Category: edCircuit Blog

The Deep End: Facilitating Continuous Professional Development

February 13, 2018

I had the fantastic opportunity to meet David Weston of the Teacher Development Trust (TDT) this past month. David is the executive director of TDT […]

The Deep End: What Will Your Word Be This Year?

January 10, 2018

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” -Mo Willems
On Facebook these past few weeks, there has been a posting going around that […]

The Deep End: How To Be More Influential, No Matter Your Role

December 19, 2017

Influence – the ability to make an impact, to make a difference. Through words and action, influence helps to move our schools and profession forward. […]

The Deep End: Advocacy – We should all be doing it

November 15, 2017

While at the Women in Education Institute sponsored by Corwin Press, I did a keynote about “playing in the deep end” and what it takes: […]

The Deep End: Care and Accountability

October 11, 2017

I spent some time with teacher leaders over the last 2 weeks. Many are new, and find themselves swimming in The Deep End for the […]

The Deep End: Boy, Do Things Look Different From Where I Sit

September 8, 2017

Schools are starting up again in the Northern Hemisphere. Just even remembering we see ‘summer’ differently here in the Northern Hemisphere as summer in Australia […]

The Deep End: It’s Not Always About You

August 11, 2017

I was discussing collaboration with participants in one of my workshops. What should students expect from all teachers? Why should teachers collaborate? There was talk […]

The Deep End: You Have Permission

July 12, 2017

I have been doing some Tweet reading this past month. Scrolling through short bursts of support and fast boosts of encouragement. Many of my speaker-colleagues […]

The Deep End

June 14, 2017

I didn’t know it would be like this: Organizations and Edvard Munch
I have a client who is just sad. Her department heads can ‘get away’ […]

Swimming in the Deep End

May 24, 2017

Managing the anxiety that comes from taking the leadership plunge
“I am interested in people who want to swim in the deep end.” — Amy Poehler
I […]