

• Challenges faced by highly qualified female leaders that can cause them to drift from their authentic selves and the strategies for combating this.

• Adopt relational leadership to foster authentic connections that allow you to know the humanity of your team.

• Rachel shares other models of leadership to consider for transformational leadership to challenge the impact of current systems.

• Empower everyone to be a learner by emphasizing the importance of questioning.

• Intentionality and the power of having protocols.

"And the success that I had over the years has really been closely related to my ability to let down my guard, to bring my authentic self to space, and to allow others to do the same. In any thorny challenge I have ever had, leading schools or working with principals, I bring that problem right back to the team because it's our problem that we own together. I think that's made me pretty successful, I should really say the teams are very successful."

-Rachel Roberts

"Never stop learning and to find those stories that align to your authentic selves, and to also recognize that every one of your staff members needs to be able to bring their true, authentic self. And they can only do that if you do that. It takes that intentionality. It takes a lot of thinking on your part around who I am and how I can intentionally connect with everyone to make a school, to make a community, a place where they can do that themselves."

-Rachel Roberts

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Rachel's Resources & Contact Info:

• Linkedin

• Antioch University

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