What leadership approach is most courageous, sustainable, and strategic for centering students and families in this moment? In the latest issue of The Learning Professional magazine from Learning Forward, The Leadership Academy President & CEO Dr. Nancy Gutiérrez guides leaders through the complex work of creating more culturally responsive systems. She outlines the key skills and knowledge it takes and addresses whether leaders can make more effective change by catapulting themselves from a cannon or by carefully walking a tightrope of competing expectations and beliefs.