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Staubach Shared Stories Of Teamwork With Administrative Leaders

11/27/07

By Jenna Kujawski

Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach headlined the opening banquet at this year's 25th Annual Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI). As founder of the Staubach Company, a commercial real estate firm, he shared motivational stories of teamwork and togetherness during his football and professional career with superintendents, principals and administrative leaders from across the state.

"The responsibilities that you [as educators] have are enormous and much greater than mine, but we share a common denominator," Staubach said in his opening remarks. "If we have the right people in the right places, miracles can happen."

Staubach went on to talk about the 1971 football season, when the Dallas Cowboys were 4-3 going into another tough game. Mike Ditka, who played at tight end for the Cowboys, addressed the team in the locker room after a horrible loss, telling his teammates that he would be playing for them, not himself. A reenergized and refocused Cowboy team stepped onto the field the following week, beating their opponent and winning seven straight games, ultimately beating Miami to win the 1972 Superbowl.

"We were successful that season because we talked about the basics of working together and what we could accomplish when we worked as a team. Our players started to think differently-receivers would make blocks-whatever they needed to do for the team," Staubach said.

An Aggie parent himself, Staubach also talked about how all people are a little quirky at times, but that it was important to be good quirky and pass that good quirkiness onto your children.

"Understanding the importance of somebody else and finding balance in your life will make you good quirky. That's what teamwork is-the ability to care about someone other than yourself," he said. "Your commitment to your leadership, your teachers, your team, results in positively educating our children-our future."

The Texas A&M Singing Cadets were also on hand to honor John Hoyle for his 25 years of service as director of ALI. Surprising Hoyle as they made their way into the Clayton Williams Alumni Center, the Singing Cadets opened with their rendition of "Spirit of Aggieland" followed by "The Awakening," "He Never Failed Me Yet," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "God Bless the USA," and closing with "I'd Rather be a Texas Aggie."

The two-day conference, "The Extraordinary High School-Leaping Over the Achievement Gap," gave educators the opportunity to learn to address the complex problems of the modern high school by listening to educational leaders that were creatively and successfully meeting that challenge.

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