Embracing the Future of Education Work with Talent Centered Education Leadership

The COVID-19 pandemic, recent awakening of society to its enduring racial pandemic, rising expectations for employer accountability, and an increasingly diverse populace jointly indicate that times are changing for the future of education work. Yet the approach to human resource management (HRM) employed in schools has been criticized for being outdated, and even the “reform” model from the accountability era has been based on debunked and antiquated models. This article synthesizes the literature to summarize talent-centered education leadership (TCEL) and its seven core principles. TCEL is a new education HRM model that promotes inclusivity and humanization of the education workplace and has been suggested as a framework to aid education employers with embracing the future of education work.