unsplash-logoPlush Design Studio I am prone to bouts of being reflective, particularly at the end of December. The time of year is prime for it – we’re on break from school, I’m visiting my family and completely out of my normal routine. For this week, I don’t have a million things going on. In fact, …
Month: December 2019
The Together Leader Early on in my teaching experience, someone referred me to The Together Teacher, which was an online course to teach teachers how to be organized. As a new teacher, it was helpful, even if I didn’t follow every single step of it. I’m in a new role at my school now, and …
Getting Things Done I first heard of this book when I was in design school. I remember a classmate telling me that there was a whole following of “Getting Things Done” and I remember thinking that seemed like an unusual thing to be interested in, then forgetting about it for the next eight years or …
Thrive Get enough sleep and take a break once in a while! That’s my 11 word summary of Thrive. Arianna Huffington writes about the wakeup call she received in the form of her collapsing from lack of sleep and exhaustion. She writes about the importance of sleep and meditation, and creates a vision of how …
Born a Crime I really enjoyed this book, and it was a compelling, entertaining read. Born a Crime painted a scene of what it was like for Trevor Noah to grow up under apartheid, with a mother who was an amazingly strong and determined woman, a father who he saw only a few times, and …