I choose to end this course of study with three of my favorite quotes:

 “A man’s errors are his portals to discovery.”

James Joyce

 I wish all my fellow students luck on their personal portals to discovery. I have had my share and am sure will discover many more as this journey continues. I hope you can see all your mistakes as a chance to learn and help your students to see that their mistakes are the same...a chance to find a new portal of discovery!

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

Albert Einstein

I hope all my fellow students, friends, family and teachers will continue to seek gaining knowledge, improving your skills, and affecting as much change for our children as time will allow. I am so thankful for parents who taught me to constantly seek to learn all that I can and I hope that I can instill this in my children and students as well!

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

I think this Chinese proverb sums up what we are doing throughout this Master’s Program. We are becoming involved in an administrative process so that we will truly understand what we need to know to be effective leaders on our future campuses.I hope that you can all become involved in this process and that together we can understand what we need to shape tomorrow!

Finally I leave you with two of my favorite blessings:

If God sends you down a stony path,
may he give you strong shoes.

and my friends

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand. 

I wish you blessings and success!