“Every decision I made that was ill-informed meant that people were losing a little bit of faith in me.” Dan Edwards is the principal of Woodstock Primary Academy, a large primary school in the heart of Leicester City. He shares the best piece of advice he was ever given as a school leader, and how that's shaped his leadership today.This episode is especially helpful for those new to leadership or starting a new position in the next academic year.We talk about: How to be the most authentic and genuinely humane leader.  The key steps to transparent leadership. Building or rebuilding parental engagement. Creating a healthy school culture and genuine staff wellbeing. The single thing that makes the biggest difference to staff wellbeing. How to know if you're "getting things right". How to harness the sense of being facilitators of learning, rather than positioning ourselves at the front of the classroom as "teachers and talkers". And much more. "(New leaders...) sometimes misplace trust by professing to know everything “the saviour is here - someone’s going to give us all the answers” and that’s wrong because we don’t know all the answers."   You can connect with Dan His website is leadinginthenow.org Twitter  @danedwards_77 Woodstock Primary Academy @woodstockacad Instagram dan_edwardsed Also mentioned in this podcast Kate Jones @KateJones_teach Sinead Moxham @SineadMoxham   Connect with Maria On Twitter @Mariabrosnan On LinkedIn Maria Brosnan On Instagram @pursuitwellbeing Find out more about our 5-step Wellbeing Action Plan for teachers online course. And Maria's book, The Pursuit of Sleep for teachers, is available now.