Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
This post first appeared on trustED and is reprinted with permission. Think about the instructions that you are given by the steward before an airplane takes off: “In the unlikely event of a lack of oxygen…be sure you put your Read More …
by Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda There are predictable policies and practices in the opening month of school that center around setting goals as a classroom teacher, grade level, department, or school. Well-intentioned to be sure, but perhaps Read More …
By Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda As we confront the tests of life, we begin to realize our potentials, talents, beliefs, values, styles, and tastes. With age, we continue to discover new talents, insights, and ways to apply Read More …
Getting along well with other people is still the world’s most needed skill. With it…there is no limit to what a person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do Read More …
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. -Herbert W. Boyer On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed within 7800 Read More …
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. -Marya Mannes Do you ever find yourself just blurting out what comes to mind? After you say it, do you regret it? Do you find yourself Read More …
There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for. -John Keating, Teacher in Dead Poet’s Society So, the challenge, as John Keating puts it, is how do we become Read More …
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. -Ellie Katz Humor refers to our human ability to perceive and express a sense of the clever or amusing: What is the astronaut’s favorite place on the computer? The space bar. Humor Read More …
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Read More …
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get Read More …