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In No Particular Order, No. 2
You’re allowed to decide: What matters to you; What matters less; and What you’re fully opting out of. Your way is a real way.
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In No Particular Order, No. 1
A Few of This Week’s Finds Worth Checking Out (That Almost Had a Theme) — We’re in that in-between space of wrapping up projects and looking ahead to…
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Quarter Turn, No. 6
Sometimes a Quarter Turn Takes Us Back to the Beginning … and Behavior — I’m rambling about a NYC bathroom and a TASH presentation because they…
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SFD No. 5
Belonging Isn’t Magic. It’s Something We Build ... Together — Now that I’ve experienced this kind of workplace belonging (or, magic) twice, each time a…
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Shift Happens No. 5
Consistency, Connection, and Belonging In Routines — We want to keep offering examples of practices and strategies, while also offering support for how…
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Quarter Turn, No. 5
Belonging: What’s Consistency Got to Do With It? — And that’s really what we mean when we talk about consistency. Not rigid steps. Not perfect routines…
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November 2025

SFD #4: How Do You Decide?
When we say, “How do you decide?” it’s an invitation to think about what matters, what you know about the child and the situation, what you know about…
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Worth a Try Wednesday #4
This One’s for the Coaches! — When we’re working with teams to make the quarter turn toward purpose, we have a few favorite questions you might want to…
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Quarter Turn Monday#4
The Purpose Pause: Start with Why — Thinking this way helps us stay grounded in purpose instead of automatically going to one-child solutions. And…
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It Doesn't Have to Be So Hard: SFD #3
A Story About Presuming Competence and The Least Dangerous Assumption — And so this SFD is me thinking about that while inclusion and teaching can feel…
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Worth a Try Wednesday #3
Talk to Kids, Not About Them — Yesterday on our Instagram, we shared a clip from our Belonging Basics Video Series focused on something we care a lot…
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Quarter Turn Monday #3
Presume Competence: We Believed They Could and They Did — To presume competence is to believe that every child is capable of learning, communicating…
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