Dr. Barrett Mosbacker has over thirty-five years in Christian school leadership, he has founded a school, led schools enrolling nearly 3,000 students, and publishes The Christian School Journal.
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker June 01, 2013 By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker In my previous post — Part 1: Why I Went Paperless: There Had to Be a Better Way — I explained what motivated me to go paperless and my specific goals. Below is a view of my computer desktop: just as
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 25, 2013 This is my office. I did not clean it up for this article. I now function without paper. I will never go back, and I believe that if you give this a try, you will not either. I am sharing why I went
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 18, 2013 I am blessed. Even though we serve nearly 2,000 students representing 1,200 families, I have few disgruntled or complaining parents. This is a reflection of God’s great blessings on the school and a tribute to our fine teachers, coaches, and
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 03, 2013 Cruising at thirty thousand feet and intensively absorbed in my work, I was startled by the sudden outburst of fearful crying from a three-year-old girl frantically running down the aisle of the plane. Her brown eyes were wide with fear and
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker April 07, 2013 Soviet dissident and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote this about a fellow prisoner in the Soviet gulag during the Communist era: Before the war Anatoly Vasilyevich had graduated from a teachers’ college, where he had specialized in literature. Like me, he now had about
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker December 08, 2012 When Your Idea Looks Like a Pig Have you ever had an idea for the future of your school but others were not buying it? I hope so. Leaders who are leading and not merely managing focus on the future, asking, “What should
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker September 15, 2012 Change is hard, even dangerous. Attempts to change the behavior of others or an organization’s deeply entrenched practices will run headlong into active and passive resistance, if not outright hostility. Acutely aware of the difficulty but confident in the rightness of the
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 20, 2012 This is not a rhetorical question. Perhaps for the first time in history, serious questions are being raised about the long-term need for flesh-and-blood classroom teachers. For many this may seem ridiculous, but for those on the frontier of technology
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker March 04, 2012 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker February 04, 2012 Leaders make presentations. Transformative leaders deliver inspirational, informative, and persuasive presentations. Good presentations are hard to design and deliver, which is why we have suffered through so many poorly delivered seminars and workshops. Although I like to think of myself as a decent
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker December 26, 2011 For years I have been taught not to “sweat the small stuff.” I warmly embraced this notion because it reinforced my natural inclination to focus on big strategic initiatives and to pay less attention to small details, leaving those to others. I have
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker August 14, 2011 This article is adapted from one written by Shaubo, a high school principal in Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada. Why aren’t all teachers embracing technology? Why are some jumping in with both feet, some paddling around in the kiddie pool, and some well