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…
Category: Leadership
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…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 34 – Connection
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… … these moments of connection, of sitting face-to-face, of learning are powerful, are formative, are motivating. One of the spring rituals I both look forward to and dread…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 33 – Shake the Dust
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 need to begin to shake the dust of this year from my sandals. A full week into April, it is hard to deny that the end of…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 32 – See the Greater Good
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, like most in education, have told students “no,” more than I ever have in the past. I have looked students in the eyes in the midst of…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 31 – Apply the Brakes, Just a Bit
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… … we cannot in the next two-and-a-half months of the school year pack nine months worth of life. We cannot live an entire year in this timeframe. This…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 30 – A Personal Challenge
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… … all three of my mentors – these inspirations in my life – have shared a consistent theme repeatedly: take breaks and take care. I have a mentor….