Quote of the Week : Martin Luther King Jr.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr: “In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies; but the silence of our friends.” MLK 1929-1968
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100 Days Project – Day 10 – Individual Student
?? Some days I’d like to be a teacher of long ago (okay, I’d like to believe it’s long ago, but in fact I know there are still teachers who teach this way) who gave the same lesson to all the students...
View Article100 Days Project – Day 11 – Passion
100 Days Project – Day 11 – 8:31 p.m. “Ten. At the end of the day, good teaching is about having fun, experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards … like locking eyes with a student in the back row and...
View Article100 Day Project – Day 18 – Carla
100 Day Project – Day 18 – 1:45 p.m. (when I started) “Here’s the lesson: If you have something to say on the page, don’t hesitate. Don’t procrastinate. Don’t make excuses. Seize every moment you find...
View Article100 Day Project – Day 34 – Gratefulness
100 Day Project – Day 34 – 8:10 p.m. ‘There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.’ Frederico Fellini Film Director A beautiful day today — glorious sun, a not so...
View Article100 Day Project – Day 39 – Quality
100 Day Project – Day 39 – the next day at 6:34….. “It is important to ask and answer this question: What do students need to know and be able to do “out there” as a result of their work in our...
View Article100 Day Project – Day 53 – Innovators
100 Day Project – Day 53 – 10:14 pm “Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society…but for me, education means making creators…you have to make...
View Article100 Day Project – Day 56 – The Stream of Life
100 Day Project – Day 56 – 10:16 p.m. “Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.” Mr....
View ArticleFirsts…
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ~ T.S. Eliot “Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I...
View ArticleMr. Rogers and being human
Mister Rogers and Newtown: Quote and image goes viral : It’s a way of leading you out of the bad towards the good.” I’ve looked to Mr. Rogers for almost 40 years. First, as a young...
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“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.” Evelyn Waugh The “Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keiller”...
View Article100 days, but who’s counting?
On this birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay, a quote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — / It gives a lovely light!” In 100 days I...
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“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” ? T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
View Article46 and an iron
I’m not just retiring from the company, I’m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. ~Hartman Jule
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Winter hardiness and sticking together…
“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” Vesta M. Kelly I thought this was a perfect quote for those of us enduring this...
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Doing and being hope
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness. What...
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Quote of the week: “… dive in.”
“Ask yourself what you’re not doing now that you’d do on the last day of your life. Take the time you have now to look at your priorities through new eyes before reality forces you to. Imagine...
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Be a traveler, not a tourist.
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” G.K. Chesterton Just a couple of months ago, in September, hubby and I enjoyed an amazing trip with Odysseys Unlimited to...
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