Stacey Ebert
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Articles by Stacey Ebert
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Be You. Unapologetically you!
We’ve entered the seasons of Virgos, Libras, and Scorpios. The times when school doors are open, summer frolicking turns to autumnal leaf peeping, months for those who are already yearning for next summer and those who welcome the arrival of the onslaught of pumpkin spice everything. Our calendars have landed in the fourth quarter of the year. Ready or not, here we are. How are you handling it all?
Through the Eyes of an Educator: While we’re alive…LIVE!
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” - Robin Williams as teacher John Keating in Dead Poets Society In the northern hemisphere, we’re smack dab in the thick of all things summer. It’s days of blue tongues from sticky ice pops, suburban sprinklers hosting a daily repertoire of happy campers, toes in the sand kind of beach days, tourists and travelers doing their things, and everywhere right now feels hotter than the sun.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Perched on the Edge
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” - Anais Nin It’s that time of year again: school’s out for summer! Campers and staff are headed towards that summer home, classrooms are emptying, and it’s anyone’s guess as to who hits the playground faster - students or teachers.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Every Beginning is Another Beginning’s End
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” - Thomas Edison I don’t know about you, but these days I feel like much of society has the attention span of gnats. We aim to play the long game but are interrupted by something shiny on aisle six. We set goals, make those bucket lists, and say ‘someday’ more times than we can count.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Chapters, Editions, Stories, Plot Twists
“In the end, we’ll all become stories” - Margaret Atwood I taught high school social studies for well over a decade. Then, I regularly watched whatever local, national, or global event happening - elections, mega speeches, Olympics, Superbowl, or awards ceremony. Whatever it was, someone was bound to want to chat or share a story about it the next morning.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Journey
For sixteen days every four years, the Olympics take center stage. This year, it was Milan and Cortina that displayed a spectacle of sport, grit, determination, elegance, strength, veracity, sportsmanship, and the power of the human spirit. Within the span of two short weeks, the world watched as ordinary people performed extraordinary feats - and the next two weeks of the Paralympics will be equally as incredible. We witness greatness of the human heart mixed with courage that defies odds.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: A chance to fly
“Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem”- Walt Disney In the world of North American high schools, we’re past midterms and full speed ahead into the second semester. On the other side of the world, Aussie schools are dipping their toes into the start of a school year, they’re in the time when you’ve been back for a few weeks and already feel like you’ve never left.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: One foot in front of the other
I just read an Instagram post that offered the likes of the following words for 2026: faith, bloom, ease, abundance, and magic. I felt these deeply…and simultaneously wondered when did we start giving words to years? It’s the start of a new year, a new page, a new semester, and according to Chinese culture, this one’s the year of the horse. Each new year hits differently? We can journal, read, and wrap ourselves with intention settings and resolutions.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: One Wild Life
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - Mary Oliver, The Summer Day The calendar calls our attention to the last month of the year. Thirty-one days of all the things…how do you feel about it? Are you scrambling to fit your seemingly continuous to-do list into each jam-packed day of life’s chaos? Are you journaling and setting intentions for the new year? Are you winding down amidst everything juggling the line between doing and being?
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Positive Energizers
It’s November. New month, the changing of clocks, the time of year for balancing calendars, budgets, and moments of joy, and the start of the holiday silly season. How are you greeting this moment? Depending on your viewpoint, lens, and attitude, it’s either exciting and a bit nerve-racking or a back to the grind (and how on earth do I deal with this all?) time of year. Which one are you? As we step through those new or familiar doors together, what enters first? For most of us, it’s our energy.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Positive Energizers
Submitted by Stacey Ebert on Mon, 11/03/2025 - 22:41 It’s November. New month, the changing of clocks, the time of year for balancing calendars, budgets, and moments of joy, and the start of the holiday silly season. How are you greeting this moment? Depending on your viewpoint, lens, and attitude, it’s either exciting and a bit nerve- wracking or a back to the grind (and how on earth do I deal with this all?) time of year. Which one are you?
Through the Eyes of an Educator: When luck happens, are you ready?
Submitted by Stacey Ebert on Fri, 08/15/2025 - 21:49 Years ago, when watching the Food Network, I quickly found my favourites: the quirky chef, the one who helped us navigate meals in a short span of time, and Ina, who was always a welcome visitor. Whether it was the relevance of the show's location to my world, her empathetic joyful demeanor, or the deliciousness coming out of her kitchen, I don’t know, but I’ve always been a fan of Ina.
Try This Awesome Coffee Maker: Nest Pour Over Kit + Java G25 Coffee Grinder Bundle
On a trip to Costa Rica, we visited a coffee plantation and my husband’s face lit up like a child on his first trip to Disney. Experiencing the journey from plant to cup firsthand was a tiny step in his love affair with coffee, the process it goes through, and the joy he gets out of chasing his perfect brew.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The benefits of connection
“Deep human connection is… the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity” - Melinda Gates School’s out for summer! In the northern hemisphere, it’s the height of the sunshine season. Picture ice cream dripping down happy toddler faces, blue tongues from the best ice pops around, running through sprinklers, lake life and beach days, unstructured playtimes, and firefly chasing.
Read This: Such Good People
I loved Such Good People, a new book by Amy Blumenfeld. It’s a book about friendships, relationships, life, and how both our choices and our character are always a part of our stories. Such Good People takes the reader on a rich, detailed descriptive adventure through family ties and the strength of childhood best friends, and plunks us in the thick of aromas, sounds, and flavors of some of Brooklyn’s most iconic establishments.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Magic of Possibilities - It’s All Possible
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Magic of Possibilities - It’s All Possible "Somewhere… something incredible is waiting to be known" - Carl Sagan On my first ever trip to Australia, a fellow traveler told me he drove the train at Busch Gardens in Virginia. He swore he had the best job in the world. The upturned corners of his mouth could have told you this - but he literally glowed when sharing what a privilege it was to help be a part of the happiness of others.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: To the Wayfinders Who Came Before Us
Through the Eyes of an Educator: To the Wayfinders Who Came Before Us As the calendar page flips and we move closer to graduation dates and summer’s arrival, students everywhere are abuzz with a palpable frenetic energy. Whether excited to fling themselves out the doors of an educational space, nervous for what lies ahead, or a bit numbed by it all, we’re often met with big feelings as we leap from one comfort zone into a grand unknown.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Present Moment
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Present Moment “The present moment is the only moment available to us, it is the door to all moments.” - Thich Nhat Hanh It’s officially spring. The birds wake each day chirping loudly. The sky dips between glorious sunshine and sprinkles of rain, the temperature shifts on a whim. The ebb and flow of winter’s chill transitions to summer sunshine - we’re full on in the mix of it all: the present, the here and now.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Seeking Joy
“We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.” - Maya Angelou Last week, I took a walk on a different beachside boardwalk. Shy of sunset, wiggling past tail-wagging puppies, palette-clad artists, and wave-riding surfers, there he was. A bubble guy, joyfully swinging two long poles attached to a sudsy string, creating the most glorious soapy prisms I’d ever seen.
Read This: Mindful with Me: Connecting with Your Child Through Daily Mindfulness
"Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and kindness" - Mindful with Me I'm so happy to share a new book with you today: Mindful with Me: Connecting with Your Child Through Daily Mindfulness, written by Sarah Dennehy, M.Ed, illustrated by Natalie Garber Martin, and published by The Collective Book Studio. This artful book talks about intentional time spending and how to curate a mindful connection with growing humans.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: When the going gets tough
Through the Eyes of an Educator: When the going gets tough “Hope is the boldest act of imagination I know” - Edith Eger As a new month unfolds, we get the chance to begin again. Daylight lasts a bit longer, calendars grow full of engagements, and Mother Nature does whatever she chooses. January begins with promise and as February rolls around, it’s hard to believe that that first month held the same number of days as many previous ones.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Next Chapter
We’ve officially turned another calendar page. Whether you’re shocked, surprised, ready, still full of cheese, excited, nervous, or already on your way, amidst the fireworks and fanfare, January has arrived. How will you greet 2025? There are those of us jumping in with both feet, ready with our bucket lists, and resolutions to level up life. There are those in the throes of taking stock of what was and manifesting the heck out of dreams and goals for the next twelve months.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Cultivating Your Inner Magic
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Cultivating Your Inner Magic “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” - Robin Williams We’ve arrived in December, the time of the year when hot chocolate drinks warm hands, icicle lights drip from rooftops, and Spotify wraps fill our feeds. Whether you think of it as festive season, one of overwhelm, or one that calls for hiding in a pillow fort ‘til the calendar page flips, it shows up with bells on and only leaves when it’s done.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: How to Make It Through Anything, Even Elections
Through the Eyes of an Educator: How to Make It Through Anything, Even Elections In the northern hemisphere, the 11th month of the year conjures images of everything fall festival. Cities and small towns share their Gilmore Girl-inspired events amidst colorful foliage, pumpkin overload, and orchards upon orchards of apple picking. Like years, seasons, and hormones, everything comes in cycles—and that includes elections.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Normalize Rest
In my teenage years, I remember clearly going to a friend’s house and finding her Dad in his favorite chair, resting his eyes in front of the television. I remember thinking, why is he always napping whenever we’re over? Little did I know then that his napping wisdom was far superior to mine.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: September (A Beginner’s Mind)
Through the Eyes of an Educator: September (A Beginner’s Mind) It’s September. While it may be the 9th month of the year, for many, this time of year holds significant meaning. In the northern hemisphere, it’s the closing weeks of summer and the month of the autumnal equinox, the last days of regular baseball season and the opening ones of American football games.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The In-Between
“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.” ~ L.R. Knost In the northern hemisphere, we’re in the height of summer. Beach days, lake outings, ice cream dates...that’s what in the air.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: What’s your definition of success?
Through the Eyes of an Educator: What’s your definition of success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Celebrate your Milestones
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Celebrate your Milestones June. In the northern hemisphere, the sixth month of the year holds far more than its thirty days. Nuggets of goodness like the summer solstice, the half-way point of the year, and the end of the typical school year juxtapose the anxiety of what comes from that aforementioned half-way point and ending of the typical school year.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: You vs. You
It’s that time of year again. In the northern hemisphere, we’re in the sprung part of spring and students across the board can see the end in sight. University students are on their home stretch to finals, educators who’ve taught forever are preparing their retirement parties, and the ‘what will I do after graduation’ decision is upon us.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Long Game
“Stay the course. When thwarted try again: harder: smarter. Persevere relentlessly.” - John Wooden Springtime—a time of renewal, regrowth, and rebuilding. With it often comes a burst of energy. As the tulips unfurl their leaves, so too do humans step out into the sunlight to shed that winter coat and dive into their own reawakening.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Bridges, Change, and Transitions
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Bridges, Change, and Transitions I went to university in Boston. Driving from New York meant going over at least one giant bridge. Each time I hit that bridge, I’d notice something shift. My fingers clenched, my shoulders tightened, I hugged the divider, and focused hard on following those in front of me in order to make it to the other side. A few minutes after crossing, the color returned to my fingers and my whole body exhaled.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Inspiration is Everywhere
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Inspiration is Everywhere “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be” - Ralph Waldo Emerson A shooting star, the first snowflake, a rainbow after a storm, a child’s laughter, an act of kindness, the innocent check-in of a furry red muppet—inspiration is everywhere if only we pause a moment to look.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: To Thrive
A new month, a new year, a new chance to write your story. How do you greet the new year? After college graduation, a few friends and I backpacked through Europe. For me, it was a first full feeling of independence, exploration, and a chance to see more of the world. We spent over three weeks hitting the typical western Europe go-to spots, including a few days in France and Italy exploring all things art, people watching, and food deliciousness.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Shine Your Light
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” - Edith Wharton In the northern hemisphere, we’re in the time of winter’s approach. The air gets colder, the animals turn toward hibernation, and sunlight dwindles. The fourth quarter of the year is often filled with hustle and bustle, holidays and activities aplenty, and a shift from the longer days of life outside to those shorter ones often more indoors.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: A Path Forward
It’s November: the time of full speed ahead. The holiday break is in sight, but there seems like there’s always more to do, more decisions to be made, more work to be done, and needing to have a more focused approach. Whether you feel like huddling under a blanket in your self-sufficient pillow fort or forging ahead with the force of a bullet train, sometimes the world doesn’t give us a choice—and the only thing left to do is the next right thing. What that is is anybody’s guess.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Life lessons from a paddleboard
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Life lessons from a paddleboard “It (neuroplasticity) refers to the physiological changes in the brain that happen as the result of our interactions with our environment. From the time the brain begins to develop in utero until the day we die, the connections among the cells in our brains reorganize in response to our changing needs. This dynamic process allows us to learn from and adapt to different experiences.” - Celeste Campbell (n.d.).
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Waiting Game - 5 minutes and forever
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Waiting Game – 5 minutes and forever We’ve all played it—the waiting game. The one where the toddler asks for a treat and the grown up says wait till after dinner. The one where the ten-year-old can’t wait to stay up past bedtime when no one can say otherwise. The one when you can’t wait to get to the next level of whatever because then you can do this other thing.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Getting your groove back
I grew up on Long Island, New York. Summer was and is my favourite season. For as long as I can remember, summertime meant my summer camp second home, and the moment I could drive meant any spare time spent at the beach. The ocean and sand are so much a part of me that I moved to live beside them for a decade (and later flipped coasts to relish their brilliance all year long).
Through the Eyes of an Educator: From Waiting to Action-Empowering Our Inner Badass
In the northern hemisphere, it’s officially summer. It’s the season where shoes are optional, schedules flung out the window, and s’mores an everyday occurrence. It includes days of drippy ices, water-logged joy, and vitamin D drenched humans. We adventure easily, leap without question, and reacquaint ourselves with risk.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Savoring
In my youth, I spent some of my best summers at a rustic sleepaway camp on the edge of the Long Island Sound. Decades later, I can still tell you what those leaves smell like on a rainy day, what the beach rocks feel like on the souls of my feet, what color my tongue turned after drinking the colorful ‘bug juice’, and the taste of the crumb cake baked with love by Maryanne the cook.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Climb, The Awakening, The Comeback-Learning to Embrace the Journey
“I can almost see it, that dream I’m dreaming But there’s a voice inside my head saying you’ll never reach it Every step I’m taking, every move I make feels lost with no direction My faith is shaking, but I, I gotta keep trying, gotta keep my head held high” - The Climb, Miley Cyrus The real-life Hannah Montana has a new docu-series on Disney+. Miley Cyrus’ The Climb shares the story of her journey from then to now. While the double life of a teenage superstar is her story, each of us has our own.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Fear vs. courage-the invisible ping pong match
On Hollywood’s biggest night, as one of the creators of the Oscar-winning movie Everything Everywhere All At Once accepted his golden statue, he mentioned that his “imposter syndrome was at an all-time high.” Seriously, this guy is part of the team that swept seven awards that night—and he still didn’t feel like he fully deserved to be there. If this doesn’t say how strong our thoughts are and how much weight we give them, I don’t know what does.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Becoming a Cartographer
These days we can’t go more than four minutes on any social media platform without noticing someone sharing about doing life their own way. Any number of hashtags, from vanlife to roadschooling and living off the grid, pop up to intrigue viewers to follow the journey of those choosing to do their own thing. Perhaps we’re moving into a time of life where the non-traditional is becoming traditional, or perhaps, if that’s not the case, it’s the bubble in which my brain wants to live.
Write your own story-then go live it
Travel has always been my vice. Throw in dark chocolate chips, avocado, yoga, beach days, and it’s pretty much me in a nutshell. These days, we can add water bottle stickers to that list, so when Live a Great Story showed up on my radar, they had me at stickers. A change in perspective I went on my first international voyage at twenty. It was a three-week group tour to Israel that officially hit me with the travel bug. One of many catalysts, that trip drove my story on its path.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: A Re-emergence
Life is messy. If only we knew that as teenagers, perhaps we wouldn’t have been so hard on ourselves about not knowing so many things—like what major we want, what path we wish to take, where we want to live, how we can best help make the world better, what we want to be when we get older, how much money we ‘should’ have, and all of the zillion other questions that rattle around our minds once we begin to think about how we might ‘fit’ in the world at large.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Curiosity, Wonder, Promise-stepping into a new year
We’ve turned the calendar page. It’s a new year, a new month, a blank slate; we begin again. We’ve been here before, yet we’ve never been here before. We’ve flipped the page, started a new something, and entered into the unknown prior to this, but it’s never been today before and never will be again. Deep breaths—how will you greet this day? Forever students have experienced this: a new school year, a new class, a new working engagement, a new endeavor.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Invite more awe
It’s in a child’s eyes the first time they see Mickey Mouse. It’s in a parent’s face when they meet their new addition for the first time. It’s in the eyes of an individual when they connect with that person or animal who’s made a huge difference in their life. I felt it in my core the day I stood at the edge of Victoria Falls, and when I was blessed to witness sunrise atop Israel’s Masada. It’s those soul-shaking moments that imprint core memories you can somatically feel in your entire being.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Choosing You (be where your feet are)
It’s arrived! That time of year where life feels like it’s full speed ahead and nonstop glitter-filled energy. The educational year is in its groove, every week there’s a game or a concert or a special event, and even taking a moment to find your own breath seemingly involves a calendar invitation. We’re officially in that final quarter of the year when resolution inklings creep in, ‘to do’ lists pile up, and many of us feel pulled in multiple directions.
Through the Eyes of an Educator: Messy is normal
Growing up, I wanted to have that perfect penmanship. Taking notes in high school found me pressing hard enough with my pen to ensure I could feel the ink on the back of the paper, have evenly spaced letters and words, and quite literally rip out a page if I had to scribble out a letter. Needless to say, I had no idea then how much pressure and anxiety I caused myself in the process of seeking that perfect penmanship.
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