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Define Your Why: Own Your Story So You Can Live and Learn on Purpose

Define Your Why: Own Your Story So You Can Live and Learn on Purpose

Through storytelling, practical advice, and personal self-discovery activities, this book helps you find your reason for living and discover your WHY.

2020

Stories

Barbara Bray

Be Brave! You CAN Go Out of Your Comfort Zone

When you push yourself to find yourself, you may be surprised by what you discover.

6 min readSep 22, 2023

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Are you ready to move out of your comfort zone? It’s all about learning and growing and changing. When you learn something, you grow and change.

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Barbara Bray

Empathy for You in Uncertain Times

We are living in an uncertain world during this pandemic. This impacts how we react to stress. Having empathy for ourselves matters.

6 min readJun 7, 2023

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Empathy for You in Uncertain Times

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Barbara Bray

6 Tips to Find Your Magic

Several years ago, I believed I was ready to step out of my comfort zone. I knew I needed to take some risks, but something was holding me…

5 min readMay 6, 2022

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6 Tips to Find Your Magic by Barbara Bray is all about going out of your comfort zone to find where the magic happens.

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Barbara Bray

Whatever It Takes

This pandemic opened our eyes to the inequities that have always been there. We have to do whatever it takes to be there for all of our…

5 min readMar 23, 2022

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Teachers are amazing. Teachers are doing whatever it takes to meet the needs of each child. However, some days are tough. Barbara Bray shares strategies to build the relationships with learners all year long.

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10 Ways to Build Positive Relationships

Humans are naturally social beings. It is all about the relationships we build and grow. The better the relationships are at school, the…

4 min readNov 14, 2021

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10 Ways to Build Positive Relationships

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Barbara Bray

Bearing Witness to Racism from a Privileged Perspective

I was raised in the 50s and 60s in Silver Spring, Maryland. I’m white and everyone around me was white. That was normal for me.

10 min readNov 12, 2021

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Bearing Witness to Racism from a Privileged Perspective

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7 Strategies for Personal Professional Learning

Professional learning encourages personal growth by teachers, but much professional development (PD) programs are designed around the “one…

6 min readMar 22, 2021

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7 Strategies for Personal Professional Learning: Teachers are learners too. It is time to change traditional “sit and get” professional development move to personal professional learning opportunities by Barbara Bray

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL), developed by David Rose and Anne Meyer from CAST (Center for…

The three UDL principles:

3 min readMar 22, 2021

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WHY Find Your ikigai

“Our ikigai is different for all of us, but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning.” – Hector Garcia…

4 min readAug 30, 2020

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WHY Find Your ikigai

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10 Tips for Active Listening

What, Huh? What did you say?” “Are you really listening?”

4 min readOct 2, 2019

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10 Tips for Active Listening

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Barbara Bray

Barbara Bray

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Story Weaver ~ Podcast host ~ Author “Define Your WHY” ~ Co-author 2 books on Making Learning Personal ~ Author "Grow Your Why" ~ New Podcast "Real Talk"

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