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Day One Leadership: More Than a Welcome Back The first day of school is more than a calendar date; it’s a tone-setter. For students, it...

The first day of school feels different depending on where you’re standing. For a brand-new teacher, Year 1 is a leap into the unknown...

In the fall of 2020, I remember walking past the local playground. The swings were wrapped in yellow caution tape. The climbing structure...

"You can’t do everything at once, but you can do one thing well today." In a world that constantly demands more, faster, and all at once,...

Purposeful Professionalism If we are honest, we can admit work isn’t a friendship club. You will, at some point, have to work with...

Let’s challenge a myth: that great teams are built on mutual admiration, deep trust, or even basic fondness. Some of the most effective,...

Rewriting the Script on Parent Partnerships As educators prepare to launch a new school year, a familiar narrative is resurfacing across...

In a world full of distractions and to-do lists, presence is a rare and beautiful gift. Today, choose to be fully there in the...

It’s easy to hang a “Portrait of a Graduate” on the wall. It’s bold. It’s visionary. It captures the kind of human we want to send out...

Summer in education is a break and a bridge. A quiet, necessary pause between the final bell and the next chapter. The school year is...

The Mentoring Mirror “In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.” – Phil Collins The beauty of mentorship lies in its...

Intentional Mentorship: a relationship built on presence, purpose, and intention. When we mentor with intention, we pass on knowledge,...

Leading in Education by Lifting Others If you’re in educational leadership (or aspire to be), remember this: you didn’t get here alone....

When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the foundations of schooling, many of us found ourselves looking up and seeing no clear direction....

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” — Lao Tzu There’s freedom in doing...

Start with Care. Stay with Care. This week, let’s remember: Innovation doesn’t grow from strategy alone. It grows from trust. Trust only...

Care is the Catalyst: Rethinking Leadership for Innovation and Trust In the field of education, where the stakes are human, not just...

"I am out with lanterns, looking for myself." – Emily Dickinson. There is something hauntingly beautiful about this line. A quiet...

“We are not here to make things harder. We are here to make things matter.” It’s a truth that every great educator eventually learns: The...

Too often in education, we reduce students to numbers: a test score, a reading level, a percentage point. Behind every data point is a...