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“I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do, and I know what I will and won’t do.” ~Dolly Parton There is a lot of confidence packed into this one sentence. Not the kind of confidence that says, I can do everything. The kind that comes from knowing yourself well enough to understand your strengths, your limits, your values, and your boundaries. That matters in education. It matters for teachers who are constantly being asked to take on one more thing. It matters for lead

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ~ Dolly Parton There are celebrity deaths that make you sad because you loved the music, the movies, or the memories attached to them. Then there are people whose passing feels like we lost something bigger. Dolly Parton feels bigger. Maybe because she was one of those increasingly rare people who seemed to belong to everybody without ever changing herself to belong to anybody. Years ago, I listened to the podcast Dolly Parton’s Am