Enlightening Educators Blog

I hear the same two roadblocks to success come up time and time again. No matter what state of this country I'm in, teachers all say the same thing:

When I was in middle school I played the clarinet. I was half decent at it, actually. The first three chairs of the clarinet section got to sit in the front row, and the rest of the section was in the two rows behind. There was a girl in my class who was always 1st chair in the clarinet section,...

If you missed my Facebook live video tonight, check out the recording here. In this video I talk about how selling yoga clothes changed how I make decisions for my life, explain why I will not be doing a low carb challenge this year, manage to say an obscene book title without using any obscenity myself, and mess up while...

I am a "second wife" and a stepmom, and let me tell you, those are hard roles to be in. Not that anyone else's role in a blended family structure is any easier, it's just all around hard. When I first married my husband and was transitioning and finding my way through these new roles, I had a period of...

In case you missed it, I did a Facebook Live video today about an experience I had in a workshop I was teaching this week. I had a participant call me aside and tell me something she thought I could be doing better. To hear what she told me and how I reacted, head on over to my Facebook page...

Early in my career, I would bristle at the thought of someone wanting to observe me for the purpose of giving feedback for improvement. "Didn't I get this job precisely because I was a good fit? Don't they trust me?" I would think.

Yesterday, as I was driving through the gorgeous New Mexico landscape to my training location for the day, I was listening to the "For the Love" podcast by Jen Hatmaker. She was interviewing Drs Cloud and Townsend, the authors of Boundaries books. At one point in the podcast, Jen quotes from the book Safe People:

Early on in my career as a teacher, I remember being appalled at some of the things I saw my colleagues doing with children. Things like only offering two choices of toys instead of allowing a true free choice time. Did they not know what it meant to be "Developmentally Appropriate?!" I quickly made an appointment to sit down...