Tag: Culture

Championing Authentic Learning

We have all, at one time or another, heard the phrase “We’re not in Kansas anymore” to refer to a place or situation that’s different from home—a departure from the comfortable and the familiar.
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Look for the Good

As we move through this last quarter of 2020, I challenge you to look for the good. Look for the good in your district, your campus, your teachers and staff.
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Leading Like Coaching the Cowboys

I think leading during this unprecedented season may be more like that coaching the Dallas Cowboys than you’d think.
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Training Student Leaders

TEPSA’s Student Leadership Workshops rose to the challenge at the beginning of the stay-at-home orders and shared ideas with advisors on how to continue to provide learners the opportunity to lead off campus.
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Staying Healthy

As we start this school year, many are concerned about being able to stay safe and healthy.
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Healthy Communities

As students, parents, and educators react to the world around us it is important that we are focusing our efforts in a few specific areas.
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Making Sure Every Student is Seen

All students need and yearn to be seen, and I believe the greatest thing we can do in life is to find someone who feels invisible and to show them that we truly see them
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Things Teachers Think but Don’t Say

Teachers, I know there is much you want to say, that you’re holding back. I’ve been there. I kept things bottled up. I can tell you from firsthand experience, it didn’t end well.
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Trauma and Our Children

Trauma is a popular buzz word in education currently, but it is real life for our children and their families.
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Focus Is the Future

I heard these two menacing words throughout my school life – that sounded part drill sergeant and a well-intentioned mom who was beyond stressed from her kids not listening the hundredth time – “Please focus!”
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