Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Category: Teachers
Teach & Serve IV, No. 9 | Take the Time
Teach & Serve IV, No. 9 Take the Time October 3, 2018 Why is she so successful in getting students to care about her and the subjects she teaches? Because she cares about them. Deeply. And she is not afraid to let them know it My wife is a high school teacher. A veteran. She…
EduQuote of the Week | 10.1.18
God’s compassion for you is greater than the troubles you have. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Teach & Serve IV, No. 8 | When to Care, When Not to
Teach & Serve IV, No. 8 When to Care, When Not to September 26, 2018 Separating the essential from the trivial and being able to place the other stuff on a continuum in between is crucial. Acknowledging and responding to what is real and acknowledging and moving on from what is not is a skill…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 6 | Belonging
Teach & Serve IV, No. 6 Belonging September 12, 2018 As leaders in our institutions, we bear responsibility for ensuring that our schools place a premium on our constituents feeling they belong. Very little good happens when people are on the outside looking in. It is not new anymore, is it? We can deny it…
EduQuote of the Week | 9.10.18
So often you find that the students you are trying to inspire are the ones that end up inspiring you. Sean Jenkins
EduQuote of the Week | 9.3.18
The expert in anything was once a beginner. Helen Hayes
Teach & Serve IV, No. 4 | Contentional Leadership
Teach & Serve IV, No. 4 Contential Leadership August 29, 2018 When one is only concerned with her or his ideas being better than someone else’s ideas, teamwork cannot flourish. It cannot even begin. Though it might be hard to believe, there are some leaders who believe that the best way to motivate, inspire and…
A Journal of the First Year | One
(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. 2 | Playlist 2018-2019
Teach & Serve IV, No. 2 Playlist 2018-2019 August 15, 2018 These songs send me into a new year on the most positive of notes… pun intended. At this point, putting together a mixtape to celebrate the start of a new academic year is tradition. Four years ago, my good friend and educational leader Sean Gaillard…