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: Leadership
IntelliPop! | No. 3 – The Sound of Music, Maria Rainer
There are a great many things to be said about The Sound of Music and a great many things have been said about this family favorite. While it is based on a true story, there are plenty of details left out of the film. I am not here to harp on those that paint the…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 5 – THE TOOLBOX: Problem Solving
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. 4 – THE TOOLBOX: Listening
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. 2 – The West Wing, Mrs. Molly Morello
In a fourth season episode of The West Wing, Donna Moss, a White House staffer with access, appeals to her boss, Joss Lyman, the Deputy Director of Communications, to recognize one of her teachers, Mrs. Molly Morello with a Molly Morello Day to indicate what an amazing influence Mrs. Morello had on Donna’s life. Joss…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 3 – THE TOOLBOX: Welcoming Spirit
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. 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,…