You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. Michelle Obama
Tag: Teachers
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 26 | Is What I am about to Do Helpful? | January 31, 2024
If what I am about to do is not constructive, I need to discard the thought. If what I am about to say only tears down with no possibility of building up, it is the wrong way to go. When I think back to the over twenty-five years I spent as a high school teacher…
Eduquote of the Week | 1.29.2024
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Eduquote of the Week | 1.22.2024
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 25 | A Father’s Advice Lived | January 17, 2024
My father, who professed a dislike of school and who I never heard anyone call “teacher” was one of the greatest teachers I ever had. I have shared this post before but, as my father’s birthday is tomorrow and, for me, these messages never get old, I share it again today. My father was a…
Eduquote of the Week | 1.15.2024
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 24 | Arrogance and Leadership | January 10, 2024
Arrogance and good leadership are… incompatible. The old adage “oil and water don’t mix” is demonstrably true. Head into your kitchen. Find some oil. Put the oil in a glass filled with water. See what happens. Go ahead. I will wait. See? What did I tell you? Oil and water do not mix. I would…
Eduquote of the Week | 1.8.2024
Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them. Mia Hamm
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 23 | ONE WORD 2024 – Embrace | January 3, 2024
I start the year 2024 with the word EMBRACE. Over the course of the past five years or so, I have taken part in a movement among the educational community (and the community writ large, I am certain) to select a word around which to center the upcoming year. I have engaged in this practice…
Eduquote of the Week | 1.1.2024
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul… Gilbert K. Chesterton