Passions

In our quest for Lifelong Learning, we will lay the foundation for our journey. What kind of inquiry should I do? How will I come up with my “wonderings?”

I started to reflect on last school year and I thought about some of the concerns and issues we faced. Keeping in mind, the ”What if…?“I wonder …,” and “I think…”

There are nine passions, but they do overlap (Venn Diagram). I have to admit, that as I started going through the nine passions, I started feeling a little over whelmed. So I paused “reflected,” and “refueled.”

Passion 1 Staff Development, I love this quotation from Barth:

“Nothing within a school has more impact upon students in terms of skills development, self-confidence, or classroom behavior than the personal and professional growth of their teachers. When teachers examine, question, reflect on their ideas and develop new practices that lead towards their ideals, students are alive. When teachers stop growing, so do their students (Barth, 1981, p. 145).”

As future administrators, we will face the daily challenges to impact student’s and teacher’s learning. Foremost, we must take charge of our own learning and as the “head learner,” we must lead by modeling the process to faculty, staff, and students.

Effective and successful principals us action research as a tool to make effective changes, make improvements, produce academic achievement and promote “Lifelong Learning.” Most important, all nine passions have a common factor “student achievement.”



Barth, R. (1981). The principal as staff developer. Journal of Education, 163(2), 144-162.