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…
Category: Leadership
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…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 14 – The Journal: Discourse Dissolved
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 don’t ever want to come to terms with or to normalize in my mind is that it is okay to ignore being civil. There have been far…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 13 – The Journal: Perspective – Sometimes You Gotta Do the Math
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… Being a high school administrator is a wonderful challenge in a typical year and, yes, we do have typical years where the work of the job can be…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 12 – The Journal: The Importance of Authentic Positivity
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 idea that a positivity and optimism that functions against the backdrop of the real world, that is unflinching, that is authentic is, in-and-of-itself toxic is a…