Geography Awareness Week There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. – Josephine Hart
Category: Teacher
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 7 – The Old Order Changeth
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 7 The Old Order Changeth Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. In Avengers #16, written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby, things are about to change. The roster of the superhero…
Teach & Serve III, No. 14 – Highest Duty
Teach & Serve III, No. 14 Highest Duty November 8, 2017 Leaders support those with whom they work. It is their first and last priority and that mindset informs every priority in between. I firmly believe that the best leaders serve those they lead just as the best teachers understand they work in service of…
EduQuote of the Week: November 5 – 12, 2017
Sherlock Holmes Weekend You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Teach & Serve III, No. 13 – Tyranny of the Immediate
Teach & Serve III, No. 13 Tyranny of the Immediate November 1, 2017 When leadership cannot work itself out from under the pressures of what must be done to address what ought to be done, institutions can suffer from a lack of creativity, a dearth of energy and an absence of vision. I had the…
EduQuote of the Week: October 30 – November 5, 2017
Halloween We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. – Stephen King
Teach & Serve III, No. 12 – Parents Are Partners
Teach & Serve III, No. 12 Parents Are Partners October 25, 2017 …more parents than not are like my mother. They are advocates, appropriately. They are supportive – of their kids and of their kids’ schools. They are loving. Today is my mother’s birthday and, no, I will not mention her age. Looking back on…
EduQuote of the Week: October 23 – 29, 2017
Freedom of Speech Week By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives – you can’t say, think, or do this or that. – Jill McCorkle
Teach & Serve III, No. 11 – Get Out of Your Comfort Zones
Teach & Serve III, No. 11 Get Out of Your Comfort Zones October 18, 2017 Our schools are places where change is expected. Indeed, change is mandatory. We ought to be aware of when we are not pushing ourselves to change, to adapt and grow, to look at the world through different lenses and in…
EduQuote of the Week: October 16 – 22, 2017
Teen Read Week Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin