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Hello, I’ve been noticing something lately. I am no longer “in the know” when it comes to pop culture. My teenage children reference people, shows, and music that I have never heard of, even though they all definitely know what they're talking about. In the meantime, I'm watching reels on Instagram (which my kids tell me is like TikTok leftovers) to listen to translations of what kids are saying, so it makes sense to me. There was a time when I felt like a pop culture connois

Hello, The Gottman Institute, which studies relationships extensively, explains in their post," Managing Conflict: Solvable vs. Perpetual Problems ," that “sixty-nine percent of relationship conflict is about perpetual problems.” In other words, most conflict is not something you solve once and move on from. It is something you return to. Perennial problems are not the same as solvable problems, which are situational. They arise, you address them, and you move forward. They m

Hello, In one of the quarterly surveys I recently sent to both my Board of Education and my staff, a piece of feedback caught my attention. Both a board member and several staff members shared a similar thought: they would like to see me more. Not that they never see me, but that they would like to see more of me in schools and around the district. I did not take that as criticism. In many ways, it felt like a compliment. If people did not want to see their superintendent at

Hello, In my previous post, " Not the Problems Is Not the Solution ," I argued that the opposite of harm is not silence. The absence of wrongdoing is not the same as the presence of good. I ended by suggesting that when silence becomes predictable, it is rarely accidental. If silence is predictable, then it is patterned. And if it is patterned, then it is designed. That brings us to systems. Over the past few years, I have been thinking deeply about systems and what I mean by