One of the best received activities in the Values in Action! Program is to create a Personal Time Line. Using an adding machine roll of paper write the numbers 1through 80 leaving about an inch between each number writing with black ink. Place a red line on 20,40,60,80 to show a person’s life in four… Read more »
A teacher recently gave his high performing students a test. He pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed mason jar and set it on a table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top… Read more »
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. –
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. –
In the Hands of a Gifted Teacher A Classroom is a Magical Place In the Hands of a Gifted Teacher There’s a Smile on Each Child’s Face In the Hands of a Gifted Teacher Creative Energy is Everywhere In the Hands of a Gifted Teacher There’s a Catalyst who Genuinely Cares In the Hands of… Read more »
John Franz thinks he has one great mom. Oprah Winfrey agrees with him. So Oprah flew Barbara Franz to Chicago on Wednesday to tape one of her monthly ” Great Moms” shows. John’s mother was chosen because of her Inspirational Parenting. Despite his systemic Rheumatoid Arthritis a disease that affects the joints and organs she… Read more »
Wouldn’t it be marvelous if we could see into another person’s heart and know exactly how he feels? Instead of grappling with words and language to try to understand each other, we could simply read each other’s thoughts. Such dreams are the stuff of science fiction. No matter how well we think we know someone,… Read more »
Lord of reality make me real, not plastic.., synthetic.., pretend phony.., an actor playing out his part.., or a hypocrite. I don’t want to keep a prayer list but to pray. Nor agonize to find Your will but to obey what I already know, I don’t want to argue theories of inspiration but submit to… Read more »
“Head and heart should be developed together. The mind is but the instrument used by the heart…All your books will not save your life from failure if your heart goes wrong; if your heart goes right, it can take a head and make it useful to society.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. – C.S. Lewis
