My first day as an elementary school principal, a young girl with perfectly parted afro puffs ran up to me on the playground and said, "So, you're our new principal?" And when I said yes, she very matterof factly said, "I didn't know black people could be principles." >> Cool. And then she ran off smiling. In that moment, I remember feeling two ways.One, I was so glad she knew now. And two, I was so deeply saddened that she didn't know that before. That defining moment in my educational career is a perfect ...