S9 E12: Are You a Pig Pen? Self-Awareness & Practical Leadership Skills for Dysregulated Times Podcast Episode · The School Leadership Show · 08/14/2025 · 43m

A terrific gift to be interviewed by such astute question askers! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Alignment with Others Matters - Voice Lessons, LLC Over the last several months I have had a number of discussions with colleagues who feel disconnected and misaligned with the organization, school, or district [...]

We need to be clearer about what we are ‘on about’ and who we want to be doing it with. If we don’t mesh with a certain team or school, it doesn’t mean we are inadequate, faulty or deficient. - From my August Voice Lessons
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I feel like 99% of this would be solved if people would just use the damn microphone and stop yelling in a room of conversation.
But also reminds me of @jenabrams.bsky.social 's work around growing up at work, adult emotional regulation and clear communication.

Tomorrow concludes my July learning with so many educators. Thank you Colegio Americano de Quito, NAESP & NASSP, Baldwin Park USD, ACSA Region 8, Hangzhou lS & EARCOS, and IS Beijing. Grateful for all the learning across continents, cultures and countries. Onward!

Navigating in Polarizing Times | The International Educator (TIE Online) International school leaders face complexity, conflict, and change. Explore practical tools to lead with empathy, clarity, and emotional intelligence...

Delighted to work with The International Educator to put out a series of articles that will include some 'just in time' strategies and reframes so we can keep us as grounded and steady as possible.

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Celebrate Stability - Voice Lessons, LLC This month marks the 6 month anniversary of the death of my partner, Stewart Levine. Having traveled for the month of April, I was ‘in [...]

How might I amplify the good & the grounded in the midst of the muddy & the uncertain at this time?
How can I acknowledge and celebrate what has provided me some solid ground this last half year?
Check out questions to ask ourselves 6 months into 2025...
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May is over. Thank you, Taipei American School, Seoul International School, Kaohsiung American School, Chino Valley Unified School District, & Kalama School District for partnering with me as we create even healthier, more professional cultures of learning for all.

Three busy professional learning days in Beijing. Three schools. A variety of educators in the sessions.Teacher leaders, leaders of departments across academics & operations, senior leadership teams-the gamut. All learning with & from each other how to better communicate in their role. A privilege.

Stay-workcation in HK in between conferences in Japan and China. Meeting my friend and educator extraordinaire, , Jennifer Knight DeLashmutt, to dream, plan, and build out new offerings for our adult to adult communications in schools work under my new business name, Voice Lessons, LLC.

I have only one other time been asked to take off shoes to participate in a PD and it was in a yurt in Watsonville, CA, USA. Changes the feel of the experience in the best of ways. Thank you to JCIS Heads of School from across the country who came together and supported one another’s learning.

A great time w/colleagues & talking adult learning at Yokohama International School. Had opportunity to listen to 8th grade ‘Dragons Den’ interdisciplinary presentation of a solution to real world problem aligned w/the SDGs. Must ‘up my game’ - the students are watching us!

Off to Japan to facilitate the two day leadership conference for the Japanese Council of International Schools hosted this year in Yokohama. Then to work in Tokyo before leading the heads conference in Hokkaido. Onward!

Self-Regulation in Dysregulated Times - Voice Lessons, LLC Last month I facilitated a new workshop for school leaders titled Self-Regulation in Dysregulated Times. It’s a blend of concepts and strategies from two of [...]

I am in the deep end with you. Growing tired right along with you. And we must keep going. The children are watching us. We need to grow our capacities to be our best adult selves. Join me.
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Have the honor of working w/ this organization Thursday-Friday as we find our voices. When I worked in Ruatoria, NZ a school principal said, “When I have a hard conversation, the ancestors are in the room and I still speak up because it matters for the students living now and who are in my care.”

So good to be with WomenEd Luxembourg and to share strategies and tools for effectively finding your voice as a woman in educational leadership! Folks joined from Mexico to Kazakhstan! Thank you, WomenEdLux for inviting me!

The world is big and we all need to stretch at our learning edges. So grateful to work with Keystone Academy in Beijing to continue the work into next fall starting in August in person as well! They are working on new professional growth protocols and peer coaching, as well as UDL and MTSS.

Mahalo to AMR and KMR Complex Areas of the Hawaii DOE for joining me to work on our adult to adult communication in schools. We are more generationally savvy and will have humane and growth producing conversations with those with whom we work. Living Aloha out loud. Til next fall!

Mahalo to Hawaii DOE’s AMR Complex Area’s Induction and Mentoring Team for a great day being generationally savvy.

The work began. Seoul Foreign School - Having Hard Conversations. Asia Pacific International School - Stretching Your Learning Edges. & dinner with the great Pauline O'Brien who was here giving a keynote to women leaders at the WISE conference. Now some sightseeing & then back at it. Grateful.

THIS IS REALLY HARD (BUT WE ARE NOT QUITTING): REFLECTIONS ON KINDNESS AND RESOLUTENESS If you're reading this, you got through the first month of the assault on everything, none of it a surprise except in how stupid and ruthless the sabotage was, but a lot of its shocking, also because ...

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The elusive okayness of care and nation Hey all, I’ve got a couple of podcast episodes out this week that might be nourishing for you…

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#WomenEd Luxembourg: Finding your voice and leading with impact Join us with @JenniferAbrams to find your voice & lead with impact! Celebrate #WomensDay and learn to communicate & collaborate confidently.

Join education and communications consultant @jenabrams.bsky.social with #WomenEd Luxembourg for a free online session to find your voice and lead with impact!

Monday March 17 at 5pm Lux time.

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I agree with Adam Grant that if we suspended our certainty that our way is THE way, and not actually just A way, we could be better listeners to all in our community. It takes inner work for this outer impact and it's worth it. And at this time, we need this skill. #StretchingatOurLearningEdges.