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Cross Currents

An Arrupe Virtual media platform to share and discuss important topics in education.

Truth and the Growing Onion

Parenting toddlers in the era I did meant watching a lot of animated films…over and over. With few exceptions, I found these films...

What It Takes to Persevere

I have an active mind: thoughts and ideas always bouncing around, waiting to be anchored down and put together in a constructive way....

Pride and Humility

As one of the 7 deadly sins, I think pride gets a bad rap. I’ll explain more in a bit, but let me first tell you about last week when I...

Psychological Safety

I am one of those people who loves absurd situational comedy. Just mentioning the name Leslie Nielsen makes me giggle, and the show...

THE SOPHOMORE SITUATION

As most of you know, Arrupe Virtual exists to support our member Catholic schools in their quest to provide the best possible educational...

EVERYDAY ADVENT

I wasn’t a big reader when I was young. I always thought I was a slow reader and that frustrated me a great deal. Over time I realized...

LISTENING (as we do it) IS OVERRATED

Folks, we have a listening problem. This has been written about ad nauseum in recent years, and there is plenty of blame to go around as...

Mending the Fractures

This past week I spent time with a number of schools discussing the important topic of learning loss among students in our Catholic...

Know Thyself

If you are anything like me, at least once a day I find myself shaking my head and thinking, “How in the world did we get here?” As many...

Learning to Swim in a Pandemic

Back to school we go. Buckle up; it promises to be a wild ride. Recently, I’ve been talking about how administrators and teachers have...