Teach & Serve II, No. 7 – Don’t Waste a Good Laugh Being Too Professional September 21, 2016 … how often are we wound tightly by the seriousness of our work? How often are we so taken with the gravity of the job that we forget to smile? How often, each and every day, do we…
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EduQuote of the Week: September 19 – 25, 2016
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. John Dewey
Teach & Serve II, No. 6 – Right Place at the Right Time
Teach & Serve II, No. 6 – Right Place at the Right Time September 14, 2016 I just don’t know what having a 3.75 or a 4.00 does for you? Will it potentially get you into a better school? Sure it will. Potentially. Will it get you a scholarship? Same answer. Potentially. Should you work hard because,…
EduQuote of the Week: September 12 – 18, 2016
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than to provide ready-made knowledge. Seymour Papert
Now That’s How To Start A School Year… One Day More
Thanks to Jim Broderick King, Ignatian Identity Coordinator at Regis Jesuit High School for putting me on to this after he saw it on his Facebook page! This needs very little introduction. In the fall of 2015, the Des Moines School District thought their district-wide Back-to-School Meetings had grown a little stale and, rather than…
Teach & Serve II, No. 5 – Explore. Seek Out. Go Boldly.
Teach & Serve II, No. 5 – Explore. Seek Out. Go Boldly. September 7, 2016 Isn’t that what we want our students to become? Explorers? Don’t we want them to be seekers? And are we really doing our best by them if we aren’t inspiring them to go boldly? Teachers, listen up. Here is a quick…
EduQuote of the Week: September 5 – 11, 2016
Lord, show me the way and I’ll do the work. Deanna Jump
Teach & Serve II, No. 4 – Fight the System
Teach & Serve II, No. 4 – Fight the System August 31, 2016 Because we often venerate those who came before us in our institutions, we tend to venerate the systems they created right along with them. We sometimes talk about “human systems” – the architecture of people who live and work and journey together. These human…
EduQuote of the Week: August 29 – September 6, 2016
The supreme art of the teacher is to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
Teach & Serve II, No. 3 – One Thing at a Time, Not Everything All at Once
Teach & Serve II, No. 3 – One Thing at a Time, Not Everything All at Once August 24, 2016 Don’t ignore. Don’t demolish. Work the problem. Work it piece-by-piece. No matter what subject we teach, we think it parts, not wholes. Take US History for example: when history teachers begin the year, they know where they have…