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. 16 – Jefferson Pierce | Black Lightning
One of the many, many tropes in comic books is that most superheroes have a secret identity. Often, the work the superhero does in her or his “other life” is something out of the ordinary – a newspaper reporter, a billionaire, a doctor and so forth. This is not true in the case of Black…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 29 – THE TOOLBOX: Take Risks
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. 28 – THE TOOLBOX: Perseverance
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. 15 – Ms. Sylvia Barrett | Up the Down Staircase
When I was a freshman in high school, I wanted to be in our school plays and I received a role in the first production for which I auditioned. The play was Up the Down Staircase, a drama about an idealistic English teacher who finds that her preconceived notions of what it means to be…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 27 – THE TOOLBOX: Fair Doesn’t Mean Identical
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. 26 – THE TOOLBOX: Seek out Opinions
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. 14 – The Facultones | Real Life???
For a great many years, I played guitar (poorly) and sang (marginally well) in a cover band called The Facultones. It was primarily made up of a group of teachers from the high school I worked at and we played parties and Christmas celebrations and student activities and graduation parties and all kinds of things….
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 26 – THE TOOLBOX: Act Decisively
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. 25 – THE TOOLBOX: Relationship
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…