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The System Cannot Live in Your Body
If the work stops when you step away, you don’t have a process. You have a person. Five questions to tell whether it’s time to write that process down. Read more
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Am I Constructive, or Am I Just Correct?
THE FIRE WITHIN | Where Purpose Meets Bureaucracy by Darryl S. Diggs, Jr., Ed.D. I can find what’s wrong with a thing in about ninety seconds. Give me a strategic plan. Give me a master schedule. Give me a budget narrative, a discipline policy, a church program, a cookout setup. Ninety seconds and I can… Read more
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THE PLATE WAS NEVER FULL
A clear-eyed word for school leaders still in the game — and those carrying their plate into a new building There is a moment in every school leader’s year — usually somewhere past the second board meeting and before the winter break that never quite breaks — when somebody asks how you’re doing, and you… Read more
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The Concrete Trap
Who Wins When the World Stays Gray? On rulebooks, rigidity, and the quiet cost of refusing to live in the tension. Early this week, I was asked to attend a team meeting for a local school district. The focus of the meeting was to reflect on specific situations that impacted their teaching community and plan… Read more
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“The Fall Was the Lesson: What Leaders Must Learn to Do in the Space Between”
I was a kid living overseas, far from everything familiar, trying to figure out where I fit. Recess was a sanctuary. The tetherball court. The monkey bars. The unspoken rules of a playground where you proved something about yourself every single day just by showing up. One afternoon, I decided I was done with ordinary.… Read more
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The Red Chair: A King’s Rest and Persistence
There’s a particular kind of weight that settles on you when you realize you’re standing in a space that holds a story that has been told for generations. Not museum history—polished, cordoned off, protected behind velvet ropes—but the living, breathing kind. The kind that asks something of you. Last week, I was invited to speak… Read more
