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Wow!
It’s April. And nearly May …
Already? What?
Yes!
In the final stretch of another school year, navigating the flurry of year-end activities partnered with preparations for future readiness is akin to flipping through the pages of a well-worn playbook. This time of year feels like a magical time warp, with break-ups, breakthroughs, and new beginnings on the horizon (a notion shared in a recent newsletter from Dr. Claudia Gross).
Magical with end-of-year celebrations as we look back and reflect on days past (and breaking-up with past patterns), while taming eager, enthusiastic emotions of future days ahead (with idealistic breakthroughs and the prospects of new beginnings). A time warp because one minute we are stepping back onto campus after Winter Break, and the next minute, it’s the first day back from Spring Break, and the ‘now or never’ mindset finds its way into conversations, planning, and meetings.
Before we know it, we are sitting at graduations, honoring students for achieving their goals, shaking hands with families and colleagues wondering, “How the heck did we get here?” But “get here” we do, unscarred and well-supported, surrounded by caring colleagues, thanks to the ‘plays’ we have on hand. It’s certainly felicitous that end-of-year ceremonies are referenced as “commencements”. The word means ‘beginnings’ after all.
In this edition of From the Fountain, we invite you to “get here” together with a playbook for break-ups, breakthroughs, and new beginnings to hatch, percolate and flourish, prepping the field for our last weeks as well as for our next school year together …
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