Active Aging Week Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
Tag: High School
Teach & Serve III, No. 7 – Intimidation
Teach & Serve III, No. 7 Intimidation September 20, 2017 I do not want to follow a leader who thinks that the best way to engender loyalty is to intimidate those being led. And I won’t. I have written about this anecdote before, but I had cause to consider it anew this week. When I…
EduQuote of the Week: September 18 – 24, 2017
Keep Kids Creative Week Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. – Victor Pinchuk
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 3 – All the World’s Waiting for You
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 3 All the World’s Waiting for You Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. It is very difficult to remember that, before Wonder Woman was released this past summer, the movie was considered something…
Teach & Serve III, No. 6 – Which Hours Are Yours?
Teach & Serve III, No. 6 Which Hours Are Yours? September 13, 2017 My wife, who is a talented, veteran teacher, posed a few weeks back. We were discussing homework and its efficacy and she said: “Which hours do we think are ours?” If you are a teacher or administrator at any school level and…
EduQuote of the Week: September 11 – 17, 2017
Day of Prayer and Remembrance Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11. – President Obama
Teach & Serve III, No. 5 – Embrace the Expectations of Leadership
Teach & Serve III, No. 5 Embrace the Expectations of Leadership September 6, 2017 Give me leaders who understand this, leaders who know that the buck (and everything else) does stop with them. Give me leaders who say: “I get it. I will take it.” Let us begin this blog with a statement which, I…
EduQuote of the Week: September 4 – 10, 2017
Childhood Injury Prevention Week Children learn what they live. – Dorothy Nolte
Teach & Serve III, No. 4 – Optimism Can Be a Choice… and It Should Be
Teach & Serve III, No. 4 Optimism Can Be a Choice… and It Should Be August 30, 2017 Our work is with kids. Our work is for the future. What could be better – or inspire more optimism – than that? We work with kids. Let us never forget that we work with kids….
EduQuote of the Week: August 28 – September 3, 2017
Kirby at 100 There are people that I didn’t like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could. – Jack “King” Kirby