100 Day Project – Day 33 – 4:16 p.m. I am grateful for this, / a moment of truth, / grateful to stand before You / in judgment. / You know me as a liar / and I am flooded with relief / to have my darkest self / exposed at last. / Every [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Quote of the Week'
100 Day Project – Day 33 – a sweet year
October 8th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week
Tags: family·sweet·Yom Kippur
100 Day Project – Day 21 – Librarians
September 28th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, librarians, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 21 – 8:04 p.m. Today at the community college where I teach the librarians hosted a Banned Book reading. The librarians had a few excerpts to read, and others brought readings as well. We heard segments from Harry Potter, Lolita, And Tango Makes Three and the entire Howl. I was [...]
Tags: banned books·Books·Children·college·conversations·learning·librarians·teaching
100 Day Project – Day 18 – Carla
September 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 18 – 1:45 p.m. (when I started) “Here’s the lesson: If you have something to say on the page, don’t hesitate. Don’t procrastinate. Don’t make excuses. Seize every moment you find to write. Honor your voice and your stories. Starting now. Because this moment is all we have–take it from [...]
Tags: aging·conversations·family·loss of a dear friend·quote·teaching·Work
100 Day Project – Day 17 – Power
September 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 17 – 9:47 p.m. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A student that I had last semester came up to [...]
100 Days Project – Day 11 – Passion
September 15th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Days Project – Day 11 – 8:31 p.m. “Ten. At the end of the day, good teaching is about having fun, experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards … like locking eyes with a student in the back row and seeing the synapses and neurons connecting, thoughts being formed, the person becoming better, and a smile [...]
100 Days Project – Day 10 – Individual Student
September 14th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, photo of the week, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning
?? Some days I’d like to be a teacher of long ago (okay, I’d like to believe it’s long ago, but in fact I know there are still teachers who teach this way) who gave the same lesson to all the students each day. I am always surprised each September (why is it I forget?) [...]
Tags: curriculum·Howard Gardner·learning·lesson plans·Multiple Intelligences·photo·quote·teaching
Quote of the week from Mr. Rogers
May 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Children, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week
“It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls. It’s knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is firm.”
Quote of the Week : Martin Luther King Jr.
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Important People, Quote of the Week
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr: “In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies; but the silence of our friends.” MLK 1929-1968
Quote of the Week
January 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · family, Quote of the Week
I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou
