Hey Ruckus Maker,
Only 1 in 4 principals has access to a coach or mentor.
That's not an opinion. That's from a study of 407 elementary principals by the Learning Policy Institute and NAESP.
3 out of 4 principals are going it alone.
And if you lead a high-poverty school, it's worse. Only 1 in 10.
You make hundreds of decisions before lunch.
Who gets called. What gets said. Which fire gets ignored so the bigger one doesn't spread. Most of those decisions get made alone, in the moment, with whatever clarity you could scrape together before the next thing hit.
No coach. No thought partner. No one to think it through with.
That's not a gap.
That's a canyon.
And you've been crossing it every single day because that's what principals do. You absorb. You adapt. You figure it out. You show up the next day and do it again.
But here's what that's actually cost you.
The conversation you handled badly because you didn't have time to think it through.
The decision you second-guessed for weeks because there was nobody to work it through with.
The bold move you circled for a year and never made because you couldn't get clear on whether it was right or whether you were just scared.
That's the real price of going it alone.
Ruckus Makers don't accept that.
They don't wait permission-based development. They build a different system — one where clarity isn't rationed, where the thought partner is available at 11pm before the hardest conversation of their week.
That practice has a name: Selfmentorship.
This Thursday, you can learn it.
Keep Making a Ruckus,
Danny
PS … The canyon doesn't close itself. But Thursday night, it gets a whole lot narrower. Register for the Selfmentorship here.
