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.”
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.
A Practical Framework for Managing COVID-19 in Schools
Several of you have asked me to share a framework for decision making in response to COVID-19 in schools. Feel free to download, share, adjust for your own needs.
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.
Fostering Authenticity in the Next Generation of Leaders
Whether you stroll onto the lawn for your news or get it on a screen, it is pretty evident that tomorrow's challenges will require a new breed of leadership.
What Makes a Leader Truly Authentic & Why Does it Matter?
When I think about what makes a leader truly authentic and why it matters, I begin at the end. For me, the why matters most.
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?
The Role of Edgework in Expanding Our Children's Horizons
Edgework means having one foot grounded in current knowledge or skill while the other foot enters more ambiguous, less comfortable territory.