Leadership Lab
Rehearse the decision before you have to make it
Four authored scenarios drawn from ordinary director weeks. Each has three decision points, realistic options, and written feedback on what each approach helps with and what it can miss.
Guided practice using authored feedback. This is not an AI mentor, not a validated assessment, and not a judgement about you. The feedback discusses the choice in the scenario, nothing more.
- A6–8 minutes · Curriculum & Play
Parents want worksheets. Teachers need a plan for purposeful play.
Three families have now asked, politely but repeatedly, why their four-year-olds are not bringing home written work. Your preschool teachers are doing genuinely strong work — long block play…
- B5–7 minutes · Coaching & Staff
A capable new teacher has no consistent onboarding.
Your newest teacher started eleven days ago. She is warm with children, punctual, and clearly capable. She has also been given three different versions of the nap routine, has not been told …
- C6–8 minutes · Center Operations
Every decision comes back to the director.
You were interrupted nineteen times yesterday: a supply reorder, two sub calls, a thermostat, a family asking about the summer schedule, a teacher checking whether she could rearrange her ro…
- D5–7 minutes · Financial & Legal Foundations
The improvement idea is strong. The budget is limited.
Your teachers want a math materials rotation across all four preschool rooms — measuring tools, pattern materials, a shared collection that moves on a schedule. The full version costs more t…
What this rehearsal is for