Teach & Serve II, No. 28 – Leadering February 15, 2017 If you are a leader, reflecting on the steps which got you there is a good exercise. If you want to become a leader, considering the leadering activities that will get you there is just as healthy a pursuit. Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up…
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Teach & Serve II, No. 27 – You Never Can Tell
Teach & Serve II, No. 27 – You Never Can Tell February 8, 2017 A leader is challenged by something new, something for which no one planned. The leader looks at the team and says “we’re doing this.” Do yourself a favor: take 9 minutes and watch the video below. Here is a true story: Bruce…
Teach & Serve II, No. 25 – Conjunction Junction
Teach & Serve II, No. 25 – Conjunction Junction January 25, 2017 Author’s note: as a former teacher at an all boys school, writing a post wherein I used the word “but” over-and-over again did, in fact, make me smirk… go ahead and chuckle, but there’s hopefully a point here! In my position, I have the wonderful…
Teach & Serve II, No. 18 – Disagreement and Dialogue
Teach & Serve II, No. 18 – Disagreement and Dialogue December 7, 2016 It’s just so much easier to only consult yourself and it feels good. You are the leader. You have all the answers. Cue the swelling violins. Picture the scene if you will: it’s towards the end of a long day at the end…
Teach & Serve II, No. 17 – Questions, Answers and Gaps
Teach & Serve II, No. 17 – Questions, Answers and Gaps November 30, 2016 It’s just so much easier to only consult yourself and it feels good. You are the leader. You have all the answers. Cue the swelling violins. As educational leaders – classroom teachers or administrators or counselors or staff members – we sometimes…
Teach & Serve II, No. 16 – Give Thanks for THAT?
Teach & Serve II, No. 16 – Give Thanks for THAT? November 23, 2016 We work with kids, they are going to challenge us. More often than not, their challenges can be channeled (if we are skilled) into positive results. Give thanks. As we gather this week for Thanksgiving in the United States, our thoughts, hopefully,…
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…
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…
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…