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Can’t We Do It Ourselves?

July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments

“Can’t we do it ourselves?” This was the question I asked months ago when talking to Mark Voorhees, our district’s construction manager from Campus Construction about the landscaping outside of our new addition. We could have included the work as part of our capital project and paid for a professional landscaping company but that would have totaled [...]

Jul

22

Who Are You?

July 22, 2009 | 13 Comments

I’m replicating Lisa Rosendahl’s idea from her blog post, “Hey There, How’s it Going?” Lisa is in human resources so it’s no surprise that she is deeply interested in people. In this case, she’s looking to learn more about her readers than what the stats counters tell her.
I’m also curious about who’s reading this blog [...]

Jul

18

High School’s New Face 2009

July 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

What’s it mean to be literate today? David Warlick was the keynote speaker at this year’s HSNF and this idea really hit home for me. You think of reading, writing and arithmetic, right? Or you may have thought of speaking, reading and writing effectively. Warlick delivered his keynote in a way that made every participant really think [...]

Jul

14

BOE Retreat Tonight

July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments

In about 30 minutes, I’ll be leaving for the BOE retreat that we’ve scheduled for tonight from 5:00-9:00. We are meeting off campus to provide us with a clean slate, relaxed chance to meet and talk about our governance. We’ve invited in Lynda Quick, Assistant Superintendent from Catt/Alle BOCES to facilitate. This gives us an [...]

Jul

9

Headed to Catt/LV

July 9, 2009 | 15 Comments

The latest on our DOT inspections for the buses? We’re headed to Cattaraugus/Little Valley. Thanks to Superintendent Peterson and his BOE for allowing his transportation director to host us for our inspections. And thanks to Superintendent Rinaldi and his BOE at Gowanda for considering the same as a back up for us. After traveling to [...]

Jul

8

What Are We Focused On?

July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

Imagine if all of the money and attention that we spent on this nonsense were instead spent to give Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, the troops and resources he needs to get the job over there done right. I’ve seen stories claiming that this Michael Jackson tribute cost the cash strapped state [...]

Jul

1

Faith During War

July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I taught at Pine Valley Central for ten years from 1990-2000. During that time I had the privilege of teaching 1000+ fantastic students, most of whom now have families of their own. As is always the case, different students connect with different teachers. It is a distinct pleasure for me when I hear from one [...]