It’s that time again… January tends to bring about a mentality of change or redirection, a good time to check in with ourselves. It also seems to be when families start planning ahead for the next school year which for […]
2 things to celebrate today. 1. It’s our blog’s 1 Year Anniversary! It’s been exactly one year since I made the commitment to write a blog and post it on our website and facebook page EVERY Monday about big ideas […]
Turned on 105.5-no more holiday music. Checked out the ABC Family listings for the day, holiday movies-gone. In the blink of an eye people are packing up the decorations and I find the whole thing a little sad. Not because […]
Last week I shared that it broke my heart (again) hearing from one of my former students about their lackluster year and how it doesn’t have to be that way. As the days leading up to our holiday break went […]
I ran into a former student and her mother yesterday. Her smile always beams and her mother is a doll. But the words that came out of her mouth after we caught up and I asked her how her year […]
Here in Florida, our students have the entire week of Thanksgiving off. I spent this break far differently than my past 10 years. I won’t pretend like I don’t have more on my plate this year or that I’m not […]
While our students focus on gratitude daily, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season and gives our community a way to get involved in one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. Real talk, you don’t have to wait for a […]
Indi-ED is different, good different. As I’m happily tearing apart our plans and redesigning our next set of units for my students, another way that we’re “good different” is glaring me in the face. We can always PIVOT as necessary […]
As I was writing our blog post last week, I realized that the issues that we were discussing linked to an idea that was simply articulated a few months prior, but was now actually happening. This week I see a […]
Teachers will tell you that there’s a point in the year when it just starts clicking. For today, we’ll call this moment, you guessed it – the turn. When the kids understand and respect your boundaries and expectations. When the […]