and really they don’t. Just when I think all is in order I get thrown on my ass again.
Last week’s day in a sentence (hosted by Illya’s EVO Blogfolio) was actually a year in a sentence and it called for reflective sentences on the year that is about to end.
I left the call for sentences [...]
I almost forgot about my favourite line from yesterday’s QPAT convention keynote speaker, Alfie Kohn.
He said it as I was leaving the room so it didn’t end up in my not-live blog post but I just found the page where I scribbled it as I was making my way to my car:
The whole can not [...]
“Those that have survived such perils of the sea as typhoons, suffocating red tides, and attacks from predators are brought ashore and opened. if everything has gone well, the result is a lovely, lustrous and very valuable pearl.” Click image for source.
Yesterday after work I was typing up a commitment contract with our head teacher, [...]
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer (via nezua)
Yesterday I commented on Kelly Hines’ post Core Beliefs about my own core belief that learning happens in community.
Today I found this beautiful sentence in Michael Doyle’s post Puddles:
When one wanders away from one’s usual world, it’s good to have company.
I remember how Meg [...]
[cross-posted at 09/10 ~ Thinking Forward]
Concept map for Bloom’s digital taxonomy. Developed by Andrew Churches of Kristin School in Albany Auckland, New Zealand. Click image for source.
Hmmm… not too sure I like the title. I’d just call it revised again, or updated, or something along those lines. It is a taxonomy that is updated to [...]
I work in an alternative school. Actually, it’s an alternative program within a large school. We have a closed off area of the building with a separate entrance and run by a slightly different schedule – we don’t hear the bells and are just fine with that!
I am completing my first year here and am [...]
How do I take my own advice? Where do I go from here?
Love isn't all softness and comfort.
Because if they can make such deep and significant personal change in such a short time then they can do anything.
This week's Carnival of Education, hosted at leadingfromtheheart.org