June 11, 2021
June 2021: In-Between Times, Contest & We’re Hiring!
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…
Archive for 2021
June 6, 2021
Win a Free Copy of The Together Teacher 2.0: At the Printer!
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,…
June 4, 2021
Workshop Quote: The Most Together I’ve Felt on Zoom- Except at Church!
How’s that for some course feedback?! I’m now 15 months into delivering online Together Trainings, and a theme is emerging in the feedback around community-building, engagement, and accountability. Hoping that what I share here can help you…
May 25, 2021
When to Call It: I’ll Get It Together Tomorrow
As soon as the stick punctured R’s calf, I knew it would be a long night. The kids were happily skipping along a side street in Woodley Park en route to an evening of ice cream with my partner and his two children, when BOOM!, our plan was foiled…
May 3, 2021
May Together Tips: Serenity, Stress & Shifts
Shared in our May 2021 Newsletter. Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!I swear, I had a lovely May note planned for you all, possibly using this nifty gadget (Thanks, SLK!). Alas, I…
April 5, 2021
April Together Tips: Witnessing, Wondering & What-You-Will-ing
Shared in our April 2021 Newsletter. Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, A text exchange between me and my college bestie broke my heart in two last week. Witnessing her strength for her three young kids, her huge job, and her…
March 30, 2021
Stage to Assuage: Maia’s Approach to Big Daunting Tasks
Getting ready to take a bit of a break this week, I caught myself staring at my thrown-together heap of clothing, aka my Pre-Packing Pile, and realized I’m a tiny bit of a procrastinator. It is rare that I start a task and complete it in one…
March 22, 2021
Come On In or Come Back Later? Mariama’s Door Declarations!
We’ve written about open door policies here and here, and they’ve come back up to the surface as many of our schools continue in-person and in-office work. Mariama K., a school leader at Uplift Education in Dallas, shared her school’s shift…
March 15, 2021
Translating Togetherness: The Together School Nurse!
Our Together Team Member courses welcome a wonderful mix of folks in customer-service oriented support roles. This means we meet assistants, chiefs of staff, IT associates, HR coordinators, social workers, and, in a recent course, a SCHOOL NURSE. I…
March 8, 2021
March Together Tips: Segmenting, Schitt’s Creek & Sandwich Cookies
Shared in our March 2021 Newsletter. Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, So apparently there is this thing called TikTok that I just discovered. Have you heard of it? I kid, I kid. (Though I have tried to convince my children…