Making the Case for the Transformative Hire
A catalyst for a school's evolution from good to exceptional
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βAs you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.β ~John Collison
Based on our collective experience in many educational environments, every school needs at least a handful of transformative employees. Such employees (again, in our experience) possess most or all of the following traits: extraordinary relational skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, an understanding of systems, and an expansive vision for what is possible.
Because they build deep relationships with students, colleagues, parents, trustees, and alumni, transformative hires work from a base of trust that makes real things happen in real schools.
Because they inspire growth, drive innovation, and follow-through with rigor and grace, transformative hires amplify school missions in unique and impactful ways.
Because they know β by intuition or long practice β how to build sustainable, repeatable offerings, transformative hires solve problems so that they stay solved (rather than just being pushed off to the next year).
Because they ask βwhat if?β more than most, transformative hires keep the 4 Rs of good churn happening in schools: reinvention, remixing, reorganization, or retiring.
Simply put, transformative hires are catalysts for an institution's ongoing evolution from good to exceptional.
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