Today was New Year’s Day for 10-month administrators in my district. After a summer that was equal parts restful and profitable (thanks to a good summer job), I started back today relaxed, focused, and looking forward to the new school year. It was a welcome contrast to how I started last…
Category: Reflection
Taking Back My Data with #ProjectReclaim
In my ongoing effort to consider my digital identity and all that it entails (including, but not limited to, privacy and control over my data), I’ve been migrating some of my cloud-hosted services over to my self-hosted drdamian.org domain. This process started in 2008, when I moved this blog from Edublogs…
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts
I’m going to start this off with a not-so-humblebrag: I’m proud and pleased to announce that my school district was recently recognized as a Best Community for Music Education by the NAMM Foundation. I’m proud not only because I work in the district, but also because I happen to supervise…
Looking Back, Looking Forward
From a blog post I wrote on 23 December 2013: If nothing else, hopefully it will be an entry I can look back on this time next year, as I’m preparing to graduate, and laugh at, remembering that time I panicked unnecessarily and frantically spat out a blog post full…
Latest Greatest Hits
Happy Labor Day, and Happy New (School) Year’s Eve for many of you! I’m actually writing this post in early August in anticipation of being pretty overwhelmed and without much time for blogging in early September, between starting my new job and heading down the final stretch of my dissertation…