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Resilience

 It's been another exhausting week... lets all be honest. We read and hear a lot about how amazing and how exhausted our teachers are in this learning environment but I assure you school administrators are also exhausted. We listen to our teachers, staff, students, parents, boards of education and listen some more, so much of what they tell us and want answers is really out of our control but we know it helps for them to tell us and feel like someone is at least hearing them and cares about them too. My mantra has become "we are all doing the very best we can right now" and I truly believe that. Everyone is struggling, everyone is looking for answers and often they are not aligned with what others want and desire and are putting us at odds with one another. To add fuel to the fire, we are all exhausted and want to just hug our loved ones, many of whom we can not even see right now because of the pandemic.      This month, I joined two members of my PLN who every Nove...