There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it’s so rare. Kelly Marie Tran
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 37 | Take a Walk | May 1, 2024
“I promise, if you need to, if you want to, I’ll walk the track with you,” he said. May 2024. Already. In schools, we have much to do, much we are asked to do and much that we take upon ourselves. We have full calendars, overflowing plates, and deadlines – many of which we truly…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.29.2024
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. Florence Nightingale
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 36 | Let It Go | April 24, 2024
(Leaders) live in the present. They work in the now. They plan for the future. Leaders navigate waters both smooth and choppy. They encounter colleagues, students and parents at both their best and their worst. They inspire positive experiences. They are held responsible for negative ones. Leaders have histories. Leaders create histories. Leaders leave histories…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.22.2024
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 35 | Fail Better | April 17, 2024
… failure is as important as success … In recent years, a significant thread in educational research around achievement has emerged and it is something that, back when I was in “teacher school” we never discussed. As educators, the theory holds, we should encourage our students to fail. We should create conditions in which it…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.15.2024
It is never too late to be what you might have been. Adelaide Anne Procter
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 34 | It’s in the Doing that Things Get Done | April 10, 2024
Confession: I am a maker of lists. Confession: I am a maker of lists. When presented with a complex task which I know will eat up hours and the completion of which will take a significant amount of time, I get fired up when I chart out potential steps and timelines, chunk together the major…
Eduquote of the Week | 4.8.2024
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
Eduquote of the Week | 4.1.2024
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau