The Quiet Quitting Principal: What Districts Can Do to Re-Engage School Leadership
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By: Andy Szeto
Quiet quitting entered the workplace during the pandemic as employees and leaders renegotiated expectations around workload, boundaries, and engagement. Randall S. Peterson (2025) describes leadership-level disengagement as a lack of vision, weak decision-making, and diminished trust. In schools, this pattern has real consequences: when principals disengage, instructional quality declines, staff morale erodes, and students experience inconsistent expectations and outcomes.
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Quiet quitting entered the workplace during the pandemic as employees and leaders renegotiated expectations around workload, boundaries, and engagement. Randall S. Peterson (2025) describes leadership-level disengagement as a lack of vision, weak decision-making, and diminished trust. In schools, this pattern has real consequences: when principals disengage, instructional quality declines, staff morale erodes, and students experience inconsistent expectations and outcomes.
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