Week 5, Thing 10

I borrowed this great title from:

Meyerson, D. E. (2001). Tempered radicals: how people use difference to inspire change at work. Boston: Harvard Business School Press

A "tempered radical" is someone who belongs and works within an organization, yet has a distinct agenda that differs from the organization and works for change (often small and incremental) either at a personal or organizational level from within. I really like it because I feel like it describes what many of us strive for as we work within schools. We have a difference because we are not classroom teachers and we have an agenda that may counter the current school culture of testing and sorting students.