In an effort to consolidate my social media/Internet presence, I’m in the process of “rebranding” everything under the handle drdamian (or, on Twitter and Instagram, _drdamian with an underscore). That includes my portfolio website – formerly DamianBariexca.net – which is now DrDamian.org. Besides being sorta catchy, there’s less room for human error…
2014: Worth Twelve Thousand Words
Two years ago, I decided to look at the numbers that shaped my 2012. This year, inspired by a friend’s post, I chose to revisit a picture for each month of 2014. January Dylan and I started off 2014 with the Pinewood Derby. His Creeper car didn’t win many heats, but hey……
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…
Standing On the Shoulders of Giants
I included an Acknowledgements page early in my dissertation to thank all the people who have supported me in one way or another throughout my doctoral studies. Since most of the people I thank will never read the thing, I thought I would reproduce that page here in order to…
Achievement Unlocked!
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. Over 200 pages and 30 PowerPoint slides later, today I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation, Sustaining distributed leadership: Lessons learned from a case study of Delaware middle schools. I am both elated and…