Expat or Local?
Originally published on LinkedIn April 10th, 2022 It has been over two years since I left China. I boarded a plane for Canada during the
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Who dis? A question of Identity
“Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourse, practices, and positions” ~ Stuart Hall This week I stood in a room
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Charging Stations
Photo by SK FIROJ Ali on Unsplash Originally published on LinkedIn January 23rd,2022 Sometime over the last two weeks, I listened to Glennon Doyle’s We Can Do Hard Things
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Managing the Monkey
Originally published on LinkedIn January 16th,2022 It seems schools are at a point with the COVID 19 pandemic in which no one wants to manage
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Welcome Back-“ish”
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Originally published on LinkedIn January 10th,2022 Monday, January 3rd, 2022, was our first day back on campus since August 27th,
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#Oneword 2022
In 2021 I chose light as my #Oneword. When I look back on what I had planned for 2021, I hoped to bring light, understand, ignite, illuminate and
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Moving Day
Originally Published on LinkedIn Dec. 18th,2021 Friday, December 17th, was our last day at the Southern University of New Orleans. I arrived early, and it was
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Crisis Manager was not in the Job Description?
Over the last few months, I have written about my experience managing the crisis of Hurricane Ida, but what about our teachers? How have they fared?
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A Break in the Action
Originally posted on LinkedIn November 28th,2021 Photo by Max van den Oetelaar The last few months have been by far the hardest I have faced in my
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Riding the Rollercoaster
Originally published on LinkedIn November 14th,2021 We all stopped for a second to breathe a sigh of relief. We had most of our students in
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