If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. ~John Wooden Anyone who has a Facebook account, follows a Twitter feed, watches TV, or has a pulse has seen the very public…

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~Denis Waitley We have all heard about the importance of…

  The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could…

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. ~Mattie Stepanek Over the course of the last several months, a discussion about a revisioned school experience has been taking place with teachers, administrators, and students.  As…

Last week we hosted an event to honor longtime art teacher, Ms. Washburn.  The goal of the event was to recognize Ms. Washburn for the recent Those Who Excel award she received from the Illinois State Board of Education.  This…

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony J. D’Angelo Last night, I had the pleasure of witnessing how wonderful the Pleasantdale community really is.  As you may know, we hosted an art gallery event…

Each Friday I send the Pleasantdale staff a weekly wrap up email.  The purpose of this email is to inspire and highlight the wonderful things happening in our schools.  As our schools continue to evolve and change we need to…

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. ~Elbert Hubbard This week I had the pleasure of subbing in one of our 8th grade social studies classes.  It…

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie This week, I had the pleasure of learning from Sal Khan, the creator…

Children close their ears to advice, but open their eyes to example. ~Unknown Parenting children has always been more of an art than a science.  There is no vast data set that we can review to tell us the perfect…