What's Your Mantra For This School Year?

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What's your mantra for this school year?

By Suzanne Bouffard

Categories: Collaboration, Learning communities

Vol. 41, No. 5

A recent meeting I attended started with this check-in question: What is your mantra for this school year? The range of responses spoke volumes about the climate in which we’re all working. People were hopeful, pragmatic, struggling, laughing, worrying. My favorites included: Progress, not perfection. We got this. Doing the best we can. Yeah, we can do that. More chocolate. It’s not easy to stay centered right now, with so much uncertainty and so little to anchor us. Mantras can help us set expectations, find focus, and remind us of our core beliefs. During uncertain times, mantras can help us set expectations, find focus, and remind us of our core beliefs. #LearnFwdTLP Share on X If this issue of The Learning Professional had a mantra,

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References

Kamenetz, A. (2020, Sept. 17). ‘I’m only 1 person’: Teachers feel torn between their students and their own kids.news.wfsu.org/all-npr-news/2020-09-17/im-only-1-person-teachers-feel-torn-between-their-students-and-their-own-kids.

Suzanne Bouffard

Senior Vice President, Communications & Publications | + posts

Suzanne Bouffard is senior vice president of communications and publications at Learning Forward. She is the editor of The Learning Professional, Learning Forward’s flagship publication. She also contributes to the Learning Forward blog and webinars. With a background in child development, she has a passion for making research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, and families. She has written for many national publications including The New York Times and the Atlantic, and previously worked as a writer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Duke University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She loves working with authors to help them develop their ideas and voices for publication.