If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese Proverb
Category: Teaching
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 4 – The Journal: The Great Unknown
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… Primarily, educators like to know what’s coming at them so they can be ready. Enter the 2020-2021 school year. In my almost 30 year experience of working in…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.24.2020
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
The Vault, No. 2 | Contentional Leadership
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. Contentional Leadership Though it might be hard to believe, there truly are some leaders who believe that the best way to motivate, inspire and stimulate the people with whom they work is by intentionally putting them in opposition to one another. Leaders such as this thrive…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 3 – The Journal: Amazing… Grace
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … if there was ever a situation and a year in which to give myself – to give ourselves grace, this is surely it. Our school is opening…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.17.2020
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 2 – The Journal: What I Don’t Know
The Journal presents my weekly reflections on being a private, Catholic school principal during what promised to be a year filled with energy, excitement, challenges and possibilities… … there is a vocal “many” who are very willing to substitute their judgement for mine. They do not hesitate to question decisions. They do not hesitate to…
Eduquote of the Week | 8.10.2020
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead
The Vault, No. 1 | Temporal Landmarks
The Vault presents prior posts from Teach & Serve. You cannot hold back the sea and you cannot hold back the beginning of the school year. Those of us involved in education are ramping up, feeling the itch, sensing the inevitable. In the coming days or weeks, we will embark on the opening rituals of…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 6 | No. 1 – Playlist 2020-2021
… the playlist tradition continues. My specific criterion for selection: songs that make the playlist give me all the feels and/or the lyrics of the song resonate with me. Overall, the selections move me, inspire me and send me. They send me into a new year on the most positive of notes… pun intended. Putting…