Just Pick the Pineapple: Building Trust in Turbulence
By Dr. Allison Persad (Principal, The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria)
From NASSP’s School of Thought Blog, October 21, 2020
“…These past months of leadership at The Young Women’s Leadership School in Astoria, NY, in the shadow of COVID-19, have been nothing short of medal-worthy in the greatest champion round of the leadership Olympiad. At a grade 6–12 all girls secondary school with girl coders who can beat MIT freshmen and teachers who can design, collaborate, solve, and QUESTION at every turn, it’s been nothing short of exhilarating and exhausting.
It’s involved reams and reams of guidance documents, discovering updates from Twitter and Channel 4 news, hitting the reset button on agendas, programming, polls, hosting town halls only to revise plans within minutes with the delivery because more reams of guidance documents, which have been newly revised, show bold and unread in your inbox…”
