I remember hearing the chatter of friends at the pool at the start of the summer in 1986. "The guy punched right through the car window - TWICE! It was amazing!"

Karate Kid II was just released, and kids my age–the ripe young age of 10, were...

I’ve done it in the past, and I wasn’t going to do it again.

#OneWord

I spent days pondering what my #OneWord would be to guide me for the upcoming year. I recall that my word for 2017 was #Balance. In 2018, it was #Purposeful. Last...

Resonance Ed: Party of... Many

 Let me bring you in on a secret that only my closest friends know… I am OBSESSED with self-assessment tools! I have taken the Strengths Finder 2.0 survey, the 16Personalities MBTI survey, the Enneagram...

I've been actively practicing deep listening for the past several years to better understand another's perspective. I say "deep listening" because when the topic is related to a core value or a previous "hurt," my initial response is to feel an...

My dear friend and ResEd colleague, Sheila, often posts about JOY SPOTTING (Find her on IG at https://www.instagram.com/positively.sheila/). During the week, she takes pictures of people and things that bring her joy and then curates them...

I've never written resolutions or yearly goals because I've never been able to keep consistent with them.

I've resisted and resented time constraints.

I've yearned for the destination and neglected the journey.

And instead of feeling excited...

I have long been a practitioner of social emotional learning (before it was called SEL) in my high school social studies classroom and implicitly facilitated the development of these skills. By year eight, I began to explore SEL's role in my...

I’ve worn glasses since the third grade. I have sat in an optometrist’s chair 37 times and been asked, “Which lens provides the best view: 1 or 2? 2 or 3?” I am amazed at how much clearer things can become, even after...

I drove past a farm with a large sign that read, “DUCK EGGS FOR SALE.” I immediately felt nauseous by the idea of eating a duck egg. Ducks are the cute creatures that I see swimming on ponds and in funny gifs and memes. Why would I...

Last week, a district administrator shared a question a teacher asked: "So, how do I integrate SEL? Should I just hug the kids when they are upset? Should I high five them as they walk into the room?"

Over the last fourteen years working as a...