Our Together Team Member courses welcome a wonderful mix of folks in customer-service oriented support roles. This means we meet assistants, chiefs of staff, IT associates, HR coordinators, social workers, and, in a recent course, a SCHOOL NURSE. I mean, can you...
March Together Tips: Segmenting, Schitt’s Creek & Sandwich Cookies
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, So apparently there is this thing called TikTok that I just discovered. Have you heard of it? I kid, I kid. (Though I have tried to convince my children that my phone doesn’t support games or social media, AND THEY ALMOST...
One-Stop-Shop-Google Doc: Dwenette’s Together Leader System
I recently had the pleasure of meeting some lovely and talented Texas-based school leaders—who managed to participate 100% in our Together Trainings, despite power outages, burst pipes, and no water in their schools and homes just the week before. One billion...
February Together Tips: Serendipity, Skiing & Social Ties
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, As the lady who used to strike up conversations with her airplane seatmates (yep, that was ME!), who once found love by chatting someone up on the F train in the East Village, who knows her UPS driver’s name, favorite snacks,...
January Together Tips: Together Truths & Winter Offerings
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, This was the intended newsletter greeting, “Hello 2021! You’re actually here!” And then, as we were about to hit publish. . . As I was Zooming with a class of 100+ leaders in San Antonio on Wednesday, my phone (typically put...
December Together Tips: Goats, Gratitude & Glitter
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Winter is coming. The grief is real, and I keep being shocked at the lack of personal stories about the impact of the coronavirus on real people in our lives. It’s easy to crack jokes about quarantine hair and Zoom mullets (I’m...
November Together Tips: Exhaling, Escaping & Engaging
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Exhale. I don’t really have words to describe my relief at the outcome of our presidential election. I’ve watched the street celebrations with joy, but also know there are great challenges ahead. I know my yard signs have...
Family University: Supporting Parents to Support Students
One of my favorite parts of this work is making connections with folks doing similar work. I’m a long-time fan of Caleb Dolan (fun fact: my mom was his middle school art teacher!). Caleb has been in education for almost 25 years, and I respect him deeply. When he sent...
October Together Tips: Flipping Seats, Flamingos & Fur-kenstocks
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, I honestly keep thinking I’ll start my monthly newsletter with a bit of good news, but after the Breonna Taylor decision, the presidential debate debacle, and RBG’s death, I continue to feel deeply disturbed. To cope, I’m...
September Together Tips: Resting, Recharging & Resetting
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Hi. Just hi. How ARE you? Between Hurricane Laura’s devastation, Jacob Blake’s unconscionable shooting, and being pulled back and forth between virtual-non-virtual-hybrid-synchronous-all-of-the-things-school delays, it is too...