Work Less, Achieve More

Best-selling author, Jennifer Weiner, is an excellent example of work/life balance. Not only is she writing best-selling books every year, but she carves time to go on 100-mile bike ride adventures, bakes bountiful bundles of bread and pastries, and she is learning how to play the piano! She is undoubtedly one who inspires us […]
Difficult Conversations to Compassionate Conversations

Why do difficult conversations have to be difficult? How can we approach difficult conversations that will empower you and the student or person you are talking with? Repeat after me, difficult conversations do NOT have to be difficult. If you told me this just three years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you because they used […]
Courageous Conversations

What is a courageous conversation? We have them all the time. We have them everywhere. We have them with students, colleagues, administrators, and parents. The conversations may be a two-minute conversation in the hallway or a conversation that takes place over the course of 20 days. The idea is that we engage in conversations that […]