Cool Coffee: A Principal's Perspective 9 - Rick Sola - "The Principal in the Arena"

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Principal Rick Sola from Chisholm Trail Middle School in Olathe USD 233, shares a quote he has found impactful and applicable to the principalship. A quote from (then former) President Teddy Roosevelt in a 1910 speech popularly known as "The Man in the Arena" is shared with intentions to both encourage and comfort the building principal as the challenges of leadership are navigated.

Perspective by Rick Sola

6-8 Middle School Principal

Olathe Public Schools, USD 233

Connect with Mr. Sola on X: @MrRickSola

Perspective Topic: "The Principal in the Arena"

"Citizenship in a Republic" -

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt 1910

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