When I was an educator in the public school system there was an assumption that an educational expert was anyone who lived at least 50 miles away. This meant that...
Sometimes it is hard to recognize darkness. For it can come dressed up in a nice suit, pretty packaging, and a smooth sales pitch. Because it is slick and alluring,...
His dark eyes glared, his face flushed, his breathing heavy. Agitated, he could barely sit still. A teacher had brought him to my office, because she had caught him fighting...
As a school principal, several times a day I would engage in what we called “walk abouts”. This was where we would leave our offices in the hub of the...
I was loading my groceries onto the conveyor belt at the grocery store’s checkout when I overheard her comment. The cashier and her colleague, who was helping her bag the...
She unexpectedly started to cry. She had been enthusiastically talking about her child’s high school graduation and acceptance to a highly rated university. But then, as she began to share...
Work hard and do an honest day’s work were two axioms my husband and I lived by. We were generally one of the first people to work each morning, and...
A number of years ago I made a snap judgment about someone, based on what I thought I knew. But later, when I learned one important piece about her story...
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