At the start of 2026, I got curious how people approach long-term planning, not necessarily goal-setting, but how they look at the big picture of an entire year. And I went searching for a template of a portable year on one page, and I happily found this one. It’s a...
One of my favorite sections in The Together Teammate is around Closing Loops. Closing Loops is important for to-dos to be closed to finality, to ensure others know the status of tasks, and to avoid duplicate work. I was thinking about this in the context of...
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...
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...
I had not planned to write this particular blog post on this particular Monday morning (usually reserved for deeper writing and design work), but since I have received a flurry of interruptions, well, hey, why not? It went something like this. . . 7:45 AM Call from a...
I have a long-acknowledged aversion to unpacking from trips, anything related to laundry (besides getting it started), and certain tax-related work tasks. The other day, I was deep in dread about unpacking from about five different work and personal trips, and I got...
