Don’t tell your teachers to innovate.
Jun 24, 2025 School leader:
Don’t tell your teachers to innovate.
Don’t tell them which direction to move.
They’re smart.
If they see a colleague doing something innovative —
something that benefits learners and feels doable —
they’ll want to know everything about it.
They’ll try to copy it.
They’ll ask questions.
They’ll lean in.
So here’s the real question:
When was the last time you facilitated peer visits?
When did you make space for teachers to learn from each other?
Most teachers don’t need your speeches to find purpose or direction.
They need their own observations.
Their own inspiration.
Their own timing.
💥 Your role?
Stop trying to align your whole team in one go.
Keep fuelling the fire in the ones who are inspiring others.
And make sure the rest stay close.
Not by talking about innovation —
but by letting them witness it for themselves.
If you’ve created those conditions,
your team will move forward.
Not because you pushed them.
But because they wanted to move.
That’s exactly what we do at allLearners
when schools ask us to help them innovate.
We start — and keep — fuelling the fire in those who inspire others.
And we support school leaders to increase the chances for everyone else
to witness those sparks, connect with them personally,
and join the movement from inner motivation.
And in that process?
We teach leadership how to keep up
with the innovation demands of their own team.
