“Teacher stress may be the biggest crisis facing our schools.” Yesterday I had the pleasure of learning from Rebekah Schipper from Opportunity Thrive. I was with a group of elementary […]

A neighbor may do some lawn trimming for you, and in his mind he is generously helping you out–he has the trimmer out, he is not in a hurry, and

When I was a teacher, I would sometimes start a class meeting by holding up a quarter between two students so they each saw one side of the quarter. I

The only constant in life is change. -Heraclitus When I was 24 years old and one year into my marriage, my husband and I moved away from everything we knew

Each week in our staff update we include tips to help us in our journey to be a trauma-informed school. When we first started including the tips, I spent time

A character named Allie comes alive in my book Through the Lens of Serendipity. Allie is one of those woman you look at and immediately think, “She has it all.”

At the beginning of this school year, I asked the following question on Twitter and in our school. The responses were insightful and have implications for all school leaders. Some

It was the beginning of August when I drove from the airport to my hotel  on a sweltering day in Chattanooga, TN. Before I set off from the airport, I

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. —Mother Teresa Do you love it when people tell you what you “should have done”? No, we typically hate