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    Increasing Empathy: Focus on Restorative Practices as Students Return to the Classroom

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    Our return to brick and mortar schooling is upon us and like any back-to-school season, we are filled with anticipation, hope, and curiosity. To finally have our classrooms filled with children is a ...

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    Your Approach to PD Matters... Especially Now

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    Is your current professional development strategy akin to throwing spaghetti at the wall– trying everything and seeing what sticks? Many districts are beginning to realize that online PD structures ...

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    Supporting You in Moving from Anxiety to Zen

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    January 2022  hasn't turned out quite the way we all had hoped.  Several months ago, when things seemed to finally be turning a corner, I started to breathe again and thought things would continue to ...

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    Breathing Through Work

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    I mentioned during my recent podcast “The One We Feed Each Day” that I’m working on trust at work through better breathing. I figure, what the heck? At 46, it seems like the right year to finally ...

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    The One We Feed Each Day

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    As I started this year, it was not without the weight we all felt as our planned holiday festivities morphed into the frantic rush to find rapid tests and the return of near-2020 quarantine levels. ...

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    Three Simple Steps to Invest in Culture

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    The importance of culture cannot be overstated. Over the years, I have described it as the most important and heaviest lift for our school systems today. In many ways, culture is either the gas pedal ...

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    The End of Knowing

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    A few years ago, I witnessed a debate between two teachers. One was arguing vehemently about the merits of knowing all the US state capitals. The other was equally as adamant that memorizing states ...

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    Equity is Not a Spectator Sport

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    These past 18 months have provided me with the opportunity to learn several important life lessons. Many of these have been around the issues of systemic racism. I deepened my understanding of how ...

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    Social Emotional Learning Matters in Middle and High School

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    Over the past year, being aware of our emotions and feelings was highly socialized as a way to remain healthy during the pandemic. Our students were vulnerable as well. According to a survey ...

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    Leveraging the PAACC to Build Meaningful Relationships

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      This past 18 months, teachers have gained new skills, tried various strategies, and aimed to create more equitable classrooms. Educators and students alike grew together and took risks in their ...

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    Developing a Next Generation Approach to PD for Agency, Innovation, and Future-forward Classrooms

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    For the past year, I have worked with a group of bold and brave administrators to revolutionize how they support their staff as they work towards reimagining learning environments. Our objective was ...

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    Competency-based Learning Practices to Keep When Students Return to School

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    During the pandemic resourceful educators adopted a wider range of instructional practices to meet the needs of students no longer in their classrooms full time. Many of the new practices that were ...

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