Teach & Serve IV, No. 37 Secrets, Secrets April 17, 2019 If you say or write the word “confidential” without asking, each-and-every-time, “whose interest am I protecting by walling off this knowledge?” you are doing it wrong. There is power in knowing something other people do not know. There is magic in holding onto a…
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EduQuote of the Week | 4.15.19
If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn’t come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 36 | Good Schools | Great Schools
Teach & Serve IV, No. 36 Good Schools | Great Schools April 10, 2019 I imagine Great Schools that passionately posit hard questions. I imagine Great Schools that redefine themselves as a matter of course. I imagine Great Schools that encourage creative dissent. It has been a few years since I first wrote on this…
EduQuote of the Week | 4.8.19
Great teachers have great personalities and … the greatest teachers have outrageous personalities. Pat Conroy
A Journal of the First Year | Seventeen
Teach & Serve IV, No. 35 | Dying is Easy; Living Is Harder
Teach & Serve IV, No. 35 Dying is Easy; Living Is Harder April 3, 2019 Before we die on any hill – we should consider what living on the hill would mean. There are moments in our careers which we believe force us to take stands. There are incidents that challenge us – our morality,…
EduQuote of the Week | 4.1.19
Never compare one student’s test score to another’s. Always measure a child’s progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual–not to be more special than the kid sitting next to…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 34 | Our Burgeoning Toolbox
Teach & Serve IV, No. 34 Our Burgeoning Toolbox March 27, 2019 Educators are many, many things but (and after over a quarter century in the field, I know this for certain) the good ones are builders. Fair warning: I am an English teacher. I embrace metaphor. For four years, I had the immense honor…
EduQuote of the Week | 3.25.19
Teach people to fish, but first teach people to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything. Suzy Kassem
A Journal of the First Year | Sixteen
21 | March | 2019 It is my intention to share some reflections on the highs, the lows, the excitement, the routine, the successes, the failures and everything in between which I experience the course of the next 10 – 12 months, my first months as a full-time principal of a high school. Writing this journal…