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Aspirational, motivational, and inspirational solutions and ideas for educators and leaders in correctional and alternative settings.

06/07/2026

The goal of correctional education isn’t helping a student to get a GED. The mission is helping people build lives that are larger than their incarceration. This week's Sunday Morning Coffee: https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/next-step-programming

05/31/2026

The issue isn't always that people don't know how to do the job.
It's that many have never been explicitly taught the executive function skills required to keep the job. Today's Sunday Morning Coffee read: https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/executive-function-lessons-every-workforce-program-should-teach

05/24/2026

Correctional educators often underestimate the power of their smallest moves. This week's Sunday Morning Coffee read: https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/tiny-teaching-moves-that-transform-behavior

05/17/2026

If we believe people can change, we build systems that make change possible. If we don’t, we build systems that prove ourselves right. Sunday Morning Coffee read this week: https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/unredeemable

04/26/2026

Because sometimes it takes a little pain to make us pay attention...

https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/because-sometimes-it-takes-pain-to-make-us-pay-attention

04/19/2026

We use the phrase “financial stability” often, but for someone returning home, it has very concrete meaning. Today's Sunday Morning Coffee read:

https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/financial-literacy-that-sticks

04/12/2026

Misconceptions are powerful. They shape expectations before we ever meet the people we’re teaching, but correctional classrooms have a way of rewriting those expectations, if we let them. Today's Sunday Morning Coffee read: https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/the-3-biggest-misconceptions-educators-have-about-incarcerated-learners

04/05/2026

Motivation is almost never the starting point. It's the outcome.

https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/what-correctional-leaders-get-wrong-about-motivation-and-how-to-fix-it

03/29/2026

Before building a program, answer these three questions: https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/before-you-build-a-program-answer-these-three-questions

03/22/2026

Harsh sentencing for youth doesn't reliably produce the outcomes people expect. In many cases, it produces the opposite. Read on!

https://www.pasttheedgesconsulting.com/blog/harsh-sentencing-soft-outcomes

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