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…
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Teach & Serve IV, No. 28 | Do Not Play Chess, or Checkers for that Matter
Teach & Serve IV, No. 28 Do Not Play Chess, or Checkers for that Matter February 13, 2019 Looking back, very little … maneuvering ever worked. In the past, I have spent many hours (too many hours, frankly) trying to plot out my professional destiny. These designs have sometimes been small in scope – determining…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 27 | Integration
Teach & Serve IV, No. 27 Integration February 6, 2019 Great leaders are not one person in school and another at home. Great leaders can be counted on to be consistent, to be authentic and to be integrated. How much of one’s personal life should an educational leader bring into the context of running a…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 26 | Creative Space/Creative Time
Teach & Serve IV, No. 26 Creative Space/Creative Time January 30, 2019 I do another kind of dreaming, too. I dream about the professional life I want to lead. I dream about the leader I wish to be. I dream about what I might look like five, ten and fifteen years from now (God willing!)….
A Journal of the First Year | Twelve
(L) 1994 (R) 2018 24 | January | 2019 Intellectually, I have known that part of the work of being a principal is being very, very flexible. Typically I frame that concept as being ready to change my schedule or my plan as needs dictate but I often think about it in those parameters:…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 25 | Climate Control
Teach & Serve IV, No. 25 Climate Control January 23, 2019 Climate control in a school is just as important as it is in a home. I will not buy another house that does not have air conditioning. This is a first world demand, to be sure, but it is a very real one for…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 | Hard to Recapture…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 Hard to Recapture… January 16, 2019 I would like to suggest that arrogance and good leadership are… incompatible. They… don’t mix When a leader stops doing the good and hard work, the respect of the community can (and usually does) drop precipitously. The respect of those being led, once…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 | Hard to Recapture…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 24 Hard to Recapture… January 16, 2019 Effective leaders understand that, once their leadership starts to wane, it is quite difficult to recapture. When a leader, for whatever reason, stops doing the good and hard work, the respect of the community can (and usually does) drop precipitously. Once a leader…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 23 | Arrogance and Leadership
Teach & Serve IV, No. 23 Arrogance and Leadership January 9, 2019 I would like to suggest that arrogance and good leadership are incompatible. They simply do not mix The old adage “oil and water don’t mix” is demonstrably true. Head into your kitchen. Find some oil. Put the oil in some water. See what…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 22 | Got to Begin Again – The Fresh Start Effect
Teach & Serve IV, No. 22 Got to Begin Again – The Fresh Start Effect January 2, 2019 We have this opportunity – this fresh start. We can be mindful of it and all it suggests and all it could mean. We can embrace it with positivity and make it the beginning of something powerful…