When I was a freshman in high school, I wanted to be in our school plays and I received a role in the first production for which I auditioned. The play was Up the Down Staircase, a drama about an idealistic English teacher who finds that her preconceived notions of what it means to be…
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 27 – THE TOOLBOX: Fair Doesn’t Mean Identical
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Eduquote of the Week | 2.14.2022
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. Barack Obama Black History Month
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 26 – THE TOOLBOX: Seek out Opinions
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Eduquote of the Week | 2.7.2022
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. Maya Angelou Black History Month
IntelliPop! | No. 14 – The Facultones | Real Life???
For a great many years, I played guitar (poorly) and sang (marginally well) in a cover band called The Facultones. It was primarily made up of a group of teachers from the high school I worked at and we played parties and Christmas celebrations and student activities and graduation parties and all kinds of things….
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 26 – THE TOOLBOX: Act Decisively
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Eduquote of the Week | 1.31.2022
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Teach & Serve | Vol. 7 | No. 25 – THE TOOLBOX: Relationship
Years ago, I was blessed to be in a position to hold seminars with groups of educators designed to discuss and build leadership skills both informally and formally, internally – for the individual and externally for the school. As we discussed leadership skills and qualities, we would talk about new tools being put in our…
Eduquote of the Week | 1.24.2022
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. Jodi Picoult