You Have Our Permission to be Great!
In February I attended a very sincere professional development day with an Education Thinker (capital letters intended) who seemed very empowering at first blush. He was all about telling us we can be great if we flip the narrative. His message told us that when we seize the initiative to take accountability for our own preconceived notions and our own attitude, we can BE THE CHANGE in our organizations. He told lots of personal stories about how he personally SAVED (I'm not exaggerating) this or that student by some way he changed his attitude and thus changed that child's attitude. Or how he NEVER GAVE UP on anyone ever ever ever. I would think if he was that awesome at saving people, he'd still be an active educator but wait... never mind. It seems very empowering at first. And I won't deny that he imploded some of my organizations more egregiously stupid ideas. But. But. I felt there was a kind of insidious shifting of the blame here. I work in an industry (some mig