by edtosavetheworld | Sep 24, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Most of us are just about a month into the school year, which means the honeymoon phase is over. Grades are in and students have started to feel successful or unsuccessful in the context of our classes. Their “best behavior” has transitioned into limit...
by edtosavetheworld | Sep 23, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Looking for ways to make your classroom more joyful and efficient? Want to model world-changing practices for your students? Join me in a little challenge: go paperless! Drawing inspiration from yesterday’s march for the climate in New York, I’m giving...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 10, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Today’s ponder post asks: In our hectic, get-as-many-things-done-as-possible pace, can we afford a few minutes of exercise each day? A better question is: Can we afford NOT to exercise? “Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 8, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
What’s more important? Students practicing discrete skills such as multiplication, identifying the main idea of a paragraph and memorizing dates in history OR Students engaged in higher ordered thinking, having socratic discussions on questions that have only...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 7, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Old Thinking New Thinking How many things can I accomplish in a day? How can I best spend my time to maximize results? Efficient meant getting things done quickly. Efficient means spending time on things that matter. Focus on short term accomplishments. Focus on the...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 3, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
People can tell how we regard them based on our body language. We naturally smile more and have a more open position with people we like or highly regard. We also tend to have more closed body language with people we consciously or subconsciously don’t like....
