Starling Collaborative

Every profession has a moment like this — when past training is no longer adequate to the challenges of the job. This is that moment for educators everywhere. Disruptive and dangerous behaviors in classrooms have significantly increased since the pandemic due to a wide range of factors.  We developed TIRSI to level up today’s educators by providing practical, evidence-based strategies they can use to strengthen the capacity, skill, and motivation needed to teach, learn, and l

Starling Collaborative had the privilege of working with Twin Valley Middle High School (TVMHS) last year. TVMHS is a small, rural school in Vermont, who wanted to build on the equity and anti-bullying work they started the prior year.

Lisa and Jessica of Starling Collaborative recently attended the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) conference and left inspired! A major highlight was hearing from Tinotenda Charles Rutanhira of the Vermont Professionals of Color, an incredible resource for diversifying our workforce, especially in education. We also found powerful reminders about connection and inclusion in a dynamic leadership session.

In the end, I don’t want to carry blame with me in my heart and body. I would love for more of us to believe that blame is unhelpful and potentially hurtful of others. I would love for more of us to look deeply inside ourselves when we feel drawn to blaming someone else and take responsibility for our own feelings in this way.

The team at Starling Collaborative put their brains together with me, a Rowland Fellow adoptee, and developed a deliberate, personally dignified, and joyful program that began with Dr. Kathleen Kesson’s call for neohumanism and educational reform that prizes human connection with each other and the world.  

We talked at our Starling Collaborative team meeting today about the changes occurring in our country that are starting to impact our...

A friend of mine shared this on Facebook: Can you relate?  I sure can. This got me thinking about how much this matters to me. Workplace...

When I first began leading trainings in Mindfulness and Restorative Practices (RP), I was still an educator. I had no interest in...