Word: Respond Sentence: Most of life is shaped by how we respond to what happens to us. Passage: Life is going to hand us some difficult…

Word: Generations Sentence:  Every generation inherits a story and leaves one for the next. Passage: This week, I will stand in a room filled with Sullivan…

Word: Triage Sentence: Triage is knowing that everything can matter without everything mattering first. Passage: Leadership has a way of making everything feel important at the…

Word: Carry Sentence: Just because we have learned how to carry something does not mean it is no longer heavy. Passage: It was after six o’clock…

Word: Witness Sentence: To witness someone is to see what they are carrying, even when you cannot take it away. Passage: Early in my teaching career,…

Word: Routine Sentence: Our routines show what matters to us because they are the things we keep coming back to. Passage: I think we give leadership…

Word: Direction Sentence: Direction is knowing what matters enough to decide what gets your time, your energy, and your attention. Passage: When I arrived at each…

Word: Proximity Sentence: Proximity changes what we understand, and what we understand changes how we lead. Passage: One of the things I learned about leadership is…

Word: Threshold Sentence: Every threshold is an invitation to enter differently than we arrived. Passage: When I first started teaching, I realized pretty quickly that many…

Word: Inheritance Sentence: We do not choose everything we inherit, but we do choose what we carry forward. Passage: When I walked into my first principalship,…