In the face of challenge...

In the face of challenge, we must choose a mindset of strength and fortitude, not fear. We must choose to believe that what we are going after is really the pathway that will lead to greater to success for ALL, and we must determine in our mind that the steps within this pathway to success may fail at times along the way, but those failures will be opportunities for us to learn and grow in the journey, and they will not be stumbling stones that hold us back.

In the face of challenge we must seek to find the voices of hope, the voices of innovation, and encouragement, and the voices that speak the loudest message with the softest tone. We must choose to seek the strength in stakeholders in the work, we must choose to believe in positive intent, and we must choose to take a moment to set aside our ideals, and welcome the ideas of others in the process.

In the face of challenge we must choose heart, innovation, collaboration, and a willingness to be a true partner in the process of all that lies ahead.

We are the change agents. Repeat after me....we are the change agents.  We have the capacity, the ability, the intelligence, and the drive to change systems, structures and to challenge the status quo.

In the face of challenge, choose to be the one that makes the decision that no matter what there will be laughter, smiles, and humility in the process, and success in the outcome.:)

I have presented now a total of four plans over the week...plans that challenge the status quo, that seek to build teams of stakeholders in the process, plans that highlight current strengths and challenge current weaknesses, plans that ask for nothing more than optimal impact within collaboration around innovation. These plans are asking schools to step up and work the possible, within what seems the impossible.  These are plans that share a vision of success for ALL students, with teacher leaders at the core of the work. These are plans that require change agency from all involved, and require a pathway to be built in such a way that an organic experience comes out of a very non-organic structure.  These plans lay out a vision to challange everything that has been, and consider all that could be...they are future, they are hope, and at the heart they are the voice that students will hear that says, "No matter what...in this school you are worth it.":)

And guess what? Not one plan has been denied..not one, because at the end of the day, what educator wouldn't support that voice that students will hear loud and clear as a result of the outcome.;)