I love GapingVoid cartoons. Here is the one that I am most recently in love with: Source: gapingvoidart.com via Sonya on Pinterest As a fan of Simon Sinek and “Start With Why?”, this cartoon is a great reminder for once you have your why pinned down – or as pinned down as defining your purpose … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Inspiration
To Learn Is To Live
A beautiful reminder to stay curious, always, because the future belongs to the curious. Continue reading »
16 Rules for Sharing Your Story
Yesterday, I posted about Sharing Your Story. Today, I turned the “16 Rules” into a graphic that I will share with my students tomorrow at school – and with you tonight! Click on the image to enlarge. Click here to download a PDF file. Continue reading »
We All Could Do With a Little More “Happy”
A parent of one of my students recently sent me this video: Shawn Achor encourages us to think differently about the correlation between success and happiness. Many people would say that if you become successful, you will be happy. Achor argues that if your focus is first on being happy, success will follow and your happiness will be longer … Continue reading »
Write Your Story – Change History
All the great things that haven’t happened yet, are history waiting to happen. Brad Meltzer presents this idea and more in his passionate, inspired TED talk: Write Your Story, Change History His three main points: Dream Big Martin Luther King Jr. was 26, Amelia Earhart was 25 and Steve Jobs was 21 when they all made their mark … Continue reading »
Make a Dent
I subscribe to the GapingVoid mailer (highly recommend). It is a short and sweet cartoon delivered to my inbox on a somewhat regular basis. Tonight’s message is the short and simple, Steve Jobs inspired cartoon: Source: gapingvoidart.com via Sonya on Pinterest As Hugh says: I don’t want to know why your brand is good, or … Continue reading »
Motivated By Joy
How do you stay motivated when you are tired/sick/busy/exhausted….or any other number of emotions? I know I have a hard time doing so – the proof of that is in the paltry number of posts to my blog in the last six months. More recently, I have come back to this blog, to Twitter, to … Continue reading »
Speak To Inspire Action
One of the key things I think the Exhibition excels at, is conveying a sense of action. Action is one of the main components in a PYP curriculum, yet often is something that is hard to assess, hard to pin down, and yet something we as teachers REALLY want to happen! As part of our … Continue reading »
More on Passion!
I was playing around today with the idea of evaluation for the Passion Project. I am not the biggest fan of rubrics, but I am interested in providing meaningful indicators of success for my students. To that end, I want to share two items I am thinking of using as evaluative tools: RUBRIC I was … Continue reading »
21st Century / Creativity / Inspiration / PYP
Gearing up for Passion!
In a few weeks, we will kick off our fifth grade Exhibition unit: The Passion Project. It was our first year doing this last year and over the summer, I put a lot of work into the Passion Project – it was (and is) my passion. In addition to pulling out the ‘tried and true’ … Continue reading »
