I met Dana P. last month in Washington, DC. Dana is a busy school leader whose schedule is full of duties, grade team meetings, lesson plan reviews, and more. Dana is a paper-based planner. We love her use of sheet protectors to plan her week and prioritize what...
Working on our own Togetherness is one thing. Helping our students – the reason we all actually got into teaching – with their own is quite another. We receive many questions about student Togetherness. These can be toughies, and we’re excited to put together more...
I recently spent time with the founding teachers of a charter school in Washington, DC. I was struck by the intentionality of the school leader, Mekia L., in setting up systems for Togetherness that will last her school, staff and students for years to come. Here’s me...
Let’s be honest. . . Sometimes all of this planning, scheduling, sorting, filing, and more planning just gets EXHAUSTING. We know why we do it: It makes us better teachers, and hopefully gives us more free time and less work to take home. But still, it’s tiring. There...
