âTrue scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.â -James Russell Lowell
Do any of you remember being thrilled about learning how to simplify fractions? I memorized some rules for how to do it and used these rules to complete worksheets filled with fractions.…
âDonât believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and youâll see the way to fly.â -from the poem, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
âWhat we call differentiated is not a recipe for teaching.…
âCreative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.â -Rudolf Flesch
Todayâs Inspiration Blog is also an Activity Blog. If you continue reading youâll understand whyâŚ
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 itâ John Cage
John Cageâs 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. …
âYou have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.â -Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many, many different (and very long definitions) for the term Differentiating Instruction. The simplest one I’ve ever used is:
âDifferentiating instruction means regularly âshaking upâ whatâs going on in your classroom.â…
âI have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.â -Leonardo da Vinci
A group of teachers once told me that using small groups in mathematics didnât 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.…
âMan must shape his tools lest they shape him.â    -Arthur Miller
âAn architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.â    -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.”…
“Language permits us to see. Without the word, we are all blind.” âCarlos Fuentes
“Language is not merely a means of expression and communication; it is an instrument of experiencing, thinking, and feeling … Our ideas and experiences are not independent of language; they are all integral parts of the same pattern, the warp and woof of the same texture.…
