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The Real College Admissions Scandal
Yesterday, it was revealed that underachieving children of the rich and famous had been accepted to elite (or not so elite) colleges and...

Kevin D
Mar 13, 20193 min read
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Standards-Based Expectations
"The standard should be the floor." - Mike Fisher on Principal Center Radio All too often, we underestimate what we, ourselves, and our...

Kevin D
Mar 12, 20191 min read
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The End of Liberalism and Catholic Schools
I wrapped up Notre Dame Professor Patrick Deneen 's Why Liberalism Failed yesterday. The thesis of the book is essentially that...

Kevin D
Feb 28, 20193 min read
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Anger and Leadership
Anger is one of the seven deadly sins. Anger is one of the clearest emotions Jesus Christ shows in the Gospels (appearing in 3 of the 4)....

Kevin D
Feb 21, 20193 min read
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My Journey with Inclusion
The community is not complete until you serve all learners - John Garrow, on CatholicEd4All Inclusion has been the place where my journey...

Kevin D
Feb 15, 20192 min read
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Leadership Coaching
Peter Dewitt, who I think is one of the best educational leaders in the consulting business, came on Principal Center Radio earlier this...

Kevin D
Feb 14, 20193 min read
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Self-Care
He said to them, 'Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.' For many were coming and going, and they had no...

Kevin D
Feb 10, 20192 min read
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The Thrill of a Tour
One of the great gifts I have is to show off the amazing St. Joseph School to prospective families. We have a great and hard-working...

Kevin D
Feb 5, 20191 min read
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Poetry
Growing up, outside of Shel Silverstein, I was never a big fan of poetry. It didn't truly speak to me until my senior of high school....

Kevin D
Feb 1, 20192 min read
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Cavalry and Leadership
I finished the Irish film Cavalry today and was imbued with a deep sense of its relevance for the Western church and leadership today....

Kevin D
Jan 28, 20192 min read
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Family Reunions and Meetings
I hate family reunions. I'm not the most extroverted person to begin with. Then you put me in a room with people I see only once every...

Kevin D
Jan 23, 20192 min read
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Covington and Discipline
I doubt we will ever know a full objective truth of the circumstances surrounding Native American Veteran Nathan Phillips and the group...

Kevin D
Jan 21, 20193 min read
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If You're a Fetus
If you're a fetus: Day 1: You're one cell. You can be aborted in most European countries (only Ireland, Spain, and Poland limit the...

Kevin D
Jan 18, 20193 min read
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Complacency
What drives you? What makes you get up each morning? For me - it's two-fold (and I'm somewhat ashamed that one answer isn't just simply...

Kevin D
Jan 15, 20192 min read
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The Paradox of Success
God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful. - St. Teresa of Calcutta Wednesday's episode of Catholic Sprouts (a...

Kevin D
Jan 10, 20192 min read
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ABL
One of the things that makes my mentors stand out is the fact that they make sure to practice what they preach. If we are dedicated to...

Kevin D
Jan 8, 20192 min read
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Principals as Head Coach
My wife asked me today if I was excited to go back to school on Monday. I am BUT...we discussed the big difference between going back to...

Kevin D
Jan 4, 20192 min read
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Times of Trial
The case for remaining Catholic in this moment, then, is basically that all this has happened before and will happen again — in what G.K....

Kevin D
Jan 3, 20192 min read
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On The/My Womb
Advent by Jessica Powers I live my Advent in the womb of Mary. And on one night when a great star swings free from its high mooring and...

Kevin D
Dec 23, 20182 min read
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The Cavalry Might Not Be Coming
In the old Westerns, the beleaguered soldiers holding out against hordes of savages awaited the cavalry that would come and save them....

Kevin D
Dec 18, 20183 min read
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