Archive For The “frustration” Category
I really thought I might make it, writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month. But since I’ve now missed a day, I think it’s time to end this experiment. This was a stretch for me. My writing has been limited to feature and news stories for our local paper, academic writing, and blog [...]
I went skiing yesterday.But that wasn’t the hard part. Riding the chair lift almost paralyzed me. You see, I hate heights. Really. And fast rides that make me feel out of control. I tried skiing a few years ago at Snowshoe, and I almost fainted when the lift stopped halfway up to rescue someone who [...]
An early morning brain dump: Why not…. eliminate grouping by grade levels. Let students move through outcomes and benchmarks at their own pace. hire teachers year round for a substantial increase in salary. Most effective work needs to happen when students aren’t in class. Teachers must stop thinking of their day as time spent only [...]
photo © 2008 dierk schaefer | more info (via: Wylio) I am listening to Opening to Our Lives with Jon Kabat-Zinn, a podcast about mindfulness tweeted by @micwalker this morning. But I am also writing this post. Kabat-Zinn asks: Can you hold this moment in awareness? No, I can’t. And I wonder if all this [...]
photo © 2009 Lucie Provencher | more info (via: Wylio) I awoke today in a bad mood. Tossing and turning all night, I couldn’t get comfortable. The cat might have had something to do with it. My feet were cold, too, so when I hit the icy floor, the chill spread throughout my body. I [...]
If part of your work means helping folks understand the shift in educational reform/revolution and the necessity for change, then this may help. I stumbled across this e-book by Rick Maurer recently, and his suggestions for helping implement change seem simple yet profound. He says there are three reasons why people don’t change. Level One: [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot about having “no time” lately. I”ve been there, too. And I love Edward Hallowell’s advice in this HBR essay. He say, Never before in human history have we asked our brains to process as many data points per minute as we do today. He offers these three suggestions: Remedy # [...]
I don’t like to complain. But ever since I started working from home, my house has been turned upside down. We decided to tear off a porch, remove a wall, and extend the living room. That means, of course, all the furniture is piled in the dining room, where I’m trying to work. The eight [...]
Today’s CEO is not social, says Forrester Research’s CEO George Colony–in a study reported today on the Mashable site. I pulled one of the quotes that made me think about administrators in our schools: Colony has concluded that, “None of the CEOs of Fortune Magazine’s top 100 global corporations have a social profile.” Wow. None. But should [...]
I once told Sheryl Nussbaum Beach I didn’t feel moved to change the world. We were chatting about all things education–and how some folks are comfortable presenting to large crowds (I’m not), and some feel compelled to change the world of schooling (I wasn’t). At the time, I felt that my personal line in the [...]