Our conversations invent us. Through our speech and our
silence, we become smaller or larger selves. Through our speech
and our silence, we diminish or enhance the other person, and
we narrow or expand the possibilities between us. How we use
our voice determines the quality of our relationships, who we are
in the world, and what the world can be and might become.
Clearly, a lot is at stake here. (p. 239)Systems-savvy leaders know this in their hearts and their heads and use
the Habits of Mind with heart, thought, and intention. The education of
all our students is at stake.
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