Here’s a great question that recently landed in the mailbag from Mekia L., a principal with KIPP DC, who had just started grad school! I know many of you are in the same boat! What a great question, Mekia! I already know you are rocking out your Google calendar during...
Contest Alert: Tell Us How You Keep Your Students Together! [enter by Friday, August 9]
It’s back-to-school time! Share your number one practical tip as it relates to STUDENT organization for the start of school. Your tip can cover (in 100 words or fewer, please) getting kids organized or getting yourself organized to help your students. For example, at...
Jazzmyne Townsends’s Together Tour: Issue #118
Together Friends, How are we all doing? This is your public service reminder that there are just three full weeks left between the return from Thanksgiving to the December break – and if you want to truly enjoy that time off for the holidays, now is the time to get...
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...
Elizabeth Raji-Greig’s Together Tour: Issue #115
Together Friends, It’s June – a time of endings and beginnings! This will be our last Together Tour until the fall. (You can look forward to some other fun content we’re cooking up!). Let’s get to it! Together Tour: Elizabeth Raji-Greig This month’s Together Tour...
June Tips: Praise, Posi-Notes & Powers of Togetherness
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, At a recent Together class with some great folks in Brooklyn, they kindly delivered me a handwritten message on a note card at the end of the day. This made me flash back to a former boss of mine who was a huge fan of what he...
Luisa Sparrow’s (MA Teacher of the Year!) Together Tour: Issue #112
Together Friends, Welcome to February! Welcome to Almost-Spring. In an extra-heavy world, I’m here to keep shining a light on people who have chosen to work toward the greater good – and peek at just HOW they do it and what they have learned along the way. Together...
Together TEEN Tours Featuring Mahelet Serekeberhan and Sesina Hadish: Issue #111
Together Friends, The Together Team is busy around here with a full docket of both online and in-person classes as we move into the new year. And it’s not too early to book us for summer and fall 2025. . . our calendar is open and ready! In the meantime, I am here to...
Together Teens: Five Quick Ideas for Secondary Teachers
Last fall, I was fortunate and honored to spend a few afternoons with kids and teachers at a local high school assisting some freshman with their Togetherness skills. While I plan to write about a few different methods each kiddo chose to assist with their planning...
Anna “AJ” Bute’s Together Tour: Issue #109
Together Friends, The Together Team is hopping over here with a full docket of both online and in-person classes this fall. We are excited to resume our Together Tours as the academic new year gets underway. This month we offer up a high school Together Teacher’s...