Wrestling season is my absolute favorite sports season. Wrestling is hard….it takes strength, stamina, strategy, and skill. Wrestlers are some of the most dedicated and hardest working athletes out there and until you have lived it….you just don’t know. There is something special about wrestling that is different from other sports and that is the unity involved with the wrestlers and their families and coaches. Wrestling is a sport that takes grit, determination, hard work and sacrifice. And that is just for the athletes. Wrestling season is hard on parents too, between emotional intensity of not just matches but preparation…
Behind the Scenes in the Principal’s Office, Any School Office, On Any Morning
I came across an article in an education journal last week about the perceptions principals have of their workload during this pandemic compared to pre-pandemic. I know that any educator who works in any school read that and said, ‘yep’. It also stands to reason that the majority of the people out there don’t know about the day to day challenges that educators are facing and the social and emotional impact this has on our lives. The article I read came out in a publication intended for educators, so people outside the field may not be exposed to the raw…
Sweat the small stuff so the big stuff isn’t so big
My dear old Gran always used to say, take care of the dimes and the dollars take care of them selves. This wasn’t financial advice either. While she had an analogy for nearly everything, this one could be applied across multiple contexts…and it was. In the school setting this is equivalent to sweating the small stuff. When you sweat the small stuff, the big stuff is fewer and farther between, meaning mind the dimes and they don’t turn into dollars. Then, you have those people that don’t care about the dimes. They toss them aside because it isn’t enough to…