Fearless Leadership: Building Trust, Resilience, and Psychological Safety from the Community to the Classroom

Fearlessness is essential to learning for students, teachers, and leaders. It is not possible for a school or district to successfully implement any initiative in teaching, curriculum, or leadership in a fearful environment. Fearless leadership is therefore the top priority for schools and districts that wish to make progress. In the fearless organization, students and adults can make mistakes, learn from those mistakes, and share their learning with others without fear of embarrassment. In the fearless school and district, students, teachers, and leaders routinely take risks, express ideas, and accept constructive criticism without defensiveness. Everyone in the organization knows that a zero-risk environment is a zero-learning environment.   Participants will understand the essentials of Fearless Schools and will apply that learning to authentic scenarios in classrooms, schools, and administrator meetings.