Sunday, March 5, 2006 In the course of my visit to a nice, suburban middle school, I spoke with a table of smarty-pantses gathered from each of the three grades for me to interview. I started the conversation by asking what the biggest difference was between elementary and middle school. Without skipping a beat, a… Read more »
ST. LOUIS A study of youth sports found evidence of cheating, taunting, even intentionally trying to hurt an opponent. And the bad behavior wasn t limited to the kids. Some coaches admitted yelling at athletes even verbally abusing them, and some players said they were struck. The study was conducted by researchers at the University… Read more »
Increase your ability to diagnose and prescribe options for your students by adjusting the rate at which you process information from listening and speaking. The average person speaks at a rate of about 120 words a minute, but most people can listen four times faster. The reality is listeners fill the gap with other thoughts… Read more »
1. Strengthens conscience and awareness of the right thing to do. 2. Promotes respect for differences. 3. Increases personal responsibility. 4. Helps kids see how choices not only affect them, but also their class, school, and family. 5. Helps kids understand ethics and morality. 6. Provides a reference point for all discipline problems. 7. Facilitates… Read more »
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. – Merry Browne
1. Strengthens conscience and awareness of the right thing to do. 2. Promotes respect for differences. 3. Increases personal responsibility. 4. Helps kids see how choices not only effect them, but also their class, school, and family. 5. Helps kids understand ethics and morality. 6. Provides a reference point for all discipline problems. 7. Facilitates… 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 »
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the… Read more »
” When we think we’ve “arrived” Remember the lesson of the whale: just when you get to the top, and you start to blow that’s when you get harpooned The man who gets too big for his britches will be exposed in the end. ” When we’re afraid to take necessary risks The fear of… Read more »
“It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.” – John Holmes, Jr
