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Are You Teaching Black History in a Culturally Responsive Way?
-If you’re planning lessons for Black History Month, you NEED to read this blog post first!
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Teacher Burnout Resources for You
-Even the best teachers, the cream of the crop, get tired. There are days when our passion ebbs but doesn’t flow. Or, maybe we’re searching, we’re digging deep, but you can’t even find even an ounce of drive.
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The Socratic Method of Teaching
-…when you tell people what to do, their minds close. You lose their experience, knowledge, and creativity…” Dennis continues, “‘What do you think?’ Means the leader is the teacher
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Don’t Wait to Be A Hero
-I would offer this reminder, don’t wait, don’t wait to make your first million to make a difference in someone’s life. If you have something to give, give it now…
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Don’t Grab the Conversation
-When we actively listen, we can understand what the other person is trying to convey and give them the best response instead of grabbing the conversation and running away with it
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What is Confirmation Bias?
-Confirmation Bias is: “bias that results from the tendency to process and analyze information in such a way that it supports one’s preexisting ideas and convictions.”
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Shoulder Taps – Moved to Connect with Others
-Saying kind words or doing a simple act of kindness can change the world around us for the better. When you feel like you should say something kind to someone, don’t hold back, you may change their world forever.
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Classroom Environment and Student Behavior
-“The broken windows theory states that visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment encourage further disorder and misbehavior, leading to serious crimes. The principle was developed to explain the decay of neighborhoods, but it is often applied to work and educational environments.”
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A Key Ingredient to Success? Failure.
-There are three sure-fire ways to eliminate criticism in your life: be dreadfully normal; do not take any risks whatsoever; and do your best to sacrifice what is special and unique about yourself in order to blend in as much as possible. Of course, this is clearly not the recipe for living your best life. You cannot avoid criticism but you can learn to live with it…
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The Value of Weeds
-“The human condition guarantees that each life will encounter natural and largely unpredictable trauma. . . . Leadership, by its very nature, is entwined with adversity.”
