1. Which is more helpful, thinking about accountability or thinking about responsibility?
2. What is the best way to develop accountability?
3. Can accountability grow or develop? Or is t something that can happen overnight?

All three emerged from the writing we’ve done this week. We employed our dual podiums and got started shouting.

One deep thought: “you can’t be accountable until you understand that it’s your responsibility to do something.”

There was a subtle argument being made about the differences between accountability and responsibility. I’d started making this distinction as a teacher from working with Bob Fecho and Marsha Pincus: you have to be accountable to yourself, to the students, and to the work, but you should not consider yourself responsible for the decisions that students make.

Nearly everyone who spoke discussed how you need to own your work and how you need to “take things into your own hands.”

Another good distinction was describing accountability as a short-term, immediate idea and responsibility as something long-term or permanent.