Lead By Going There First

Yesterday I went to a Rotary Club meeting and lunch as a guest of one of our board members, Marty Banks, at the Marriott. Marty invited me because Gregg Roberts from USOE (Utah State Office of Education) was speaking on the state's dual immersion project. Although I am very impressed with Gregg's accomplishments, it is quite apparent that he is coming from a foreign language agenda and is focused on serving a different student population than Esperanza. Therefore, we will be making different decisions, including what dual immersion model we feel will be most effective for our scholars. Yet, I feel for us to get the same traction that Gregg is getting we need to remember the following quote: "You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." --Ken Kesey,American author

We need to do all we can to make Esperanza successful in reaching its goal to better serve Hispanic scholars. It will be the results and our accomplishments of our scholars that will support our program.