The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. Bernard Williams
Category: Teacher
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 35 – Pandemic Paradox
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… One can do a great job and feel it has not been good enough. There are teachers in any school that, through who they are, demand almost universal…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.19.2021
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love. Sitting Bull
The Vault, No. 20 | Pride
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Pride Pride. Effective Leaders must have a healthy amount of pride and they must have a substantial ego to go along with it. One does not become a leader without a relatively robust opinion of oneself. The slings and arrows with which one inevitably contends means…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 34 – Connection
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… … these moments of connection, of sitting face-to-face, of learning are powerful, are formative, are motivating. One of the spring rituals I both look forward to and dread…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.12.2021
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 33 – Shake the Dust
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 need to begin to shake the dust of this year from my sandals. A full week into April, it is hard to deny that the end of…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.5.2021
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Saint Pope John Paul II
The Vault, No. 19 | Guys? And Other Difficult Adjustments
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Guys? And Other Difficult Adjustments I am a high school principal. My school’s website tells me so. This year, however, I have been so very happy to have been assigned two English classes (to be fair, I asked, cajoled, demanded to be assigned them). Long before…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 32 – See the Greater Good
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, like most in education, have told students “no,” more than I ever have in the past. I have looked students in the eyes in the midst of…