About me
Dr. Amanda Goldman is an educational leader, researcher, and systems thinker with over two decades of experience in K–12 education, having served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, school founder, and district-level leader. She most recently completed three years in a large urban school system, where she oversaw innovative schools and charter authorizing.
Dr. Goldman’s work focuses on the structural conditions that shape educator experience, including her research on principal burnout and the concept of “burn-through”—the ways systems, not just individuals, contribute to exhaustion over time. As she transitions into her next chapter, she is expanding her impact by supporting school districts at the intersection of legal guidance and sustainable implementation.
She is passionate about designing human-centered systems that support sustainable leadership, equity, and organizational coherence, and through her leadership, writing, and speaking, she helps education leaders rethink how systems can better serve the humans within them.
