(Leaders) live in the present. They work in the now. They plan for the future. Leaders navigate waters both smooth and choppy. They encounter colleagues, students and parents at both their best and their worst. They inspire positive experiences. They are held responsible for negative ones. Leaders have histories. Leaders create histories. Leaders leave histories…
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Eduquote of the Week | 4.22.2024
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 35 | Fail Better | April 17, 2024
… failure is as important as success … In recent years, a significant thread in educational research around achievement has emerged and it is something that, back when I was in “teacher school” we never discussed. As educators, the theory holds, we should encourage our students to fail. We should create conditions in which it…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.15.2024
It is never too late to be what you might have been. Adelaide Anne Procter
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 34 | It’s in the Doing that Things Get Done | April 10, 2024
Confession: I am a maker of lists. Confession: I am a maker of lists. When presented with a complex task which I know will eat up hours and the completion of which will take a significant amount of time, I get fired up when I chart out potential steps and timelines, chunk together the major…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.8.2024
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
Eduquote of the Week | 4.1.2024
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 33 | Dissent | March 27, 2024
People disagree with their leaders. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. When decisions must be made, good leaders determine what to do based on each individual case, weighing the opinions of others as appropriate, considering precedent if necessary, proceeding confidently into each new area. Good leaders make decisions because decision making is part…
Eduquote of the Week | 3.25.2024
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. Harper Lee
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 32 | An All-Star Cast | March 20, 2024
Good leaders enable those around them to be an all-star cast I have written many times in the past about my affinity for movies. I love movies. Big movies. Small movies. Genre movies. All kinds of movies. And I love all star casts, the kinds of casts that leave an audience asking “how did they…