Build Leadership Capacity to drive school improvement and succeed in your role.
-Dr. Holly Grubbs
“Contemporary school administrators play a daunting array of roles. They must be educational visionaries and change agents, instructional leaders, curriculum and assessment experts, budget analysts, facility managers, special program administrators, and community builders’’ (Darling-Hammond et al., 2007, p.1). As principals prioritize these various responsibilities on campus, the accountability of instructional leadership to close the growing achievement gap between expectations and performance weighs heavily on their shoulders. In the process of reviewing literature and interviewing principals and other school leaders, I learned key steps in which embracing distributed leadership would drive principal development. These steps include:
1) Enhanced Instructional Focus
2) Cultural Development; and
3) Leadership Capacity.
Meet Dr. Holly Grubbs
Dr. Holly Grubbs has over two decades of experience in education and a passion for leadership. She specializes in school improvement, data-driven instruction, innovative learning, and fostering a positive school culture.
She earned her doctorate from Southern Methodist University and has extensive experience as a school principal. Her leadership has been recognized with multiple awards, including Principal of the Year in 2016 and the SMU Research Days award in 2021 for her work on Leadership Impact Utilizing Distributed Leadership Practices that Drive School Improvement.
Dr. Grubbs has extensive experience in school turnaround, both as a principal and central office leader. She coaches principals to drive meaningful change. She is also highly skilled in redesigning improvement plans for District and Campus Improvement Plans and has expertise in the Effective Schools Framework. Her ability to implement targeted strategies has led to measurable and sustainable improvements in school performance.
Outside of her professional life, Dr. Grubbs is a dedicated wife and proud mother of two boys. In her free time, she enjoys cheering on her son at baseball games and hearing aviation stories from her older son, a student at the University of Oklahoma.
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“Dr. Holly Grubbs knows how to be a good leader. She has walked the path of good leadership by turning a campus identified as improvement required into excellence. Through her actions and wisdom, she exemplifies how to be a successful campus leader. Leader2Leader coaches and supports good leaders to be great leaders with research-based strategies that have been proven to be successful.”
Kimi Mills, M. ED.
School Improvement/TIL Consultant
“Dr. Grubbs's commitment to excellence and accountability allows her to build the capacity to garner stellar results for students, which is always at the forefront of her thinking. She is a strategist focused on academic outcomes and building a foundation for continued growth and development that any leader can learn, grow, and emulate.”
Dr. LaDonna Gulley
Public School District Administrator
Kristy Carter, M. ED.
Public School Administrator
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