Education is what allows you to stand out. Ellen Ochoa
Tag: Jesuit Education
Teach & Serve II, No. 14 – Negative/Positive
Teach & Serve II, No. 14 – Negative/Positive November 9, 2016 Part of leadership is to put the positive in perspective while confronting the negative and sorting through it for truth. A good friend of mine said something very interesting to me a few weeks back: “The negative opinion can seem to be the more informed…
EduQuote of the Week: November 7 – November 13, 2016
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Thomas Jefferson
Teach & Serve II, No. 13 – Have a Mission
Teach & Serve II, No. 13 – Have a Mission November 2, 2016 There’s a good question for the day: why are you in education? Let’s bracket something we (hopefully!) know: our jobs working with students, their families, our colleagues and fellow teachers in education are really wonderful. We are lucky to have them; blessed to…
EduQuote of the Week: October 31 – November 6, 2016
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
Teach & Serve II, No. 12 – Don’t Shut the Door on the Library
Teach & Serve II, No. 12 – Don’t Shut the Door on the Library October 26, 2016 My concern is … simple: will people develop a love of reading without the physicality of the activity and without its accompanying shrines? I am so proud of my sister. She has been a children’s librarian for almost…
Teach & Serve II, No. 11 – Failure Is an Option
Teach & Serve II, No. 11 – Failure Is an Option October 19, 2016 Failure, under the right circumstances, is good for us and good for our students. Apollo 13 is a wonderful movie. It has everything I love in film. It’s beautifully directed by Ron Howard, has a great cast featuring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinese, the Oscar…
EduQuote of the Week: October 17 – October 23, 2016
We cannot teach people anything. We can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo
Teach & Serve II, No. 10 – Leaders Should Hold Themselves to the Highest Standards
Teach & Serve II, No. 10 – Leaders Should Hold Themselves to the Highest Standards October 12, 2016 … we don’t meet these standards because we are being watched. We meet them because we know that meeting them makes us better leaders, more integrated leaders, more authentic leaders. I, like many, am fatigued by our current…
EduQuote of the Week: October 10 – October 16, 2016
What the teacher is, is more important than what the teacher teaches. Karl Menninger