This article provides a model for developing and sustaining relationships that can lead to ongoing school academic success. Leaders can successfully engender positive relationships and develop healthy organizational cultures that advance powerful teaching and learning by focusing on the six relationship connectors described in this article. As professors of educational leadership, we can influence what happens in schools and we can assist practicing and aspiring leaders in developing healthy organizational cultures which are safe, collaborative, and creatively vibrant. We can help them manage highly contentious political environments with moral integrity and sensitivity to individual and group relationships. In addition, we can help them develop mutual trust, respect and support among all school employees in order to increase student achievement and create an environment in which all employees and students are successful.