Lesson one: Bandaids

We'l review how our culture values short-term over long-term success, and how this seeps into everything we do. We also toss in some biology, neuroscience, and try on viewing ourselves as a big-name player in the Education Industry, just to see how it fits.

The class is divided into four segments:

hi, I'm Sarah.

After being a teacher in my own classroom for about a decade, I've spent the last seven years personally coaching hundreds of school teachers and school leaders over the past in my role as a senior coach and consultant at the national educational nonprofit, TNTP.

I was an advisor on a working group for virtual instruction for the Federal Department of Education this past year during the pandemic, and I've worked closely with over 40 different school districts and charter networks in the United States to improve instruction, leadership, authentic community engagement, and vertical alignment in their districts, and I've personally trained over 1,000 individuals to this end.

Just as importantly, after my day job in ed,  I would work in the arena of local regenerative supply chains. Eventually I co-founded a non-profit to decentralize textile production. It's a long story, and why am I telling you? What does it have to do with ed?

The interesting thing is that what I learned in my work with our local fiber non-profit is, fundamentally, what we can use to shift the paradigm for public schools.

And I'm so happy to bring these experiences together to help you!

---Sarah