What happens when the institutions meant to serve students end up failing the people who run them? Behind the Educator is Amy Paulson’s deeply personal account of watching her husband, a dedicated high school principal in California’s public schools, be systematically pushed out of the career he loved. And of what that loss cost their family. This is a book about institutions and the people inside of them. About marriage, mental health, and resilience. And about the grace it takes to tell a hard story with an open heart.