Teach & Serve IV, No. 16 Praise You Like I Should November 21, 2018 School leaders should be looking for people to praise, identifying opportunities to share their gratitude, searching out those who have done their schools, their staffs and their students service. School leaders should take time to say “thank you” and they should…
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EduQuote of the Week | 11.19.18
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy
Teach & Serve IV, No. 15 | First Responders
Teach & Serve IV, No. 15 First Responders November 14, 2018 Good educators pay attention to the tenor of their classrooms or meetings, they perceive who is in crisis and try to assist them as they can, they react with kindness and compassion and love. For all manner of good reason, people venerate first responders,…
EduQuote of the Week | 11.12.18
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
A Journal of the First Year | Seven
(L) 1994 (R) 2018 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…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 14 | Echo Chambers of Our Own Design
Teach & Serve IV, No. 14 Echo Chambers of Our Own Design November 7, 2018 Sometimes … when we build teams and, as those teams continue to function, we can begin to listen only to ourselves, to conclude that our team is the best team – the only team – to which we need to…
EduQuote of the Week | 11.5.18
You can perform miracles by touching the hearts of those entrusted to your care. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Teach & Serve IV, No. 13 | You Know What’s Really Scary?
Teach & Serve IV, No. 13 You Know What’s Really Scary? October 31, 2018 We make monsters out of the students who act out, the parents who call in, the teachers who challenge us. We create bogeywomen and men who haunt, if not our nights, our commutes home. We have conversations with ghosts. It is…
EduQuote of the Week | 10.29.18
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. William Shakespeare
A Journal of the First Year | Six
(L) 1994 (R) 2018 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…