and economic ecosystem that does not value all children and families feels overwhelming and beyond our reach. What do we do when what we do every day reveals truths that feel impossible? What happens when there is no recipe for what must come next?

A PROTOCOL FOR IMAGINATION

For me this is a process that starts with the passionate conversations that we have in meetings and in vacant hallways after school. We often talk about innovation and commitment to students but it takes considerable institutional might to walk away from practices that harm kids in the ways that I have discussed here. People say