school – Building Cairns

the wrong way?

(an email to colleagues) Dear all, If you can’t watch the video now, skip to the notes below and find time later on to watch. Sometimes we are so driven by what we are doing in the moment, we don’t realize we are headed the wrong way. Why do I share this, with four weeksContinueContinue reading “the wrong way?”

Ash and Entropy

I appreciated the flexibility through the end of the week’s volcano eruption and shift in program at our School. We continue to get updates from authorities and if we are asked to shift we will do so, however our prevailing decision-making will be about what is safe for us. Turrialba and its ash continue toContinueContinue reading “Ash and Entropy”

Strapping the four logs together

You need to leave well in order to enter well. For those who have moved a number of times in their lives, particular to different cultures, the acronym R.A.F.T. (Reconciliation, Affirmation, Farewells, and Think destination) is a known concept about using each of those ‘logs’ as part of a process of leaving and arriving. This idea of buildingContinueContinue reading “Strapping the four logs together”

Machete in Hand

Briefly after the School purchased the land for the new campus, I brought some of our leadership team out to look at the land and to see if it was real. I recall Mr. Large, our elementary principal, standing by a tree and asking if we were really going to build a school here andContinueContinue reading “Machete in Hand”