We Are Creating the Future

Happy New Year!  What a wonderful time of year!  Like the beginning of the school year or the beginning of a new phase of life, the start of a brand new year offers us hope, expectations, and the opportunity to start fresh.

Looking to the future fills us with hope and optimism.  It also highlights the importance of our roles as educators, leaders, creators of the future.  We truly do have a huge responsibility in creating the future for our students, for our country, for our planet.  Every single thing we do affects what students learn, how they treat one another, how they feel about their schools, community, and nation.  Most importantly, what we do affects how students see themselves.

My hope is that you really understand the vital role you play in creating the future for students, this community, our nation, for democracy, for mankind.   We are important, influential people, and what we do matters.  I encourage you to consider your role in creating the future.  What will you do on Monday, next week, through January, throughout the school year that will impact the lives of us all?

I invite you to set goals that matter, goals that will continue to impact lives even when you are gone.  Write down your goals and consider them frequently and regularly.  Remember, we never meet any goals that we don't set.  I believe that somehow, if we all set goals that matter and then work to achieve those goals, we can positively impact students and the future.  If we did this, there really isn't anything we couldn't accomplish.  

My Goals That Matter:
Lead by example.  Be the person that I want the employees of TCS to be.
Be thankful for everyone and everything with which I have been blessed.
Really listen to everyone who takes the time to talk to me.
Read, read, read.  (The more we know, the more we can share and support others' learning.)
KNOW what is going on in the world.  I will not allow the news media to think for me.
Be innovative.  (This is a top quality I look for in employees.)
Appreciate the efforts of everyone - students, parents, teachers, classified staff.
Be accepting and non-judgmental.

Let's accomplish important things this year.  Students need you.  Colleagues need you.  The future depends on what we do and what we don't do.  Seriously.
Beth