Your joy isn't gone — it's buried under paperwork and compliance reports. This piece offers four small, daily habits for reconnecting with your "why," plus the three-post-it "bright spot" audit to rediscover what made you want to teach in the first place.

What do book characters and coding have in common? Algorithms. This piece shows how to teach literary analysis through computational thinking — decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking — turning "prove it" essays into character-coding challenges, with a ready-to-use classroom activity.

Front office staff aren't gatekeepers — they're the first authors of a school's culture. This piece unpacks the "hero vs. villain" choice hiding in every check-in, and introduces the M.I.N.D. check: a four-step framework for turning routine interactions into moments of belonging.