"May you live in interesting times," goes the saying, attributed to the Chinese, although the provenance is unproven. It is widely understood to be a curse, for which a loose translation could be: "May you experience disorder and trouble in your life." In this essay Christine Woyshner raises the issue of the "interesting times" in which we live, a time of great unrest and human agony amid the beauty and serenity that can be found. She describes the current climate as one that includes the carceral state, Black men dying at the hands of police officers; mass migration and refugees fleeing the East; and religious fanaticism. She asks what role curriculum and teaching leaders play in bringing peace and understanding to these interesting times? Woyshner contends: "now" is the time more than ever to return to progressive principles of viewing educators as being on the vanguard of social change and of creating a curriculum that is meaningful, relevant, and cultivates the qualities we want to our citizens to embody. Teachers and others who work in education spend every day with youth and can help shape and influence them about what a citizen is and does. For them to make a start at getting there, teachers must look inward, for the taproot of their individual work is autobiography.