It has been a long time since I’ve written a blog post, almost a full year. 2021-2022 was a great school year, but it was a heavy-lift managing the pandemic and adjusting to the changing educational landscape. We rescheduled our high school three times throughout the year in order to keep up with changing government … Continue reading Student-Centered and Inclusive Instruction →

Creative Commons This is a post originally written in September 2021... Recently, we started our professional learning as a High School faculty for the 2021 school year by dividing ourselves into three groups to act as PLTs (Professional Learning Teams). Each PLT will focus on a different, pre-determined area of learning, either "differentiation," "diversity," or … Continue reading Diversity in the Curriculum →

This is a post originally written in November 2021... I recently had the opportunity to lead another short Professional Development session focused on Diversity and Inclusion. This time, I wanted to talk with teachers about those terms, what they mean, and how they are related. To do so, I came up with an activity I … Continue reading Tree of Inclusion →

We’re three weeks into our 2021-2022 school year and it’s been, by all measures,  a fantastic start. We have all of our students back on campus full-time for the first time since March 2019, our twelfth-grade students were welcomed back with most of the traditional hoopla, and students are learning, collaborating, and enjoying their time … Continue reading The Year Ahead →

Each year, the Lincoln School senior class picks a theme, a sort of cartoon spirit-animal, from which they base their senior uniform and events. Since I’ve been at Lincoln, different generations have picked The Incredibles, Monsters Inc., and other well-known cartoons for this purpose. This year, our senior class has chosen Scooby Doo, my favorite … Continue reading Life Lessons from Scooby Doo →

It’s fairly common at the start of a new school year for teachers to greet their new students with brief introductions and “getting to know you” games, and to ask the question, “Does anyone have anything they’d like to share about their summer?” With that in mind I’d like to share a few things that … Continue reading What I Did This Summer →

“We can do hard things.” -Glennon Doyle For the Class of 2021, it certainly hasn’t been easy. I don’t have to tell you; you’ve lived it. Fifteen months ago, you all went home from school on a Wednesday afternoon and didn’t come back for almost a full calendar year. Even when you did come back, … Continue reading To The Class of 2021 →

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/schitt-s-creek-season-6-isn-t-over-fans-are-ncna1115416 So, I’m a little more than fashionably late to the party, but over the past several weeks I’ve been watching all six seasons of Schitt$ Creek with my wife Amy. To be clear, she’s seen every episode at least twice and has been telling me for years that I need to watch the show. … Continue reading The Wit and Wisdom of Schitt$ Creek →

Each year, I have the honor of writing a message to our graduating seniors in our yearbook. As we rapidly approach the end of the 2020-2021 school year and the graduation of the Class of 21, I'm looking back on the words I've written since taking on the role of High School Principal at Lincoln … Continue reading Yearbook Messages →

An old story I know… Once, there was an old man who, after a long life, passed away. Now, I know what you’re thinking, what a sad way to start a story! But he really was an old man and he’d lived a long and happy life. And anyway, it’s just a made-up story. But, … Continue reading Service Learning →