What If Potential Follows Encouragement?
What if encouragement doesn’t simply follow evidence of potential? What if, sometimes, evidence of potential follows encouragement? Drawing connections between research on teacher expectations and leader-member relationships, I’m thinking through how the patience, trust, challenge, attention, and opportunities we give people may help shape the potential we later believe we simply recognized.
Proof Work
What happens when the systems meant to support us become another burden to carry? A summer of displacement, doctoral study, and building The Open Practice Academy taught me something I thought I already knew: resolution is not repair, relationships are load-bearing, and sometimes we build the map while we’re already walking the terrain.