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You Can Become a Better Person (Day Seven: Twelve Days of Wisdom)
It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you. -Randy Pausch I make...
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The Basic Physical Stuff is Amazingly Important (Day Nine: Twelve Days of...
Sleep is the best meditation. -Dalai Lama These are the simplest pieces of wisdom in this whole collection, and they are amazingly powerful. Oh, how I wish I could relive those days in my 20’s, 30’s,...
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It’s Best to Face Your Fears and Let Your Kids Face Their Fears, Too (Day...
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. -Pema Chodron Is there anything more painful than watching your child suffer? But when we shield our...
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The Key to Happiness is Becoming a Lower Maintenance Person (Day Eleven:...
Because attention, time, and energy are all limited resources, scaling down and living a high-quality yet low-maintenance life is really the way to maximize contentment and minimize stress. Perhaps you...
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The Wisdom to Know the Difference (Day Twelve: Twelve Days of Wisdom)
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. -The Serenity Prayer I like Victorian-era cemeteries, and...
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ADHD Types I and II?
One of my students included this very interesting 9-minute TED talk in a psychology class project. The speaker proposes that, as with diabetes, there are now arguably two forms of ADHD. We could call...
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To Read Is To Grow: Literacy in Cuba
I was very fortunate to have spent eight days of my spring break in Cuba! Americans still need a reason (other than pure tourism) to be allowed to visit Cuba, and I went on an educational research...
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Math is fun…until it’s not…until it IS!
Little kids typically love math. They enjoy counting, and sorting shapes, and playing math games, and learning how to add. But soon, of course, the math gets harder and becomes a lot less fun....
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Is Math Acceleration A Good Idea?
Way back when I was in school, Algebra I was considered a ninth grade course, and it was only a handful of “honors” kids who took it as eighth graders. Since then, there’s been a trend towards...
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Begin the Year By Noticing Student Progress
Change takes time, but kids DO make progress. It’s often easier for me to see the growth in my students, because I don’t see them every day. Parents are pleasantly surprised when I point out the gains...
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