Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family Happy August! Happy Back-to-School! Happy Almost 46th Birthday to Maia! (peanut butter covered malt balls and fancy popcorn welcomed!) Happy Pub (lication) Month for The Together Teammate! After an intense few weeks of Together...
Author Interview and Book Giveaway Contest: Peg Dawson of Smart but Scattered!
Author stalking continues. . . While dabbling in Together Student research and resources here, here and here, I recently read the book Smart but Scattered. I was immediately intrigued by the executive functioning approaches discussed by Peg Dawson and her co-author,...
Alpha Public Schools: Bring on The ANT Squad
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...
December Tips: Memories, Messes & Moments
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...
November Tips: Village, Vitals & (Back In) the Valley
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...
August Tips: Chesapeake (Bay Bridge), Congestion & Calendars
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, This summer has found me traveling over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge a total of maybe 10 times. For those that do not know, the Bay Bridge is a spectacular (and a bit scary) drive due to its sharp curve and lack of shoulders, its...
July Tips: (Deep) Summer, Squirrels & (Reader) Survey
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Just like students, our regular newsletter takes an annual summer vacation in July, though you can still find me on Instagram on some #semiTogetherMom #bigblendedfamily adventures with Dr. Together and Together Farmer and my...
April Tips: Rudders, Recovery & Road Trips!
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, As someone who dabbles in open-water distance swimming (yes, I survived my 2-mile ocean swim in Clearwater, FL last month, thank you for asking, but it was NOT PRETTY and it took me over two hours given the strength of the...
March Tips: Consume (Less), Create (More) & Community
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, I descend from a long line of artists. A far back relative was a poet of distinction in Germany, all of my Heyck aunts are painters and musicians (in fact, check out my godmother’s feature in the Times), my sister – The...
February Tips: Chaos, Calendar & Community
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Living in the DC area is a bit. . . chaotic (or gut-wrenching? heart-breaking?) right now. A plane tragically fell out of the sky just a few miles from my home, I have researcher friends whose cancer studies at the NIH are...
