Ideas!

5/18/15 Ideas!

How do we find the time to innovate when we are so busy because we had implemented new ideas and we are down in staff members which make us so worn out that we just want to exhale for a minute when we have any down time? We feel oppressed by our circumstances. But, innovate we must because the alternative is to keep hemorrhaging students while our population base they come from continually shrinks.

We must keep the ideas flowing. We must keep trying and assessing new ideas. And, we must give ourselves room to fail. Failure is a great teacher if we use it right. Thomas Edison became famous for saying “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

Let’s find the ways to help our students achieve their goals and complete college successfully.