The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Dissenting Opinions When decisions must be made, good leaders determine what to do based on each individual case, weighing the opinions of others as appropriate, considering precedent if necessary, proceeding confidently into each new area. Good leaders make decisions because decision making is part of the…
Month: April 2021
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 36 – Fixed Points
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… Throughout these months though they have sometimes been difficult to see, fixed points have remained and diamond absolutes have endured. Perhaps as the conclusion of the school year…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.26.2021
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. Bernard Williams
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 35 – Pandemic Paradox
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… One can do a great job and feel it has not been good enough. There are teachers in any school that, through who they are, demand almost universal…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.19.2021
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love. Sitting Bull
The Vault, No. 20 | Pride
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Pride Pride. Effective Leaders must have a healthy amount of pride and they must have a substantial ego to go along with it. One does not become a leader without a relatively robust opinion of oneself. The slings and arrows with which one inevitably contends means…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 34 – Connection
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … these moments of connection, of sitting face-to-face, of learning are powerful, are formative, are motivating. One of the spring rituals I both look forward to and dread…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.12.2021
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 33 – Shake the Dust
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… I need to begin to shake the dust of this year from my sandals. A full week into April, it is hard to deny that the end of…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.5.2021
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Saint Pope John Paul II