For a while now, I’ve been sitting with a tension I couldn’t quite articulate. After years in education doing work that got noticed — Teacher of the Year twice, committees built and led, trust earned across every stakeholder in the room — I knew I was ready for something bigger. But I hadn’t named it. I also hadn’t fully understood how the work I’d been doing all along was aligned with that feeling. When I zoom out from my experiences in classrooms, mentoring spaces and leade
