I love Tom Hanks. I love his acting. I love his direction. I love the movies he writes. Such is the case with Larry Crowne, a decidedly silly and heartwarming romance featuring Hanks’ Crowne returning to school and falling for Julia Roberts’ community college professor Mercedes Tainot. Good work, Hanks: writing a romance with one…
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Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 31 – THE TOOLBOX: Self Deprecation
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…
Eduquote of the Week | 3.14.2022
As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning. Margaret Heffernan Women’s History Month
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 30 – THE TOOLBOX: Pinch Hitting
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…
Eduquote of the Week | 3.7.2022
Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Jojo Moyes Women’s History Month
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…
Eduquote of the Week | 2.28.2022
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Rosa Parks Black History Month
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…
Eduquote of the Week | 2.21.2022
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America. President Barack Obama Black History Month