Teach & Serve IV, No. 26 Creative Space/Creative Time January 30, 2019 I do another kind of dreaming, too. I dream about the professional life I want to lead. I dream about the leader I wish to be. I dream about what I might look like five, ten and fifteen years from now (God willing!)….
Month: January 2019
EduQuote of the Week | 1.28.19
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Stephen King
A Journal of the First Year | Twelve
(L) 1994 (R) 2018 24 | January | 2019 Intellectually, I have known that part of the work of being a principal is being very, very flexible. Typically I frame that concept as being ready to change my schedule or my plan as needs dictate but I often think about it in those parameters:…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 25 | Climate Control
Teach & Serve IV, No. 25 Climate Control January 23, 2019 Climate control in a school is just as important as it is in a home. I will not buy another house that does not have air conditioning. This is a first world demand, to be sure, but it is a very real one for…
EduQuote of the Week | 1.21.19
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 | Hard to Recapture…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 Hard to Recapture… January 16, 2019 I would like to suggest that arrogance and good leadership are… incompatible. They… don’t mix When a leader stops doing the good and hard work, the respect of the community can (and usually does) drop precipitously. The respect of those being led, once…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 | Hard to Recapture…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 Hard to Recapture… January 16, 2019 Effective leaders understand that, once their leadership starts to wane, it is quite difficult to recapture. When a leader, for whatever reason, stops doing the good and hard work, the respect of the community can (and usually does) drop precipitously. Once a leader…
EduQuote of the Week | 1.14.19
Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better. Carlos Wallace
A Journal of the First Year | Eleven
(L) 1994 (R) 2018 It is my intention to share some reflections on the highs, the lows, the excitement, the routine, the successes, the failures and everything in between which I experience the course of the next 10 – 12 months, my first months as a full-time principal of a high school. Writing this journal…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 23 | Arrogance and Leadership
Teach & Serve IV, No. 23 Arrogance and Leadership January 9, 2019 I would like to suggest that arrogance and good leadership are incompatible. They simply do not mix The old adage “oil and water don’t mix” is demonstrably true. Head into your kitchen. Find some oil. Put the oil in some water. See what…