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…
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Eduquote of the Week | 8.16.2021
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eduquote of the Week | 8.16.2021
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 2 – Playlist 2021-2022
If you have been a reader of this blog, you might remember that, years ago, my good friend and educational leader Sean Gaillard (author of The Pepper Effect – great reading for any and all Beatles fans and educators!) introduced me to the idea of #OneSong to define a year which developed into the idea…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.9.2021
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude. Denis Waitley
IntelliPop! | No. 1 – Smart People Doing Smart Things
In previous iterations of this blog, I have written about teachers in fiction and film and I have written about teachers in music and on stage. I have wanted to point out that, while culture tends to promulgate the “those who can, do, those who cannot, teach” idiocy, there are hundreds of examples of brilliance…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 1 – Begin Again: Two Simple Goals
The fall is all but upon us. The new school year is as well. My excitement for the next nine months is real and authentic and genuine and I just used three words that all mean the same thing (hello, West Wing fans). Please read that as how legitimately pumped I am standing on the…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.2.2021
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses
The Vault, No. 23 | You Changed My Life
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. You Changed My Life Mid-May in schools is rife with many emotions. Teachers and administrators are ready to bid the year farewell and to get to summer vacation. Mid-May brings with it the promise that an opportunity for rest and recharging is not far away. Certainly…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 40 – The Finish Line (LAST EDITION!)
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… Last May, in the confusion of a school year that limped to the finish line and felt – in some ways – like it has never actually concluded,…