It's that time of year when attention turns to summer professional development workshops and faculty and administrative retreats. This is not the usual "Summer of PD". Many of you are focusing on scenario planning for perhaps the most uncertain school start in our lifetime: the start of academic year 2020/2021.

Amidst the planning, my hope is that you pause and invite your colleagues to do the same. This article prompted me to (re)listen to David Whyte reading his wonderful poem, "Everything Is Waiting for You". I encourage you to take time to reflect on your experience of the last 8-12 weeks, these questions might help, and then shift. Invite your team to listen to David reciting the poem and then ask these questions: What is the conversation your school needs to stop having right now? What’s the real conversation you can start and keep alive? What is your individual relationship to the unknown?

We are being invited to our developmental edge - we should not walk this path alone, nor with the heavy armor of the past.