Leadership as Attunement
Sometimes, the true intention of a piece of work only reveals itself through the doing. After many years of talking about the kind of book we both wished we had on the shelf, we decided to write one together. We set out with a clear purpose—never imagining that the work would be easy. We knew we had much to learn about the writing process itself, and that the path would be iterative, demanding, and at times uncertain. Still, our intent was crystal clear: to create something that could genuinely support educators to think together, reflect together, and build shared understandings about pedagogical beliefs and practices. Our desire to write grew from a grounded and practical place. We wanted to create something genuinely useful: material that teams could return to over time, ideas expanded enough to be worked with rather than skimmed over. We imagined educators reading together, pausing, disagreeing, testing language, and using the text as a companion as they worked out not only what th...
