Leadership is hard. Nobody said it would be easy. 🔺When people talk about you, keep leading. 🔹When people compliment you, keep leading. 🔺When your hard work goes unnoticed, keep leading. Why? Because we are in the kid business. Kids are the reason schools exist. It isn’t

"...many people can spend decades with a school or an organization, and they will look back at their time there and base it on the last few weeks." Before You Need the Soup - George Couros buff.ly/3yVD8Mq

You don’t “have to.” You “GET TO” make a difference, teach kids, lead a school, take care of a beautiful family, or impact somebody’s day ❤️ Create a GET TO mentality 🙌

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I wish I was taught this way of finding the greatest common factor when I was in school

Leadership is putting the right people in the right seat on the bus, even when it isn’t easy. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” Say. It. Louder. 👏

I don’t know everything when it comes to education, but I do believe that the more you support the adults who are supporting kids, the more likely you are to truly have an impact on kids.

❤️ if you think your math team might like these sentence starters! (Via leader Mrs. Brooks) #MTBoS #ITeachMath

Parents… If you send an encouraging email to your child’s teacher, please know there is a good chance they will print it out and save it in a file. They will reread it when they are feeling down. Your encouraging words will go a long way. P.S. It’s Teacher Appreciation Week.

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Never underestimate the value of being pleasant.  Everyone around you notices it.

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Every child has a story; so does every adult. Lead with empathy.

I love this timeless article from Steven C. Reinhart about teacher moves in the math classroom that help get kids doing more of the communicating (instead of the teacher). One of my absolute favorites: hybridalgebra.pbworks.com/f/Never+Say+An…

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that there’s always more under the surface. Every person you pass by, every coworker you talk to, every friend you scroll past on social media, they’re allcarrying something you can’t see. Read more: toddnesloney.com/2025/10/20/ben…

"Sometimes, you have to step outside and ask yourself, 'Am I in the right place?” #ForwardTogether I had a great conversation with Dave Burgess about this quote from the book today, and why you should never stay in a place you don't feel valued, as there are always places that

I love the Number Strings resources broken down by topic that Kara Imm and Rachel Lambert share at numberstrings.com. Most are for elementary school but they have examples up to Algebra.