“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.” -Rudolf Flesch
Today’s Inspiration Blog is also an Activity Blog. If you continue reading you’ll understand why…
Friday was an early release day for all three of my children, so I decided to make Glenna Tabor, educational consultant, take the day off.…
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” -Xenocrates
“I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it” John Cage
John Cage’s most famous musical composition is called 4’33”.
It consists of the pianist going to the piano, and not hitting any keys for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. …
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many, many different (and very long definitions) for the term Differentiating Instruction. The simplest one I’ve ever used is:
“Differentiating instruction means regularly “shaking up” what’s going on in your classroom.”…
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
I was working with a school a few weeks ago as we planned for the remainder of the year. The things we identified, at the beginning of the planning process, were the most challenging topics or concepts that the teachers were going to teach in mathematics.…
“As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. ” -Cokie Roberts
“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” -Edgar Watson Howe
I woke up this morning and looked at the stuffed animal my parents brought back from Germany a few years ago.…
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo da Vinci
A group of teachers once told me that using small groups in mathematics didn’t meet the needs of all their students.…
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” -Mother Teresa
When someone asks me what schools I’ve worked with during my career as an educational consultant, my answer is always, “the ones where you wouldn’t drive at night.” My heart is pulled to the teachers and students in these schools.…
“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.” -Arthur Miller
“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
Many of you have counted down the days till you received a much deserved spring break.…
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world… The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way … people look at reality, then you can change it.”…
“Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn’t fall there.”
– unknown
This morning my son asked me what I was doing today. I showed him my “to do” list. At the top was written, “write my inspiration blog.” He asked me how many people read it.…
