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…
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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…
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…
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…
EduQuote of the Week | 5.27.19
At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling. Shanti
EduQuote of the Week | 5.13.19
Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs. E.R. Braithwaite
EduQuote of the Week | 4.29.19
Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken from the abstract and played out in concrete visual form. Students teach us about creativity through their personal responses to the limits we set, thus proving that reason and intuition are not antithetical. Their works give aesthetic…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 38 | We Are Not as Special as We Think We Are
Teach & Serve IV, No. 38 We Are Not as Special as We Think We Are April 24, 2019 Sometimes, in our recognition of our differences and in our celebration of what makes us special, we forget two important truths: there are thousands of schools doing very much the same work we are and we…
EduQuote of the Week | 4.22.19
I’ll always choose a teacher with enthusiasm and weak technique over one with brilliant strategies but who is just punching the clock. Why? An enthusiastic teacher can learn technique, but it is almost impossible to light a fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher. Dave Burgess
EduQuote of the Week | 4.15.19
If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn’t come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some…