A new school year offers the perfect opportunity to revisit, reflect on, and review your school’s current norms and values. This is particularly important when you have new team members, to involve and uncover their thinking for common understandings and shared commitment.

When you look at the lines in this image, what do you notice first? Chances are that your eyes were first drawn to the line that was different, demonstrating that your primitive brain is still alive and well deep within you.

In this first blog for 2021, I’d like to introduce to you my great New Zealand colleague, Roz Miller. Roz is an experienced principal and leadership adviser, who was able to effectively show a group of beginning principals how to address on the hardest conversations of all to have: ‘the elephant in the room.’