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Roxy once asked Chris Salazar, who leads the Dungeons & Dragons group … if he ever scores real people that way: Generosity, Coordination, Immune System Strength, Sex Appeal…

“I don’t,” Chris said, but the counters do. And the corporations who buy their numbers do. And the people who measure their own value in clicks and views do.”

Never trust a candy house!

Nowadays, a man I’ll at ease in his surroundings will pull out his phone, request the Wi-Fi password, and rejoin a virtual sphere where his identity is instantly reaffirmed.

Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Do the right thing and get the right thing done.

A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. - Brown vs. Board of Education 1954

Teacher leadership, too, is critical to successful follow-up. Without teacher leadership we change how things look but not how things work.

Quality control and professional development, after all, are natural expressions of good self-management.

The successful leader, then, is one who builds up the leadership of others and who strives to become a leader of leaders.

"There is a tacit moral imperative to be true to oneself. To not be true to oneself would be to miss the whole point of one's life."

"Big, sustainable changes take time, resources, coordination, and moral authority that a single teacher cannot muster but that teachers working in concert can. "

"When pursuing cultural change, we need to make sure that we always protect the most valuable people in the organization. Unfortunately, it isn't always clear who these people are."

I had heard nearly all the stories nearly a thousand times from Bear in the winterhouse, but I still loved them and believed you could always be enriched by them every time they came around.

"Powerful literacy strategies tend to be powerful life strategies as well, and we aim to draw those extensions clearly for students."