That is where your leadership skills might have been useful. There are always people with ideas. Organizational skills is what more than a few of them lack to make those ideas reality - find one or more of them. Employ them.

There are always ways to become useful. Your choice of venue is telling, as well.

A headmaster has power. You say now that the teachers are free to do as they please, but what happens when what they please is not what you please? They become free to do it somewhere else?

Why a school?

[Yeah, sorry, Damian's going to ignore the 'end of conversation' part.]