Student Leadership 101

Student Leadership 101

[blockquote author=”Jacob Riis” ]When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it...
The Best Advice: Expose Your Students to Excellence

The Best Advice: Expose Your Students to Excellence

[blockquote author=”Calvin Coolidge” ]Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard...
Action: The Key to Motivation

Action: The Key to Motivation

[blockquote author=”” ]Ability is rated by what is finished, not what is started.[/blockquote] “Motivation—where can I buy some?” “They never seem to reach their full potential. Just one time I wish they would all give 100 percent.” “This year’s class has...
Achieving Excellence

Achieving Excellence

[blockquote author=”” ]Where I was is destroyed, where I am stands condemned, where I shall be is just now being built.[/blockquote] When we all have the potential to succeed at almost anything we choose, why do so few people attain a high...
The Solution to Success Is in the Mirror

The Solution to Success Is in the Mirror

[blockquote author=”Theodore Roosevelt” ]The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again… who knows the great enthusiasms,...
Are we worth our weight in goals?

Are we worth our weight in goals?

[blockquote author=”” ]Unless you know to what port you sail, no wind is a good wind. Remember, too, that winds change with each day, and sails are trimmed to meet existing winds.[/blockquote] “There is just never enough time! It seems like I just finish...
It’s Good Enough?

It’s Good Enough?

[blockquote author=”Lana Limpert” ]When we think positively and imagine what we want, we risk disappointment; when we don’t, we ensure it.[/blockquote] Doesn’t the title make you cringe? Isn’t the phrase, “It’s good enough,” offensive to your sense of...
Always Demand for Excellence, Just Don’t Quit!

Always Demand for Excellence, Just Don’t Quit!

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. —Thomas Henry Huxley Everyone wants “the answer”– the answer to everything from installing a garage door opener to dealing with...
Achieving Success in Your Band Program

Achieving Success in Your Band Program

[blockquote author=”Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)” ]Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one...