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Sep26

the teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. – e. hubbard

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the first year that i became a teacher

i challenged

my multi-age third-fifth grade class

to find

the longest word in the english language

antidisestablishmentarianism

to learn

how to spell it

to discover

its meaning

to be

excited

about the power of words

then

i received

the above note

 from one of those students

challenging me back

at a higher level

and

i was

excited

about the power

of his words

and

understood

their meaning

and

discovered

that

i loved

being a teacher

and

learning

every single day

 

May29

Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

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it was camping day.

we went outside

and hiked

and looked at lots of stuff

and touched it

and found all sorts of things.

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we tried to catch a frog to see him up close.

and if we did we promised we would put him back in his home after.

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and we got in the mud.

even those of us who usually don’t like to get dirty.

and we learned so much stuff.

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Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education.  – David Polis

 

 

Mar31

it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass

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it was building day in kindergarten and all kinds of things were being built.

both those one could easily see and proudly carry home, and those one could carry inside forever.

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I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.
Red Skelton

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Feb5

* ‘when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.’

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s, age 4, has taught himself to read. here, he has a teaching moment, when he reads a challenging non-fiction book, about the amazing story of two unlikely animals who became the best of friends. the animals were drawn together, through circumstance and fate, and each found what they needed in the other, becoming somehow better, and changed forever, by being together. as s reads aloud to his classmates, they begin to understand this, and learn that all things are possible.

“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”- Scott Hayden

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* title quote credit: a saying, alternately attributed to Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni and the Theosophists.

Aug20

it’s my story, and i’m sticking to it

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returning to school this week for a bit of professional development. gearing up for the return of my kinders in just a couple of weeks. had a case of ‘mistaken identity’ this morning that made it clear that i’m getting back into school mode. 

reached into my purse, and this is what i expected to put on my lips:

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instead, this is what i actually put on my lips:

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good thing it is ‘disappearing purple’ color. 

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.  – Albert Einstein