Ann Pelo and Margie Carter write in their book “From Teaching to Thinking: A Pedagogy for Reimagining Our Work,” “We believe that educators long to be challenged into their biggest, deepest, most startling thinking and questioning. We believe that educators are ready to have their hearts cracked open and their imaginations ignited.”

Now is a time of significant disruption in nearly everyone’s lives. With our triple challenges of systemic racism, climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, we are finding ourselves called to change what we do on an almost daily basis. These disruptions heighten our sense of obligation to children, teachers, and families, and to providing leadership and sustainable solutions for how we work. We do not know what will be needed in the future. We do know that there will be children, and they and their families will need us. Now is most certainly the time for reimagination.