When I attended my first annual conference of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) as a graduate student, my advisor, Carolyn Callahan, told my cohort that we needed to join at least two divisions/networks and become involved in their work. I chose Conceptual Foundations and Research and Evaluation. Eventually, as I grew as a scholar and professor, I chaired both networks. But my first role was working on the Conceptual Foundations newsletter. At one time, the networks were...

You loved her compassion when it meant you could sit her beside the boy who stimmed. You know, the one with the 60-year-old physician...

You are responsible for doing your best. Even at our best, we are not perfect, and we don’t need to be. We just need to be good enough.