The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… What’s the way through all this? The end does not seem to be in sight and there are debates (word intentionally chosen) raging on whether we’ve even reached…
Month: September 2020
Eduquote of the Week | 9.28.2020
A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 8 – The Journal: This Particular Genesis
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… I need to embrace relentless optimism. That is the way through this particular genesis There is something frightfully wonderful about the start of any school year and, while…
Eduquote of the Week | 9.21.2020
Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions. Unknown
The Vault, No. 5 | I Love Trouble
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. I Love Trouble Working in schools, we sometimes find ourselves in trouble, as it were. We find ourselves at odds with others. We find ourselves at loggerheads. We find ourselves emotionally keyed up and in stare downs across the faculty room. Often, we don’t know how…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 7 – The Journal: Predictability
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… As a leader, part of what I want to do is minimize the stresses with which our professional staff contends. I want to level the ground for them….
Eduquote of the Week | 9.14.2020
Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be. Rita Pierson
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 6 – The Journal: A Common Frame of Reference
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … that has become, for me, the key to trying to understand the dynamics currenlty at play and the central question is this: when we disagree, do we…
Eduquote of the Week | 9.7.2020
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. Confucius
The Vault, No. 4 | Climate Control
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Climate Control 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 me. After living in homes with air conditioning and without when the family next moves…