Teach & Serve V, No. 1 Temporal Landmarks August 7, 2019 Hopefully we are rested. Hopefully we are ready. Hopefully, we are excited. Let us embrace the moment because this moment – the start of the school year, has power. EVERGREEN POST You cannot hold back the sea and you cannot hold back the beginning…
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Eduquote of the Week | 8.5.19
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
A Journal of the First Year | Twenty-One
23| May | 2019 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 will…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 42 | Temporal Landmarks Bookended
Teach & Serve IV, No. 42 Temporal Landmarks Bookended May 22, 2019 Even better is embracing the confidence that comes with reflection on wrapping up. Better still is envisioning ourselves as we end this year as having accomplished something (somethings!) great. If you have been a reader of this blog all year, the following may…
A Journal of the First Year | Twenty
16| May | 2019 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 will…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 41 | You Can Succeed
Teach & Serve IV, No. 41 You Can Succeed May 15, 2019 … please, for the love of our students, remind them of this, repeat this, tell them this: “You can succeed.” Any way we look at the calendar, we must inevitably reach one conclusion: things are winding down on the 2018-2019 school year. It…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 40 | Walk the Track
Teach & Serve IV, No. 40 Walk the Track May 8, 2019 “I promise, if you need to, if you want to, I’ll walk the track with you,” he said. This is important. Especially this time of year, this is very important. We have much to do, much we are asked to do and much…
A Journal of the First Year | Nineteen
02| May | 2019 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 will…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 39 | That’s Not Our Standard
Teach & Serve IV, No. 39 That’s Not Our Standard May 1, 2019 Time has passed. Things have happened. The calendar has changed. But our standards are still are standards. The calendar has turned to May and, even for the most disciplined among us, it is difficult to keep from looking at the end of…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 37 | Secrets, Secrets
Teach & Serve IV, No. 37 Secrets, Secrets April 17, 2019 If you say or write the word “confidential” without asking, each-and-every-time, “whose interest am I protecting by walling off this knowledge?” you are doing it wrong. There is power in knowing something other people do not know. There is magic in holding onto a…