Author: Meghan Lawson

Our Connection to Ourselves

The most important work is the work we do on ourselves. As human beings. Everything else is secondary. At the end of the day, our self-work is really the only thing we can "control." How we respond to the world around us in the now has the potential to shape the future in a good way. Feeling big feelings doesn't mean we are failing, it means we are awake. It means we are noticing our own pain and the pain around us. It also means that we have the capacity to feel the good emotions in a big way too. And some days, we will just need to push through. That happens. That's ok. Sometimes. Just not all the time.

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Humans First

Let's listen. Let's build alongside educators and students. We cannot expect people to feel ownership and engagement in something that they were not a part of building. Imagine what we can do if we build together.

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A Little Love

Perhaps we should start by loving ourselves as educators. As Mr. Roger once said, "You can't love someone else until you love yourself first." Through all of the hard stuff. The mistakes. The days when we just aren't feeling it.

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Free Space

But if we don't give ourselves the opportunity to just be, what happens to the quality of our thoughts? The quality of our educators' thoughts? The quality of kids' thoughts? If we just do and focus on the doing, can we make the world better? I'm not sure we can make the world better without questions and wondering.

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We All Build Culture

Perhaps this is radical, but how we spend time with people is one of the greatest ways to change this world. How we show up for each interaction, each gathering, how we are in community with each other -it matters in a big way. We have the power to make people feel strong and special and capable which means that the opposite is true too if we aren't thoughtful.

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Less Thinking. More Doing.

I wonder if this is what we are missing in some of our "data" meetings in schools. Do we have pictures of kids at the table? To start, they are our WHY. They are why we want to be better. That's a big part of our identity as educators. But also, setting goals for improvements is nice, but it's not the work. The work is the small moves made over time that can make a big difference. Too many data meetings sound like, "We need to get these scores up." Well, yeah. We know. But how? And because we don't know what the best strategy or step to take is, we may not take a step.

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