A few weeks back in NYC, I bumped into my old friend, Diana H., a curriculum designer at Relay Graduate School of Education. She raved about how she’d resurrected the habit of holding a Weekly Meeting with herself. Diana uses her Weekly Round-Up time to plan her...
Braxton Stowe’s Together Tour: Issue #105
Together Friends, Today we are back with another showcase of how someone keeps himself Together. You may have been inspired by Juan’s AI-supported calendar, Crystal’s low-traffic focus spot, MaryKate’s Marriage Meeting, or Versha’s OneNote priorities. So let’s peek...
ClickUp for the Win: Erica’s Keeping it ALL Together!
While we don’t believe technology will save us (or will it…?!) and we know that no tool is forever, we always try to feature one-stop-shop digital Trapper Keepers whenever we see them, like here, here, and here. Hence today’s blog post with yet another to add to the...
MaryKate Hughes’s Together Tour: Issue #104
Together Friends! The days are getting a liitttttle tiny bit longer, my youngest kiddo turned 11, and I’m gearing up for a long weekend Reading Vacation over spring break. And I don’t know if you have heard, but a lot of my favorite authors, friends, and...
Crystal Johnson’s Together Tour: Issue #102
Together Friends! Did anyone else have a “Case of the Second Mondays” this week? (a term coined by Together Team member Ana). After our family’s return from our version of The Griswolds-Spend-Nine-Days-In-Ireland (sidenote: my teenagers use the phrase “Look kids, a...
November Tips: Tidy Time, Treats & Time Off!
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family First of all, thanks for the feedback, input and notes on our new mini-newsletter with a Together Tour showing how Versha organizes her life. I can’t wait to share the next one with you in a few weeks, and we have a great...
A Together Table?! Supplies to Support Professional and Personal Togetherness
No, no, this is not an essay about setting one’s table for the holidays, though I have certainly written about Together Trays and Together Turkeys a lot in my time. This blog post is about how you could…set people up for success in and after some Together Trainings!...
April Tips: It’s a Together Tips Takeover!
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family Hello! It’s Heidi, popping out from behind the scenes to introduce myself as editor of this lovely newsletter. I also happen to be the editor of Maia’s most recent book, The Together Teammate (available for preorder now!), and...
Peek at the Week: Using Google to the Max
In one of my year-long Together Leader courses, we got deep on weekly planning and the power of Google last week. I mean, we went full on nerd-fest with a group of school leaders in rural Idaho, complete with screen sharing and deeply pondering how using technology...
November Tips: Grisham, Gingerbread, and Guide-to-Me
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family First of all, thanks for your grace and love notes from my non-newsletter last month. It was delightful to hear from so many of you personally. Our Big Blended Family escaped to my second favorite place on earth (the shores of...