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Instructional leadership, campus culture, and growing the people you lead. The thinking the exam rewards is the thinking the job requires.

01July 30, 2026/5 min read/Domain II, III
Instructional Leadership Is Not Observation
Walkthrough counts are an input, not instructional leadership. What the work actually is on a campus, and how Domain II frames it on the TExES 268.

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How the Principal as Instructional Leader exam is built, how it is scored, and what actually moves a score on it. Written from the blueprint.
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The Texas Education Code, TEA rules, and the Educators Code of Ethics, framed around the decisions the 268 asks you to make.

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School leadership, on the exam and on campus

Instructional Leadership Is Not Observation

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