Recently a sweet child’s cheerful but brutal honesty brought me up short. I was at a school where the manager’s office is separated from the children’s play area solely by a child-proof safety gate. This means the Future Hope of our Nation can peek in at any time to make observations about whoever is inside. […]
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These days, there are so many words or phrases that I’m sure didn’t exist back in the days of my African youth. Spending my formative years in dusty Bulawayo (Google it, it is actually a place), the language I heard was clear and immediately understandable. “Sundowners, darling?” was my mother’s cue to open the generously
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I love a good quote. A quote can be edifying, affirming, revealing and comforting. Take for example, these words from Malala Yousafzai: “Once I asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.” When I was
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EnRich Coaching for Educators has arrived! In my mind’s eye I am poised on a mountain peak overlooking a vista that holds promise, support, mentoring and guidance for educators. It is time for me to focus on my dream. It is time to focus on my fellow educators and on our shared experience. First, it
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