Leading Like a Teacher

Like all of the contributors to Learning to Lead, Isaacs was a teacher before she was a leader—and not just a teacher, but a good teacher. Good teachers are made, not born, and Isaacs reminds readers about the process of learning to teach. Then, Isaacs tells a story about what happened when, as a leader, she forgot to implement those lessons learned as a teacher, and how she learned as a leader to become the same kind of “reflective practitioner” (Schön 1984) that made her such an effective classroom practitioner.