One of the biggest challenges we hear around here as it relates to staff time and focus on priorities is coverage. We all know what happens when someone is out sick or off campus. Covering that person’s work and role can really throw off everyone else’s plans! While...
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, In what will come as no surprise to anyone who’s ever caught me scribbling in a journal or hidden behind a lock-and-key diary, I was an AVID Harriet the Spy–style kid. Those pages turned into locker-side reflections in middle...
Together Friends, How are we all doing? This is your public service reminder that there are just three full weeks left between the return from Thanksgiving to the December break – and if you want to truly enjoy that time off for the holidays, now is the time to get...
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, I was delighted to see Kate Bowler has a new book out in the spring (she is an automatic pre-order for me), and it sent me back down a path on her Substack and her three-part series of building and BEING a village. Toward the...
Together Friends, Happy Deep Fall. Or Dark-Tober? Rock-tober?! Or maybe you are Team “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” (Anne of Green Gables fans will get that one.) Maybe you are coming off a fall break or looking forward to a few days off for...
During a recent class with Boston College’s Lynch Leader Fellows, we conducted Together Tours as ways to show off our Together Tools from the summer, and no joke, the chat LIT UP when Sam Harrison, an assistant principal at Academy of the Pacific Rim Public Charter...