I am sure you have encountered construction sites and situations where you detoured from your planned route or creatively negotiated through a potholed area. I wish it were not so, but regardless of how you anticipate this new year to be, it will be one big construction site with stressful switchbacks, inconvenient detours, unexpected delays and bone-jarring bumps.
Into this “site” the teacher and leader enter. Rosa says, “Smoothing the bumps along the way is the servant leadership we give each other.” Your students, parents and colleagues are on their own journeys that are much like your own. What is your “Aloha strategy” for these times? How do you intend to serve with bump-smoothing love? You see, even though your journey is difficult or unexpected, a heart of Aloha keeps others in sight and finds ways to serve them.
For actions to be sincere they must come from within the heart. Being always precedes doing; so, being a servant in heart precedes serving. And, serving your students precedes your students serving you.
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