Sustaining Change: Continuing the Excellent Journey

January 30, 2012

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. ~Baltasar Gracian Week 22 in Review Last week we started the conversation about planning our school improvement for the 2012-2013 year.  This is a conversation that will provide the underpinning for the entire planning sequence in the [...]


Awarding Excellence

January 22, 2012

Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead strive for excellence – doing your best.             ~Sir Lawrence Oliver Week 21 in Review This past Saturday, when I was sitting in the ceremony where Coach Musser was inducted into the MHSBCA Hall of Fame, I listened as many other awards [...]


Building on Excellence

January 16, 2012

The road to excellence is always under construction.                  ~Author Unknown Week 20 in Review With exception of the weather, last week felt like Christmas. First of all, our students were able to take home their own laptops.  What a great day for Benton High School. What a [...]


Sustaining Excellence

January 8, 2012

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is [...]


An Excellent New Year – Going 1:1

January 2, 2012

ENJOY 2012! - Excellent New Journey Of the Year! It’s enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they [...]