Teach & Serve III, No. 18 – There Are No Leaders Without Followers December 6, 2017 Our work reaches beyond us. It reaches through time. It reaches into the future. If you are reading this blog, you are likely a school leader, a teacher or administrator. A further supposition is if you are reading this blog…
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EduQuote of the Week: December 4 – 10, 2017
Recipes for the Holidays Week You don’t have to stick with these recipes. They’re guides. As I say, they’re a way in. Have fun with them. It’s an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it. – Sally Schneider
Teach & Serve III, No. 17 – Accountable to be Accountable
Teach & Serve III, No. 17 Accountable to be Accountable November 29, 2017 When things go wrong, when they do not go as planned, when failure happens and when hands are thrown up all around, a leader steps forward and steps up. A leader holds herself accountable. A leader accepts responsibility. Schools are complex places…
EduQuote of the Week: November 27 – December 3, 2017
Game and Puzzle Week Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off it. – Richard P. Fennyman
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 8 – Let Go of Your Conscious Self
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 8 Let Go of Your Conscious Self Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. No matter how leadership is considered, I believe there is a truth which is difficult to avoid: good leaders are…
EduQuote of the Week: November 20 – 26, 2017
Education Week The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids. – Donna Quesada
Teach & Serve III, No. 15 – Management and Leadership
Teach & Serve III, No. 15 Management and Leadership November 15, 2017 Managers direct by telling. Leaders invite by inspiring. At a leadership seminar a few weeks back, I heard a great story about dealing with one of a school’s most favorite days of the year: Halloween. I was asking the group with which I…
EduQuote of the Week: November 13 – 19, 2017
Geography Awareness Week There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. – Josephine Hart
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 7 – The Old Order Changeth
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 7 The Old Order Changeth Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. In Avengers #16, written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby, things are about to change. The roster of the superhero…
Teach & Serve III, No. 14 – Highest Duty
Teach & Serve III, No. 14 Highest Duty November 8, 2017 Leaders support those with whom they work. It is their first and last priority and that mindset informs every priority in between. I firmly believe that the best leaders serve those they lead just as the best teachers understand they work in service of…