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Persistence: Why It’s Hard Before It’s Easy Persistence: Why It’s Hard Before It’s Easy
Opinion / Staff Leadership and Management / Storytellers

Persistence: Why It’s Hard Before It’s Easy

Erika Petrelli No Comments

I’ve written about this very thing before, but I’m struck once again at how HARD things are before they become EASY. My son and daughter took a few rounds of swimming lessons this summer. For my son, who only recently turned three, this was his first experience with swimming lessons, and they came at a time when he was only just beginning to enjoy just simply playing in the water. Here’s how the first round went for him: During his first lesson, he cried hysterically from the f...Read More

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Opinion / Staff Leadership and Management / Storytellers

Gemstones in the rubble: Reflections on rediscovering our core values

Amira Resnick No Comments

In recent months people across all 50 states and worldwide are in the streets raising their voices and their fists to demand racial justice for our communities and world. The simmering heat of a robust Black Lives Matter movement added to heightened distress of the COVID-19 pandemic finally brought society to a boiling point. Yet it’s sobering to realize that we’ve been through similar uprisings before and still our moral sins persisted. How can we assure this time we will be different, th...Read More

On-Site Staff / Opinion / Program Design, Development, and Quality / Staff Leadership and Management

Raising Our Kids: A Long-Term Approach

Brad Lademann No Comments

I have had an experience several times in the last few weeks that, I am sure, happens to all of us who have worked with students for a certain number of years. If it has not happened to you yet, give it time. It will. Someday, you will run into your former students and they will have turned into adults. It is always a little strange to me when I see my “kids” as adults. I know that time keeps marching on and those kids I have worked with will grow up and continue to live their lives. They will g...Read More