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But with Wilke, Elizalde says, “It is her natural style to be a listener. She’s truly working to understand, to be a collaborative problem solver.”

Collaboration is “very, very taxing on time, but in the end you end up with far more support. It’s easier to say, ‘I’m not going to tell you the why, but here’s what we’re going to do.’ ”

That was Dallas ISD’s default stance for decades, but now, “we’re in a much more competitive environment,” she says. Parents and teachers know the difference between collaboration and buy-in, she adds, and see through efforts to make people feel they have input even when a decision has already been made. Hiring leaders who work with the community rather than hand down edicts is “what we now know serves our students or our campus community or our staff, best,” Elizalde says.

Taking time to make sure this was Wilke’s modus operandus is the reason she remained an interim and wasn’t immediately promoted to the principal position after Myatt left in July.

“I couldn’t make another mistake,” Elizalde says. But now, she says, “I’m feeling more confident in the selection of our principal than I have in years.”

Additional reporting by Keri Mitchell

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