In my classroom, I like to use certain phrases and sayings that have become somewhat of a cliché for me. One of my favorite phrases to use is, “Common sense is not a flower that grows in every garden.” Most people like the phrase “common sense ain’t so common”. Common sense is the general term…
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe There has been a lot of talk about process over product in education for a while. It really seemed to gain traction during the pandemic when school (and work) were forced to go remote. Many school districts…
This is one of those questions or comments that I get all the time. “All your students get 100.” “Your class must be easy if everyone gets 100.” And my favorite one, “You can’t give everyone a 100 because I can’t defend that to a parent when the student is failing everything else.” And that…
What does it mean to be Coachable??? You hear that term around athletics quite a bit, but what does it actually mean? How can you apply it to yourself and your classroom? All good questions! Let’s look a little deeper and unpack what this really means: Being coachable, or coachability, means you are capable of…