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Trust
We trust others as we trust ourselves.
One of the greatest gifts we can give to the youngsters in our care is trust. It starts with having a deep trust in oneself, in the deeper parts of oneself. Before you can extend genuine trust to others, especially the children in your care, it’s got [...]
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Confidence
Little Johnny Whitaker was rambling down the alleyway on his way to the Saturday afternoon baseball game with his buddies. Bat, mitt and ball in hand, White Sox cap on head, he was ready for the big game!
“Johnny ‘Blue Eyes’ Whitaker, best hitter in the world!” he called out as he pitched himself the [...]
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What is School to a Child?
What is school to a child?
It may be a refuge, a safe place, a warm place.
It may be the one decent meal in a day.
It might very well be the one constant in their life.
It may be a big place, an overwhelming place, a confusing place, where a familiar face makes all the difference.
It [...]
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Connective Language Arts
Here is an exercise to help expand and enhance vocabulary. It is a way to make words come alive! You and your students will enjoy a lifetime of learning from it…
Words, words, words! We use them all the time, thousands and thousands every day.
Do you feel that your words really connect? Does your use [...]
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The White Fortress And The Mud Thatch Hut
Here follows a true tale which further opens up the question of leadership for our time. It takes place in a very unique circumstance. But the dynamics are universal. It could be a classroom, a school, a family, a tribe, a nation…any community. This story offers a helpful magnifying glass on a subject that [...]
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Respect
To engender respect in young people is to grow respect in the world. All relationships can only benefit by the mindful presence of respect. It begins, as is true of so many things, with you! Respect in oneself to oneself.
Respect is to love something for what it is!
It is allowing someone or something [...]
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Telling Your Story
Telling your story is more valuable than you may realize. The students in your care, your family, YOU - need to hear your stories. NOT as you were then, but as you are now! That is important. Why? Well, telling the stories that make up the tapestry of your life from where you are [...]
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Spirit of Defiance
Sometimes you’ve just got to get on with your deeper life endeavor in defiance to all that comes to distract or detract from it!
One of the expressions of that deeper motivation is the fact that you have chosen to help the human race on by becoming an exceptional educator.
Honoring that choice sometimes brings you [...]
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What is the Most Essential Vitamin?
Stories of Geronimo and the Apache resistance all carry and convey similar vital and haunting threads…
Viewed from outside, the Apache resistance appeared to be all about preservation. Preservation of a peoples, preservation of a way of life, preservation of honor and dignity. And yes, their struggle was indeed about these things - but not [...]
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Essential Vitamins - Primer
What are some of the essential vitamins for children of the 21st century?
Here are a few primers, starters, food for thought - in response to this question. What are your ideas, contemplations, perceptions on the subject? You are welcome to share them with us…
Educators of every kind have an extraordinary privilege and opportunity [...]
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