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Servant Leadership Institute
Dr. Kent Schlichtemeier
Director, Servant Leadership Institute
(949) 214-3256
[email protected]
By Caroline C Lee, PhD. Posted on 3/10/2020 - 7 minute read
I encourage my clients to focus on intentions versus resolutions. Resolutions focus more on highly specific goals and the eventual outcome, not the process it takes to get there. Often within a couple of months, we stop following through with our resolutions, leading us to feel like failures and give up entirely. Intentions, however, guide us through the year, even if things fall short. It demands less perfection and permits us to refocus ourselves at any time, allowing for self-compassion along the journey of self-growth and improvement.
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By Thomas Cooper Posted on 2/3/2020 - 2 minute read
On Saturday, February 1st, MAED Administrative students and their instructors assembled in the CU Center for a Symposium on leadership. Saturdays are meant for catching up on laundry, doing yard work, or taking a leisurely afternoon walk, but not for getting up at the crack of dawn to get ready for a four-hour presentation UNLESS Julie Adams is the keynote speaker. Such was the good fortune last Saturday for the MAED Administrative students and guests.
By Nina Glassen Posted on 1/29/2020 - 4 minute read
The informal book club approach allowed for reciprocal learning to take place. Colleagues shared ideas and wonderings with one another and learned something along the way; each staff member benefiting from hearing the others' experiences, rationale, and perspective.
By Charlotte Ashford, Ed.D. Posted on 1/28/2020 - 4 minute read
I expected parents to write answers that were math-related since I was a math teacher. However, parents wrote from their hearts, and with such complete transparency that it brought me to tears and gave me a glimpse of the struggles they faced.
By Caroline C Lee, PhD. Posted on 1/13/2020 - 7 minute read
We don’t want to further burden our classroom teachers, but perhaps it’s time to discuss a larger systemic, philosophical shift on the purpose of education. As we see anxiety and depression growing at alarming rates in our students, early intervention is imperative. Not just a one-time program or short lesson taught by a school counselor, but an ongoing, integrated practice of these skills.
By Elizabeth Burright Posted on 1/9/2020 - 6 minute read
At our first meeting I let her know that I knew she had been using self-harm. She agreed to show me, and it took everything in me not to cry. On the inside of both arms she had at least a dozen, two-inch long slash marks.
By Joannie Yang Posted on 11/4/2019 - 3 minute read
Ever since I was a small child, I’ve often heard my mother utter the words, “A good ethical family upbringing is most important to a person”. She thought that the most insulting criticism one could receive would be being viewed as having had no ethical upbringing at home. An ethical family upbringing is conducted through home education.
By Stuart Caldwell Posted on 11/4/2019 - 4 minute read
When Stuart Caldwell, the new principal at Woodworth-Monroe TK-8 in Inglewood, noticed graffiti-covered tables in a classroom, he decided not to wait for work crews which were already backed up with school improvement projects.
By Elizabeth A. Burright, M.A. PPSC Posted on 10/31/2019 - 3 minute read
What would cause a person to want to inflict pain onto herself? It may be that the individual experienced early sexual or physical abuse, neglect or abandonment. It has also been found in perfectionists and goes with the understanding that it is a sense of penance when there has been a mistake made or the individual did not achieve something that they believed they should have.
By Curt Visca Posted on 10/11/2019 - 3 minute read
Thanks to online education, virtual schools are taking off in the United States. Though many parents have yet to hear about online K through 12 education, virtual public schools are a reality in the majority of states.