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Acknowledgement

I have worked for the North East School Division (NESD) in Saskatchewan, Canada, as a teacher, administrator, and system leader. This book is dedicated to my education colleagues, who have willingly (and sometimes unwillingly) listened to me in classrooms, hallways, workshops, and offices as I lived much of the content you will read in this book. It is through powerful conversations, co-planning and co-teaching, facilitating professional learning, and, above all, listening, that I have learned how to be a teacher in the true sense of the word. I will forever be grateful to the NESD.

I also dedicate this book to the students of the NESD. Their faces, their minds, and their hearts are the reason I get up every day and devote my life to this work. Many of them probably don’t even know my name, but I hold their future in my mind as a beacon that guides my work.

Lastly, I acknowledge my family, who keeps me propped up in the moments I need it and inspires me to be the best whole person I can be. To my dad, who was my teaching hero; to my mom, who lives the definition of wholeness; to my husband and daughters without whom I am lost, I thank you. You have made sure I live with softened edges.

Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:

Alfredo Barrantes

Director, Assessment and Data Management

Cartwright School District 83

Phoenix, Arizona

Stacie Beaman

First-Grade Teacher

L. J. Daly Elementary School

Fayette, Missouri

Jeff Bush

Government and Economics Teacher

Kent Innovation High School

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Sandra Kitts

Kitts Consulting

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Canada

Jim Knight

Fourth-Grade Teacher

Pearl S. Buck Elementary School

Levittown, Pennsylvania

Stacie Nickols

Coordinator of Elementary Social Studies

McKinney Independent School District

McKinney, Texas

Heidi Paterson

Science Teacher

Preeceville School

Preeceville, Saskatchewan

Canada

Will Remmert

Principal

Eagle View Elementary School

New Prague, Minnesota

Jim Smith

Lighthouse Learning Community

Wayzata, Minnesota

Mandy Stalets

Mathematics Teacher

Thomas Metcalf Laboratory School

Normal, Illinois

Jennifer South

Seventh-Grade Math/ELA Teacher

High School PE Teacher

Melfort and Unit Comprehensive Collegiate

Melfort, Saskatchewan

Canada

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