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Does Your Waiter Follow These Rules? What Rules Would You Write for Serving Your Parents?

October 2009 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do NYTimes, Bruce Buschel I found the following list of “rules” fascinating for several reasons: 1) It gives me a glimpse into the restaurant customer service world, 2) I found many (not all) of the rules outlined to be consistent with biblical principles of courtesy, and 3) it got me [ READ MORE ]

Product or Produce?

This article has been reposted by request.  I love dessert.  One of my favorites is pecan pie.  When I sit down to enjoy a piece of warm pecan pie Ala Mode there are two things that I am careful to do: 1) I eat slowly savoring each mouth watering morsel and 2) I am very [ READ MORE ]

Do Our Schools Need to Become Less Uptight?

WARNING: this article is provocative.  I am posting this article not because I agree with everything asserted (I don’t) but because it provokes thought and has relevance for how we are leading our schools during a time when the landscape of education is changing-perhaps dramatically.  At the end of this article I pose some questions [ READ MORE ]

Where is Your School in the Organizational Life Cycle? Why Does it Matter?

The School Life Cycle Schools are organic and dynamic—they are not static. Like the human body, schools go through a lifecycle of change or stages of development. Although most schools go through a predictable cycle or series of stages, the cycle is not inevitable. Below are typical organizational stages, which I have summarized and adapted from research [ READ MORE ]

The Charters are Coming!

  How to Position Our Schools for Long-Term Success Despite Prolonged High Unemployment and New Competition Over the last year or so  200 Christian schools have closed their doors.  Many who have not closed have lost students and laid off staff.  More will close this year.  Although a few Christian schools are thriving, most are not. This may [ READ MORE ]

Educational Leadership, Relationships, and the Eternal Value of Christian Schooling

The following is an excellent book review on “Schools as Communities: Educational Leadership, Relationships, and the Eternal Value of Christian Schooling.”  Click on the image to see the book on Amazon. This is a book that you should seriously consider reading.  (Disclaimer: I am a contributor author, Barrett Mosbacker). The review was published in The ICCTE Journal.  [ READ MORE ]

When Change is Bad

I found this article articulates what many teachers feel—in public and Christian schools.  Too often, with the best of intentions, we throw a hodgepodge of ideas at our staff, what I call du jour training/idea of the year.  See my previous post: Rethinking Staff Development: “This Too Shall Pass.” Solutions Are the Problem in Education By [ READ MORE ]

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