Kendwy Valdez PSi Cohort5

Good News Update: Kendwy Valdez I called Kendwy a few months ago to check in. Just an easy question… Me: What’s going on?  Kendwy: Oh my gosh… two positions got posted, and it didn’t cross my mind to go for either. I’ve been working in the dual language...

Carmen: Friend, Colleague, Creative Disruptor

“Caminante no hay camino; se hace el camino al andar.” We both loved those verses from Antonio Machado.  We have traveled and invented so many paths together. I am grateful to have had Carmen in my life for so many years. We called each other sisters from...

Charlestown High School Designers Come to Harvard Graduate School of Education

By Linda Nathan, Co-Director Perrone Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership and Adjunct Lecturer HGSE The Students are Watching. That’s what author and educator Ted Sizer wrote. They are observing the adults, listening and critiquing their every word. Is this thing...

From High School Student to Leadership Student: Jossie Mar Bailey (PSi 5, ‘21)

By Linda Nathan, Director, Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership at Hale (PSi) When I walk into the Tobin School in Mission Hill, I’m overwhelmed. This is MY school—the place where I founded my first school—Tobin Academic and Performing Arts Middle School....