Back To School

For any of you who are heading back to school this fall, or working on the school schedule in some other way, I bring you two videos that have significantly shaped my own fall.

One is a statement of need, a call to action. Our schools have become a place where right answers are valued more than the questions, where the success of the school is more important than the growth of the child, where millions of minds are expected to look the same.

So often in discussions about the needs of students, we forget to listen to the kids themselves. We are confident that we know what is best for them, that we are the leaders. This year the Dallas Independant School District gathered together the 20,000 teachers, janitors, paraprofessionals, principals, and others who work in that school system for a kick-off-the-year convention, and the keynote speaker was Dalton Sherman. You MUST hear this voice.

I'm optimistic about this year. I think big things are going to happen.