The Weekly 1-5-20
April 6, 2020
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Southport High School Core Beliefs
Putting a Mission into Motion
Does maximizing how you always require new ideas?
Innovation can either be a disruptive innovation or iterative innovation. Put simply, innovation can be something completely new, or it can be taking something that exists and making it better. So, to answer the question at the start of this post, no, we do not always need new ideas, but to be innovative and maximize who we are, we do need to look to make things better consistently. Innovation means you need to find the interaction of best and next. To maximize who you are, you do not need to start over regularly, but you do need to push to your best each day.
I wrote the paragraph above before all the school cancelation madness began. As I reread it while putting together this week’s 1-5-20, our current circumstances give the message a whole new meaning. We have been thrust into uncharted waters. I am sure the “new” way of doing school this year has some anxious, some stressed, and some left wondering how they will manage it all. Remember, one of the three pieces of our mission is to “excel in an ever-changing world.” As I wrote about before our break began, we excel by maximizing who we are. You can view our current challenges as a problem or an opportunity to continue to serve our students in an ever-changing world. You maximize who you are by stepping up to every opportunity. The rest of this year is still an opportunity to put our mission into motion. It will take disruptive and iterative innovation. We are Cardinals, and Cardinals excel in an ever-changing world.
More to come next week -- keep working to put our mission into motion! #FlyAsOne
MINDFULNESS MOMENT
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1-5-20 Resources
If you only have 1 minute this week watch this:
If you have 5 minutes this week watch this:
If you have 20 minutes this week read this:
This is a good resource from Focus3 about how E+R=O can be used during this interesting and challenging time. This read was a good reminder to me that the R Factor system can be used in every scenario in our lives if we are willing to stay disciplined in our behavior.
Clarity, Courage & Connection - READ NOW
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