Schools Need a North Star More Than Ever

Type: Article
Topics: District & School Operations, School Administrator Magazine

September 01, 2026

My View

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Most school improvement plans don’t fail because of poor effort. They fail because of too many priorities.

Walk into almost any school and you’ll find a plan packed with goals: literacy, math, attendance, behavior, school culture, family engagement. Each one is valid. All of them together are unmanageable. When everything is a priority, nothing is.

This is not a planning problem. It’s a focus problem. And it’s one that superintendents must address head-on.

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Author

Terry Grier

Retired superintendent

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