Teach & Serve III, No. 37 – Fail Better April 25, 2018 This is what we are called to do: create conditions around us where failure is okay, where challenge is rewarded, where missing the mark is celebrated as a necessary and critical step towards making it. There is a significant and important thread in…
Category: Ignatian Education
EduQuote of the Week: April 23 – 29, 2018
Volunteer Week Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Teach & Serve III, No. 36 – Look Up In The Sky
Teach & Serve III, No. 36 – Look Up In The Sky April 18, 2018 The question, then, must be why? Why has Superman remained part of American (and world) consciousness for all these years? Why do we still look up in the sky? When I was in the first grade, the day before school…
EduQuote of the Week: April 16 – 22, 2018
Superman Week For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America’s hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able…
Teach & Serve III, No. 35 – The Library
Teach & Serve III, No. 35 – The Library April 11, 2018 This week is National Library Week and provides an excellent occasion to revisit a past blog… Our libraries may need to adapt and change. But let us be a bit careful. Batman made me read. This is likely a true statement. I use the…
EduQuote of the Week: April 9 – 15, 2018
Library Week Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. – Lady Bird Johnson
EduQuote of the Week: April 2 – 8, 2018
Golden Rule Week In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. – Hillary Clinton
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 16 – Who Has Everything
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 16 Who Has Everything Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. What do you give Superman for his birthday? Is he not the quintessential “man who has everything?” This was the premise of the…
Teach & Serve III, No. 33 – Move the Chairs
Teach & Serve III, No. 33 – Move the Chairs March 28, 2018 I believe that if we, as leaders, are unwilling to move the chairs, if we somehow think the task beneath us or that we are more important than the work, then we are not effective leaders. I believe we are not even…
EduQuote of the Week: March 26 – April 1, 2018
National Cleaning Week Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller