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 have to determine the limits of what we can sanely do, the limits of what is reasonable, the limits of what is possible. We have to understand…
Category: Leadership
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 10 – The Journal: A Test of Character
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… What has become very apparent to me when we reach crossroads of decisions in this environment is this: there is rarely an obvious, correct, well-lit path. I would…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 9 – The Journal: Realistic. Relentless. Optimism.
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… What’s the way through all this? The end does not seem to be in sight and there are debates (word intentionally chosen) raging on whether we’ve even reached…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 8 – The Journal: This Particular Genesis
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… I need to embrace relentless optimism. That is the way through this particular genesis There is something frightfully wonderful about the start of any school year and, while…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 7 – The Journal: Predictability
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… As a leader, part of what I want to do is minimize the stresses with which our professional staff contends. I want to level the ground for them….
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 6 – The Journal: A Common Frame of Reference
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … that has become, for me, the key to trying to understand the dynamics currenlty at play and the central question is this: when we disagree, do we…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 5 – The Journal: We Have Never Worked Harder
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… Whatever analogy chosen to express the work educators face this year is lacking. I heard on the radio yesterday someone refer to September 1 as March 77th and…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 4 – The Journal: The Great Unknown
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… Primarily, educators like to know what’s coming at them so they can be ready. Enter the 2020-2021 school year. In my almost 30 year experience of working in…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 3 – The Journal: Amazing… Grace
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … if there was ever a situation and a year in which to give myself – to give ourselves grace, this is surely it. Our school is opening…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 2 – The Journal: What I Don’t Know
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … there is a vocal “many” who are very willing to substitute their judgement for mine. They do not hesitate to question decisions. They do not hesitate to…