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Second Chance to Get it Right

I couldn’t possibly calculate the odds. It was my first trip to the airport in over a year, you see. And my hometown is at least 2,500 miles away. I can’t even imagine how many different train cars park at Terminal E throughout the day. Regardless, there she was.

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Measuring Growth

Mondays are soccer practice days. Which means that us parents stand at the edge of the grass, six feet away from each other and make small talk while our children run up and down the field.

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I am not okay.

January 5th was day two of training. I had the pleasure of spending time with a wonderful group of high school educators excited to take a deep dive into Restorative Practices. And then January 6th happened.

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A Shift in Approach From Either/Or to Both/And

My nephew has had his face in front of a screen for the better part of a year now. Like other students across this nation, he was thrust into online learning last March. And like millions of children today, he still has not made it back on campus.

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Anchoring Down to Connect with Students

I once had the pleasure of hearing Trish Shaffer speak. As Social Emotional Learning Coordinator, she proudly shared the great work taking place in Washoe County schools, a district right outside of Reno, Nevada.

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Putting All of the Pieces Together

The phrase Social Emotional Learning came into my life in 2015. Though SEL implementation has been around for decades, the schools and districts in which I worked had not yet embraced whole child education with that particular lens.

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A Year Stronger

Two days ago I recognized the one year anniversary of my breast cancer diagnosis. Which means that I have struggled to communicate what this experience has been like for exactly one year and two days.

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From the Outside Soaking In

I was walking home in the rain last night. It was not as serene as it may sound, absolutely nothing like the pivotal “life makes sense to me now” moment in a romcom.