100 Day Project – Day 45 – 9;05 p.m. Become a Big. Do you want to make a difference in the world? Yes, you could donate some money, bring some cans to the food bank, donate your old clothes, your old car, and put coins in the red bucket during the holidays. These are good […]
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100 Day Project – Day 45 – Power of Mentoring
October 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 45 – Power of Mentoring · 100 Days Project, Children, Important People, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Volunteer, Work
Tags: Big Brothers·Big Sisters·Children·conversations·family·time·volunteer·Work
100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking
October 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Work
100 Day Project – Day 44 – 9:30 p.m. This evening I had occasion to have dinner with three other very bright, and devoted women: women who have worked for years with young children and their families. Discussion ranged from jobs and families to the state of politics, and about children. This recent study was […]
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100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs
October 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared […]
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100 Day Project – Day 37 – Mark Twain
October 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 37 – Mark Twain · 100 Days Project, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. – The Prince and the Pauper Supposing is good, but finding out is better. – Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain’s Autobiography That’s all I have to say today. It’s been a day of deep learning, excitement over the transformation that learning brings, and the […]
100 Day Project – Day 36 – Regurgitate
October 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 36 – Regurgitate · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Musings, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 36 – 9:55 (This is yesterday’s posting.) This afternoon on a walk with my five-year-old granddaughter, we stopped to admire a few ants — we were already carrying a Wooly Bear caterpillar in a jar with us (doesn’t everyone know that even caterpillars need afternoon exercise?) — and she informed […]