Four Unintended Consequences of Togetherness Trainings

Four Unintended Consequences of Togetherness Trainings

Last week, I had the good fortune to share a train ride from NYC to DC with my friend, fellow educator, and former colleague, Kathleen Porter-Magee. If you don’t know what Kathleen is up to in the world of Catholic education, read more here. After a day of training in...
Hello 2016: Setting up your Comprehensive Calendar

Hello 2016: Setting up your Comprehensive Calendar

In a small fit of Holiday Break forward planning, I took the most valuable Togetherness step of them all: I got my Comprehensive Calendar up and running. Go me! Being a schools-type, I really think of my New Year’s as happening more in August, but there are still some...
See you in 2016!

See you in 2016!

Happy Holidays, Dearest Readers! We are preppin’ for some holiday shutdown over here on the blog. While I wish I could completely disconnect, I’ve got this little looming thing called a copyedit deadline for this puppy. But once that baby gets done, here’s what’s on...
The 2015 Together Gift Guide!

The 2015 Together Gift Guide!

Back by popular demand, we present the 2015 Together Gift Guide – and check it out on Pinterest too! Whether you are gifting your own kids’ teachers (must get on this!), an educator in your family (got one of those too!), a leader in your life, or looking for your own...

The Power of a Plan B

In a fit of end-of-summer ambition and good will, I decided it would be nice to host a Potluck-Picnic-Back-to-School-Bash at our new house. We never had a housewarming, and we’d been meeting families at our kids’ schools that we wanted to get to know. So, one...