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Learning with Others, Not Leading over Them

In Jiu-Jitsu, progress happens on the mat, not just from the sidelines. Coaches 鈥渞oll鈥� with their students, feeling timing, pressure and balance firsthand. Leadership works the same way. To understand a school system, sometimes you have to be in it, not above it.

When the Urbandale Community School District in Iowa, which I led as superintendent for five years, began its improvement journey, I learned that rolling as a leader meant entering the learning process myself. I attended teacher workshops, sat in professional learning communities and asked the same reflection questions principals did. The best insights come not from data reports but from hallway conversations and shared learning moments.

District leaders can roll in their own school systems by:

Joining professional learning with staff as a participant;

Using the same tools, such as PDSA cycles, reflection forms or student data protocols, alongside teachers;

Hosting quick learning rounds with principals to observe together, then debrief what patterns they see; and

Asking, not telling. 鈥淲hat are you noticing?鈥� opens more doors than 鈥淗ere鈥檚 what we鈥檒l do.鈥�

Rolling builds empathy, trust and shared ownership. It turns improvement from something done to people into something done with them. Quiet leverage transforms a system from within.

鈥� Doug Stilwell