Lead by examples, not orders
There is a moment in every workplace when people quietly decide whether to follow you or just comply with you. You rarely see it in formal meetings or...
Herman M. LagonJuly 8, 20264 min
IMPULSES
There is a moment in every workplace when people quietly decide whether to follow you or just comply with you. You rarely see it in formal meetings or...
A good research poster does not begin on a laptop. It begins in that quiet moment when you ask yourself, “If someone walks past my work for ten second...
Smart-shaming has a way of slipping into places it should never be — in the corners of classrooms, in between jokes on a group chat, even inside facul...
The silence before a major test is not calm. It is cautious—the kind that tells you students are trying not to make mistakes before they even begin. N...
By Herman M. Lagon There is a kind of teacher you will not notice right away. No dramatic speeches in faculty meetings. No constant posting of accompl...
Teachers know this kind of quiet heartbreak. It shows up in ordinary classrooms. A student stares at a math problem like it betrayed him. Another give...
The most “intelligent” teacher I met in my early years of teaching could solve almost anything you threw at him—statistics, curriculum design, even bu...
One rarely goes through a day without encountering plastic. From food packaging to throw-away coffee cups, plastic permeates everything, and the issue...
The first time a public school teacher crouches beside a sari-sari store Pisonet at night, phone balanced on a crate, trying to upload lesson requirem...