It's Not Just For Hippies

How remaining open unlocked one of the most important tools I've ever learned.

I have been an educator officially for 19 years and have worked with youth for the past 25 years. I have seen trends come and go. I have been professionally trained on more trendy swings of the pendulum than I care to mention. I am at the stage in my career that I dreaded would come. In every school there is a teacher, sometimes a few, who seemed to hav…