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2 Ears+1 Mouth = Listening>Talking

We have become a culture that values talking, and has forgotten how to listen. Last week, I attended Carol Carter’s seminar, “Coaching Students on Risk and Reward.” Towards the end of the presentation,...

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Want a Resolution to Stick? Choose 1 Word

The New York Times reports, “Four out of five people who make New Year’s resolutions will eventually break them. In fact, a third won’t even make it to the end of January.” Rather depressing, huh? So...

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Why Kids Need To Be More Like Captain Kirk

Today I started showing Randy Pausch’s famous last lecture, Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, to my students. If you haven’t already seen it, watch it. So one of Randy’s childhood dreams was “Being...

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Taking Head Fakes from the Football Field to the Classroom

In his Last Lecture, Randy Pausch asserts, “We send our kids out to play football. We actually don’t want our kids to learn just football. We send them out to learn much more– teamwork, sportsmanship...

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4 Simple Ways to Fight Childhood Obesity (from the comfort of your own kitchen)

According to the American Heart Association, 1 in 3 children (ages 2-19) are overweight and obese. Scary, huh? It’s not difficult to uncover the contributing factors to this statistic: children would...

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Want Kids to Make Healthier Choices in the Lunchroom? Redesign It.

Last week we covered different ways to fight childhood obesity from the comfort of your own kitchen. But what happens when your kids are at school? Lunchrooms are notorious for offering unhealthy food...

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Fix the “Broken Windows” in Your Workplace

The Broken Windows Theory is the sociological dogma that if a community tolerates peccadillos (such as broken windows and graffiti), serious crimes are more likely to occur. In her post in Psychology...

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Speed Dating…With Books

Nowadays no one has enough time. Can’t make it to Target after work? Order online. Don’t have time to stop at the bank to deposit that check? Take a picture of it with your phone and send it to them....

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Emerson Is Right: Focus on Depth, Not Breadth

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.” I couldn’t agree more. But when I began to think of education,...

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Practice Doesn’t Always Make Perfect

We’ve always been taught that the more we practice, the more we will improve. And that logic makes sense. But when it comes to becoming a better teacher, this formula doesn’t necessarily apply. A group...

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