The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Echo Chambers of Our Own Design Leaders can live strange lives and much of that has to do with the types of people with which they surround themselves. Confident, strong leaders tend to seek out those who are, likewise, confident and strong. They tend to build…
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Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 15 – The Journal: Pandemic Parent
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 am a pandemic parent, too. Today is my daughter’s birthday. She is the youngest of our three children and she turns 22 today which means all three…
Eduquote of the Week | 11.9.2020
[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 14 – The Journal: Discourse Dissolved
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 don’t ever want to come to terms with or to normalize in my mind is that it is okay to ignore being civil. There have been far…
Eduquote of the Week | 11.2.2020
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems — the answer for all the problems of the world — comes to a single word. That word is education. Lyndon B. Johnson
The Vault, No. 8 | Hard to Recapture
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Hard to Recapture… Once a leader has seceded leadership by ceasing to perform the functions of good leadership, effective leadership is almost impossible to recapture. When a leader stops doing the good and hard work, the respect of the community can (and usually does) drop precipitously….
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 13 – The Journal: Perspective – Sometimes You Gotta Do the Math
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… Being a high school administrator is a wonderful challenge in a typical year and, yes, we do have typical years where the work of the job can be…
Eduquote of the Week | 10.26.2020
You are not your scars. Malisa Morris Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 12 – The Journal: The Importance of Authentic Positivity
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… … the idea that a positivity and optimism that functions against the backdrop of the real world, that is unflinching, that is authentic is, in-and-of-itself toxic is a…
Eduquote of the Week | 10.19.2020
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin Breast Cancer Awareness Month