So true! 💯

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Do yourself a favor. Shack up next to some water. Climb a few mountains. Hike out to the ocean. Find beauty in your surroundings and stay long enough to let the smell of the pine sink in. Pursue what brings you joy. instagram.com/p/CR46Q4aiV1w/…

if you aren’t careful you’ll let social media and the news make you believe life ain’t beautiful and that people arent doin miraculous things every day to help, heal, transform, and shift society.

Excited to share our new Annenberg Institute at Brown working paper tracking tchr turnover in a cohort of nearly 4,500 Louisiana child care, Head Start, and pre-k teachers over three years! Joint w/ @laurabellows (currently on the job market!!) & Anna J Markowitz edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/…

We reached our $1 million goal for a new Early Learning Center at Manual. On behalf of Early Learning Indiana and Christel House Indianapolis, we thank you. We’re going to create an amazing opportunity for the youngest residents of Indianapolis! #thankyou #earlylearning #itstartshere

Teachers need time to learn new things. Learning should be part of the actual job, not something they must do on their own time.

⁦Tri-West Football⁩ sectional champs! Defeating Danville 18-13. ⁦David Hobaugh⁩ ⁦Tri-West High School Athletics⁩ ⁦Scott Frye⁩

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. #neverforget instagram.com/p/CX1lmcavwor/…

We don’t rise to the level of our speaking. We fall to the level of our listening.

To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make. #essentialism

Members of our Early Learning Indiana team spent the past few days presenting at both the NAEYC Professional Learning Institute and the Indiana Early Intervention Conference!

Extraordinary child care turnover data from Anna J Markowitz: over 3 yrs, 75% of a cohort of CC pros will leave their jobs. This was pre-COVID, so surely higher now. Anna's team had better data than researchers usually have on turnover denominator, so these are good data. #NRCEC2022

Work-life balance sets the bar too low. No one grows up dreaming of a job that doesn't interfere with their life. We hope to spend our waking hours doing work that enriches our lives. A toxic job drains you. A decent job sustains you. A healthy job invigorates you.

“It isn’t that they cannot find the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.”

Hustle culture persuades us that growth only happens when we are doing, doing, doing, even at the expense of relationships and wellbeing. The greatest growth, though, happens when we slow down. It's here that we become smarter with our decisions, commitments, and time.

"My journey's not by mistake. Every hard thing I've gone through has built something in me that I've needed down the road." Inspiration from WNBA champion Becky Hammon.

“Winning is fun...Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.” - Pat Summitt

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Be open to a world where you may not

This is a must read! 🖤💛 Dear Caitlin Clark … startribune.com/dear-caitlin-c…