Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Category: High School
IntelliPop! | No. 8 – My Daughter’s Teachers | Real Life!
Today is my daughter’s birthday and it is only appropriate today that I delve, again, into the realm of real life teachers and praise those educators who spent their time with my daughter (and both of my sons) over the course of their school lives. My kids were blessed to have wonderful teachers – primarily…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 15 – THE TOOLBOX: Humility
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 14 – THE TOOLBOX: Flexibility
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
IntelliPop! | No. 7 – Sister Benita Volk | Real Life!
In high school, I had a teacher named Sister Benita Volk. While I remember the names of the majority of my high school instructors, I have a special place in my heart for those who inspired me to go into this profession, those like Sister Benita. It is a good place, I promise! Sister Benita…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 13 – THE TOOLBOX: Empathy
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 12 – THE TOOLBOX: Articulation
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
IntelliPop! | No. 6 – Miss Othmar | Peanuts
Did you know she had a name? One of the adults in the Peanuts specials had a name! How often have teachers felt just like Miss Othmar? We talk and we hope we are understood and it comes across to our students as a string of tuba notes making no sense. Clearly, though, Miss Othmar…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 11 – THE TOOLBOX: Collaboration
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 10 – THE TOOLBOX: Vision
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…