In 2025, women may not need other women to help them get a job in educational leadership, but they certainly can use the coaching and mentorship of their colleagues to prepare for and to perform in those jobs and to cope with the challenges or leading and learning. Several years ago, the TOSS ALI agenda added a Women in Educational Leadership event to our schedule each year. From those one-day events, we evolved into a three-part annual series of events that we call the Three Cs of Leadership. I am happy to introduce part two of our three-part series: Women and Leadership Cohort 2024-2025- Coaching, Creating, and Coping. All TOSS ALI members and SLI members are invited to join us as we learn more about coaching others, mentoring for success, and leading to support learning in Tennessee’s schools.

We will learn from Superintendent Kelly Johnson from Clinton Tennessee. She will share coping strategies that she uses personally and professionally to build a strong school system in today’s challenging environment. Then we will learn from Caitlin Bullard from Murfreesboro City Schools and Whitney Amber and Shelly Robinson from Franklin Special School District. Our nominated presenters for this event in February will share how their work helps support those teachers who say, “I am tired, now what? They will help us address coping with HQIM materials and curriculum supports, instructional supports, and building emotional connections in your school and system. We will all learn together from leaders in our state’s schools.

This is part two of our three-part series. We focused on Coaching and Mentoring in the fall, and we are following up with some overlap requested in that area, plus our work with “coping” in this winter 2025 event. This spring, in our Women’s Retreat in May, we will dive more deeply into the concept of creating in leadership. I hope you can attend any or all these events and learn how to coach, cope, and create as a woman in leadership or with the women you have on your leadership teams. These leaders will help us all focus, expand our knowledge, and cope with the challenges of leading engaged learners in 2025.

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