Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, [author’s note: This was supposed to land with you Monday morning, but then second grader sent home with sore throat, PCR testing obtained, and is now my helper at home all week.] Hi. How are you all? Flourishing? Languishing?...
Workshop Quote: The Most Together I’ve Felt on Zoom- Except at Church!
How’s that for some course feedback?! I’m now 15 months into delivering online Together Trainings, and a theme is emerging in the feedback around community-building, engagement, and accountability. Hoping that what I share here can help you keep your people front and...
May Together Tips: Serenity, Stress & Shifts
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I swear, I had a lovely May note planned for you all, possibly using this nifty gadget (Thanks, SLK!). Alas, I barely wrote a blog post, and that hardly ever happens! By way of explanation. . ....
April Together Tips: Witnessing, Wondering & What-You-Will-ing
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, A text exchange between me and my college bestie broke my heart in two last week. Witnessing her strength for her three young kids, her huge job, and her entire extended family this week – while also constantly dealing with...
Translating Togetherness: The Together School Nurse!
Our Together Team Member courses welcome a wonderful mix of folks in customer-service oriented support roles. This means we meet assistants, chiefs of staff, IT associates, HR coordinators, social workers, and, in a recent course, a SCHOOL NURSE. I mean, can you...
March Together Tips: Segmenting, Schitt’s Creek & Sandwich Cookies
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, So apparently there is this thing called TikTok that I just discovered. Have you heard of it? I kid, I kid. (Though I have tried to convince my children that my phone doesn’t support games or social media, AND THEY ALMOST...
One-Stop-Shop-Google Doc: Dwenette’s Together Leader System
I recently had the pleasure of meeting some lovely and talented Texas-based school leaders—who managed to participate 100% in our Together Trainings, despite power outages, burst pipes, and no water in their schools and homes just the week before. One billion...
February Together Tips: Serendipity, Skiing & Social Ties
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, As the lady who used to strike up conversations with her airplane seatmates (yep, that was ME!), who once found love by chatting someone up on the F train in the East Village, who knows her UPS driver’s name, favorite snacks,...
January Together Tips: Together Truths & Winter Offerings
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, This was the intended newsletter greeting, “Hello 2021! You’re actually here!” And then, as we were about to hit publish. . . As I was Zooming with a class of 100+ leaders in San Antonio on Wednesday, my phone (typically put...
December Together Tips: Goats, Gratitude & Glitter
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Winter is coming. The grief is real, and I keep being shocked at the lack of personal stories about the impact of the coronavirus on real people in our lives. It’s easy to crack jokes about quarantine hair and Zoom mullets (I’m...