The Season of Resignations: What It Reveals About Your Leadership

Jul 24, 2026

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How to stay steady, lead transitions well, and protect your culture when people start leaving

If you’ve led a school for any amount of time, you already know what happens when spring hits.

The emails start coming in. Conversations shift. People you’ve invested in (some you expected, some you didn’t) start letting you know they’re moving on.

None of that is new.

What is often underestimated, though, is how much this season reveals about you as a leader. Not about the people who are leaving. About you.

It shows up in how you receive the news, how you talk about it, how quickly you move, and what your team experiences from you in the middle of it. Whether you realize it or not, your staff is paying close attention during this time as they try to understand what these changes mean for them and the school.

Resignation season is not a disruption to leadership. It is part of leadership.

The real question is whether you can stay steady when things start shifting.

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The Season of Resignations: What It Reveals About Your Leadership

How to stay steady, lead transitions well, and protect your culture when people start leaving

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