By Hanna Nichols, Cohort 8 I’ve made quite a few 180 degree turns in my life. Instead of jumping right into a career and settling down after college, I decided to go live in Hungary for a year. I left my dream job of teaching after less than a year to get my Masters in …
by Hanna Nichols, Cohort 8 We all love a good metaphor…and in the social justice world, we love to evoke the “upstream” metaphor…where there is a rushing river of toxic sludge and people drowning in it while we as the helpers are on the shore trying to pull them out. Except wait! We also must …
by Vangi McCoy, Cohort 1 This was originally posted in Vangi’s Substack documenting her experience living with ALS. You can find her original post, along with others from her blog, On Becoming a Mermaid, here. To learn more about how you can support Vangi, click here. The term “glimmer” is one of my favorite new …
By Allison Alexander, Cohort 13 I believe that leaders in early childhood have a responsibility to allow joy into their lives. A step further, I believe all leaders have a responsibility to allow joy into their awareness and lives. That might seem radical to say. And perhaps it is. My belief stands. Perhaps joy feels …
by Kath Courter, cohort 14 In 1972, Stanford Professor Walter Mischer, conducted a now famous experiment that tested children’s ability to delay gratification. Sitting before a marshmallow in an otherwise empty room, individual children were essentially told, If you don’t eat this marshmallow, when I come back, you can have another one. Then you’ll have two. …
by Lisa Matter (9) I recently lost my Appreciative Inquiry book, and if I had it here, I would probably find a nice engaging quote to start this s****y first draft. Instead, I’ll paraphrase and butcher the words of several leaders who have inspired my own transformations. Brene Brown provided the SFD idea — just …
We have the opportunity to rebuild an early childhood system that works for everyone, and Buell Leaders will be a part of informing the process. Sharing stories is an important way humans connect with each other, and our stories can also be used to catalyze change. This is why the Buell Early Childhood Leaders Network …
