9/11- ten years later, the work still matters
When I first heard about the attack on the World Trade Center, I had just walked into the E. Jackson Street office of the School Leadership Cooperative, a group that coordinated meetings, events, and other projects for groups that supported local school councils (LSCs).
The Coop’s executive director, Andy Wade, told me that there had been a hijacking and that Chicago was a potential target. It was about 9:30 central time and we knew very little more than that, but there was a sense that something terrible was happening.
We went into our meeting anyway. The people in the room were some of the best, smartest, most trustworthy