The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
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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
Eduquote of the Week | 12.25.2023
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. Phillips Brooks
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 22 | The Gift of Our Work | December 20, 2023
Our work reaches beyond us. It reaches through time. It reaches into the future. EVERGREEN POST We do not get tired of good Christmas songs. Well, I do not, anyway. I look forward to their repetition each year. When beginning to compose a post for the week before Christmas this year, I realized I had…
Eduquote of the Week | 12.18.2023
I want you to be proud of me, but, more importantly, I want to be proud of myself. Nightwing