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Those are just a few ideas. They're designed to help you start asking some questions about what your school and community are already doing.

Asking the right questions may put you ahead of the curve in your school or community. Most teachers have yet to read drafts of standards being developed at any level. Few parents and citizens have even heard of them.

There will be exceptions. There will be a colleague or parent, a business person, or someone else who is familiar with the emerging high standards and the opportunity they present.

Find these individuals. Team up with them and, together, start the discussion about "high standards, and how our school and community can move all students toward them."

You have dreamed for years of helping all your students develop their gifts, so that every one of them reaches his or her full potential. You have dreamed of a day when that might be possible.

Now is the time to rally your school and community around that dream. This is your chance to enlist other teachers, parents, and citizens for a journey -- toward high standards for every student.

Think of it as a journey that cannot go forward without leadership from you, and from thousands of other teachers across the country. Think of it as a journey on which the very future of America depends. Because it does.

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