Cedar Park Elementary School The Cedar Park Elementary School has included their core values in their Behavior Code. 1. Play Safely Physical roughness is not allowed. Follow bicycle rules. 2. Be Respectful *for self *for others *for your environment 3.Be a Friend Share. Talk things out. Treat everyone as you wish to be treated. 4…. Read more »
Integrity; How to Get It, How to Keep It by Jim Ca Integrity; How to Get It, How to Keep It by Jim Carroll, addresses many issues of integrity and ethics: Here are a few. How did we get here – what went wrong? Where did the moral compass disappear? An overview of the workplace… Read more »
My youngest son is severely handicapped by Autism. His speech is limited. He cannot relate well to other people. Learning is difficult for him. The smallest problems can seem like the end of the world to him emotionally. Tiny changes frustrate and upset him greatly. His life is limited in many ways. Still, when he… Read more »
“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” – Menander
1. I AM A UNIQUE UNREPEATABLE MIRACLE WOVEN TOGETHER LIKE NO OTHER INDIVIDUAL. 2. EVEN WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN IN OUR LIVES, REJECTION, ABUSE, BAD GRADES, DIVORCE, WE ARE STILL AN UNREPEATABLE AND UNIQUE MIRACLE. 3. APPROVAL, AFFIRMATIONS, AND ACCEPTANCE, WHILE DESIREABLE, ARE NOT WHAT MAKE ME UNIQUE. 4. I CAN BE SPECIAL AND UNIQUE,… Read more »
Integrity is one of the most important and oft-cited of virtue terms. It is also perhaps the most puzzling. For example, while it is sometimes used virtually synonymously with
Gifts are not just the temporal expressions for various holidays that most often are mere things we exchange. I recently spoke to Tracey Bailey, the National Teacher of the Year, about a wonderful gift he gives his eight children at home. Every week they identify various kinds of problems they feel need to be solved… Read more »
“A life without purpose is a life left with only the possibilities!” – Gene Bedley
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin
Clothespin Activity by Jason M. Wallin, Oak Harbor, Washington, USA. This activity is to encourage the use of the intrinsic muscles of the hand (the small muscles in the fingers) or the arches of the hand (the muscles that bend the fingers towards the palm or towards the thumb). If you are working on the… Read more »
