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.

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!

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.

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.