Tom Beeman
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read

I agree with you completely (there’s a shock jeje). When I taught at the university level I was offered an administrative position. I accepted the role, but I told the University President that I would accept the job only if I were still allowed to teach. And it was being able to still be in the classroom that made me an effective administrator. My peers respected me more because I was experiencing the same everyday struggles they were as teachers, and that experience gave me perspective to learn how to try and solve problems that makes both the teaching and administrative sides happy.

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