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Lorraine Connell
- Mar 1
- 4 min
Students will tell us what we need to know - if we listen
I believe there's more to getting advice than just listening. After having conversations with students, it changed me. I put some of...
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Lorraine Connell
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Leadership Myths
Understanding the myths about leadership allows us to reframe the definitions of what it means to be a leader. Learn leadership myths here -
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Lorraine Connell
- Jan 21
- 4 min
Leadership is Hard - We Can do Hard Things!
Leadership and chemistry are both hard. Challenges make us stronger leaders, but we need each support. We can all develop into leaders.
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Lorraine Connell
- Jan 2
- 6 min
Building Community as an Educator
Often we do not have that same expectation for ourselves. We also need to be a part of our own community, one with our fellow educators.
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Lorraine Connell
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
How do we advise Students about the uncertainty of their future After High School?
There are many different paths young people can take after high school.
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Lorraine Connell
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
How Vulnerability and Authenticity Can Help Build Trust in the Classroom
In order to build relationships with our students, we must be vulnerable.
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Lorraine Connell
- Oct 31, 2022
- 2 min
Leaders are born...
Many people believe that leaders are born - I do not agree.
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Lorraine Connell
- Sep 21, 2022
- 2 min
Transistioning Teachers
Education is not “one size fits all.”
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Lorraine Connell
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
Consent
It is really a misnomer that consent resides only in the bedroom. It actually happens very early in our lives.
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Lorraine Connell
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
Being Present
I traded a job that I didn’t take home with me, for a job that went everywhere with me.
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Lorraine Connell
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
Guilty, too
As parents, we post things on social media about our kids at such a young age that they are not able to give consent...
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Lorraine Connell
- Jul 18, 2022
- 3 min
History Lessons
Power, like most everything, is believed to be finite. There are so many limitations when we operate from a scarcity mindset.
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Lorraine Connell
- Jul 7, 2022
- 3 min
The truth will always set you free!
Teaching meant an opportunity to share and discover who I am.
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Lorraine Connell
- Apr 18, 2022
- 3 min
Why Self-care is Important for Leaders
Where should we draw the line with work at home? If we bring work home, it then becomes normal. Let’s just look at the numbers:
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Lorraine Connell
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
What it means to be an ally
It wasn’t until I asked someone that I found out that this choice of mine (the privilege) could potentially cause confusion.
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Lorraine Connell
- Feb 13, 2022
- 3 min
Cell Phone Policy
We should be working to help students, and ourselves honestly, know how and when to effectively use cell phones.
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Lorraine Connell
- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
Carrying our baggage
We all carry baggage, and some days the bags we carry are too much and get in the way of what we are trying to achieve.
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Lorraine Connell
- Dec 22, 2021
- 2 min
Sense of Belonging
I recently had the opportunity to listen to Soledad O'Brien speak at a conference. In her keynote, she talked about a sense of belonging,...
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Lorraine Connell
- Dec 11, 2021
- 2 min
'I didn't know...'
“I didn’t know.” While true, this doesn’t excuse me from knowing the truth about the past.
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