Just For Today: For Those Feeling Overwhelmed
I haven’t made it a secret on social media that I have been struggling to write blog posts lately. It seems like something that should be...
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Apr 20, 20205 min read
Four Ways You “Should” Give Yourself Grace
It can be a bit overwhelming with all the “you shoulds” right now. You should be working online, offline, harder, smarter, on technology,...
Mar 23, 20207 min read
Answers to Five Common Online/Virtual Learning Issues
In some of the long term contract work I do with districts, I have the honor of helping them set up virtual learning environments and...
Mar 15, 20204 min read
Five Ways to Fight Isolation and Loneliness
When I work with districts in virtual learning and setting up virtual environments, one of the areas that is often overlooked is the...
Jan 18, 20204 min read
The Relationship We Hold With Education
When I was younger I would fall in and out of “love” easily. A new relationship was fun and exciting and the adrenaline from the newness...
Oct 23, 20195 min read
Five Ways to Feel Better About Where You Are
We are reminded everywhere we turn in education that we need to be reflective professionals. This means thinking about our practice, our...
Sep 10, 20193 min read
Tell Me How I Can Help
After I retired from my district position, I was a little lost. It didn’t matter that I had made the choice to leave, there were pieces...
May 24, 20195 min read
My Own “Life Rules” For Building Resilience
One of the characteristics that people pick out most often about me is my level of resilience. Some mix it up with tenacity and they do...
Mar 16, 20193 min read
My Measure of Success Makes Me a Failure
I really believe that in education one of the most fundamental feelings we need to have is efficacy; the need to feel like we make a...
Jan 13, 20193 min read
Growing a PLN is More Than a Numbers Game
Growing your PLN is one of the most powerful things you can do for your own professional learning. Period. But, I find that people don’t...
Dec 26, 20187 min read
The Search for Harmony (Balance) Between Work and Life
We are beginning to recognize the value of balance in education. Finally, people are starting to understand that handing yourself over...
Dec 18, 20182 min read
Find the Thing That Feeds Your Soul
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...
Dec 2, 20184 min read
Student Managed School Social Media Accounts
Recently, one of my favorite teachers in the high school approached me about students starting student managed social media accounts for...
Nov 29, 20183 min read
What Can Divergent Thinking Do For You (The Teacher)?
I was reading through this guide by the University of Texas at Austin on thinking and teaching divergently and I came across these...
Oct 25, 20184 min read
The Little Things that Make a Difference
I have a 1-hour commute each day to work. I despise it more than words can describe. It is roughly an additional 10 hours out of my week...
Sep 15, 20186 min read
Five Characteristics of the Divergent Teacher
The idea of divergence is occasionally envisioned as two paths diverging in the wood, perhaps thanks to our friend Robert Frost. However,...
Sep 1, 20184 min read
People Are More Than Their Roles
I am a Director of Innovation and Technology. That is my role title. For people who don’t know me in my “every day” position, that...
Jul 11, 20183 min read
Is it better to be kind or right?
I am on Twitter because my friends are there. The ones who push my thinking and who I want to see what they are doing professionally...
May 13, 20183 min read
Who Do You Want to Mirror?
I am absolutely hooked on the book The Body Keeps Score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD. It is...
Apr 15, 20185 min read
Leadership & The Depth of Relationships
The other day I was working with the administrative team at a school district near Chicago. We were dissecting the Hierarchy of Needs for...
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