Just a few more sleeps until our third face to face for cohort 21 and I’m so excited! This meetup is always a thrilling one for me as the people around me begin to share and develop their professional goals and dreams. Pretty exciting stuff, huh? I get to spend a day listening to others declare how they […]
“Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense of arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.” ― Akiko Busch, Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live When I first started teaching twenty years ago, I found myself in a classroom housed in a portable, separated by a big playground, […]
I have recently been reading Carol Dweck’s Mindset- The New Psychology of Success as professional development. I began reading the book to access the knowledge and strategies I needed to support my students. I had begun to notice that some of my students were really uncomfortable with challenging work that asked a lot of them. Even […]