Joy for the sake of joy is a worthy cause indeed. When you’re having fun, everyone around you is more likely to have fun too. FUN is a learning tool and learning fuel. Too often an underrated one.
An Underrated Learning Tool
Nurturing Curiosity
Too often, we view questions as some kind of attack on authority.
Bad Moments Aren’t
There is so much good in this world and in our school communities. Look for it. It won’t take you long to find it. And when you find it, name it, and celebrate it.
Sunday Scaries
Let’s acknowledge these thoughts, write them down if needed, and set them to the side because tomorrow will bring its own worries and all we really have is right now
Look Again
It’s amazing how quickly our brains decide that what we’ve seen is all that can be. What we’ve seen online. What we’ve seen or heard for ourselves. What others have told us. And in a world full of distractions, what we truly see or hear can be even further limited
From Cookies to the Classroom
Instruction is so much more complex than baking. But the world outside of the classroom has little truths to offer us too.
Portraits are Not Add-Ons
Portraits of a Learner are not meant to be posters on a wall. They serve as north stars for students AND staff. We cannot give to others that which we do not have for ourselves. Portraits give us an opportunity to take the chaotic world of school and make it more meaningful and coherent.
A Note about 1st Days
Whether you’re creating a new staff orientation day or welcoming a new member to your office team this summer, how might you make the first day special?
Wired for Story
That kind of feedback is my favorite. It’s so raw and honest and it’s an indication that some walls were let down…all of which is needed to build trust and a better future together.
Somebody Hates You
If you are high integrity and doing great work for the right reasons and the right way, then chin up and keep going. Stay close to the truth-tellers who are rooting for you and can give you a more balanced view of the work and your role in the work.
MEGHAN LAWSON 