It’s that time of year. We’re in the middle of March, and I’m hearing about many teachers feeling a little overwhelmed. Danielle Mizuta shared in her guest post about going through the “tough time” in a year, and for many teachers, it feels like they’re in that time every day. It’s easy to feel a […]
I recently had to coordinate a day where 8th grade students had to go to the library to meet with the high school counselors to register for next year. There were about 500 students who had to attend. There wasn’t a lot of time allotted to meet with each counselor, so I had to make […]
I’ve been reading Simon Sinek’s book, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. After reading his second book, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, I was so inspired that I had to read his first book, Start With Why. Although most of the book has to do […]
I was speaking with a student recently about school and her classes, when she said something that made me a little sad. “My teacher doesn’t like me.” Of course, I asked her why she felt this was true. She went on to share how the teacher sometimes doesn’t acknowledge her when she’s trying to ask […]