Mandy Neal's articles Teaching Ideas How mobility scooters can prolong teacher’s careers Teaching is a difficult but rewarding job. Year after year, teachers can often face stress or injury due to the challenges of the position. Let’s take a close look at how mobility scooters can prolong teachers’ careers. Health First and foremost, mobility scooters are good for your health. A Written by Mandy Neal June 22, 2020June 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Professional Development Stories, Scenarios, Exploratory Talk, and Futures Thinking “The stories we tell ourselves are powerful. The mind constantly tells itself stories of the future.” Peter Schwartz via The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World The future can seem like a very scary and non-obvious proposition, especially in today&rs Written by Mandy Neal June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Professional Development In Between Stories “It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The Old Story – the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it – is not functioning properly, and we have not learned th Written by Mandy Neal June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Utilizing SEO to Your Advantage: Top Tips and Tactics Maintaining a steady stream of visitors to your website and having it generate sales is the aim of the game. While it sounds simple enough, there are many moving parts to getting it right. Among the most important is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a marketing strategy that gets your Written by Mandy Neal June 13, 2020June 18, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Make Your Home Workspace Your Happy Place A lot of people have had to get accustomed to working from home in recent months. While it might sound easy to do, the reality of making your home your workspace takes a lot of organization. Those in the know, who have been working from home for a while now, will tell you that the Written by Mandy Neal June 6, 2020June 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Small Business Insurance Basics Running your business is utterly satisfying since you are the boss, and you have a flexible schedule. Plus, you can be creative in your ways to generate profits and attract customers as well. However, the bold step comes with risks such as fires, theft, accidents, lawsuits, mudslides, and tsunamis. Written by Mandy Neal June 2, 2020June 4, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Stretch Your Budget with Inventive Online Shopping Hacks Our shopping habits have changed over the last decade or so, and more people are turning to online purchases. They’re easy to make, you can shop when it suits you and many companies offer attractive deals for people buying online. Not only that, but you also have hundreds of choices available at y Written by Mandy Neal May 25, 2020May 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Professional Development The Future: And The Paradox Of Uncertainty “Stories of the past and the present can be based on facts, but a story of the future is just a story. The problem is that the stories we most commonly tell about the future simply extrapolate from the present.” -via Harvard Business Review In the midst of difficult times, leaders Written by Mandy Neal May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Professional Development The Future Will Be Both Learned And Unlearned “The curious thing is that with these exponential changes, so much of what we currently know is just getting to be wrong. So many of our assumptions are getting to be wrong. As so, as we move forward, not only is it going to be a question of learning it is also going to be Written by Mandy Neal May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Repeated Heart-Breaking Miscarriages Don’t Mean the End of Your Dream One or more miscarriages can prove emotionally devastating and physically taxing for expectant parents. Hormonal changes wreak havoc in your body, but the grief of losing a baby can be almost overwhelming. A sense of desperation or failure may set in, causing terrible heartbreak. IVF can help, Written by Mandy Neal May 5, 2020May 16, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Professional Development Leadership Challenge: Tensions Of Our Times “Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one?” -Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow We really have to consider, what questions are we asking, of ourselves and of our organizations? And more importantly, what questi Written by Mandy Neal May 3, 2020May 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Professional Development Sensemaking Through Uncertainty “Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.” -Karl E. Weick We currently find ourselves positioned in this valley that exists between “old world” and “new world” thinking. We aren’t deep enough down in the valley to realize that Written by Mandy Neal April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Loading Load more
Teaching Ideas How mobility scooters can prolong teacher’s careers Teaching is a difficult but rewarding job. Year after year, teachers can often face stress or injury due to the challenges of the position. Let’s take a close look at how mobility scooters can prolong teachers’ careers. Health First and foremost, mobility scooters are good for your health. A Written by Mandy Neal June 22, 2020June 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Professional Development Stories, Scenarios, Exploratory Talk, and Futures Thinking “The stories we tell ourselves are powerful. The mind constantly tells itself stories of the future.” Peter Schwartz via The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World The future can seem like a very scary and non-obvious proposition, especially in today&rs Written by Mandy Neal June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Professional Development In Between Stories “It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The Old Story – the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it – is not functioning properly, and we have not learned th Written by Mandy Neal June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Utilizing SEO to Your Advantage: Top Tips and Tactics Maintaining a steady stream of visitors to your website and having it generate sales is the aim of the game. While it sounds simple enough, there are many moving parts to getting it right. Among the most important is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a marketing strategy that gets your Written by Mandy Neal June 13, 2020June 18, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Make Your Home Workspace Your Happy Place A lot of people have had to get accustomed to working from home in recent months. While it might sound easy to do, the reality of making your home your workspace takes a lot of organization. Those in the know, who have been working from home for a while now, will tell you that the Written by Mandy Neal June 6, 2020June 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Small Business Insurance Basics Running your business is utterly satisfying since you are the boss, and you have a flexible schedule. Plus, you can be creative in your ways to generate profits and attract customers as well. However, the bold step comes with risks such as fires, theft, accidents, lawsuits, mudslides, and tsunamis. Written by Mandy Neal June 2, 2020June 4, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Stretch Your Budget with Inventive Online Shopping Hacks Our shopping habits have changed over the last decade or so, and more people are turning to online purchases. They’re easy to make, you can shop when it suits you and many companies offer attractive deals for people buying online. Not only that, but you also have hundreds of choices available at y Written by Mandy Neal May 25, 2020May 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Professional Development The Future: And The Paradox Of Uncertainty “Stories of the past and the present can be based on facts, but a story of the future is just a story. The problem is that the stories we most commonly tell about the future simply extrapolate from the present.” -via Harvard Business Review In the midst of difficult times, leaders Written by Mandy Neal May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Professional Development The Future Will Be Both Learned And Unlearned “The curious thing is that with these exponential changes, so much of what we currently know is just getting to be wrong. So many of our assumptions are getting to be wrong. As so, as we move forward, not only is it going to be a question of learning it is also going to be Written by Mandy Neal May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Repeated Heart-Breaking Miscarriages Don’t Mean the End of Your Dream One or more miscarriages can prove emotionally devastating and physically taxing for expectant parents. Hormonal changes wreak havoc in your body, but the grief of losing a baby can be almost overwhelming. A sense of desperation or failure may set in, causing terrible heartbreak. IVF can help, Written by Mandy Neal May 5, 2020May 16, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Professional Development Leadership Challenge: Tensions Of Our Times “Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one?” -Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow We really have to consider, what questions are we asking, of ourselves and of our organizations? And more importantly, what questi Written by Mandy Neal May 3, 2020May 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Professional Development Sensemaking Through Uncertainty “Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.” -Karl E. Weick We currently find ourselves positioned in this valley that exists between “old world” and “new world” thinking. We aren’t deep enough down in the valley to realize that Written by Mandy Neal April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
