Susan Epperson

(7/7) 📰 It’s so easy to get caught up in the headlines. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to be in the community and see this magic live and in-person!

(6/7) 💙🧠 More experienced students presented with confidence and connection using word choices that brought us together in smart collaborative ways.

(5/7) 💙🧠 These kids led with their hearts and their heads. A few newbies let their nerves get the best of them. But you could see them trying so hard. If scores were low, the encouragement was high.

(4/7) 🎁 We might not need more tchotchkes, but these kids thought of all the details. The hand sanitizer, the mints, and the pen with the super smooth ink were all thoughtful and practical additions to the Judges’ Gift Bags.

(3/7) 📚These young people really are using integrative learning. We spent the morning shaking hands and taking notes while high schoolers spent a quick 10 minutes presenting solutions to theoretical case studies that they had just learned about 10 minutes earlier.

(2/7) 📝 If you want to feel optimistic about the future, volunteer with a public school system. These kids and their teachers are working so hard, and you will walk away knowing that there are so many people who CARE about education!

Thank you card surrounded by a pen, mints, and hand sanitizer

A few of the literal and metaphorical takeaways from my morning at a regional DECA Inc. competition: (1/7)

(7/7) 📰 It’s so easy to get caught up in the headlines. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to be in the community and see this magic live and in-person!

(6/7) 💙🧠 These kids led with their hearts and their heads. More experienced students presented with confidence and connection using word choices that brought us together in smart collaborative ways.

(5/7) 💙🧠 These kids led with their hearts and their heads. A few newbies let their nerves get the best of them. But you could see them trying so hard. If scores were low, the encouragement was high.

(4/6) 🎁 We might not need more tchotchkes, but these kids thought of all the details. The hand sanitizer, the mints, and the pen with the super smooth ink were all thoughtful and practical additions to the Judges’ Gift Bags

(3/6) 📚These young people really are using integrative learning. We spent the morning shaking hands and taking notes while high schoolers spent a quick 10 minutes presenting solutions to theoretical case studies that they had just learned about 10 minutes earlier.

(2/6) 📝 If you want to feel optimistic about the future, volunteer with a public school system. These kids and their teachers are working so hard, and you will walk away knowing that there are so many people who CARE about education!

Dang. I want my ugly phases to look that good. 🤩

I can feel how velvety those petals are with my eyes! @rainbowaura.bsky.social you are so freaking talented!

Colorful Feelings Wheel sticker

Happy to get the 6” version of my Feelings Wheel done. I think I’ve stopped getting surprised at how much I use it. So. Many. Emotions.

You are both sweet and completely badass my friend!! I’m so glad you like the stickers. Here’s to putting more joy into the world!!

Incredibly colorful Venus fly trap sticker

Beautiful metallic philodendron sticker.

Please join me in welcoming my friend @susanepperson.bsky.social to Bluesky! She's an amazing human, mixed media artist, and just all around badass. These are two of the stickers she designed and if you'd like your own, find her shop here: www.etsy.com/shop/FlowtAr...

When you are in it, you ABSOLUTELY get to make the jokes. Those jokes helped my siblings and I stay sane when our family went through it. Laugh on sweet friend!!!