“Your rights stop where your siblings’ rights start!” That was one of the dad-isms I grew up with as my parents guided my four brothers and me in sharing rooms, sharing the only television, sharing desserts, sharing the family car.…
Stress Truth #1: Stress is inevitable; the only way to avoid it is to have no goals and no relationships. Stress Truth #2: Stress only harms you if you think it will harm you. Don’t take my word on Truth…
What’s your best guess? Will you... Glide through the holidays with tidings of comfort and joy? March through the holidays, bearing gifts and traveling afar? Muddle through the holidays, trying not to echo Scrooge with a “Bah, humbug!”? Struggle through…
Self-care is a deservedly hot topic, especially among our teachers, health professionals, and other frontline workers. Yet I’m hearing from school leaders all over the country that they’re getting push-back when they provide dedicated time for meditation and yoga, such…
“She made me do the green packet. No teacher should make a student do the green packet if she wants to do the yellow one. I don’t care if it means working harder.” So said a sixth grader in a…
Recently, Bryan Goodwyn wrote an article on zombie education ideas that need to go six feet under for good. And, he rightly included teaching to visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learning styles, or modalities, to improve student academic performance in that…
Name a movie or TV show and somewhere on the internet you can find someone’s blog, “The MBTI Types of the Characters of...” Name a well-known personality and chances are, you can find opinions on his or her type as…
“Waaaaiiiiit…this is practical,” exclaim the coaches I’ve trained in using Holistic Leadership Coaching. And, “Waaaiiitt…I use this process again and again as my goals or roles or staff change, can’t I?” say my coaches. While the book Holistic Leadership, Thriving…
It all started in Australia in 2018. My publisher flew me over to keynote at a Women in Education conference to substitute for two beloved Australians who were quarantined in the Philippines with some tropical disease. There, in Brisbane, I…
Have you noticed there’s a Women in Education: Leading Perspectives Institute in July? In San Antonio? Are you thinking, "Why an event just for women? Isn’t ‘cross-pollination’ among genders a better way to improve the lives of children?” If you’re…