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 with it has come a major shift in the type of work I’m doing and the structure of my days. With teaching, my schedule was very structured and very predictable, but now I have a lot more flexibility, and I have to be intentional about how I spend my time, and how I work with my team. The Together Leader focused on that, and provided a lot of strategies that I’m working to implement over break.
Rubyfruit Jungle
Queer! Southern! Lit! Rubyfruit Jungle is known for being a portrayal of LGBTQ people that was pretty revolutionary for the time, and I can see that – I think it would still be on the bold side of mainstream fiction published today. It’s a good read – the characters are pretty well fleshed out. I’m not a huge fan of books written in the first person, but it works in Rubyfruit Jungle.