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.”
The Edgework Principle: What Every Head Needs to Know About Leading at the Limit
In a podcast with Peter Baron, I explore five Edgework principles for heads of school and school leaders.
Rebuilding Ourselves
I am rebuilding the cantilevered decks at my condo in Seattle. Like most significant changes, this has required careful planning and prep, the destruction of what was, and a commitment to a new version that's even stronger than before.
The rebuild of our careers (whether we’ve chosen to make a change or the change comes unbidden) also involves some degree of planning and preparation. Significant change also involves the creative destruction of what was.
And then we rebuild. And we are stronger than before.
As I coach the team at St. E’s, I ground myself in five core beliefs. Dive in!
Reopening schools: Two heads share a framework
This article, originally written in May, 2020, went unpublished. It is made available via this blog with the intent to provide an enduring framework to respond to school crises, but also to acknowledge a moment in time when all schools began to grapple with the implications of COVID-19. Today, as this blog is posted, we mark the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Remote and Hybrid Learning: A Decision Matrix for Schools
Leading a school or organization smack tab in the middle of COVID-19 is, without question, edgework. School leaders are facing complex decision layered upon complex decision. And, overarching all of the substantial day-to-day decisions is the question about remote vs hybrid learning.
Running on Low? Check Your Surge Capacity Tank
We need a new way of coping. “That means reckoning with what’s called ambiguous loss: any loss that’s unclear and lacks a resolution.”
Research Insights: The State of LGBTQ Leadership in U.S. Independent Schools
Stories and research on LGBTQ leadership in independent schools. Where do LGBTQ leaders find acceptance? What challenges do they face? How can schools learn from these leaders, and what is their impact?