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Friday, April 15, 2016
There You Are Empathy Chat
Today I'm excited because I've been invited to lead a Twitter chat on Sunday night for a group of educators in Texas and beyond whom I really admire. We are going to have seven questions, based on this acrostic I created.
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| UPDATE: Click picture for a transcript of the chat! |
This week, I've been reflecting on something I heard on the radio about there being two kinds of people, those who enter a room and say, "Here I am."
and those who enter the room and instead say, "There you are."
And the latter sounded so much like empathy to me.
Here's a sneak peek at the questions we'll be discussing.
So this is your official invitation, to join us on Twitter Sunday night, April 17th, at 8 pm {CST}; use the hashtag #txeduchat to talk about elevating empathy. I'll be there, ready to welcome you enthusiastically and passionately with the words,
"There you are!"
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Gift Of Gratitude
Let's talk gratitude. A month or so ago, I was invited by Shelley Burgess to guest moderate a Twitter Chat {#satchatwc}. When I selected a November date, I just knew my topic would have something to do with thanks-giving.
Today, I'm sharing how that chat yesterday went.
Click {here} to read the archives; enjoy these highlights.
First, I asked participants to introduce themselves and share a favorite quote, thought, or reflection about gratitude. Here's mine.
There were SO many inspirational quotes shared,
like this one from my Principal friend, Beth Houf.
After about 7 minutes of sharing, I posed the first question on this beautiful picture of last week's rainbow, taken by my friend Jen.
Here are just a few of their awesome answers:
Seven more minutes passed, and then came question two.
I shared this infographic from the Templeton Foundation:
After we talked about the benefits of gratitude, we moved on to
question three, which asked participants to share their promising practices for nurturing gratitude in their students.
From students, we went on to showing gratitude to faculty & staff.
Someone shared this cool idea for a staff WoW journal.
Then I challenged my Tweeps to go deeper ...
... and deeper.
Some of the answers were heartbreaking.
Gratitude through cancer.
Gratitude through student suffering.
Gratitude through broken trust.
And yet, gratitude has gotten them through the tough times.
Now that's thanks-living.
And our final question:
Did you know there's an APPreciation app?
Check out Gratitude 365.
Then it was action time. The Challenge:
How will you make gratitude a verb?
It was so much fun to come up with these questions and then experience the generosity of these gratitude gurus.
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So today I'm celebrating the gift of gratitude and I thank you, dear reader, for being in my Corner. I'm grateful for you. Every day.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Developing Leaders
This morning I woke up with leadership on my mind. When I stumbled on #satchatwc, it moved to my heart. After the chat, I went on a walk and felt it literally going to my feet and filling me with all sorts of plans for the upcoming school year in my new space at my new school, and now I'm really excited about developing leaders.
This weekly Saturday-morning chat, moderated by the motivational and effervescent Shelley Burgess, starts at 9:30 am CST and lasts an hour. I use TweetDeck to follow along and weigh in. On the chance that you've not been a part of a Twitter Chat before, here's how it goes.
On Twitter, we have 140 characters for our answer.
Today, that wasn't a hard framework to work within,
but sometimes it's tricky and we have to be creatively concise.
Our topic this morning was The Leadership Countdown.
Here are the questions {published with Shelley's permission} and my responses, followed by a few of my favorites.
Empathize, equip, empower, engage with energy & enthusiasm.
That's how I answered. Then I read through all of the other reflections and I truly connected with this heartfelt response from my friend Steph Frosh:
And I love this one, from Art Liberman:
How would you answer that reflection question?
Thank you for being here, friend.
Another favorite answer from Steph:
Talk about the power of collaboration, moving from me to we!
I know it won't work.
Here's a good one from Shelley: That's how it's always done.
and an illustration of Amos to go with it.
Don't these culture-killer reflections set your mind spinning?
Give kind, get kind. {Kindness is the real global warming, after all}
And one of my faves, this one from Jessica Torres;
Make your words count.
Another winner from Danielle Brown: Share your awesome today.
Be someone's SUPERHERO.
And this one, from Jonathan Kegler {and God}:
And a fan favorite from Beth Houf: Walk the talk!
Let's grow.
More wisdom from Steph:
Dave Burgess added these two words: Join Us.
My one little word: Kindness.
Other reflective OLWs I connected with:
impact, resilience, relationships, transparency,
authenticity, innovation, engagement,
passion, outreach, growth.
Shelley tells me that in just over an hour, there were some 2000 tweets, retweets, favorites, and interactions. Click {here} to read through the archives.
Now I'm heading to the pool for some reflection of a different kind along with some much-needed Vitamin D.
Before I go to soak up some sunshine, riddle me this:
How are you developing leaders for tomorrow today?
{Oh, and don't worry about your word count.}
{Oh, and don't worry about your word count.}
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