Throughout my year, I have made a commitment to spend an hour a day for a week with individual teachers collaborating, reflecting, and team teaching with them. My intention was to build relationship, provide support, connect and learn from each other. Team teaching for a week with teachers throughout this past year has been the […]
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Pipe Dreams?
Let’s dream for a moment. I am talking about those big dreams that we are waiting for “someday” to kidnap and take hostage and finally conquer. Those what ifs without the yeah buts. What if we had a school where the walls became quantum tunnels that teachers, students, leaders etc. could see and walk through […]
Unpacking The Suitcase
Packing and unpacking can be such a metaphor for life. We pack up our things to move or go on a trip that we have waited so long to go on. We pack up for the day or our kids to get into the car to move to the next activity. We pack up our […]
Road To Intention
Conversations, silence, thoughts, and responses. It is so important to have conversations and make decisions yet people say we have to watch what we say or do. Then we think about what we said and we make up our own stories in our minds, which then evokes a response of regret or ‘should haves’. This […]
Renewal, Bright Spots, and That Pause Between Breaths
There is something about new days, new beginnings, new school years, and new life. It is a sense of renewal. It is that pause between breaths and that satisfaction of a new breath filling your lungs. It is that bright spot and that moment when everything seems ok. I love coming back to school and […]
If These Walls Could Talk
Opening up the walls, sending forth ripples of energy, empowerment, and knowledge in an effort to break down the barriers of resistance and self-doubt can be a very daunting task for leaders and teachers. The walls of a classroom are wise. They hold the superpowers, the teaching methods, and the successes of the teachers, students, […]
Giants!
I woke up today with the most beautiful moment. I turned over and saw my baby smiling back at me. She must have snuck in in the middle of the night without me knowing. She couldn’t wait to tell me about her dream. Her dream was about a giant who kept following her around. She […]
Visionary
To be visionary as a leader, is to be visible. We have to be where the people are so that we can really see what is happening with their story. Not only that, we learn. We lead better when we know what is happening inside the walls because we are there too. However, we need […]
“Your Ideas Come From Your Heart Not From Your Pencil.”
I am passionate about making a difference in our world and schools by working with the people who have the biggest impact, the teachers. The students will rise and see what is out there for them if they have coaches and mentors who will build them up and work alongside them. I feel teachers/leaders need […]
Is Anyone Out There?
Hello? Can you hear me or am I just talking to myself? There is a lot I have to say. A lot I have to do. A lot I have to get out into this beautiful, chaotic, frenzy of a world. The truth is I have been mulling all of my ideas in my brain […]