Teach & Serve V, No. 23 How Does This Help Our Students? January 8, 2020 Asking the question is not a tactic, but an essential framing of communication in a school, a way of calling to the fore what the focus of adults in school should be. The question is: “How does this help students?”…
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Teach & Serve V, No. 22 | Got To Begin Again
Teach & Serve V, No. 22 Got To Begin Again January 1, 2020 Let us begin this next part of our year opening the pages of a new ledger. We can do this. We can begin again… EVERGREEN POST In the approach to this school year, I once again posted about Temporal Landmarks, a concept…
Teach & Serve V, No. 21 | MERRY CHRISTMAS – Year in Review
Teach & Serve V, No. 21 MERRY CHRISTMAS! Year in Review December 25, 2019 Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! (And here are the blogs so far this year!) Temporal Landmarks Playlist 2019-2020 I Am a Teacher We All Thought It Was Going to be Flying Cars The Right Question Engage…
Teach & Serve V, No. 20 | The Gift of Our Work
Teach & Serve V, No. 20 The Gift of Our Work December 18, 2019 All of us as we creep up on Christmas Break can and should find a place to end things, no matter if we will pick them back up in a short few weeks. We have time to decide what we will…
Teach & Serve V, No. 19 | Choose Your Ending When You Can
Teach & Serve V, No. 19 Choose Your Ending When You Can December 11, 2019 All of us as we creep up on Christmas Break can and should find a place to end things, no matter if we will pick them back up in a short few weeks. We have time to decide what we…
Teach & Serve V, No. 18 | Persistence
Teach & Serve V, No. 18 Persistence December 4, 2019 When I think of the successful educators with whom I have worked, persistence is a key, shared quality they possess. They are calm, cool and collected. They are consistent – almost the same in August as they are in December as they are in May….
Teach & Serve V, No. 17 | Share Thanks, Liberally
Teach & Serve V, No. 17 Share Thanks, Liberally November 27, 2019 The reality is none of us can run our schools alone. It takes more than a village. It takes a community. EVERGREEN POST I am often amazed at the amount of effort it takes to keep a school up-and-running. When I consider it,…
Teach & Serve V, No. 16 | Unexpected Gratefulness
Teach & Serve V, No. 16 Unexpected Gratefulness November 20, 2019 Give thanks for the work. Give thanks for the kids. Give thanks for your colleagues. Give thanks for the challenges. As we gather next week for Thanksgiving in the United States, our thoughts, hopefully, turn to those things for which we are grateful: family,…
Teach & Serve V, No. 15 | Embrace the Expectation
Teach & Serve V, No. 15 Embrace the Expectation November 13, 2019 … to lead is to serve. To serve is to support. Anything else distracts from our central call as leaders. Let us begin this blog with a statement which, I admit, may or may not be true: It is harder now than ever…
Teach & Serve V, No. 14 | You Can Never Tell
Teach & Serve V, No. 14 You Can Never Tell November 6, 2019 A leader is challenged by something new, something for which no one planned. The leader looks at the team and says “we’re doing this.” Do yourself a favor: take 9 minutes and watch the video below. Here is a true story: Bruce…