Teach & Serve V, No. 9 Everybody Knows This Is a Bad Idea October 2, 2019 … challenging non-specific language – asking for that language to be clarified – is a necessary step in good communication. Walk into the faculty room in your school. Try to be unobtrusive. Find a seat in the corner and…
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Teach & Serve V, No. 8 | The Brave and the Bold
Teach & Serve V, No. 8 The Brave and the Bold September 25, 2019 I believe we are better when we are not surrounded only by those who agree with us and those with whom we are safe. I believe we do some of our best thinking and our best work outside our comfort zones….
Teach & Serve V, No. 7 | Accountability
Teach & Serve V, No. 7 Accountability September 18, 2019 There is a reason the connotation of accountability trends towards the negative. People like me are doing it wrong. I am ever fascinated by denotation and connotation. I suppose that predilection comes from the fact that I am an English teacher and I am taken…
Teach & Serve V, No. 6 | Engage the Real World
Teach & Serve V, No. 6 Engage the Real World September 11, 2019 To do less than engage with the world around our students is to shirk our roles as educators. It is to do them a massive disservice. I was on my way to school 18 years ago this morning, listening to local Denver…
Teach & Serve V, No. 5 | The Right Question
Teach & Serve V, No. 5 The Right Question September 4, 2019 Therefore the question is not why are people not doing the things we ask, the question is, when they do the things we desire, why are they doing so? The year is young. Most of us are well under a month into the…
Teach & Serve V, No. 4 | We All Thought It Was Going to be Flying Cars
Teach & Serve V, No. 4 We All Thought It Was Going to be Flying Cars August 28, 2019 What does this have to do with us as educators? Only everything. My wife is a high school teacher with almost two decades of experience in the classroom, in departmental leadership and in teaching adults about…
Teach & Serve V, No. 3 | I Am a Teacher
Teach & Serve V, No. 3 I Am a Teacher August 21, 2019 The names of those who have practiced my profession ring like a hall of fame for humanity If we had considered the many roles are called on to play, the many aspects of the work before us, the many groups we’re called…
Teach & Serve V, No. 2 | Playlist 2019-2020
Teach & Serve V, No. 2 Playlist 2019-2020 August 14, 2019 Hopefully we are rested. Hopefully we are ready. Hopefully, we are excited. Let us embrace the moment because this moment – the start of the school year, has power. Putting together a “mixtape” to celebrate the start of a new academic year is tradition….
Teach & Serve V, No. 1 | Temporal Landmarks
Teach & Serve V, No. 1 Temporal Landmarks August 7, 2019 Hopefully we are rested. Hopefully we are ready. Hopefully, we are excited. Let us embrace the moment because this moment – the start of the school year, has power. EVERGREEN POST You cannot hold back the sea and you cannot hold back the beginning…
EduQuote of the Week | 5.27.19
At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling. Shanti