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True urgency is a gut-level determination to move and win, now. Its practitioners are unusually alert. They come to work each day determined to achieve something important, and they shed irrelevant activities to move faster and smarter. Kotter reveals a distinctive view of the kind of urgency needed in every organization. He also highlights the insidious nature of its nemesis, complacency, in all its guises.

The Fierce Urgency of NOW in Today’s Schools Podcast is a “GATHERING and CALL TO ACTION” for all PreK-16 educators, parents/caregivers, youth care providers, and educational community partners. This podcast centers on belongingness, disrupting, interrupting, and dismantling barriers to changing student outcomes and fostering HOPE in today’s schools. Guest educators and stakeholders will represent our nation’s public, private, charter, independent, and parochial schools. Topics range from early childhood to real-world preparation for career pathways/college and everything in between.