After a summer and fall teaching blitz (I’m still in it!), I’m finally getting the chance to follow up with course participants to see how you share Togetherness throughout your organizations. Andrea W., a leader at the Texas Education Agency…
Last fall, in anticipation of a dark, screen-filled winter ahead with a side of holiday loneliness, I built myself a Playlist. Not of songs, but a literal PLAY List: things to turn to when I needed a joy boost. Sidenote: Elena and I even talked…
Does anyone else feel like they are starting their calendars from scratch again? It is sort of like when I recently returned home from a remote-work vacation, and my refrigerator was legitimately empty. Maia’s empty-ish fridge, with the…
Shared in our September 2021 Newsletter. Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, HAPPY Back to School? Scratch. WELCOME Back to School? No, that isn’t right either. Back to school, hello, is it you? AGAIN. I see you. And that…
Occasionally, Togetherness gets a bit of a rep for being inflexible. But we believe the opposite around here. As you’ve heard me say before, “The more planned you are, the more flexible you can be!” (PS I’m thinking I should print this on a…
Shared in our August 2021 Newsletter. Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, I greet you today, following SEVEN days of blissful solitude, from a semi-undisclosed-location near my Homeland. When you are a solo-parent whose kids go…
Hi! I’m back! And after two weeks of much needed away-from-a-screen time, I’m here with you allllll summer long. Especially because I have only talked to Sadie the Spider for the past six days. For the past five years, I’ve roadtripped to…
Shared in our July 2021 Newsletter. Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Our regular newsletter takes summer vacation in July (though you can still find me on Instagram on…
Shared in our June 2021 Newsletter. Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Hi. How are you all? Flourishing? Languishing? In the In-Between Times? I’m . . . all of the…
Note: The contest is closed as of June 18, 2021. After many fits and spurts (have you ever tried revising 80,000 words you wrote almost a decade ago?!?), I’m pleased to announce that The Together Teacher 2nd Edition is at the printer! I mean,…