Return With Intention
Return With Intention closes the Steady for Summer series by inviting school leaders and educators to think beyond tasks, schedules, and back-to-school preparation.

Return With Intention closes the Steady for Summer series by inviting school leaders and educators to think beyond tasks, schedules, and back-to-school preparation.

Steady for Summer: Rest Is a Leadership Practice invites school leaders and educators to rethink summer not as a pause from leadership, but as preparation for steadier leadership.

In Part 2 of her 4-part series drawn from her AASA publication, Dr. Kimberly Honnick breaks down the neuroscience of belonging — what is literally happening in the brain when students don't feel safe, and why that changes everything about how school leaders approach culture, discipline, and learning. This is not soft work. This is science.

Dr. Kimberly Honnick, recently published in AASA's School Administrator magazine, explores why belonging belongs in the same conversation as reading, writing, and arithmetic. In this first post of a 4-part series, she makes the case that school leaders who build ecosystems of connection — not just compliance — are the ones whose students truly thrive.