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This year my new year's resolution is sticking. I wanted to increase my reflection and intentionally map out my week by charting my thoughts throughout the days, weeks, and months. I’m journaling.
Upper School history and finance teacher Brian Long and his nine advisees recently locked their cell phones in a safe for seven days. In this blog post, he reflects on the experience of being "unplugged" and shares his lessons learned about smartphone addiction and tech balance.
A year ago, I spoke to our upper school community about race and my journey to understanding Kentucky's history as a function of my identity.
After taking a break from the financial industry, I first jumped into teaching as a substitute with no expectation that my career would permanently shift into the high school teaching space. While the memories of that first year are still fresh, I thought I’d spend this first blog reflecting on a couple of things that helped me adjust to my first year as a teacher.
Teachers thrive on control. We even measure much of our success on mastery of controlled variables. So what happens when we are thrown into the unknown and lose much of that control? Let’s learn from the Stoics.