Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. Confucius
Category: Education
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 5 – The Journal: We Have Never Worked Harder
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… Whatever analogy chosen to express the work educators face this year is lacking. I heard on the radio yesterday someone refer to September 1 as March 77th and…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.31.2020
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese Proverb
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 4 – The Journal: The Great Unknown
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… Primarily, educators like to know what’s coming at them so they can be ready. Enter the 2020-2021 school year. In my almost 30 year experience of working in…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.24.2020
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 3 – The Journal: Amazing… Grace
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… … if there was ever a situation and a year in which to give myself – to give ourselves grace, this is surely it. Our school is opening…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.17.2020
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 2 – The Journal: What I Don’t Know
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… … there is a vocal “many” who are very willing to substitute their judgement for mine. They do not hesitate to question decisions. They do not hesitate to…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.10.2020
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 1 – Playlist 2020-2021
… the playlist tradition continues. My specific criterion for selection: songs that make the playlist give me all the feels and/or the lyrics of the song resonate with me. Overall, the selections move me, inspire me and send me. They send me into a new year on the most positive of notes… pun intended. Putting…