Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
So many teachers believe that Habits of Mind is so important but they struggle with how to meaningfully make that part of their instructional practice. Based on my collaboration with elementary school teachers at the Quinnipiac Real World Magnet Math Read More …
By Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda How can we encourage student reflection and growth in each of the four attributes? We have found that it is helpful to pay attention to key Habits of Mind associated with voice, co-creation, social 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 …
Learning is the ability to make sense out of something you observe based on your past experience and being able to take that observation and associate it with meaning. – Ruth and Art Winter Intelligent human beings learn from reflecting Read More …
Our ‘inner voice’ is what we use to reflect on what we do, how and why we behave in the way we do, how we critique ourselves and how we connect the knowledge, ideas, concepts and concept frameworks developed using Read More …