My favorite books 📚
I work best as a…
My workplace

I love being with students and fellow teachers and exploring new ideas collaboratively and creatively.
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Favorite work memory

This global gathering for journalism educators in Paris was a blast! It was a pleasure getting to meet teachers from around the world and to learn how journalism schools are thinking about the future of our field creatively.
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My favorite movie

Things I'd love to learn
- How to be a loving dad for my daughters
- How to be a helpful colleague for my peers
- How to find peace with my limitations
- How to make peace with my fears
- How to develop rich new friendships in the middle of life
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10 Tools I rely on for deep work: https://wondertools.substack.com/p/deepwork
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I love swans 🦢and I love this pond. Far from the city, it's quiet, serene, and gorgeous. Life moves at a slower pace here, and the swans go about their daily routines with heads held high regardless of whatever chaos is going on in the human world around them.
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I really admire teammates who are…
Thoughtful, well-prepared, hard-working, creative, assertive, initiative-taking, collaborative, curious, kind, flexible, and happy.
It's a pleasure working with people who care about the quality of their work, who are thoughtful about how they do what they do, who listen and pause and collaborate and create and iterate and who are at peace with themselves.
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I'm energized at work by…

Things that deeply motivate me…
I like setting and meeting high standards
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