Posts By : “Jaime Festa-Daigle”

As the school calendar comes to a close, schools are continuing to figure out how to answer questions around locker cleanouts, award ceremonies, graduations, and summer school.  Processes and procedures that have marked the end of the year for decades

I always thought I was a strong leader, but nothing has tested my leadership like COVID-19.  It has tested the leadership of every school administrator in a way that is different from everything else.  In a matter of days, our

Everyone feels the thrill of the beginning of the school year.  We know the anticipation of December and the strange drag that happens in April.  Why are there no days off in April? But the real change of school happens

This December, my school district became home to eight more National Board Certified Teachers. There are now 22 in our district of 238 teachers. This is quite an accomplishment for a rural district that has struggled both to ensure we

Jamie Valderrama works as the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Integrative Health Initiative and as a lecturer for ASU.  She has developed curriculum, taught stress management courses, and now oversees 40 sections of stress management courses at ASU each semester.  Prior

I recently watched a video about teachers writing letters to themselves on their first day of teaching.  I was so inspired that I asked our mentors to facilitate this for our district’s new teachers and to bring these to our