African Heritage Week Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy – ‘Be strong!’ ‘Know thyself!’ ‘Hitch your wagon to a star!’ – how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to…
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Teach & Serve III, No. 20 – TRANSPARENCY #oneword2018
Teach & Serve III, No. 21 – TRANSPARENCY #oneword2018 January 3, 2018 Leaders who operate from a perspective of transparency take the guesswork out of followership and take the guess work out of who they are… It is easy to know who a transparent leader is. She is not hiding anything. I love the concept of…
Teach & Serve III, No. 10 – Proceed with Caution
Teach & Serve III, No. 10 Proceed with Caution October 11, 2017 While I may believe I never treated a student in the manner this student described, she/he felt treated negatively by me, felt I did not care, felt I was a negative force and a bad teacher. This is a hard one. I was…
Teach & Serve III, No. 9 – Who’s in Trouble?
Teach & Serve III, No. 9 Who’s in Trouble? October 4, 2017 Give me leaders who understand this, leaders who know that the buck (and everything else) does stop with them. Give me leaders who say: “I get it. I will take it.” In my years as an administrator, one of the teams on which…
Teach & Serve III, No. 7 – Intimidation
Teach & Serve III, No. 7 Intimidation September 20, 2017 I do not want to follow a leader who thinks that the best way to engender loyalty is to intimidate those being led. And I won’t. I have written about this anecdote before, but I had cause to consider it anew this week. When I…
Teach & Serve III, No. 5 – Embrace the Expectations of Leadership
Teach & Serve III, No. 5 Embrace the Expectations of Leadership September 6, 2017 Give me leaders who understand this, leaders who know that the buck (and everything else) does stop with them. Give me leaders who say: “I get it. I will take it.” Let us begin this blog with a statement which, I…
Teach & Serve III, No. 4 – Optimism Can Be a Choice… and It Should Be
Teach & Serve III, No. 4 Optimism Can Be a Choice… and It Should Be August 30, 2017 Our work is with kids. Our work is for the future. What could be better – or inspire more optimism – than that? We work with kids. Let us never forget that we work with kids….
Teach & Serve III, No. 3 – From Small Beginnings Come Great Things
Teach & Serve III, No. 3 From Small Beginnings Come Great Things August 23, 2017 The beginning of school years is a time to think big, to dream big, to reach out and make goals and stare bravely into the limitless sky. In Cleveland, OH in the mid 1930’s, two young men, sons of Jewish…
Teach & Serve III, No. 2 – Playlist 2017-2018
Teach & Serve III, No. 2 Playlist 2017-2018 August 16, 2017 … time to put together the mixtape that will be the soundtrack for the upcoming nine months, the backbeat of the days and weeks and months ahead. It’s that time of year again: time to put together the mixtape that will be the soundtrack…
Teach & Serve II, No. 41 – Graduations
Teach & Serve II, No. 41 – Graduations May 17, 2017 So, yes, our students leave us but we, in large part, do not leave them. The sun is out with more regularity and throughout more of the day. The trees and grasses are greener. The flowers are budding. There is, if you listen closely, more…