Think fast: Identify three professional development programs that you experienced or even planned that had great starts, but today you wonder what happened to them. The three I recall from my district days are DuPont Leadership Training, HOTS, and Accelerated Schools. Individually, they were powerful programs that in some places had the impact we hoped to achieve in our school system. Yet, as happens in many school systems, they started off with a bang and ended with a whimper. Rather than recognizing and providing the support necessary for these programs to have real impact, we got them under way and then turned our attention to the next important item on our lists. Maybe we assumed people were smart and would figure out for themselves how