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 sitting. Whether I call it...
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 from a...
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 mean, can you...
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 that my phone doesn’t support games or social media, AND THEY ALMOST...
I don’t often use this space for personal posts, though I’ve tried my hand at it once or twice. Letting you all into my (sometimes not so) Together World is occasionally instructive, and it’s also good therapy for me, too. This week’s grand confession? My own two...