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Wielding Peer Pressure to Build a More Wholesome Community

18 May 2023 | Filed under: Teaching

Spoken to an educator recently? Opened a newspaper? Then, no doubt you’ve heard about the startling increase in remarkably cruel, insensitive & flat-out rude behavior kids are showing on a regular basis. Group-think is short-circuiting basic decency with alarming regularity. At my middle school in recent months, as in schools …

“Both/And” thinking and Race – #WhatImReading

12 September 2020 | Filed under: Equity, What I'm Reading

This is a long-delayed #WhatImReading post. I picked up So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo when my district’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee suggested it as a book club discussion book to support anti-racist initiatives. In the first chapter, Oluo addresses many of the arguments used …

What I’m Reading: “Children and COVID-19: State Data Report”

I have been poring through the statistics in the joint report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, …

What I’m Reading: “So You Want to Talk About Race” chapter 1

Last week, I wrote that I’d started reading So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo, and how eager I …

What do we need from schools in September?

A few weeks ago, I read this Medium post by Dr. Shayla R. Griffin, which I posted my initial reflections on, and which …

What I’m Reading: “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki

I have been trying to build my financial literacy for many years, starting about 15 years ago. It’s frustrating that these things …

#Girlboss and Systemic Change: What I’m Listening To

Listening today to an episode of The Takeaway from a few weeks ago (7/6/2020), and I was struck by the final segment, …

What I’m Reading: Some Students Should Go To School, Most Should Stay Home

Over the weekend, I read this Medium post by Dr. Shayla R. Griffin, “Some Students Should Go To School, Most Should Stay …

What I’m Reading: “So You Want To Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo

Within my school district, the George Floyd protests prompted a push for anti-racist education, which several faculty, staff, and administrators are trying …

Positivity in Leadership

Reading “What Leading with Optimism Really Looks Like” in Harvard Business Review, written by Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan, and thinking about …

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