“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi November 22, 2023 Dear North Shore School District 112 Staff, Families, and Community, As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday this year, I…
Honoring Veterans – Superintendent Message
Subject: Honoring Our Heroes on Veterans Day Dear North Shore School District 112 Community, Today, we come together to honor and celebrate Veterans Day, a day of profound significance in our nation, and express our deepest gratitude to the brave…
Impact of an educator is far and wide – #112Leads
Superintendent’s Welcome Remarks for 2023-2024 in North Shore School District 112! At the all-staff institute day on August 23, 2023, superintendent Lubelfeld welcomed back nearly 600 staff members for another awesome school year in North Shore School District 112. In…
Audio – Welcome New Teachers – #112Leads
On August 14 in North Shore School District 112, we welcomed nearly 40 new teachers and staff members! This was the first of five days of orientation and onboarding exercises, workshops, and “setting the stage” for an amazing year and…
Part 4 of 4 – Final Reflections from Conference on Education – A Nation at Risk
In this fourth of four blog posts illustrating forty years of educational reforms in the United States since the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983, I am proud to reinforce some of what I knew, know, and plan…
Part 1 of 4 – Forty Years Since “A Nation at Risk” – Education Reflections
There is no comfort in the growth zone – but there is no growth in the comfort zone – this was a quote shared with us at the start of the National Superintendent Roundtable national convening in the summer 2023…
Reflections from Bottle School Trip – Guatemala 2023 July
Bottle School Project with Hug it Forward Reflections from Tecpan, Guatemala July 2023 Wrapping up an incredibly meaningful experience with my son in Guatemala! We finished tying up the 10,000 bottles filled with inorganic trash in the three classrooms we…
Mayan Culture and History – Guatemala
Mayan Culture and History were integral parts of our overall service, learning, culture, history, and volunteer work in Guatemala. Iximiche and Antigua visits during our time in Guatemala in between and following bottle school construction projects enhanced the cultural immersion…
Education is Life
I’m a fan of the Apple TV show “Ted Lasso” and one of the characters, Dani Rojas, has a saying “futbol is life” … so, in the spirit of Dani Rojas, “Education is Life” is the title of this blog…
Guatemala Service Trip Culture School Building 2023
Guatemala 2023 Tecpan, Guatemala July 2023 Justin (my son) and I ventured from Chicago to Miami and from Miami to Guatemala City, Guatemala. We are serving, learning, exploring, and traveling to Guatemala with Hug it Forward, https://hugitforward.org/ , on a…