Whatever happened over this past year, be thankful for where it brought you. Where you are is where you are meant to be. Anonymous
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A Journal of the First Year | Twenty
16| May | 2019 It is my intention to share some reflections on the highs, the lows, the excitement, the routine, the successes, the failures and everything in between which I experience the course of the next 10 – 12 months, my first months as a full-time principal of a high school. Writing this journal will…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 41 | You Can Succeed
Teach & Serve IV, No. 41 You Can Succeed May 15, 2019 … please, for the love of our students, remind them of this, repeat this, tell them this: “You can succeed.” Any way we look at the calendar, we must inevitably reach one conclusion: things are winding down on the 2018-2019 school year. It…
EduQuote of the Week | 5.13.19
Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs. E.R. Braithwaite
Teach & Serve IV, No. 40 | Walk the Track
Teach & Serve IV, No. 40 Walk the Track May 8, 2019 “I promise, if you need to, if you want to, I’ll walk the track with you,” he said. This is important. Especially this time of year, this is very important. We have much to do, much we are asked to do and much…
A Journal of the First Year | Nineteen
02| May | 2019 It is my intention to share some reflections on the highs, the lows, the excitement, the routine, the successes, the failures and everything in between which I experience the course of the next 10 – 12 months, my first months as a full-time principal of a high school. Writing this journal will…
Teach & Serve IV, No. 39 | That’s Not Our Standard
Teach & Serve IV, No. 39 That’s Not Our Standard May 1, 2019 Time has passed. Things have happened. The calendar has changed. But our standards are still are standards. The calendar has turned to May and, even for the most disciplined among us, it is difficult to keep from looking at the end of…
EduQuote of the Week | 4.29.19
Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken from the abstract and played out in concrete visual form. Students teach us about creativity through their personal responses to the limits we set, thus proving that reason and intuition are not antithetical. Their works give aesthetic…
EduQuote of the Week | 4.22.19
I’ll always choose a teacher with enthusiasm and weak technique over one with brilliant strategies but who is just punching the clock. Why? An enthusiastic teacher can learn technique, but it is almost impossible to light a fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher. Dave Burgess
Teach & Serve IV, No. 37 | Secrets, Secrets
Teach & Serve IV, No. 37 Secrets, Secrets April 17, 2019 If you say or write the word “confidential” without asking, each-and-every-time, “whose interest am I protecting by walling off this knowledge?” you are doing it wrong. There is power in knowing something other people do not know. There is magic in holding onto a…