I love a glass of wine. Anyone who knows me understands my love of wine. I am not a connoisseur. I love the feeling associated with it. I love the feeling of getting home, walking in the house, changing my clothes and as I cook dinner for my family having the sacred glass. This glass… Read More Filled to the Rim
During a day of learning for new teachers in November we were deeply moved by an incredible human during the keynote. I sat in that room with him and I can only explain what happened to me as shockingly unexpected. Laughing, crying and suddenly knowing that I needed him, in that moment in my life… Read More In the Birch Trees
“I need you to take some time and think before you start writing your answer.” “Have you thought about that?” “Did you think about your arguments before writing them down? It is important to really think about what you read and plan your answers before you start writing.” If I tallied the number of… Read More Changed Forever
Sarah Silverman paid the medical bills of the twitter troll who called her the c word. She did not turn away nor condemn him. She engaged him an exchange on twitter. They had a conversation for the world to see. She told him she saw something in him and believed he could live a great… Read More Compromise, Crisis and Collaboration
I (Kelly) hear it in his voice. A secondary vice principal is looking at achievement data on a screen I cannot see. I am driving while he walks me through the data. He is deflated and can’t figure out where “we” went wrong. What hadn’t we done? Was it the success criteria, were we not… Read More It’s Not the Grade, It’s the Growth
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