We’ve been teasing you for awhile now with references to the great Arc Notebook, and now it’s high time we go into detail. Loyal blog followers have already met many teachers and their Flexy-Friends, Jocelyn and her binder, and Keith and his clipboard. But so far,...
Together Teacher Book Clubs: New Year’s Resolution?
In our recent travels, we’ve caught wind of Together Teacher Book Clubs brewing across the country. Exciting stuff! Over the next few months, we’ll highlight the great practices we’re seeing so you can institute your very own book club. January is just the right time...
FAQ: Mixing Personal and Professional?
Thirty minutes into any Together Teacher workshop, when we start talking about consolidating the many calendars that come our way as teachers, a hand inevitably shoots up: “Should I put my personal stuff and professional stuff on the same calendar?” This question is...
September Tips: Energy, (Together) Enough & Evening Edition!
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, I cannot remember where I read this quote nor can I find an attribution, but I heard this phrase recently, “Hope must be loud.” As a naturally buoyant person, the experience of being a human right now is hard. The Together...
Together Transitions: Staying Organized During a Job Search
At our recent community pop-up Together Your Summer, the topic of job searches and role transitions was top of mind for many, especially since a lot of us operate on an academic year cycle. I then popped over here to check in with the hive mind and all kinds of great...
Togethering Your Holidays: Is it Possible? Is it Necessary?
We recently had the privilege of hosting a public Together Your Holidays virtual gathering for our friends interested in prioritizing and planning for the busy seven weeks ahead. We’re not talking the Pinterest Perfect kind of holiday organizing, but instead how we...
Omar Lopez’s Together Tour (ChatGPT and Email Hints!): Issue #107
Together Friends, This Together Tour was lots of fun to put together – I so love when people have big mission-driven day jobs AND big other commitments. In Omar’s case, he is the Deputy Mayor of his town. No big deal, right? In the conversation that follows, we will...
Sharing is Caring: Host a Together Talk
After a summer and fall teaching blitz (I’m still in it!), I’m finally getting the chance to follow up with course participants to see how you share Togetherness throughout your organizations. Andrea W., a leader at the Texas Education Agency (TEA), offered a cool...
Peeking Around the Bend Into. . . 2021!
Y’all, it took me a LONG TIME this year to hang my beloved annual wall calendar. In the Before Times, I would’ve hung this baby up by July so I could start peering into the next calendar year. I would have been planning my travel schedule, my Girl Scout meetings, my...
Fighting Screen Fatigue: Steve’s Hand-Drawn Weekly Worksheet
Anyone else feeling a little more, well. . . paper-ish, these days? Spending countless hours in my office staring at Zoom grid faces, I’m longing for a little more analog. And after speaking to hundreds of you in my online classes, I know you are, too. Imagine my...
