Sonja Cedeno

Women Are Valuable I was not necessarily a Taylor Swift fan until I recently read a quote from her. “There’s a special place in Hell for women who don’t help other […]

The Stillness of Intentionality Two days ago I looked at the calendar and realized it was 1 year to the day that I started at my current position. It struck me that while I had […]

Trapped! Entrapments The word “trapped” by itself can conjure up in our minds various dangerous scenarios. We might imagine a mine collapsing and tra […]

Nurturing the Roots: My Postpartum Journey In the quiet military community of Fort Irwin, CA, there lived a young mother of twins. Her days were filled with the laughter of her newborn sons, […]

The Simplicity of Joy My Little Place I have a quiet corner in my house. It is ironically positioned near the front entry of our home. You wouldn’t think that this p […]

Windows I remember being an elementary school kid when the word Windows computing first became a part of my everyday language. Now I want to make it clear […]

A Love Song My early walk began with a love song between two birds. I guess you could call them love birds as it was clearly a mating call. On this cool autumn […]

The Patience Gap It had been a long day altogether. I rushed home on an already busy Thursday from my classroom. I’d known all day long my motivation to attend a l […]

Dishonest In the wake of the pandemic, we’ve learned so many things as a nation. We’ve learned so many important facets about ourselves and the people in our […]

Rest Within There are times in my young adulthood I questioned my parent’s decision making. Why? Well, they were born and raised on the beautiful Caribbean i […]

Living Relaxed I taped the brightly colored neon paper to the front of my classroom door. There, it’s all done now. Microwaves and mini fridge unplugged-check. […]

Two Truths and a Lie? Two Truths and a Lie is a game I often play with my students at school as an occasional ice breaker. They absolutely love it. It’s a game I d […]

Promises This year marks a pivotal moment in my career. Year 10 as a teacher, trainer, and educator. Maybe it’s something about heading into the double […]

Not Inching A mile wide and an inch deep. That’s usually what happens when we focus on too many things at the same time. We cover a lot of ground but not w […]

A few years ago an assistant principal with whom I worked was accepted into Harvard’s education leadership PhD program. It was pretty surprising to hear her share her story of exploring and preparing to apply to t […]

Sonja Cedeno transitioned from the world of designing and building military grade defense products for the Department of Defense to K-12 Science education. Throughout her 10 career in defense contracting, she has […]

For fourteen years, we snatched and wrestled every holiday from the tight grasp of my husband’s career as an active duty Army soldier. Even when we planned carefully, months in advance, the unexpected would s […]