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… This year, flipping The Switch does not feel like doubling the work, if feels like a renewal. I didn’t see that coming… One of my colleagues speaks of…
Category: High School
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 23 – Comparisons
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… Rather than compare ourselves to anything outside, we are better served comparing ourselves to everything inside. We draw our markers for improvement from where we have been, and…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 22 – Before We Sleep…
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… … while things in my particular contexts may have evened out, we are only in the falling action of this pandemic, is the mindset I need to maintain…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 21 – One Word 2021 : Kindness
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… Maybe we can find a place to feel good and we can treat people with kindness… Giving second chances, I don’t need all the answers. – Harry Styles…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 20 – Break Time
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… Welcome to the last edition of The Journal until 1.6.2021. See you then! … we need to take a break. In this last installment of The Journal until…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 19 – Hope
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… As the days continue to grow longer, as the calendar page starts to turn to 2021, as we approach the celebration of Christmas, It is time to renew…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 18 – Next One Up
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… This next one up was the right one up. He didn’t look at the hand he was dealt and say “no.” He didn’t curse his situation. He didn’t…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 17 – Gratitude for the Pain
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 am a different principal now than I was at the start of this year. I can sense something of a microwaved growth in my approach to leadership….
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 16 – The Journal: Serving the Faculty
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… If I cannot get better, our teachers and staff cannot function at the level our students need. And that is an outcome I simply cannot have. We cannot…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 15 – The Journal: Pandemic Parent
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 am a pandemic parent, too. Today is my daughter’s birthday. She is the youngest of our three children and she turns 22 today which means all three…