Let's reclaim the honor and purpose of our profession.  We need teachers and leaders who are dedicated to the reality that children are our business and that we have the ability and the obligation to create an environment that can teach them far more than subjects. We have knowledge, training, responsibility and we have experience.  Many of these teachers and leaders are in schools right now. The daily urgent administrivia eats into their dedication and focus but cannot be allowed to distract them from the greater purpose of their work. This is a time for attending the important. We see the struggle in our society for civility, integrity, and respect.  We each have the opportunity, daily, to influence a small segment of that society, the local one, each school and district  Read more...