Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 16 Who Has Everything Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. What do you give Superman for his birthday? Is he not the quintessential “man who has everything?” This was the premise of the…
Month: March 2018
Teach & Serve III, No. 33 – Move the Chairs
Teach & Serve III, No. 33 – Move the Chairs March 28, 2018 I believe that if we, as leaders, are unwilling to move the chairs, if we somehow think the task beneath us or that we are more important than the work, then we are not effective leaders. I believe we are not even…
EduQuote of the Week: March 26 – April 1, 2018
National Cleaning Week Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller
Teach & Serve III, No. 32 – Settle In; Don’t Settle For
Teach & Serve III, No. 32 – Settle In; Don’t Settle For March 21, 2018 One of the best parts of this work is the cyclic nature of it. We simply must guard against giving in to the troughs in that cycle. We must remember the peaks are coming. We must never settle for. I…
EduQuote of the Week: March 19 – 25, 2018
Shakespeare Week He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 15 – You Will Return
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 15 You Will Return Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. Inevitably in our leadership journeys, we face setbacks. When we put our weight and our capital behind decisions or programs or choices and…
Teach & Serve III, No. 31 – Union. Now.
Teach & Serve III, No. 31 – Union. Now. March 14, 2018 I welcome any chance to have dialogue among constituents at the school. I welcome every opportunity to discuss our shared work. I welcome all who wish to make the school a better place. This is not a post suggesting that all faculties and…
EduQuote of the Week: March 12 – 18, 2018
Universal Women’s Week Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception. – Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Teach & Serve III, No. 30 – Leading from Fear
Teach & Serve III, No. 30 – Leading from Fear March 7, 2018 When we find ourselves responding too frequently from a place of fear, perhaps our most effective window as leaders has closed. There are good places from which to lead, good places of the heart and the soul. I am a better leader…
EduQuote of the Week: March 5 – 11, 2018
Will Eisner’s Birthday I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out. – Will…