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| The First Lessons | Spotlight
on Literacy Changes ...An Introduction... by
Rebecca McKay Long ago and far away, a young teacher got this advice as she stepped into her first high school child development class:
When I entered the teaching profession at Lanett High School, this was my staff development for the opening of school in 1972. As a matter of fact, these golden words were the sum total of my staff development for the entire year. Those were the good old days. NOT! I cried more than I laughed that year. What kept me coming back in 1972 were the students. Eye
on Leadership by Janet Cumbee Culture is literally the stage on which leadership gets played out. If the shared vision of the school is to be a ‘home’ for the heart and the mind, one has to ask, ‘To bring this reality, what will it take?’ Pam Robbins and Harvey Alvy Starting a fresh new school year happens each fall (and late summer for our southern colleagues). Personally, this is also a new beginning for me as I join the Cornerstone staff as a full-time leadership fellow. Moving to a new position after working 30 years in public education was no easy task. As I packed my belongings “30 years of books, pictures, and mementos,” the artifacts of my career, I began to reflect on the schools in which I had served. I began to wonder what artifacts were still present in those schools related to the culture we built together, one in which the school was “a home for the heart and the mind.” |
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