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What Is Your TELPAS Data Really Telling You?
In my first post, What If TELPAS Is the Pathway to STAAR?, I shared why I want to understand the instructional connection between TELPAS, the ELPS, and STAAR more deeply. Now I need to turn that curiosity into a process. Before searching for strategies or asking teachers to change instruction, I need to understand what…
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Leadership Tip – When Complaints Become a Culture Problem 🚩
Let’s Stay Connected 📸 Instagram — @thewildflowerwithin_https://www.instagram.com/thewildflowerwithin_/ 💬 Principal to Principal Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/19gaL2F5SG/?mibextid=wwXIfr And don’t forget to subscribe below, then check your email and confirm to get future updates! 📩 Keep Becoming. Julie | The Wildflower Within 🖤
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What I’m Wearing – Hispanic Heritage Week
Click the Instagram post for more details — and don’t forget to follow for more! 🖤 Let’s Stay Connected 📸 Instagram — @thewildflowerwithin_https://www.instagram.com/thewildflowerwithin_/ 💬 Principal to Principal Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/19gaL2F5SG/?mibextid=wwXIfr And don’t forget to subscribe below, then check your email and confirm to get future updates! 📩 Keep Becoming. Julie | The Wildflower Within 🖤
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What If TELPAS Is the Pathway to STAAR?
Last year, we made a great deal of growth as a school. In some of my earlier posts, I shared the challenges I encountered when I first arrived on this campus. But that is no longer the full story of who we are. Our current team has worked incredibly hard, and together, they have made…
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We Rehearsed Again. Here’s What I’m Learning.
BONUS PLC POST | WHAT REHEARSAL IS TEACHING US ABOUT INTERNALIZATION When I started writing this PLC series, I said there would be five posts. Apparently, I wasn’t quite finished. Last week, I shared what we learned from our first Rehearsal PLC, which I unfortunately missed because I was pulled into a last-minute training. This…
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We Rehearsed the Teaching. Here’s What We Learned.
PLC Series | Post 5 Well, our first Rehearsal PLC happened…and after all of the preparation, thinking, planning, and writing I’ve done around this work, I wasn’t even there. I ended up getting pulled into a last-minute training, which was frustrating because I had really been looking forward to seeing this come together. That’s one…
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Before Teachers Rehearse, We Practice Coaching
PLC Series | Post 4 Wednesday is when we officially begin our Rehearsal PLCs, and somewhere in the middle of preparing for it, I realized something: my teachers shouldn’t be the only ones practicing. My ILT and I need practice too. In Post 3, I shared how we’re moving the deeper internalization work outside of…
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The Work Before the PLC: Why We’re Moving Internalization Out
PLC Series | 3 of 5 If you’ve been following this series, you already know our PLCs didn’t get here overnight. We spent years building the foundation—learning to understand standards, look honestly at data, plan intentionally, and develop the collective responsibility that simply wasn’t there when this work began. I told that story in Post…
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Our PLC Problem Was Never Just About PLCs
PLC Series | 2 of 5 In the first post of this series, I shared why I’m changing our PLC structures again as I begin my seventh year as a principal. Now, before I start showing you what we’re doing differently, I think I need to go backward a little more. Because I could very…
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Why I’m Changing Our PLC Structures This Year
PLC Series | 1 of 5 I’m beginning my seventh year as a principal, and I’ve been thinking a lot lately about our PLCs. Actually, I’ve been thinking about how different they look now compared to when I first became a principal. If you put our PLCs from year one next to what I’m building…
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Hello, I’m Julie
Welcome to The Wildflower Within—a space about curiosity, self-discovery, and creating a life that feels more aligned with who you are.
I’m a woman in my 40s learning to make room for more of myself after years of letting responsibilities, roles, and expectations take up most of the space.
I’m still an educator and school principal, and leadership is a huge part of my life. But it isn’t the only part of me.
This is where I share all of it—the leading and the living, the writing and reflecting, the outfits, the travel, the dancing, the experiences, and everything I’m learning along the way.
I don’t have life figured out. I’m simply staying curious about who I am, what I want, and what else might be waiting for me.
And if you’re doing a little becoming of your own, I hope something here makes you curious about your story, too.
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