Your Style ~ Yourself ~ Your Life
Are you surviving high school 2020? Pre-2020, I usually described my job in public education like this: “I enjoy helping students find a pathway that fulfills them – and it’s never boring, never the same thing twice.” While those sentiments still ring true, more recently I’ve been telling people that my job is “herding invisible cats.” I have a sense… Read More
Like many of you, I have spent much of 2020 grappling with Big Questions. What does it mean to be a person of color? Who and what is most important to me? How do I acknowledge my strengths – and my privilege? And how do I use it to help make the world a better place? I am doing this… Read More
Surviving 2020 Education: It’s Challenging It’s no secret that our current health crisis flung education into a tailspin – unsteadying most of the foundations of our schools as we have known them. As we have separated education from school buildings, we have lost our bearings. But as we find our sea legs in the ocean of distance learning, hybrid schooling,… Read More
How do you beat the winter blues in a tough year? As we careen through the final month of this unprecedented year, we have endured nearly nine months of a global health crisis, much of it in the undesirable position of “leader” in terms of infection rates and deaths. It is clear that this health pandemic has brought into stark… Read More
What are the Lessons from 2020? Life-changing. Unprecedented. Surreal. Those are some of my 2020 words. There are others that are a bit, um, stronger. Some of the most poignant and powerful words of 2020 I’ve read come from Sonia Renee Taylor: We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other we… Read More
Do you need compassion fatigue resources? As we wend our way to the end of 2020, it seems almost laughable that we thought we would be locked down for a “long spring break” in March. Instead of waiting out what has, in the end, overtaken our lives this year, we have learned to live in it and through it –… Read More
Are there 2020 silver linings? It depends on your perspective. It is easy to focus on the challenges – the illness and death, the social inequities, the digital divide highlighted by a nation forced into remote education. But if you look more closely at 2020, there are some silver linings, many of them in education. After more than two decades… Read More
Celebrating the Holidays 2020-Style Celebrating the holidays 2020-style will likely mean that they are smaller, quieter, and distanced. But you can celebrate and mark these festive occasions – and you may even find yourself creating some new traditions. Uncrowded Shopping Start by skipping the mall and shopping with small, local businesses, or online. Not only is parking easier (or not… Read More
Distance Learning Educators: What It’s Like For many, the pandemic has slowed the pace of life. Certainly millions of people have turned to unemployment relief as their jobs have literally evaporated. But many of those who have maintained their jobs have seen a recalibration of expectations, a shift in what is expected, and, of course, a major downshift in travel. … Read More
