Together Team: Document Your Annual Activities

Together Team: Document Your Annual Activities

As The Together Leader gets closer and closer to release, I want to highlight a few leadership tools I’ve never mentioned before on the blog. Worried about capacity, collisions or communication on your team? I definitely recommend creating an Annual Activities plan....
Book Giveaway Contest & Author Interview with Elena Aguilar

Book Giveaway Contest & Author Interview with Elena Aguilar

Elena Aguilar is one of the best authors in the education business. I love her fresh take on coaching AND we recently bonded over what kinds of healthy foods we pack in our suitcases as PD road warriors. Elena has me topped with her travel water filter and...
Reader Mailbag: How to Best Sort My Weekly List

Reader Mailbag: How to Best Sort My Weekly List

Your emails, questions and comments have been rolling in! Time to resurrect the mailbag! Here’s one from Stacie, an instructional manager (and former principal and teacher) based in Baltimore! Dear Stacie, This is a very, very good question! It all depends on if...
Hot People: Four Ways to Be Nice AND Manage Your Time

Hot People: Four Ways to Be Nice AND Manage Your Time

One of the most telling exercises in my Together Leader workshops is when we list “Priority Crushers”—the last-minute events, unpredictable emergencies and other sudden To-Do’s that crush our well-intentioned big goals and priorities. Inevitably, busy leaders name...
Five Things I Learned When My iPhone was Run Over by a Car

Five Things I Learned When My iPhone was Run Over by a Car

In an unfortunate turn of events last week, my iPhone was run over by a car. It’s a long, crazy story* (any Mo Willems fans get the reference?), but for a number of other long, boring reasons, it took me three days to get a new phone.  In no specific order, here is...