nd. . . I’m back. The book broke my brain, but I’m slowly recovering and I’ve returned to the blogosphere! I have a new series lined up that I think you will love. . . After my Serial podcast hangover wore off, I went on something of a podcast binge. One of my...
Book Deadline: T-Minus Six Weeks
I’ve officially completed my last flight of the summer! After 16 weeks of straight travel (minus one vacation), my body and brain are beyond ready for a break. I do still have a few train trips scheduled up and down the Northeast Corridor, but those are not as taxing....
Retreat of One: Is it Time?
Two of my favorite school leaders wrote me earlier this year about feeling completely overwhelmed toward the end of the school year. On the one hand, they face the immediacy of state and district testing, hiring new staff, report cards, parent conferences, student...
OBSESSED: Yesterbox, An Alternative Approach to Email Management
My old friend and colleague, Elissa Kim, was recently kind enough to let me interview her for The Together Leader. As I prepared for our conversation by poking around in her Outlook calendar (I’m nothing if not investigative!), I noticed she’d scheduled a daily...
Meet Justin: The Together Farmer!
I’m smiling as I write this week’s post. I met Justin a few months ago down at IDEA Public Schools in the Rio Grande Valley. I could tell he wasn’t a classroom teacher when I peered over his shoulder at his calendar—and then I got REALLY excited when I learned he was...
Cara’s Transformation: Whiteboard to Weekly Worksheet
I met Cara at a recent Together Training in DC. She’s an Achievement Coordinator and the mom of an about-to-finish-high-school kid! Cara entered the training as an already very organized thinker, but she had a few challenges with her organizational tool of choice –...
Five Steps to Coaching Others Toward Togetherness
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about coaching others toward Togetherness, maybe because of Valerie’s great question on a recent blog post or because of all the calls I get from principals trying to help teachers. On the blog, we’ve shared some great models of...
Total System Tour: Susan’s Adult Trapper Keeper
Our past blog posts on complete and total systems, like Michelle’s Arc Notebook and Sarah’s clipboarded iPad Mini, tend to be very popular. So here’s another one, people! This time, we’re learning from Susan, a Research Fellow and former PhD student. Translation: she...
The Together. . . Parent?!?!
This is definitively not a self-help blog. And I try to keep it reasonably professional. However, I thought I would pull back the curtain on a frequently asked question I get around working parenthood: How do you keep it Together at work AND at home?!? First off, I’m...
Tech Tip: Getting Creative with Electronic Print Options
One of the biggest frustrations we hear from teachers, leaders, and other school-supporting professionals is that they WANT to be more electronic, but their environment doesn’t always allow for it: screens need to be down in meetings, walking down the hallways is not...
