Life

Life..what a funny thing it is. It works you, tests you, and even just leaves you confused. When it feels like it has the best of you, you are expected to pick up, brush off, move on. Easier said than done.

Earlier today I was talking to a friend about Life and how it is treating us. She said something interesting."One day, we will look back and realize there was a reason for it all. We will find relevance in what may have felt like turmoil. Learned something because of it all. One day." I know my friends are smarter than smart.

Maybe we spend too much time fighting life instead of learning, living, and growing with it. Maybe life is telling us to take that risk that we are not quite certain on because it could lead to great things. For the Christian, maybe God has a bigger plan? Only time will tell.

Keep living, learning, loving and stop fighting. Remember the obstacles that don't kill us make us stronger. So they say, but only time will tell.

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Hiring push at Excel Academy

Hi team,

I'm writing to ask for your help to push us across the finish line with hiring.

As you know, we have been searching high and low over the past few months for the right candidates to staff our schools. We have hired a total of 17 new staff members thus far, which is an amazing accomplishment.  It's by far the most hiring we've ever done in a single hiring season.  Three cheers for Zoe, Steph and Komal for all the work they've done to help lead this process -- plus a quadruple boom-sizz to all of you who have chipped in by observing model lessons, doing interviews, talking to candidates about your experience, and more!

We still have 3 more hires to make and we're committed to filling those roles with high caliber folks.  I'm confident we will be able to do so in the next few weeks, particularly with your help.

The positions we are still looking to fill are:

• 5th grade math – Excel-Chelsea
• Art and Excel Fellow—Excel-East Boston

For those of you comfortable doing this, please reach out to anyone you can think of who might be interested or who might know someone who might be interested as soon as possible – you are all incredible at what you do, so it is probably safe to assume you have a great network of folks out there!  What we've found is that people you might not suspect are good sources of candidate referrals happen to know someone's friend's cousin who's in the market.  So let's cast as wide net as we can.

Thanks in advance for your help with this!

Dai