Teach & Serve V, No. 43 Last Edition… It’s a Wrap May 27, 2020 See you in the fall! What a long, strange year the last ten weeks have been… If you are a regular reader of Teach & Serve, thanks for being along for the ride! If you are new to the blog, please feel…
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Teach & Serve V, No. 42 | And Now, the End Is Near – Temporal Landmarks Bookended
Teach & Serve V, No. 42 And Now, the End Is Near – Temporal Landmarks Bookended May 20, 2020 Let us be confident as we stride into the summer. Let us congratulate ourselves on a race well run, a circle well drawn. EVERGREEN POST If you have been a reader of this blog all year,…
Teach & Serve V, No. 41 | You Changed My Life
Teach & Serve V, No. 41 You Changed My Life May 13, 2020 in the mid-May morass especially as we have not seen our current students for weeks in person, we are just as likely to forget to acknowledge to ourselves that we have, in fact, changed lives. In normal years, mid-May in schools inspires…
Teach & Serve V, No. 40 | The Horse and the Water
Teach & Serve V, No. 40 The Horse and the Water May 6, 2020 … our job in this grand world of education whether we are administrator or teacher is not to lead the horses to water. It is to make them thirsty in the first place. Have you led the horse to water this…
Teach & Serve V, No. 39 | Expectations Change – Get Used To It
Teach & Serve V, No. 39 Expectations Change – Get Used To It April 29, 2020 If you believe who you are when you started this work is who you will be ten, fifteen, twenty years into it or ten, fifteen, twenty years from now, I seriously encourage you to think again. Perhaps because the…
Teach & Serve V, No. 38 | Buzz Aldrin’s Heart Rate
Teach & Serve V, No. 38 Buzz Aldrin’s Heart Rate April 22, 2020 … when I think of my heart rate when dealing with the situations and challenges of the last months of changing the status quo for school… and I compare my heart rate to Aldrin’s and to the situations and challenges he faced,…
Teach & Serve V, No. 37 | Which Hours Are Yours?
Teach & Serve V, No. 37 Which Hours Are Yours, Especially NOW? April 15, 2020 … as you contemplate what is important for your students to do in this Stay at Home environment as the days have turned into weeks and are going to turn into months, as you ask yourself what pieces of your…
Teach & Serve V, No. 36 | Is What I Am About To Do Helpful?
Teach & Serve V, No. 36 Is What I Am About To Do Helpful? April 8, 2020 We must be careful. We are leaders. We are public figures. And, no matter whether we believe it’s fair or not, we are held to a higher standard. When I think back to the almost thirty years I…
Teach & Serve V, No. 35 | The Greater Fool
Teach & Serve V, No. 35 The Greater Fool April 1, 2020 It seems to me to refer to those people who are radicals, who are undaunted by conventional wisdom, who are fearless. It is April Fools Day. Obviously. I run hot and cold on April Fools Day. This year, in light of what the…
Teach & Serve V, No. 34 | It Doesn’t Always Work
Teach & Serve V, No. 34 It Doesn’t Always Work March 25, 2020 We must speak truth – truth to colleagues, truth to power. We must do so offering suggestions and solutions, through-lines and conclusions and ways forward. The majority of the blogs I have composed for Teach & Serve reflect on or reference conditions…