This post is written for my 4th grade students that I meet with each week. We talk math, we talk leadership, and this week, we again, talked GRIT! Accepting that “experts” are made and not born has two results, one very sobering and the other liberating: It means that we are all responsible for our own […]
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I am a big reader. I love to read and have even gotten in trouble for reading in the shower. (TMI?) I read in the car, I read at volleyball practice, I read while waiting for small curly headed 4 year old to fall asleep. Last year I took on the idea from Jessica Johnson,
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There is clearly not enough time in the day. I have a never ending to do list that seems to grow more than it shrinks. Recognizing that I don’t have enough time to do all the things that I have to do, much less what I want to do, I still feel like this post
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This post is written for my 4th grade students that I meet with each week. We talk math, we talk leadership, and this week, we talked GRIT! WWW, I hope you enjoyed the video today! We had a great conversation about what having grit could LOOK like FOR 4th graders. Please remember to
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This post was originally written for Classflow. After you’re done reading, check out this webinar and blog post to learn how ClassFlow can support various ways of demonstrating mastery, too! As important as it is to have academic goals, learning outcomes, and a decisive idea of where your curriculum road is going, how do you
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Education Week has challenged school principals to share pictures of how they spend their day on Wednesday Jan. 7th. If you follow the hashtag #APrincipalsDay on Twitter and/or Instagram you will finally find out what happens behind the scenes. Edweek Article Our aim is to gather a wide variety of images from school leaders in
While researching standards for my post on leadership, I discovered the tenets of leadership as defined by the state of Texas. Intrigued, I decided to delve a bit deeper into each standard, and see how it truly relates to my role. While these standards could establish what defines a leader on paper, I want to
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I love that Jetpack sends me this “summary” of my year in writing. I also love that my top post included Kliff Kingsbury, 🙂 (wreck’em!) This post is purely for myself…as Tony Sinanis just talked about, accepting the awesome that was my 2014. My celebrations and “thanks” of 2014? Experiencing an earthquake while in LA
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One of the benefits of having two whole weeks off at the holidays is the opportunity to listen to the Troy Aikman weekly call into our local radio station. (side note: what in the world would I have done if I had grownup somewhere other than Dallas??) He was, of course, talking about the Dallas
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Making goals is easy…the challenge comes in actually making them happen. My goals this year aren’t exciting. They aren’t earth shattering. They are, however, going to be accomplish-able, which to me, is the whole point. Some build on things from the fall semester. Some are in conjunction with accountability from my friends, my peers,
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