(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…
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Teach & Serve IV, No. 14 | Echo Chambers of Our Own Design
Teach & Serve IV, No. 14 Echo Chambers of Our Own Design November 7, 2018 Sometimes … when we build teams and, as those teams continue to function, we can begin to listen only to ourselves, to conclude that our team is the best team – the only team – to which we need to…
EduQuote of the Week | 11.5.18
You can perform miracles by touching the hearts of those entrusted to your care. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Teach & Serve IV, No. 13 | You Know What’s Really Scary?
Teach & Serve IV, No. 13 You Know What’s Really Scary? October 31, 2018 We make monsters out of the students who act out, the parents who call in, the teachers who challenge us. We create bogeywomen and men who haunt, if not our nights, our commutes home. We have conversations with ghosts. It is…
EduQuote of the Week | 10.29.18
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. William Shakespeare
A Journal of the First Year | Six
(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. 12 | Icubators
Teach & Serve IV, No. 12 Incubators October 24, 2018 If one looks at the calendars of school leadership, department chairs, teachers and staff, one would find a significant number of meetings there on. Is this inherently a bad thing? I am not sure if a study has been done of how many meetings…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 11 | Lane Eight
Teach & Serve IV, No. 11 Lane Eight October 17, 2018 Know their hopes and their fears. Know their weakness and their strengths. Know who they are and what they do. I was blessed to work with a talented administrator and friend for 20 years. He was the Dean of Students (the man in charge…
EduQuote of the Week | 10.15.18
Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. Saint Oscar Romero
A Journal of the First Year | Five
(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…