Plan

The plan for this blog at this point is to focus on Catholic education and, specifically, what the ADLA is doing with regard to growth, leadership, and innovation. I will take different areas of focus and various initiatives and share about them on a regular basis. Those of you who have found your way to this blog are encouraged to comment - in my mind the main point of this exercise is to engage in an extended discussion with people who have a similar passion for Catholic schools.

I will also comment on stories and issues that arise regularly. While the focus of the blog will be on Catholic education, I will also comment on issues that are relevant in tangential ways or those that are of interest to me. I should also probably note here that the views I express in the future are always my own and should be interpreted as such.

Finally, the reason I am moving in this direction, and why I am very excited to be doing so, is because of the potential for more engagement across the country. I wrote a book published by NCEA in 2011 (interestingly enough entitled Changing the Ending, which you can find on the sidebar of the blog) that laid out many of the ideas I will be exploring further here. But because of the advent of social media (follow me on Twitter @kbaxter56) I realize that blogging is most likely a more effective means to communicate and engage with a variety of people across the country. I have been following blogs for close to a decade now but I was never really sure what I had to offer in that arena until now. This doesn't mean that I won't still try and write more books but simply that this medium can be equally, if not more, effective in wide communication with people who share my passion.