My mother is the single finest human I have ever encountered. For anyone who has met my mother, “Granny,” they know how I can make such a statement. She was present and beside me for everything awesome and everything awful. She is my human. She is the explanation as to why I risk, push, and… Read More The World Needs More Cheerleaders
Sarah Silverman paid the medical bills of the twitter troll who called her the c word. She did not turn away nor condemn him. She engaged him an exchange on twitter. They had a conversation for the world to see. She told him she saw something in him and believed he could live a great… Read More Compromise, Crisis and Collaboration
I (Kelly) hear it in his voice. A secondary vice principal is looking at achievement data on a screen I cannot see. I am driving while he walks me through the data. He is deflated and can’t figure out where “we” went wrong. What hadn’t we done? Was it the success criteria, were we not… Read More It’s Not the Grade, It’s the Growth
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