Occasionally, Togetherness gets a bit of a rep for being inflexible. But we believe the opposite around here. As you’ve heard me say before, “The more planned you are, the more flexible you can be!” (PS I’m thinking I should print this on a…
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…
I don’t often use this space for personal posts, though I’ve tried my hand at it once or twice. Letting you all into my (sometimes not so) Together World is occasionally instructive, and it’s also good therapy for me, too. This week’s…
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…
One of the biggest worries we hear about Togetherness that it feels too rigid, too structured, too . . . . Which is why it is such a treat to see the flexibility we hope to preach in action. We lead our Together Trainings with the loud and clear…
Well, based on your love for Chrystie’s kids, we thought another Together Student post was in order. We came across this student-facing Weekly Worksheet from the folks at Gem Innovation Prep in Idaho, and we LOVE IT. Sonya L., their Director…
My interest in Together Students continues to grow, as evidenced by learnings here, here, and here. So when my Together Leader co-host, Chrystie, popped up early during our last online class and showed me her children’s Learn-From-Home flexy…
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…
While technology is NOT the only answer to Togetherness, I’ve recently become enamored with Notion. And I’m not the only one who feels this way! Sarah W., the leader of Prospect Hill Academy Charter School’s Teaching Fellows Program in…
Guest posts are few and far between around here, but this Together Student thing keeps popping up. I asked a long-time colleague and senior leader for Denver Public Schools, Sean P., to share some Together Student ideas from across his district….