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The Team You’re On vs. The Team You Lead

The Team You’re On vs. The Team You Lead Last summer our leadership team read The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni and the quote below has stuck with me ever since. I will confess, I have not been as strongly committed to this ideal as I feel I should be. “The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead).” – Patrick Lencioni  I love the people I work with. I love my team and my teammates. I feel a […]

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Why ePortfolios? Workspace & Showcase

If you try to follow #eportfolios on twitter, you may be disappointed. When you search and view samples of ePortfolios on the internet, you will find several schools with templates and beginnings. You won’t find many quality ones in the grade levels proceeding college. At least I haven’t yet. Many of them appear more like resumes than an instrument that not only documents learning but accelerates it, too. This summer, our team is designing an ePortfolio for students spanning Preschool through Grade 12. The team consists of representatives from Preschool, Lower School, Middle School, and Upper School working together to […]

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#2 Introducing Your Newest Team Member: Gandalf

Organizing and improving all of the goals, events, reflections, feedback, ideas, touch points, and priorities that occur in the life of a school from year to year is like drinking from a fire hose. I am constantly seeking out new ways to be more effective and efficient at managing and leading. This Spring I had a breakthrough. In the summer of 2005, I took a week long course at Oglethorpe University through the College Board for certification to teach AP World History. The instructor was Larry Treadwell. I will never forget him. In one week, my approach to teaching was […]

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#1Taking the 60-60-60 Challenge

Several times I have created blogs with gusto and enthusiasm only to neglect my posting duties after a few posts. Here I go again. This time, however, I hope to break the cycle of neglect thanks to the inspiration of my new friend and teammate, Bo Adams. Also, thanks to another friend and teammate, Mikey Canup for setting up this new blog for me and getting it linked to my longstanding singer/songwriter website domain. You can read about Bo’s 60-60-60 Challenge and perhaps dare to take part, too. Follow my progress on twitter #60-60-60Challenge.  

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Throwback Post: My Big Break on 99X

Originally published on blogger.com on August 2, 2005. It was September 10, 2001; the eve of the first terrorist attack on America. I had long hair and was a regular attendee of Eddie’s Attic, usually 3-4 nights a week. I had managed to overhear that John Mayer (who was just on the verge of celebrity, but still a local musician) was performing a private gig for close friends and family. My friends at the Attic got me in to see the show. While there, I ran into a friend of a friend who went to my high school who was married […]

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Return to Eddie’s Attic

Originally posted on blogger.com on Friday, July 29, 2005 at 1:43 p.m. Return to Eddie’s Attic Last night marked my return to Eddie’s Attic, the premiere acoustic venue in the Southeast, if not the nation. Having said that, I’m not sure what I was doing on the stage, but life is full of little mercies and graces. I played a 45 minute, solo set to an intimate crowd of about 50. The feeling was that of a homecoming. Not only because it was my first gig in the Attic in 12 months, but also because there is a new owner, […]

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