EdgeworkLife™
Blog, articles, stories, and thinking out loud
“Your experience can profoundly affect the people around you whether you are aware of it or not.”
- Brené Brown
Our stories matter.
In our personal life and professsional role, showing up authentically as ourselves, succeeding and failing greatly, being brave, and forging our own path is what it’s all about.
Sharing our journeys through stories and writings allows us to process these experiences, understand what we have learned, and recognize where the journey has brought us.
Sharing our stories and ideas requires courage and vulnerability, and through these processes we revisit many of the same emotions we experienced on the journey itself -self-doubt, shame, confusion, exhilaration, humility. In the sharing of our stories, we help others along their journey as well.
That’s the intention of this Blog: EgeworkLife. Here you will find stories of lessons learned, grand adventures, van life, everyday life, and life and work “on the edge.”
Living on the Edge
Many months ago I had the privilege of speaking with Jethro Jones of The Transformative Principal, In his series of podcasts each week, Jethro Jones interviews a principal or educational leader who is making a real difference in the life of his or her students. In our conversation, we did a deep dive into Edgework in his podcast “Living on the Edge.”
How to Adopt a Startup Mentality at Your School (EMA Podcast)
Thank you to The Enrollment Management Association for inviting me as a guest on a recent podcast. We are all in the midst of a crisis that engulfs all areas - health, economic, and education among others.
Lessons from Around the World: Remote Learning in the Era of Coronavirus
The impact of COVID-19 on schools across the United States, and the world, is shocking. I share a range of insights on remote learning gleaned from my own early experiences in Seattle and from around the world.
COVID-19: A Time for Leadership
If I had written this article last week, I would have told you the school campus was open, that we had many protocols in place to keep the campus as clean and sanitized as possible, and we were continuing to prepare for a potential closing.