When facilitator Joellen Killion launched the most recent Virtual Coaches Academy with the assertion that “the most important reason we have coaching in schools is to improve and extend student success,” her intent was to inspire and set the stage for five powerful months of learning and connection among the Academy’s 46 participants. It reminded me of one of my favorite lessons I used to teach to 2nd graders. It began with the assertion that a single drop of water from our school’s campus in Richmond, Virginia, would eventually reach the Chesapeake Bay and, even further, the Atlantic Ocean. What my wide-eyed students came to understand through our study was that seemingly small impacts on the environment in our own school community would eventually trickle