There isn’t a day that goes by where my inbox doesn’t have a message from an amazing educator or leader who is frustrated with a colleague, co-teacher, principal, superintendent, or school board member who: 1.) Ignores an important issue or 2.) "Lets things go” because it is easier to just let them go. Almost always, the frustration has to do with how some educators wake up in the morning only to kick the can down the hallway and some of us want to change this so badly, ourse

Tamara, a 6th grade student in Amherst, NY, told me about her school day yesterday. I was visiting her school principal and stumbled upon her sad face in the crowded hallway of other faces walking by me. Tamara was pretty upset about something and felt comfortable chatting with me and her principal. Well, quite honestly, she was VERY upset about something: She received “lunch detention.” Never receiving any kind of “detention” before, Tamara told me all of the simple detai