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New Year’s Nutrition
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash We are a few weeks into the new year and chances are you’ve set some sort of goal related to eating...
Danielle Johnson
Jan 29, 2023
Moving Towards My Intentions for Transformation
For about ten years now, I would select a personal word to guide my experience for the upcoming year. Before I started selecting a...
Danielle Johnson
Jan 22, 2023
Least Restrictive Environment
I kept a digital journal in college in the days before blogs. Upon graduation, I printed the journal pages and put them in a binder along...
Meghan Raftery
Jan 15, 2023
Do NOT Put Your Hands on Their HEADS
How did you feel when the Crown Act was passed in the House of Representatives on March 18, 2022? Now, what were your emotions when the...
Danielle Johnson
Jan 8, 2023
The Gift of Stress
I recently wrote about stress mindset and the power of shifting our perspective from seeing stress as a form of suffering to viewing it...
Danielle Johnson
Jan 5, 2023
The Problem with Professional Development (Part 2)
In part one of this blog series, I focused on my conversations with elementary educators related to their self-reported professional...
Danielle Johnson
Dec 6, 2022
Who Owns Edjacent?
Some people believe that Meghan Raftery not only owns Edjacent, but that she actually is Edjacent. But Edjacent is much larger than just...
Danielle Johnson
Dec 1, 2022
Stress Mindset
Stressed. This is the one word response I hear most often when I ask my teacher friends, "How are you?" It's been a heavy year for...
Danielle Johnson
Nov 28, 2022
The Problem with Professional Development (Part 1)
Have you ever had the misfortune of attending a professional development (PD) session that had little interest or value in your current...
Danielle Johnson
Nov 22, 2022
Alignment: Words and Deeds
Have you ever been in a meeting and facilitators ask for suggestions? Then suggestions are shared around the room through a protocol or...
Danielle Johnson
Nov 20, 2022
Put Me In, Coach! I’m Ready to Play! (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part blog series. Part 1 provided an overview of coaching and my experience with instructional coaching....
Danielle Johnson
Nov 17, 2022
Put Me In, Coach! I’m Ready to Play! (Part 1)
Photo credit Twenty20 @askoldsb When I was a kid I played a lot of sports. Field hockey, soccer, lacrosse, tennis. But I was never...
Danielle Johnson
Nov 13, 2022
Time Is on My Side, Yes It Is!
Two years ago, I purchased an instant pot as a household Christmas gift. We used it several times to expedite cooking healthy meals. The...
Danielle Johnson
Nov 9, 2022
The Myth of “They”
The life of a self-authoring educator can be pretty lonely. Self-authors forge their own pathways through existing systems by creating...
Meghan Raftery
Oct 27, 2022
Maturity Is Not Measured by Your Age!
I have been in many discussions, conversations, and dialogues with individuals. Whether these actions took place face to face, by...
Danielle Johnson
Oct 20, 2022
A Brief History of the Edjacent Design Collaborative
Have you ever had a slow hunch? Slow hunches are shadows of ideas that appear on the edges of your life. You know they are there, but you...
Meghan Raftery
Oct 16, 2022
Find Your Ikigai
For most educators, teaching is a calling. Educators are typically purpose-driven and they care deeply about children and their futures....
Meghan Raftery
Sep 29, 2022
Two Steps Forward and One Back
Anyone who has read my summer blog series or the letter I wrote recently to the editor of Virginia’s largest daily newspaper knows where...
Doug Wren
Sep 26, 2022
No Is a Full Sentence: Redefining My Relationship to Teaching
For the past five years or so of my 11-year teaching career, I have made an intentional effort to take stock of my relationship with the...
Danielle Johnson
Sep 22, 2022
The Adjacent Possible for Education
Most people have a fixed image in their mind of what a school is and what it is for. When they hear the word educators, they think of...
Meghan Raftery
Sep 19, 2022
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