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Modeling From Afar: Nurturing Independence When We Aren’t Together

When the world is complicated, we are reminded to keep things simple. “One slide teaching” (that includes what matters) can help us...

Re-Energizing Teaching by Igniting Your Imagination

by Pam Koutrakos Little actions create ripples. Those ripples have helped me find motivation and build momentum… which feels especially...

Reigniting Your Teaching “FLOW” by Widening Your Lens

by Pam Koutrakos I’ve been having professional memory-envy. As the one year marker of navigating life during a global pandemic looms,...

Reclaiming Teaching Joy by Changing the View

by Pam Koutrakos The sudden stops and clunky restarts are not new. My day-to-day, week-to-week experiences often feel reminiscent of the...

Antiracist Parenting and Teaching: A Beginning

by Sarah Fiedeldey When I began my consulting work in 2018, I had a four-month-old (aka I was sleep deprived) as well a nine- and a...

Create Community (In Any Learning Space)

As an alum and coach in Seth Godin's altMBA I experienced firsthand the power of collaboration with people I never met in person. Somehow...

Toward an Antiracist Curriculum

“I can’t breathe.” Like so many people across the world, the words of George Floyd echo in my head and heart. This echo has become a...

Ending on a High Note!

When June hits it tends to spread its arms wide open inviting closure, reflection, and renewal in a unique way. Despite this year feeling...

Imagining Pathways

“When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.” - Pema Chodron My favorite genre...

Looking Ahead with Belief, Compassion, and Hope

I recently read Can we stop telling the ‘corona kids’ how little they are learning? (published in the Washington Post). After many weeks...

Revising What Self-Care Looks Like and Means to Me

On March 19th, Making MY Plan: Self-Care During School Closings was posted. I knew that my educating and caregiving instincts were...

Joy Through Passion Projects

As many of our children are quietly (some not so quietly) facing anxiety and experiencing a wave of emotions that are disrupting their...

Shaking Things Up: Rethinking Our Final Units

Over the last several weeks, teachers have continued to step up. We’ve compiled, curated, collaborated, and created. We have Zoomed, Met,...

How a Simple Invitation Changed Everything

You are 5 years old and you are handed a small square envelope with your name written on the outside. You squeal on the inside as you...

Do the Next Right Thing

It's almost 6 am. The sun is beginning to rise, the birds are beginning to chirp, and the sound of the coffee maker is beginning to brew....

Finding Comfort in the Familiar

There’s comfort in the familiar: familiar faces, familiar places, familiar experiences. The challenge to find familiar during this period...

Invitations

This post will not be eloquent or highly academic. It will not offer wonderful new possibilities for at-home learning or unique ways to...

Read to Restore

Image from Pixabay I don’t know about you, but the more I’m hunkered down at home, the more I feel myself drawn to books that have...

Build Reading Stamina with Rivet

We know that the amount of time children spend reading has a huge impact. Reading stamina helps support vocabulary development,...

Video Hello: Not Everything Needs to Be Written Down

Much of the joy in our classroom experiences lives in seeing the excitement on students’ faces as they share their ideas and their lives...

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