Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 4 Take the Short Way Home… It’s Not the Years, It’s the Mileage Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. Let us put this moment in context. Indiana Jones is racing against time to…
Month: September 2017
Teach & Serve III, No. 8 – One-on-One
Teach & Serve III, No. 8 One-on-One September 27, 2017 She was frustrated that I had pulled her aside in public, as-it-were, that I had not scheduled a time with her to talk, that I had set her day off in a bad direction, taking a moment from her harried morning made her day all…
EduQuote of the Week: September 25 – October 1, 2017
Active Aging Week Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
Teach & Serve III, No. 7 – Intimidation
Teach & Serve III, No. 7 Intimidation September 20, 2017 I do not want to follow a leader who thinks that the best way to engender loyalty is to intimidate those being led. And I won’t. I have written about this anecdote before, but I had cause to consider it anew this week. When I…
EduQuote of the Week: September 18 – 24, 2017
Keep Kids Creative Week Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. – Victor Pinchuk
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 3 – All the World’s Waiting for You
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 3 All the World’s Waiting for You Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. It is very difficult to remember that, before Wonder Woman was released this past summer, the movie was considered something…
Teach & Serve III, No. 6 – Which Hours Are Yours?
Teach & Serve III, No. 6 Which Hours Are Yours? September 13, 2017 My wife, who is a talented, veteran teacher, posed a few weeks back. We were discussing homework and its efficacy and she said: “Which hours do we think are ours?” If you are a teacher or administrator at any school level and…
EduQuote of the Week: September 11 – 17, 2017
Day of Prayer and Remembrance Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11. – President Obama
Teach & Serve III, No. 5 – Embrace the Expectations of Leadership
Teach & Serve III, No. 5 Embrace the Expectations of Leadership September 6, 2017 Give me leaders who understand this, leaders who know that the buck (and everything else) does stop with them. Give me leaders who say: “I get it. I will take it.” Let us begin this blog with a statement which, I…
EduQuote of the Week: September 4 – 10, 2017
Childhood Injury Prevention Week Children learn what they live. – Dorothy Nolte