Teach & Serve II, No. 9 – You Don’t Get to Choose When the Crisis Hits October 5, 2016 As teachers and administrators we exist to do many things, one of those things is to provide stability in the face of crisis. I read comic books. I’ve read them since I was in the first grade and,…
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EduQuote of the Week: October 3 – October 9, 2016
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B.B. King
Teach & Serve II, No. 8 – I Hope Our Students Are Better
Teach & Serve II, No. 8 – I Hope Our Students Are Better September 28, 2016 … the idea that somehow being less is really being more is dangerous. I do not understand. I do not understand the how or the when. How did it become a good thing to be less informed, less inquisitive, less prepared?…
Teach & Serve II, No. 7 – Don’t Waste a Good Laugh Being Too Professional
Teach & Serve II, No. 7 – Don’t Waste a Good Laugh Being Too Professional September 21, 2016 … how often are we wound tightly by the seriousness of our work? How often are we so taken with the gravity of the job that we forget to smile? How often, each and every day, do we…
EduQuote of the Week: September 19 – 25, 2016
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. John Dewey
Teach & Serve II, No. 6 – Right Place at the Right Time
Teach & Serve II, No. 6 – Right Place at the Right Time September 14, 2016 I just don’t know what having a 3.75 or a 4.00 does for you? Will it potentially get you into a better school? Sure it will. Potentially. Will it get you a scholarship? Same answer. Potentially. Should you work hard because,…
EduQuote of the Week: September 12 – 18, 2016
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than to provide ready-made knowledge. Seymour Papert
Now That’s How To Start A School Year… One Day More
Thanks to Jim Broderick King, Ignatian Identity Coordinator at Regis Jesuit High School for putting me on to this after he saw it on his Facebook page! This needs very little introduction. In the fall of 2015, the Des Moines School District thought their district-wide Back-to-School Meetings had grown a little stale and, rather than…
EduQuote of the Week: September 5 – 11, 2016
Lord, show me the way and I’ll do the work. Deanna Jump
Teach & Serve II, No. 4 – Fight the System
Teach & Serve II, No. 4 – Fight the System August 31, 2016 Because we often venerate those who came before us in our institutions, we tend to venerate the systems they created right along with them. We sometimes talk about “human systems” – the architecture of people who live and work and journey together. These human…