Key Takeaways
🎓 Lindsay’s Fifth Grade Aha Moment: The early spark that set her on a path toward teaching and leadership
🏀 Winning, Losing, Leading: What basketball taught about sustainable success
🛒 H-E-B Leadership Model: Why business culture offers clues for school transformation
🏫 New Leadership Architecture: Moving beyond the overextended principal model
🚀 What’s Next for Holdsworth: Redesigning systems for sustainability
Meet the Guest – Lindsay Whorton
Dr. Lindsay Whorton is president of The Holdsworth Center, a nonprofit dedicated to building stronger leaders for public schools.
She is the author of A New School Leadership Architecture, which calls for a fundamental redesign of how leadership roles are structured and practiced in schools, offering a bold new blueprint to make jobs sustainable and give teachers the coaching and support they need so that students thrive.
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Show Notes
What if the future of public education isn’t about working harder, but redesigning leadership entirely? In this episode, Dr. Lindsay Whorton shares her journey from Missouri classrooms to leading one of Texas’ most influential education nonprofits. Drawing lessons from sports, global study, business culture, and her own experience as a foster parent, she challenges the way we’ve structured schools for generations.