My husband came home from work last week with a story that felt all too familiar: a coworker had a meeting with higher-ups due to complaints coming in from clients who worked with him, specifically related to his misleading definition of a product he sold them. They asked him to repeat his description, and quickly discovered that he could not get his own story straight - tripping over his words in a murky attempt at explaining the confusion, defining the product, and in turn,
If you happened to read my last-week-of-school blog post from this past June, you might remember how frustrated and saddened I was by student attitudes that rounded out the school year. I'm not naïve enough to expect every kid to be excited for the last day of school, ready and eager to attend their class parties, field days, or whatever celebrations await them. I've known better than that for as long as I've held the job. But I certainly found myself oddly wistful for my own
