Teach & Serve IV, No. 34 Our Burgeoning Toolbox March 27, 2019 Educators are many, many things but (and after over a quarter century in the field, I know this for certain) the good ones are builders. Fair warning: I am an English teacher. I embrace metaphor. For four years, I had the immense honor…
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Teach & Serve IV, No. 33 | Where Are Your Feet?
Teach & Serve IV, No. 33 Where Are Your Feet? March 20, 2019 Where do we center ourselves in our work? From where do we draw balance and power? From where do we operate? Where do we walk and with whom? Awhile back, I heard a leader I respect very much speaking about being present…
EduQuote of the Week | 3.18.19
When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. Anne Lamott
Teach & Serve IV, No. 32 | The Learning Portion of High School
Teach & Serve IV, No. 32 The Learning Portion of High School March 13, 2019 The time to work with our students, to learn with them, to help them become critical thinkers, to set them up for the next year, the next school, the next steps in their lives is too critical to give up….
EduQuote of the Week | 3.11.19
… be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness… Ann Voskamp
Teach & Serve IV, No. 31 | The Power of “I Don’t Know”
Teach & Serve IV, No. 31 The Power of “I Don’t Know” March 6, 2019 Excellent leaders know much. But they do not have to know everything. I am unsure when it was decided that a leader had to be the smartest person in any room, had to have each-and-every fact at her command, had…
EduQuote of the Week | 3.4.19
Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. Virginia Woolf
Teach & Serve IV, No. 30 | I Know Two Things…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 30 I Know Two Things… February 27, 2019 I know two things: Some meetings are good; some meetings are bad, and the responsibility falls on the organizer of the meeting. In the Barry Levinson film Wag the Dog, the wonderful William H. Macy has a number of bon mots which…
EduQuote of the Week | 2.25.19
Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. Mae Jamison
Teach & Serve IV, No. 29 | If You Don’t Want to Know, Don’t (But You Should Want to Know)
Teach & Serve IV, No. 29 If You Don’t Want to Know, Don’t Ask (But You Should Want to Know) February 20, 2019 When we solicit feedback and our staff knows we will receive it openly, we have created rapport and trust. A few years back, I was at the end of a program that…