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When I walked into that school with the low math scores, what I really felt wasn’t just urgency—it was burnout. The data looked bad. Teachers were drained. Kids had already checked out. And it wasn’t because people didn’t care. There were great teachers giving everything they had and still feeling like they were losing. In so many schools, the story sounds the same: students are coming in with big gaps, you’re under pressure to move math scores quickly, and the pacing guide k

What if the biggest driver of student success isn’t a new program or platform, but how leaders see and support their people? Emerging research shows that when leaders intentionally notice and name instructional progress, teacher engagement rises, burnout drops, and students benefit. Gratitude isn’t soft—it’s a strategic leadership move.

Schools rarely falter because people aren’t working hard. They falter because well-intended efforts speak different dialects. New programs arrive with their own vocabulary, meetings produce action items that don’t point in the same direction, and mid-level leaders become translators instead of accelerators. Teachers hear multiple “top priorities,” so they make local choices to survive.

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