One of my favorite questions on various listservs I have participated in is, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” The question implies that the risk — and thus, the fear — is removed from the situation. Since I moved to California, the question has changed for me. The new question is, “What would you do if you took the right action? Why aren’t you?” What if, in our classrooms, teachers’ lounges, district meetings and communities, we always did the right thing rather than the convenient, easy, or least frightening thing? How would your classroom change if every action you took was based on doing what was right? Let me be clear that I have far from mastered this simple but