During clean-up time the Center Inspector is responsible for making sure peers have cleaned up the area they have been working in before leaving and at the end of work time. They check their respective centers and ask peers to go back and pick up materials as well assist them. Robyn Meadows Montgomery County Schools… Read more »
CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper, in his address to graduates at Yale recently, made some excellent points. However, he forgot to mention success comes as we apply certain principals to our lives. Here are some key points you may not have learned in a college classroom but which are necessary for anyone’s success: (1) Find your… Read more »
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver
“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
I have a student who would run in the halls. To help him remember to slow down and walk, I placed a small laminated stop sign at each corner of the school as a visual reminder. I also gave the student a strawberry basket with a large juice can in it and had him hold… Read more »
1. When you validate, value, and affirm your child, you become valued, validated, and affirmed. 2. When you demean, weaken, and devalue your child, you become weak, powerless, and ineffective. 3. Praise in little amounts reaps high dividends. Praise in large amounts is destructive. Encouragement contributes the most toward responsibility! 4. Effective discipline includes intrinsic… Read more »
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
A Different Perspective In the middle of my tee ball lesson, a student came to me holding his crotch. He said you really need to listen to the bag. He said pleeeeeeease, listen to the bag. He began to moan. I put the bag to my ear and listened, and I then told him he… Read more »
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. — Russell W. Davenport – Russell W. Davenport
