Halloween We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. – Stephen King
Month: October 2017
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 6 – Leading from Your Gut
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 6 Leading from Your Gut Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. The recent reboot of Star Trek (not Star Trek Discovery, but the JJ Abrams produced films) has dived fans. Some embraced it,…
Teach & Serve III, No. 12 – Parents Are Partners
Teach & Serve III, No. 12 Parents Are Partners October 25, 2017 …more parents than not are like my mother. They are advocates, appropriately. They are supportive – of their kids and of their kids’ schools. They are loving. Today is my mother’s birthday and, no, I will not mention her age. Looking back on…
EduQuote of the Week: October 23 – 29, 2017
Freedom of Speech Week By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives – you can’t say, think, or do this or that. – Jill McCorkle
Teach & Serve III, No. 11 – Get Out of Your Comfort Zones
Teach & Serve III, No. 11 Get Out of Your Comfort Zones October 18, 2017 Our schools are places where change is expected. Indeed, change is mandatory. We ought to be aware of when we are not pushing ourselves to change, to adapt and grow, to look at the world through different lenses and in…
EduQuote of the Week: October 16 – 22, 2017
Teen Read Week Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 5 – Know Your Team
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 5 Know Your Team Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. Mark Waid is a terrific comic book writer. Wickedly intelligent, possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the genre, abundantly talented, Waid has written…
Teach & Serve III, No. 10 – Proceed with Caution
Teach & Serve III, No. 10 Proceed with Caution October 11, 2017 While I may believe I never treated a student in the manner this student described, she/he felt treated negatively by me, felt I did not care, felt I was a negative force and a bad teacher. This is a hard one. I was…
EduQuote of the Week: October 9 – 15, 2017
Newspaper Week A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. – Michael Moore
Teach & Serve III, No. 9 – Who’s in Trouble?
Teach & Serve III, No. 9 Who’s in Trouble? October 4, 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.” In my years as an administrator, one of the teams on which…