Who Would Want to Be a Teacher?
Photo credit: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein. From The Irony at the Heart of the War on Teachers Three and one-half years ago, much of the...
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Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Aug 23
Take the Limits Off!
Photo by Andre Morales Kalamar on Unsplash This summer, I drove my son to an Old Dominion University (ODU) basketball camp. During the...
Annette Conley
- Aug 20
Back to School for Educators: The ABCs for a Healthier School Year
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash Whether you are dreading the return to school or extremely excited about the new school year, these...
Meghan Raftery
- Aug 16
Human Design for Educators: A First Person Experience
Photo by Chi Chen on Unsplash Confession: I check my horoscope daily. When I flip through the digital edition of my local newspaper each...
Donna Spangler
- Jul 30
What Is the Next Step in a Retired Educator's Journey? Edjacent!
Photo by Nature Uninterrupted Photography Hello, fellow educators and learners! My name is Donna Spangler, and as I sit in my kitchen...
Doug Wren
- Jul 27
Report Reveals the Sorry State of Public School Instruction
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Findings from research conducted jointly by the RAND Corporation and the Center on Reinventing Public...
Melissa Smith
- Jul 16
Prioritizing Sidelined Narratives: Reshaping Education for Equity and Inclusion
Photo by Maheima Kapur on Unsplash Have you ever questioned the content of your textbooks or the narratives shared in classrooms? Did you...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Apr 13
Be Seen: Drive Your Scat Pack
Photo by Yoal Desurmont on Unsplash My son and nephew love cars! When we are driving they can tell you what car is next to us. How fast...
Caroline Morin
- Jan 29
New Year’s Nutrition
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash We are a few weeks into the new year and chances are you’ve set some sort of goal related to eating...
Caroline Morin
- Jan 5
The Gift of Stress
I recently wrote about stress mindset and the power of shifting our perspective from seeing stress as a form of suffering to viewing it...
Sheila Wilson
- Dec 6, 2022
The Problem with Professional Development (Part 2)
In part one of this blog series, I focused on my conversations with elementary educators related to their self-reported professional...
Caroline Morin
- Nov 28, 2022
Stress Mindset
Stressed. This is the one word response I hear most often when I ask my teacher friends, "How are you?" It's been a heavy year for...
Sheila Wilson
- Nov 22, 2022
The Problem with Professional Development (Part 1)
Have you ever had the misfortune of attending a professional development (PD) session that had little interest or value in your current...
Caroline Morin
- Nov 17, 2022
Put Me In, Coach! I’m Ready to Play! (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part blog series. Part 1 provided an overview of coaching and my experience with instructional coaching....
Caroline Morin
- Nov 13, 2022
Put Me In, Coach! I’m Ready to Play! (Part 1)
Photo credit Twenty20 @askoldsb When I was a kid I played a lot of sports. Field hockey, soccer, lacrosse, tennis. But I was never...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Nov 9, 2022
Time Is on My Side, Yes It Is!
Two years ago, I purchased an instant pot as a household Christmas gift. We used it several times to expedite cooking healthy meals. The...
Meghan Raftery
- Oct 27, 2022
The Myth of “They”
The life of a self-authoring educator can be pretty lonely. Self-authors forge their own pathways through existing systems by creating...
Meghan Raftery
- Sep 29, 2022
Find Your Ikigai
For most educators, teaching is a calling. Educators are typically purpose-driven and they care deeply about children and their futures....
Jared Fritzinger
- Sep 22, 2022
No Is a Full Sentence: Redefining My Relationship to Teaching
For the past five years or so of my 11-year teaching career, I have made an intentional effort to take stock of my relationship with the...
Meghan Raftery
- Sep 19, 2022
The Adjacent Possible for Education
Most people have a fixed image in their mind of what a school is and what it is for. When they hear the word educators, they think of...
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