In districts across the country, professional development season is in full swing. Schedules are filling with sessions on instructional frameworks, classroom management, and data-driven strategies. But one critical issue continues to be overlooked—one that quietly undermines all the others:

Educators are exhausted. And pedagogy won’t fix burnout.

We don’t have a professional development problem.
We have a human sustainability problem.

The assumption that more training will automatically lead t...

It’s time for a paradigm shift. Will we allow the burnout lurking within teachers and administrators to escalate, or will school districts prioritize and actively support educator well-being? Drawing from my extensive experience leading various educational settings and guiding colleagues through challenges, I understand the pivotal role happy and healthy educators play in our system's success. Burnout was a concern pre-COVID, and the past year and a half has only intensified the need for substan...

Make today great!

Do it for yourself, your friends, and your family. It’s so easy to get caught up in a negative mindset and pulled into the minutiae of what is going wrong in our lives, or at the job, or in the world. Instead of focusing on the plight of all that is wrong, focus on what is going right! Live your life in the ‘Positivity Zone’.

Eckhart Tolle said “Every ego wants to be special. If it can’t be special by being superior to others, it’s also quite happy with being especially miser...