Liz Gardner
Intrepid, Beautiful Explorers
The New York Times recently ran a beautiful, powerful piece about how young people have been navigating this past pandemic year, with all...
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Liz Gardner
Mar 1, 20215 min
Now the Snow Sparkles
People often ask me what I do with my students, what my work entails. It's complicated, ha. My work covers a lot of things, a span of...
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Liz Gardner
Feb 24, 20217 min
Letters from Vonnegut: Shortcuts to Making Your Soul Grow
Much has been written about the benefits of doing things simply because we enjoy doing them — not for the sake of being good at them,...
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Liz Gardner
Jan 19, 20217 min
Dear High School Juniors
Dear High School Juniors, It goes on. Yet we move forward, still. You’re probably wondering what the College Application process will be...
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Liz Gardner
Dec 4, 20206 min
Last-Minute College Apps: Staying Energized
If you’re like most of my students, you’ve already submitted at least one college application. Congrats. Yee-ha! Well done. Now what? For...
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Liz Gardner
Aug 10, 20204 min
5 Things + 1
1. The Power of Notebooking My students and I have been notebooking every day. This is an essential tool for building self-awareness, for...
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Liz Gardner
Aug 4, 20203 min
5 Things + 1
1. School Re-opening I’ve been thinking a lot about the re-opening of schools, here, there, and everywhere. Worrying. Writing about it...
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Liz Gardner
Jul 29, 20207 min
Re-imagining Education in the Covid Era
As schools all over the country prepare for the back to school season, each must prioritize safety concerns while wrestling with enormous...
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Liz Gardner
Jun 18, 20205 min
Risky Business: Re-opening College Campuses this Fall
So very glad to read this Op-ed in the New York Times by Laurence Steinberg, Temple University professor and author of “Age of...
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Liz Gardner
Jun 4, 202014 min
Moving Things Forward: Re-framing the College Process Around Uncertainty & Unrest
I trust you are all staying well during what continues to be a challenging, often exhausting time in an ever-unpredictable,...
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Liz Gardner
Apr 26, 20205 min
Re-opening College Campuses this Fall: Careful, Complex Considerations
In her New York Times opinion piece, College Campuses Must Reopen in the Fall. Here's How We Do It, Brown president Christina Paxson...
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Liz Gardner
Mar 23, 20207 min
Staying Grounded During Uncertain Times, Pt. 1 — Creating New Rhythms for Better Sleep.
My heart breaks a thousand times a day, thinking about the impact of this crisis on everyone out there. I think especially about the most...
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Liz Gardner
Mar 20, 202010 min
Making the FlipSwitch During this Time of Crisis and Uncertainty
These are tough, frightening times. Anxiety levels are running at such a high level, and understandably so. It’s hard to know what will...
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Liz Gardner
Feb 21, 20207 min
"Consider Everything an Experiment..."
Perhaps you've seen it, somewhere on the web, or framed in a classroom: celebrated author and teacher Sister Corita Kent's legendary...
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Liz Gardner
Feb 6, 20203 min
Cultivating Resilience in our Children
How do we allow for the journey to take place, to be their own? How can we let go, trust that our child is exactly where they should be?
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