Randi Fielding, Author at STORIES FROM SCHOOL AZ

License to Lead

April 25, 2021Randi Fielding Teacher Leadership

Who decides whether you lead? Is it your boss? Is it the HR department? Is it your particular set of physical characteristics—your gender, your race, your height, your looks? Or, is it you? I want to tell you a fun

Winter Tree

February 13, 2021Randi Fielding Education

What do you do when you feel dried up, vacant, and bare? What do you do when you feel you’re in an endless winter? How do you cope with knowing you’re not doing your best? I’ve read an absolutely beautiful, nurturing

Wintering

January 1, 2021Randi Fielding Uncategorized

Winter Break! The most wonderful time of the year! Not only do we get to celebrate the biggest holidays of the year, we get the most days off during the middle of the school year. Winter Break can’t come soon

A Call for Teacher Leadership in COVID Times

December 8, 2020Randi Fielding Education, Teacher Leadership

Why would COVID times be a good time to become a teacher leader? Isn’t it enough to just show up and make it through each day? And after all, schools have principals. Isn’t it the administrator’s job to lead? If

The Little Things

November 13, 2020Randi Fielding Education

Teaching is tough these days. No doubt about it. This blog post is not intended to minimize the very real suffering felt by teachers across Arizona. But it is meant to maximize the very real impact teachers are having on

What’s Going to Work?

October 13, 2020Randi Fielding Uncategorized

Remember the Wonder Pets? It was a TV show on Nick Jr that featured an adorable trio of heroes—a chick, a hamster, and a turtle. In each episode, they would combine their unique skill sets and rescue a poor, stranded

September 14, 2020Randi Fielding Uncategorized

My mask helps you and your mask helps me. While masks are still controversial and even politically divisive, the CDC and the WHO have reiterated their importance in being the best prevention against COVID. Masks provide what’s called “source control”

The Best Tools

August 24, 2020Randi Fielding Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom

Throughout my years in education, I’ve created a well-developed teacher toolbox. This toolbox included methods and tricks I’ve learned along the way, as well as some tangible items. When I wanted to wow and engage learners (adults or kids) I

Look How Far We’ve Come

May 12, 2020Randi Fielding Education, Teacher Leadership

My first year as an administrator is coming to a close. I wrote a blog post about my first day nine months ago. At that time, I was so nervous. Afraid of the unknown, hoping I didn’t look as terrified as

Maslow Before Bloom

April 10, 2020Randi Fielding Uncategorized

Educators have a tough job right now. We’ve been told by Superintendent Hoffman to “continue to provide educational opportunities to students to the best of [our] ability” during this time of school closure and world-wide pandemic. We’re doing our best