About 15 years ago, in my position as a curriculum director for a suburban school district, I worked with teachers, administrators and the Board of Education to introduce a new spelling program. The program was well researched and, we determined, would yield better results. The program would also require considerable rethinking and planning by all of our elementary teachers. One teacher, let’s call her Lois, took the bull by the horns, and because she was a highly organized person who wanted to have this new program under control, she spent numerous hours laying out a year-long plan for using the new program. Lois shared it with me and I agreed it was excellent work.

“This is outstanding work, Lois”, I said. “This will be helpful to all the teachers in the school district.”

“Hold on there, Buster,” she replied. “I did this work, and it was a lot of work, and I am not sharing it with anyone.”

I was flabbergasted.

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