Halloween We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. – Stephen King
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Teach & Serve III, No. 12 – Parents Are Partners
Teach & Serve III, No. 12 Parents Are Partners October 25, 2017 …more parents than not are like my mother. They are advocates, appropriately. They are supportive – of their kids and of their kids’ schools. They are loving. Today is my mother’s birthday and, no, I will not mention her age. Looking back on…
Teach & Serve III, No. 11 – Get Out of Your Comfort Zones
Teach & Serve III, No. 11 Get Out of Your Comfort Zones October 18, 2017 Our schools are places where change is expected. Indeed, change is mandatory. We ought to be aware of when we are not pushing ourselves to change, to adapt and grow, to look at the world through different lenses and in…
EduQuote of the Week: October 16 – 22, 2017
Teen Read Week Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
Teach & Serve III, No. 10 – Proceed with Caution
Teach & Serve III, No. 10 Proceed with Caution October 11, 2017 While I may believe I never treated a student in the manner this student described, she/he felt treated negatively by me, felt I did not care, felt I was a negative force and a bad teacher. This is a hard one. I was…
EduQuote of the Week: October 9 – 15, 2017
Newspaper Week A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. – Michael Moore
Teach & Serve III, No. 9 – Who’s in Trouble?
Teach & Serve III, No. 9 Who’s in Trouble? October 4, 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.” In my years as an administrator, one of the teams on which…
Superheroic Leadership Vol. 1 No. 4 – Take the Short Way Home… It’s Not the Years, It’s the Mileage
Superheroic Leadership Vol. I * No. 4 Take the Short Way Home… It’s Not the Years, It’s the Mileage Superheroic Leadership is a light-hearted examination of what superheroic figures have to teach about leadership and what I have learned from their adventures. Let us put this moment in context. Indiana Jones is racing against time to…
Teach & Serve III, No. 8 – One-on-One
Teach & Serve III, No. 8 One-on-One September 27, 2017 She was frustrated that I had pulled her aside in public, as-it-were, that I had not scheduled a time with her to talk, that I had set her day off in a bad direction, taking a moment from her harried morning made her day all…
EduQuote of the Week: September 25 – October 1, 2017
Active Aging Week Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin