You’ve been running and working and grading and subbing and goal setting and scheduling meetings, planning meetings, attending meetings,...

As educators, we often strive to create a calm and positive learning environment for our students. We work hard to regulate our own...

I am confident in saying that most educators remember their first year of teaching, or at least remember parts of it in the blur that it...

To help our students be successful, we know that teaching them to problem solve and search resources for what they need is a necessary...

There are few other professions or systems that need to be more closely aligned than education in order to function. Administration...

My youngest daughter is adopted. She was brought home as a 10-month-old baby from Guatemala all chunkiness and big brown eyes. We were in...

There's an interesting phenomenon that happens when it comes to change where the catalyst is adversity - people don't want to believe...

The idea of discussing teacher pay has long been largely ignored. At the root, it seems that as a society we underpay professions that...

As a mental health advocate and consultant, I speak about self-care. A lot. Districts ask me to come in and speak about self-care. A...

The wounded healer is a pretty common psychological term that refers to the idea that people who consider themselves healers can only...

I was recently asked why I have such a problem with the term “learning loss” (or any version of that term). It’s not that I don’t believe...

I was a young mother. I had my eldest son a few months after turning 21. Having dropped out of college to do so, I was not my school...

I have alluded to my childhood turmoil before in blog posts and go into a bit more detail in The Fire Within, but I often keep the...

One of the most important graces I gave myself when I began to reengage into the education profession after becoming burnt out was to let...

If you are a good teacher, you are grateful for your job and you live for the first day back. If you really cared about your students,...

When I taught I used to joke about how I wished I would have kept a book all along about putting together words that I never thought I’d...

I often get asked how I re-engaged back into loving education. And I do love it. Like everyone, I have difficult weeks. Loving what you...

This is the second post in the series. You can find the first post on defining your core beliefs here. There has been a lot of discussion...

In preparing for a keynote, I had come across this video where teachers were asked to write a letter to themselves as a first-year...

I’ve read articles that describe social media as one of the reasons that teenagers have self-esteem issues partially because of how...