Moving Towards My Intentions for Transformation
For about ten years now, I would select a personal word to guide my experience for the upcoming year. Before I started selecting a...
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Meghan Raftery
- Jan 15
Least Restrictive Environment
I kept a digital journal in college in the days before blogs. Upon graduation, I printed the journal pages and put them in a binder along...
Melissa Smith
- Jan 8
Do NOT Put Your Hands on Their HEADS
How did you feel when the Crown Act was passed in the House of Representatives on March 18, 2022? Now, what were your emotions when the...
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...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law & Meghan Raftery
- Dec 1, 2022
Who Owns Edjacent?
Some people believe that Meghan Raftery not only owns Edjacent, but that she actually is Edjacent. But Edjacent is much larger than just...
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...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Nov 20, 2022
Alignment: Words and Deeds
Have you ever been in a meeting and facilitators ask for suggestions? Then suggestions are shared around the room through a protocol or...
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...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Oct 20, 2022
Maturity Is Not Measured by Your Age!
I have been in many discussions, conversations, and dialogues with individuals. Whether these actions took place face to face, by...
Meghan Raftery
- Oct 16, 2022
A Brief History of the Edjacent Design Collaborative
Have you ever had a slow hunch? Slow hunches are shadows of ideas that appear on the edges of your life. You know they are there, but you...
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....
Doug Wren
- Sep 26, 2022
Two Steps Forward and One Back
Anyone who has read my summer blog series or the letter I wrote recently to the editor of Virginia’s largest daily newspaper knows where...
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...
Sheila Wilson
- Aug 30, 2022
Educators Prioritizing Their Own Health and Wellness. How and Why They Can and Should.
As the school year gets underway it would be fair to say that many educators are coming back to school with mixed emotions. Of course,...
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