In society, courage gets associated with soldiers, police, firefighters--those men and women who risk their lives in ways that are public and visible and immediate. For school heads also, as a different dictionary definition puts it, courage is demonstrated through "strength in the face of pain or grief" and the ability to do something that frightens them. Indeed, the very word "courage" comes from the Latin "cor," "cordis," which means heart. And heart is at the center of what heads do--maybe not every day, but enough days to think afresh about the nature of those labors. In this article, the author describes some acts that require courage.