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
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 2 – Playlist 2021-2022
If you have been a reader of this blog, you might remember that, years ago, my good friend and educational leader Sean Gaillard (author of The Pepper Effect – great reading for any and all Beatles fans and educators!) introduced me to the idea of #OneSong to define a year which developed into the idea…
IntelliPop! | No. 1 – Smart People Doing Smart Things
In previous iterations of this blog, I have written about teachers in fiction and film and I have written about teachers in music and on stage. I have wanted to point out that, while culture tends to promulgate the “those who can, do, those who cannot, teach” idiocy, there are hundreds of examples of brilliance…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 1 – Begin Again: Two Simple Goals
The fall is all but upon us. The new school year is as well. My excitement for the next nine months is real and authentic and genuine and I just used three words that all mean the same thing (hello, West Wing fans). Please read that as how legitimately pumped I am standing on the…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 40 – The Finish Line (LAST EDITION!)
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… Last May, in the confusion of a school year that limped to the finish line and felt – in some ways – like it has never actually concluded,…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 39 – Play It Again
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… The end of the year is weeks away. That will truly be time to slow down. Of all the messages I wanted to embrace from the playlist this…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 38 – Family Business
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 can imagine how many lives my son has already inspired in his 3 years as a teacher. I can imagine how many students my grandmother taught in…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 37 – Too Small a Word
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… … (teachers) have been asked to do the improbable. They have done it incredibly well. They have done it impossibily well. Appreciate. This is a nice word. “I…
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…
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…