You can change the world by being yourself. Yoko Ono
Category: Teaching
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 37 – Too Small a Word
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … (teachers) have been asked to do the improbable. They have done it incredibly well. They have done it impossibily well. Appreciate. This is a nice word. “I…
Eduquote of the Week | 5.3.2021
Never underestimate the power of visiblity. Margaret Cho
The Vault, No. 21 | Dissenting Opinions
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Dissenting Opinions When decisions must be made, good leaders determine what to do based on each individual case, weighing the opinions of others as appropriate, considering precedent if necessary, proceeding confidently into each new area. Good leaders make decisions because decision making is part of the…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 36 – Fixed Points
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… Throughout these months though they have sometimes been difficult to see, fixed points have remained and diamond absolutes have endured. Perhaps as the conclusion of the school year…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.26.2021
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. Bernard Williams
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 35 – Pandemic Paradox
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… One can do a great job and feel it has not been good enough. There are teachers in any school that, through who they are, demand almost universal…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.19.2021
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love. Sitting Bull
The Vault, No. 20 | Pride
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Pride Pride. Effective Leaders must have a healthy amount of pride and they must have a substantial ego to go along with it. One does not become a leader without a relatively robust opinion of oneself. The slings and arrows with which one inevitably contends means…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 34 – Connection
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promises to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … these moments of connection, of sitting face-to-face, of learning are powerful, are formative, are motivating. One of the spring rituals I both look forward to and dread…