Safety is critical for healing the effects of trauma. This is at the center of the conversation between Dr. Cherie Bridges Patrick and I as we go over safety cues, racial trauma, the polyvagal theory, awareness of our body and more. Let me be clear that learning about all of this DOES have an important purpose for us as … Read More
Episode #40: Adam Kotowski
Adam Kotowski, aka Coach Adam, is a husband and father to four amazing children. He created The Extraordinary Me Program out of a need to transform. Realizing how limited perceptions and beliefs are, being heavily influenced by his acceptance of other’s opinions regarding his ADD/ADHD, brought him to a critical point in his life. He created the program and was … Read More
Let’s Not Overextend Ourselves This Year
Let’s be honest, it’s been a wild year so far! Whether you’re teaching online or getting back to in-person instruction, there’s a lot of pressure to provide students and other faculty with plenty of support. But that’s not possible without making sure that you are being cautious of how many things you are working on at once. After all the … Read More
Creating Structures for All Stakeholder Voices with Darcy Fernandes
Today you’ll get to hear from Darcy Fernandes, an educator, leader, superintendent, and advocate for at-risk students. If you’ve thought about the fact that schools with wealthier students/families get more money than schools with low income families it means the system’s working how it was intended. There is a lot of inequity within schools, ranging from the way that … Read More
Curriculum Series #6—Who Tells Your Story?
In the final installment of the Curriculum Series, Laura Cruz and I go over student memoirs and why each student has a story worth telling. She decided to try this project because she wanted her students who came from different backgrounds and races to have opportunities that white wealthy students traditionally had. This type of writing allows us to process … Read More