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If You Aren’t Changing Who You Are, You Can’t Change How You Lead
Everyday Principal | 1,833 followers | November 8, 2025 | Written by Nom de Plume Leadership transformation never begins with strategy—it begins with self. Every principal, superintendent, and instructional leader has, at one point, sought to improve their leadership by refining what they do: new systems, new walkthrough tools, new communication habits, new goals. These efforts often yield progress, but only for a while. Eventually, a familiar fatigue sets in—the same conver
Nom de Plume
Nov 87 min read
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Ab Nahi to Kab (If Not Now, When)?
On a weathered wall in a Delhi train station, three words stand bold in red: ab nahi to kab—if not now, then when? For school leaders, the phrase is not poetry but mandate. Every day of delay costs teachers clarity, students opportunity, and communities trust. Leadership lives in the present tense, and waiting is not neutral. It is decline. The only question is whether we will act with urgency today or explain tomorrow why we didn’t.
Andre Wicks
Sep 218 min read
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Restorative Discipline as System Design: Making Repair the Default in Student Services
Written and edited by Andre Wicks, Founder & CEO |Â Everyday Principal . On a Tuesday in October, two seventh graders arrive at the...
Andre Wicks
Sep 159 min read
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The Superintendent Multiplier: Building Systems That Make Principal Growth Inevitable
Written and Edited by Nom de Plume, Everyday Principal . The most reliable way to improve student learning at scale is not another...
Nom de Plume
Sep 99 min read
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