I had a moment of pause and reflection while reading entrepreneur Seth Godin’s blog, where he challenged leaders by stating, “Our task, then, is to find people we can encourage and nurture until they’re as impatient with average as we are” (Godin, 2010). John Maxwell, a well-known author on leadership, shares a related sentiment: “Average people do not want others to go beyond average” (Maxwell, 2004). In our society, there often seems to be a push for people to fit in and strive for the middle. Jennifer York-Barr, a mentor of mine at the University of Minnesota, refers to this as “crab-bucket culture.” Crab buckets don’t need lids because, as one crab attempts to escape, it is pulled down by the others. Too often, educators feel