Our job is to teach the students we have. Not the ones we would like to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have right now. All of them. Kevin Maxwell
Category: Lasallian Education
A Journal of the First Year | One
(L) 1994 (R) 2018 It is my intention to share some reflections on the highs, the lows, the excitement, the routine, the successes, the failures and everything in between which I experience the course of the next 10 – 12 months, my first months as a full-time principal of a high school. Writing this journal…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 2 | Playlist 2018-2019
Teach & Serve IV, No. 2 Playlist 2018-2019 August 15, 2018 These songs send me into a new year on the most positive of notes… pun intended. At this point, putting together a mixtape to celebrate the start of a new academic year is tradition. Four years ago, my good friend and educational leader Sean Gaillard…
EduQuote of the Week | 8.13.18
The way you behave should be a model to those you teach. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Teach & Serve IV, No. 1 | Temporal Landmarks
Teach & Serve IV, No. 1 Temporal Landmarks August 8, 2018 Hopefully we are rested. Hopefully we are ready. Hopefully, we are excited. Let us embrace the moment because this moment – the start of the school year – has power. You cannot hold back the sea and you cannot hold back the beginning of…
EduQuote of the Week | 8.6.18
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey
Teach & Serve IV | COMING NEXT WEEK!
Teach & Serve IV Coming Next Week August 8, 2018 Next Wednesday, Teach & Serve returns for another year. To get warmed up, presented again are my fifteen favorite teachers from fiction! No. 15: Mr. Miyagi Mr. Miyagi comes in at 15 for his dedication, his care of his students, his ability to push his them…
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 20 – Wrap Up
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 20 Wrap Up Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. Today marks the final edition of Superheroic Leadership. Hopefully, you have enjoyed some of the reflections here… and please revisit any you wish below!…
Teach & Serve III, No. 41 – You Changed My Life
Teach & Serve III, No. 41 – You Changed My Life May 23, 2018 This is the final edition of Teach & Serve for the 2017-2018 school year. Teach & Serve IV will begin next fall on 8.8.18 At some point in the journey of their lives your former students recognize what happened and many seek out past…
Teach & Serve III, No. 40 – The Final Thank You of the Year
Teach & Serve III, No. 40 – The Final Thank You of the Year May 16, 2018 Bottom line at this busy time of year: if you can only steal a moment to thank someone, to show your appreciation for one person on this list, make it yourself. You deserve it. Know that in your…