Ask. But be prepared for the silence that follows. Ask. But only if you’re cool with the response no matter how unexpected or untenable. Ask. But not if you’re sure you’ve got the answer. Ask. But only if you’re ready/willing/able to listen. — Sometimes the truest questions remain unasked because we fear the awkwardness of […]
My PLN– Life Experience
This post is part of #BlogAMonth, a Blog series devoted to exploring professional learning topics. The real question facing every professional and indeed every human being is this: how are you growing in your profession or in your humanity? On the one hand, growth is an inevitability. To live is to grow. On the other […]
Back to School
I’m writing these words from my middle school office at The Davis Academy, Atlanta’s Reform Jewish Day School. And as I write, I can hear activity all around me. Chairs being moved in the classroom above me. The Front Desk phone ringing as parents come to grab their kids for end-of-day doctors’ appointments, student athletes […]
Change (#BlogElul 15)
Come to an old place in a new way hang around long enough and eventually you’ll ask what’s different this time around nothing and everything someone says go ahead and ask again everything and nothing someone says
Learn (#BlogElul 14)
learn yourself what makes you happy and what you do in that happiness what makes you sad and what you do with that sadness what makes you angry and where that anger lives within you what brings you peace and what you do with that peace what makes you smile and what your smile […]
Remember (#BlogElul 13)
remember that thing that happened and how it made you feel and what was said and what was done and what was unsaid and what was undone and who was there and who was absent and who was there without really being there and who was absent without really being absent and what came […]