Author Archives: Caroline
Relationships: How To Understand and Respond To Community Context
If you're anything like me, when you first heard "community context", you were a bit overwhelmed. Keeping humility in mind, and not wanting to treat our new towns like zoos, we're cautious to go prying into new things, asking questions ...
The Thing We’ll Never Admit Out Loud
We like to brand ourselves as transformational, as change-makers, as the best and brightest. We enter the profession with huge hearts, high expectations, and blind faith that we will be what we know we can be if we just work hard ...
Advice: Find your surrogate Institute
It's summer. You're in Arkansas; it's hot. Trucks spray something awful to ward off mosquitos when you try to fit in a run at 10pm. The sun sets later than it did in December, and it throws you off. You ...
Take note.
"What are we doing?! Why do we need to be Confident Communicators?!" Knees bobbing me up and down, fingers wiggling into jazz hands, these are questions I pry out of my sixth graders as often as I can, desperately pulling meaning ...
