tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44509098028312717272024-03-16T00:08:56.989-07:00The Care and Feeding of TeenagersRead along for some
praise, advice, commiseration, and recipes for feeding both the stomachs and the minds of those not-quite-fully-developed young adults we call teens.Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.comBlogger526125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-21597891552157612042014-07-01T05:56:00.000-07:002014-07-01T05:56:00.048-07:00Quick FixesWhy are we always surprised when it gets so hot in Oklahoma? We greet someone, <i>it's so hot!</i> We express surprise at the temperature as it flashes on the bank sign. <i>Triple digits today! O</i>r we observe, t<i>he lake has turned over. </i>Doesn't it do that every year in the summer?<br />
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Its almost the Fourth of July. There will be lots of people to feed. One
thing for sure. It is too hot to turn the oven on. No matter the
temperature, there is still a hungry family around the picnic table or on the boat. For
some strange reason, they still want to be fed. Here are a few easy to
prepare dishes that don't require <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">pre</span>-heating anything.<br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>Southern Shrimp Salad</b></span><br />
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2 pounds shrimp, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">pre</span>-cooked and cleaned (prepare according to directions on package)<br />
Chop into bite size <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">pieces</span>.<br />
Prepare 1 cup rice according to package directions. Drain well and cool.<br />
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To rice add 1/2 cup minced purple onion, 1/2 cup chopped green olives, 1/2 cup chopped celery<br />
Stir in 1 cup mayonnaise and fold in cooled shrimp. Chill and serve.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Make Ahead Curried Chicken Salad</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">De bone</span> and remove skin from one prepared <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">rotisserie</span> chicken. Shred.</span><br />
Add:<br />
1 c. chopped celery<br />
1 c. pineapple chunks, drained<br />
1 c sliced green grapes<br />
1 c mayonnaise<br />
1/2 tsp curry powder<br />
Chill overnight or all day. Before serving add 2 cups <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Chinese</span> noodles<br />
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<span style="color: #33cc00;"><b>Duke Of Windsor Sandwich</b></span><br />
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Legendary Helen Corbett created this dish for a visit to <i><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Neiman</span> Marcu</i>s by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It is delicious. Just don't think about the calories.<br />
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For each sandwich<br />
Toast two slices of a good rustic bread -lightly buttered<br />
Layer:<br />
1 slice <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Swiss</span> cheese<br />
Add 2 to 3 slices of turkey breast<br />
1 slice pineapple-water packed<br />
3 strips of bacon (to keep the stove off, use the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">pre</span>-cooked and microwave)<br />
1 leaf lettuce<br />
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Make a topping of equal amounts<b> </b>1000 Island Dressing and freshly whipped cream (unsweetened)<br />
Put a large dollop of the dressing on the top of the sandwich and add the second slice of bread.<br />
Serve with potato chips, a dill pickle and a knife and fork. Heaven!!!<br />
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Dessert? The peaches are in. The blueberries are ripe. Grab a gallon of good vanilla ice cream and enjoy the blessings of summer!Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-72206365589995414282014-06-23T08:46:00.004-07:002014-06-23T08:46:54.832-07:00Snips and Snails
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Great insight from a Mom's Blog-<i> Lucky Mom of Three Boys</i> . The times they are a changin' aren't they? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those boy are going to be men someday. How to raise them to be the men we want them to be? And what <u>do</u> we want them to be?? Read one Mom's observations below. </span><br />
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What makes a great man? Eeek, that's a tough one! Or, more
importantly, what kind of men do we want our little boys to become? And,
how can we better support them as they develop? <br />
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could be many different answers to this. What's your definition? Is a
great man someone who is independent but also a team player, strong but
emotionally connected and supportive, motivated, courteous, caring and
affectionate, honest, protective, reliable, has good sense of humor? The
list is almost endless and will be different for each person, male or
female. <br />
But what is a man's role today? Not that I aspire to the
past, but just a few decades ago a man's role seemed far more certain
-- the breadwinner, head of the house, protector. Now, women are
actively encouraged to compete alongside men in everything from
education to the workplace to sporting activities, including
traditionally male-based events. This is absolutely as it should be and
there is yet more to be achieved for girls and women's rights. But,
while the focus quite rightly has been on female equality, is there a
chance that in very recent times men, and particularly boys, have been
overlooked? <br />
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What makes me say this? Well, being the mother of
three boys I have a deep interest in their well-being, their
opportunities and their role in life, and I have become aware of a
growing number of negative challenges that boys of this generation are
starting to face. You just have to hear the news to be enlightened about
the concerning facts. In an <em><a href="http://theboysinitiative.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/328" target="_hplink">Open letter to President Obama</a> </em>Mark Sherman quoted statistics for the U.S. (initially compiled by<a href="http://www.edweek.org/media/every100girls-32boys.pdf" target="_hplink"> Tom Mortenson in 2011</a>).
These statistics state that boys are more likely to have a learning
disability, to be suspended from high school, to lag behind their female
counterparts academically, are less likely to graduate from school or
achieve a bachelor degree and even more worryingly are more likely to be
homeless, incarcerated in a correctional facility, and commit suicide.
The position in the U.K. is worryingly similar. Why is this the case?
And why does there not seem to be a greater focus on it? <br />
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On a
social and cultural level, boys seem to face mixed messages when it
comes to their masculinity. If they show too much emotion they may be
branded a sissy (or dare I say a "momma's boy"!). Too much bravado and
they are condemned for being unruly, rough and noisy. They should treat
women as equals, but is being chivalrous OK? (I welcome it, but not all
women do).<br />
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I wholly advocate boys being allowed to be themselves.
Their differences from girls are what makes them unique, fun and
interesting in their own right. Toy fights, mud, toilet humour, shows of
strength, competition, what can seem like relentless energy, noise,
thrill seeking and bravado are all things that should be celebrated
about boys' characters. However, their softer side is also to be
praised. Their creativity, imagination, thoughtfulness, sense of
fairness and forgiveness, inquisitiveness, communication skills, caring
nature and amazing ability to show love and affection are so very
special. In a modern world where men are often a 50:50 partner in the
home, especially when raising a family, these qualities learned in
childhood will be embodied throughout adulthood. The male role seems to
be evolving and so too surely must the typical male stereotypes --
hopefully including the ones relating to relationships with their
mothers!<br />
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I am sure that every significant adult figure has a real
lasting impact on a little boys' life. The father/son relationship is
perhaps more easily defined but I would like to understand how mothers
can also help their sons become some of the best men of the future. I
have read a number of articles about this and the viewpoint that rings
most true is that we should move away from the age old belief that a boy
should be taught to be a 'man' from a young age - to be strong, stand
on his own two feet and suppress his emotions. Instead, to support our
sons (and if we are fortunate enough to be able to) we should try to
develop solid and healthy mother/son relationships, which evolve as they
grow on mutually agreed terms.<br />
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According to Dr William Pollack, author of <a href="http://www.williampollack.com/real_boys.html" target="_hplink"><em>Real Boys</em></a>
and a Harvard lecturer, "Far from making boys weaker, the love of a
mother actually does make boys stronger, emotionally and
psychologically. Far from making boys dependent, the base of safety
that a loving mother can create provides a boy with the courage to
explore the outside world. But most importantly, far from making a boy
act in 'girl-like' ways, a loving mother actually plays an integral role
in helping a boy develop his masculinity." Echoing these views Kate
Stone Lombardi looked in detail at the benefits of a good mother / son
relationship in her book <a href="http://www.mamasboymyth.com/the-book" target="_hplink"><em>The Mama's Boy Myth</em></a>.
So, as to the long list of qualities that people look for in the 'great
man', I can't but try to play a part in helping my boys to achieve
them... but nobody's perfect! <br />
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Looking at the bigger picture, to
give all our boys the best possible start in life I would love there to
be a more equal playing field, so that as they grow they feel as
confident as their female counterparts that they can do and be whatever
they want in their lives. In order to achieve this perhaps the time has
come to raise the profile of boys and accept nothing less (or more!)
than the same opportunities, choices and support for them as we campaign
for, for our girls. <br />
Ultimately, I think the kind of men our
boys will become is determined by the individual boy himself. But, I do
believe we all have an important role to play in providing the best
possible support and environment within which they grow. Let's go for
greatness!</div>
Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-82243607622683129172014-06-10T14:17:00.000-07:002014-06-10T14:17:00.211-07:00Just Listen for a MinuteGraduation is the end of one chapter and the start of another. Keynote speakers at college graduations are the luck of the draw. Some speeches are shoozers, others will resonate with wisdom and common sense. Here are a few quotes from some of my favorites. chrissie<br />
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Steve Jobs, Stanford University in 2005</h2>
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Bono, University of Pennsylvania in 2004</h2>
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"The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for
you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is—a blunt
instrument. So go forth and build something with it. Remember what John
Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest
measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.' Well, this is the
time for bold measures and this is the country and you are the
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Jodie Foster, University of Pennsylvania in 2006</h2>
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"There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you
believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that
your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you
to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers,
your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining
itself more and more every day."
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Jessica Lange, Academy Award- and Golden Globe-Winning Actress, Sarah Lawrence College in 2008</h2>
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"Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be
present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you.
Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss
them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future." </div>
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Bobbi Brown, CEO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Fashion Institute of Technology in 2014</h2>
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“Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed
to you and nothing is easy. You’re not owed anything... No job or task
is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do
the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be
open and learn.”<br />
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Christian Louboutin, Shoe Designer, Fashion Institute of Technology in 2014</h2>
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“It is a great thing to be at your age… You are at a very
specific time of age … an age where you can follow all your dreams. But
also at an age when you can change—you can change your dreams, you can
change paths. When you start something when you’re young, you should not
decide ‘this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.’ You have
the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it
and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.”<br />
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Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-87727761496001269182014-06-03T14:01:00.000-07:002014-06-03T14:01:00.049-07:00Think Outside the Box<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Maybe you are living with a college bound child. Graduation is over and high school is now in the past tense. You are shopping for extra long twin sheets and comparing meal plans and freshman classes. <i>Seventeen</i> magazine shares some suggestions of what Not to miss in college. Perhaps some pointers overlooked by an eager eighteen year old?</span> </span></span></span><br />
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College can be one of the best times of your life so far, as the next
four years will be filled with amazing firsts (like first time living
with a roommate who's not your sister, or the first time living without
your parents!) and memorable experiences (like living in a dorm, taking a
class with 400 other students, or rushing a sorority). With so many
awesome opportunities at your fingertips, how can you make the most of
the next four years? Start by making sure you don't miss out, as you
might regret <strong>NOT.</strong>..
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<strong>...Living in a dorm...</strong><br />
We get it, you just want to be on your own, and honestly, dorms can get kind of icky (communal showers—<em>really</em>?!) and annoying (blasting music at 2 a.m. the night before a big Chem midterm—<em>really</em>?!).
But do yourself a favor, and don’t rush to get out of the dorms. Living
in the dorms gives you the chance to meet all kinds of new people who
you might otherwise never hang out with—and <em>really</em> get to know
them. It's good practice for learning to deal with different types of
people, and chances are, you’ll find a few new BFFs within those halls.
Plus, its kind of nice having someone who can help you with your seminar
paper living right down the hall!<br />
<strong>...Studying abroad (if you can swing the cost)<strong>..</strong>.</strong><br />
Remember when you were younger, and you used to fantasize about
traveling the world? Studying abroad in college is the perfect way to
make that dream a reality. If you can make it work, take advantage of
one of your school's study abroad programs. Not only will you get to eat
delicious food, meet awesome new people, and learn a different
language, but you'll also get to experience new places and cultures in a
way that will totally open your mind and help you grow. (If that's not
enough for you? AMAZING INSTAGRAM PHOTOS.)<br />
<strong>...Getting ready for class…<em>sometimes</em>...</strong><br />
Let’s face it, mornings are a struggle—especially when you stayed up
until 3 a.m. finishing the essay you forgot about (oops!). In college,
rolling out of bed, grabbing your books, and rocking a T-shirt and yoga
pants all day is totally acceptable. But once in awhile, skip the snooze
button and shower, do your <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.seventeen.com/parties/prom/prom-hairstyle-inspiration?lc=int_mb_1001">hair</a></span>,
and put on an outfit that doesn't include part (or all!) of your
pajamas. Looking put-together shows your teachers that you’re serious
about learning, so at least during those first couple of weeks, take the
extra 30 minutes in the morning to make a good impression. Plus, the
kid sitting next to you might one day become your boss or you her boss,
so road-testing some non-bedhead could be a bonus.<br />
<strong>...Visiting your high school friends...</strong><br />
Even though you'll be really caught up in everything going on at your
own school, separating from your high school BFFs can still be hard.
Save up some cash and take advantage of a free weekend to take a road
trip to visit your HS friends at their schools. Getting to put faces and
visuals with the names of all the people and places they're always
talking about will help you stay connected even when it feels like
you're living completely different lives. Plus, as much as you may love
your college (obvi!), it's good to see what life is like outside of your
campus, too! You can even bring some of your new college friends along
for the ride. Not only will your new and old friends get to bond, but
their dining hall might be a refreshing break from yours. Or at least
their pizza places...<br />
<strong>...Taking a class just because you're interested...</strong><br />
You have four years to complete your major. Take a class or two just
because it sounds interesting, not just because it’s required. These are
the classes that you'll excel in and value the most because you
genuinely want to be there. And who knows, maybe it could help your find
your major or minor, or lead you down the path to your dream career.<br />
<strong>...Joining a club...</strong><br />
Whether it’s a social organization like Greek life, or an academic
group like the newspaper, joining a club has TONS of benefits. Not only
is it a great way to meet new people (and possibly some cuties!), but it
also looks great to future employers! Getting involved on campus shows
that you can balance multiple projects, can be a team player, and are
willing to go above and beyond what is expected of you, not to mention,
it's a great way to pick up some skills that might prove handy on a
resume. So go to the Activities Fair your first week (even if it sounds
totally lame), and sign up for at least one activity.<br />
<strong>...Taking advantage of your professors' office hours...</strong><br />
Back in HS, your teachers would come to you if there was a problem
with your homework or if you totally bombed a quiz, and there was
usually an opportunity to make it up, or at least it gave you time to
try to turn things around before the end of the semester. Unfortunately,
college is not like that. It's on you to take ownership of your grades,
stay on top of how you're doing in your classes, and get help when you
need it. Even though your first year is going to be hectic, take the
time to meet with professors. Most hold office hours when you can talk
to them about anything from an upcoming paper or something in class you
didn't understand to why you didn't get the grade you wanted on your
midterm. A lot of profs also hold special review sessions before exams:
GO!<br />
<strong>...Switching to the major you <em>really</em> want...</strong><br />
It’s hard to believe that at the ripe age of 18 we're supposed to
know exactly what we want to do with our lives. While there are some
people who are #blessed and do know, it’s totally fine if you don’t (or
if you change your mind!). Your first couple years of college are meant
for discovering your passions, and changing your major is kind of like
deciding what to wear in the morning—sometimes you have to try on a few
different outfits before you find the perfect one. So if it turns out
history or finance or pre-law just isn't for you, don't just stick with
your major just because you don't want to start over or you'd been set
on becoming a lawyer ever since you saw <em>Legally Blonde</em>.
Focusing on what interests you is generally the best recipe for finding
success, and you'll be much happier studying that all those hours at the
library. Don’t be afraid to change your major once or twice (or four
times…oops).<br />
<strong>...Investing in a decent backpack.</strong><br />
You may be attached to your fave high school bag, but it might not
cut it for college (there's no locker to keep going back to between
periods). You’ll be carrying textbooks, notebooks, and a laptop with you
basically everywhere you go, so get a sturdy (and stylish) backpack
that’s up for the job. A two-strapper will help you avoid a seriously
sore back or shoulder, and backpacks are totally trendy now, so you'll
have no trouble finding the perf one to fit your style.<br />
<strong>...Dating someone who's not your "type."</strong><br />
College is for trying new things—and that includes relationships. Normally into jocks? Chat up a musician! <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.seventeen.com/love/advice/date-ideas-for-teens?lc=int_mb_1001">Dating</a></span> different types of people helps you decide what you are really looking for in someone. That way when it comes time to <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.seventeen.com/love/advice/college-dating-blogger-defining-the-relationship" target="_self">DTR</a>, you’ll know just what you want to do. And hey, you might be surprised by who you fall for!<br />
<strong>...Cheering on your school at a game.</strong><br />
<strong></strong>Even if you're more interested in what the players
look like than what they are doing on the field, college sporting events
can be so much fun! There’s nothing like showing your school spirit and
rooting for your team with friends. So spend a Saturday afternoon or
Tuesday night cheering on your school. Talking about the game could be
the perfect, non-awkward way to chat up your crush!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Take a deep breath and enjoy this summer with your college-bound son or daughter. The house will be very quiet in September! chrissie</span></span><br />
Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-63653390156458569682014-05-28T05:14:00.000-07:002014-05-28T05:14:00.148-07:00What Goes Around Comes Around<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you are living with a teen, you may be feeling unappreciated. In fact, you may be feeling down-right hostility and resentment. Slammed doors and deep sighs may be the norm in your home. Don't despair. Blogger and college student, Lexi Herrick shares her insight from the perspective of twenty years. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Summer's here! Enj</span>oy. Chrissie</span></span><br />
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To all of the parents out there that feel as though the stubborn
adolescent that you created will never change, here is some hope for
you. It's just a process to their becoming your biggest fan. To all of
the young adults who have this figured out, let your parents know how
awesome they are. <br />
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It seems that every time my college-aged friends and I
begin telling stories about our families, we always arrive at the same
conclusion; our parents are simply the coolest people ever. Now I use
the word "cool" because that is the evolution of being a parent that
takes place.<br />
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When you are a child, your parents are like God.
Everything they say and do amazes you and you worship their every move.
This is because they control your whole world. No one has really given
you any ideas other than those two magical creatures. Somewhere
throughout the process of learning about other aspects of life and being
influenced by the presence of your peers, your parents start to become
the opposite of cool to you. You feel like they just don't "understand
you" and all they want to do is "control your life." This phase
continues for different amounts of time depending upon who you are.
There is no exact science to how long you feel this way. But during this
stage you are distant from your parents. You feel you need to escape
them. If you are a teenage girl, you actually view your mother as the
anti-christ, because for some reason mom is always the more evil one.<br />
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If
you're a teenager in general, you think every one of your friends is
the absolute most amazing person to ever set foot into your life. You
start trying to find things wrong with your parents and reasons why
you'd rather lay locked up in your room listening to music than be
around those two monsters and their expectations that feel so outrageous
to you. Growing up is confusing, and feeling inadequate is natural.
Insecurity means despising being questioned, and your parents question
you a lot. Therefore you cannot stand them. Everything around you is
changing. Friends are kind to you. Friends are also immensely cruel. You
just want to be "cool." You want everyone to accept you. Therefore you
try relentlessly to accomplish that and keep reiterating your teenage
battle cry that you absolutely cannot wait to get the heck away from
those awful parents of yours that hold you back. But then at some point,
it all changes.<br />
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For some, it's when you graduate high school. For
others, it is during high school. It can even last longer than college
at times. The thing is, life will eventually start showing you how much
better your parents are than literally everyone else. The first time you
move away or experience any change, you realize all of the people you
lose. You are actually friends with maybe two or three of the 15-plus
BEST friends you would have died for in middle school or high school.
You start watching life change and people change, and then you look
around and whom do you see? It's those freaking parents again. You stop
trying so hard to be accepted by everyone and cease all attempts to
force people to stay in your life. You come to the beautiful realization
that you only really need the people who put effort into the
relationships that you have with them. You become happy with who you are
and no longer feel like you have to impress people into being
interested in spending time with you. You don't need to convince people
that you're awesome. After all, your parents always thought you were. <br />
<br />
When you get older, you want to spend time with the
people in your life who deserve to be there, and you actually appreciate
the reasons why they deserve to be there. You remember every school
play, dorky awards ceremony, and soccer game that your parents treated
like the Olympics or the Oscars. You remember all of the people that
made you feel like you weren't good enough and just think about your mom
running around taking literally a thousand pictures of you with your
friends standing in front of a stupid tree before prom. You realize you
were always good enough; you were a celebrity to the coolest people
ever. You will spend your entire adolescent years trying to figure out
what it means to be "cool" and realize that your parents showed you all
along.<br />
<br />
I have learned from my parents. Be
honest. Be a hard worker. Be dependable. Be kind. Be confident. Be true
to yourself. I have learned that if I want to have positive people in my
life, I need to choose people who treat me like my parents do. You
learned this too I am sure, or you will. You know when a Friday night
comes around and the idea of hanging out with your parents sounds like
by far the best option. You know when something exciting happens in your
life and they're the first ones you run to. You know when you are
choosing a couple to double date with, and you know there's only one
dynamic duo you want to call. Above all, you know your parents are the people ever that have put
up with as much of your crap, and loved you so unconditionally/ So go, give the coolest people ever a hug or a phone
call, they deserve it.Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-1294215957042347752014-05-21T06:42:00.000-07:002014-05-21T06:42:00.520-07:00How can I Make it Better?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Julie Fingersh, Huffington Post contributor. discusses college rejection letters. The high school senior's angst as hopes are dashed with one thin envelope. She has good insight. Nothing will make it easier but the tips below may help a difficult situation more bearable.</b></span> Chrissie<br />
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Hear that cracking sound? It could be spring bursting into bloom. Or
it could be the sound of millions of high school senior hearts breaking
over college rejection letters. <br />
If your kid is one of them,
here's how it feels: Their future? Shaken and blank. All that misery and
sweat invested in the school grind? Wasted. The answer to their
innermost question, "Am I worthy?" Delivered in that skinny envelope -- a
thunderous "No." <br />
Now parents, you're up. You've got before you
one of the most powerful teachable moments ever. And even if you think
your teen would rather skin themselves alive than have this conversation
with you, just know that you are singularly qualified to help them
grieve, reframe and move forward. <br />
Here's how to do it: <br />
<b>Meet them fully in their private hell.</b>
Fight the impulse to gloss over or short-circuit their grief. Skip the:
"You'll be fine" or "It's their loss." The key to getting over this is
dealing with it, not denying or explaining it away. Remember, our kids
have been raised on the notion that their entire lives so far have led
to this. Help them identify their worst fears and fantasies about what
they think this rejection means to their future. Then give them the
comfort of knowing that you truly understand and feel their pain. <br />
<b>Tell the truth about your own hardest failures. </b>As
parents, our most profound moments of self-doubt and rejection are
valuable currency to our kids. Sharing honestly connects us to them on
an adult level and will help them normalize this fork in the road.
Didn't make honors when all your friends did? Passed over for a
promotion you were in line for at work? Got rejected from your top
college choice? Our kids need to know that we know -- and have survived
-- how lousy and afraid they feel right now. Our skeletons in the closet
are the ticket. <br />
<b>Help them see the "Appearance vs. Reality" of this moment. </b>Remember,
this is the generation of kids that has been awarded trophies just for
showing up to practice. For many of them, rejection this authoritative
is staggering. It's not just their future that feels at stake, it's
their identity. Create some context for them: This is <i>not</i> the foreshadowing of a new, failing trajectory. This is <i>one answer</i>
coming from a very imperfect admissions process run by a stressed-out
room of directors trying to figure out how to make objective choices out
of impossibly subjective information. <br />
<b>Shed light on the link between college and success. </b>A
2014 Gallup poll found that when it comes to hiring, a mere 9 percent
of U.S. business leaders ranked where a candidate went to college as
"very important." What does matter most to 84 percent of top employers?
Knowledge and applied skills in the field. Then there's the question of
knowing how to create a fulfilling life. As we adults know, everyone's
got to crack that code for themselves, and one's alma mater is a small
piece of the equation. Where you go to school isn't nearly as important
as what you make of where you go. <br />
<b>Help them see that a life story is never revealed in the moment. </b>We
live our lives in chapters whose bigger picture is revealed only over
time. I always thought that I was born to go to Brown University. I knew
it from the age of 12. It was my singular, youthful ambition. And yet, I
was rejected while my two best friends got in. Devastated doesn't begin
to describe what I felt. Reflecting back, I can see that the most
joyous, important things in my life today -- my husband, kids and
community -- would not have come about if I had gotten in to Brown. All
roads lead to where you are. There's no telling what good may come from
that skinny envelope. <br />
<b>Reassure them that their hard work has not been wasted.</b>
New research shows that the true predictors for a successful life are
resilience, flexibility and persistence. All three are learned through
failure, not success. Mention this now and they might kill you. But in a
few weeks, without a word, email them this: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/18/the-9-essential-qualitie_n_4760403.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share" target="_hplink">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/18/the-9-essential-qualitie_n_4760403.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share</a><br />
<b>Show them the road ahead. </b>Reframed
with the right perspective, this rejection is a pointer towards their
next step. After coming to terms with the hand they've been dealt, your
teen's job is to get excited about diving into the myriad of options
they do have. The trick is to help them see the truth: They are in
control. This is their life -- their move. The world is just as huge,
wide open and waiting for them as it always was. And they've still got
everything they need to end up right where they're meant to be.Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-14979739780790439742014-05-14T06:33:00.000-07:002014-05-14T06:33:00.362-07:00It's Too Quiet!Those of you who still have small children in the house may not
believe it, but one day you'll actually miss the piles of laundry and
dirty dishes left behind by your little ones. Kids -- they grow up so
fast. And while you treasure the ever-evolving relationship you now have
with your children as they grow up, admit it: you miss when they were
still your babies. <br />
Huffington Post"s Shelley Emling asked it's readers about the things
they never thought they'd miss once their kids left the house, and
here's what they had to say. I would add the conversations around the dinner table. Finally gathering together after a busy day and catching up on our day. chrissie<br />
<big><strong><br />
1. "The noise and havoc ... of feeding hordes of teenage boys"</strong></big><br />
<img alt="cheetos" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1698255/thumbs/o-CHEETOS-570.jpg?1" /><br />
"I miss feeding hordes of teenage boys who ate in the 'orange food group': Doritos, mac and cheese, pizza rolls and the like."<br />
<big><strong><br />
2. "Their friends in and out of the house"</strong></big><br />
<img alt="teenagers in kitchen" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1698463/thumbs/o-TEENAGERS-IN-KITCHEN-570.jpg?1" /><br />
<big><strong>3. "Reading before bedtime"</strong></big><br />
<img alt="reading at bedtime" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700292/thumbs/o-READING-AT-BEDTIME-570.jpg?1" /><br />
"Singing in a car pool full of little girls. Dinner time conversations
about history. Reading at bedtime. Actually, I knew I would miss all
those things, and I do."<br />
<big><strong>4. "Learning about them just by watching them in action"</strong></big><br />
<img alt="kids drinking chocolate milk" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700302/thumbs/o-KIDS-DRINKING-CHOCOLATE-MILK-570.jpg?1" /><br />
"When they are not with me, I miss the 'ambient learning' about them.
What I mean is that 'empty cups' show me they drink chocolate milk and
'magazines' show me their interests. Kids may not always state (out
loud) what they drink... Or who they follow... But when they leave the
evidence behind (and oh, they do :-))... I get clues into who they are
and what they like. I often otherwise miss that connection."<br />
<big><strong>5. "All the half-full soda cans and there not being one clean glass in the house"<br />
</strong></big><br />
<img alt="teenagers drinking soda" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700308/thumbs/o-TEENAGERS-DRINKING-SODA-570.jpg?1" /><br />
<big><strong>6. "Being right in the middle of the chaotic mess of their lives"</strong></big><br />
<img alt="messy room" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700320/thumbs/o-MESSY-ROOM-570.jpg?1" /><br />
"Who new I would miss the chaos that five wonderful kids can create!
Whether that's their messy bathrooms, bedrooms or lives! I miss being in
the middle of the mess SOMETIMES!"<br />
<big><strong>7. "Shopping for prom and homecoming dresses"<br />
</strong></big><br />
<img alt="shopping for prom dresses" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700328/thumbs/o-SHOPPING-FOR-PROM-DRESSES-570.jpg?6" /><br />
<big><strong>8. "Waiting up for them to come home"<br />
</strong></big><br />
<img alt="worried woman" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700336/thumbs/o-WORRIED-WOMAN-570.jpg?1" /><br />
<big><strong>9. "Needing to bake for a variety of activities -- parties, bake sales, sleepovers, congratulatory cookie cakes."<br />
</strong></big><br />
<img alt="baked cookies" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700383/thumbs/o-BAKED-COOKIES-570.jpg?1" /><br />
<big><strong>10. "Doing laundry"</strong></big><br />
<img alt="piles of laundry" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700388/thumbs/o-PILES-OF-LAUNDRY-570.jpg?1" /><br />
"Funny you asked that because I just shared a photo on my FB page of one
of the piles of towels and bedding I was left with after my daughter
and her three friends just went back to college after spending spring
break at our house. I was actually happy to be doing all that laundry
and I loved having them here and hearing all that laughing and
screaming, and the constant opening and closing of the fridge door. And I
definitely miss having an excuse for buying all that junk food."<br />
<big><strong>11. "Getting up and fixing a lunch. Have a good day and a kiss goodbye"<br />
</strong></big><br />
<img alt="lunch" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700399/thumbs/o-LUNCH-570.jpg?1" /><br />
<big><strong>12.
"Having all their friends crash here on the weekends and breakfast
together and hearing all the stories from the night before"<br />
</strong></big><br />
<img alt="teenagers having breakfast" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700418/thumbs/o-TEENAGERS-HAVING-BREAKFAST-570.jpg?1" /><br />
<big><strong>13. "The jumble of shoes by the front door"<br />
</strong></big><br />
<img alt="shoes by front door" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1700406/thumbs/o-SHOES-BY-FRONT-DOOR-570.jpg?1" />Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-59594336580471607062014-05-07T06:13:00.000-07:002014-05-07T06:13:00.109-07:00Just Nod Your Head Yes.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b> A man
leaves his parents and his wife becomes his focus. Sons grow up, meet
girls, get married and voila, a couple is formed.</b></span><br />
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</b></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>So is a Mother-in-Law. And like it or not when this happens the rules change. With a new, precious daughter- in-law, I am trying to make sure I avoid the pitfalls of Mother-in lawism. Kind of <i>the wear beige and keep your mouth shut at the wedding</i>, only for life!!! My newest mantra? Mind my own business. Mind my own business...</b></span>.............chrissie<br />
<br />Pick your battles. So how do you
avoid conflicts with your daughter-in-law? Here are some of the things <i>Grandparents.com</i> advises we shouldn't do and topics we should avoid:<br />
<strong>Don't talk about...The baby’s name.</strong> My
daughter-in-law refused to play the “What Are You Going to Name the
Baby?” game for each of her three pregnancies. And who can blame her.
“Colum? What kind of a name is that? Brandon. Tyler. Lucy. Adam.”
Everyone weighs in on a name, loving it or hating it. She waited until
each baby was born to tell us. Megan. Luke. Euan. Embrace the name.
Whatever name your son and daughter-in-law choose. <br />
<strong>Don't talk about...Where they live.</strong> If it happens to
be closer to her parents, that’s okay. If it happens to be right next
door to her parents, that’s okay. If it happens to be a room in her
parent’s home, that’s okay, too. You are not being replaced! My daughter
and son-in-law moved in with us for a while right after their first
child was born. The other grandparents, who lived 200 miles away, never
acted as if we were the victors in some game of tug of war. But I felt
like a victor. And I felt guilty. <br />
A few years later when the other grandparents moved in with my son
and daughter-in-law and our by then two grandkids, I felt a little
replaced. But I shouldn’t have because I wasn’t. Kids love their
grandparents whether they are in the tiny room down the hall or an ocean
away. My son’s children, whose other grandparents live in Scotland, are
constant reminders of this. They Skype. Granny Scotland sends them
“parcels” all the time. And when she flies into town, it’s as if Mary
Poppins has arrived.<br />
<strong>Don't talk about...Weight gain or loss.</strong> If your
daughter-in-law looks a little bigger than she used to, do not say a
word. Do not give her a gym membership, a three-month pass to Weight
Watchers, a subscription to Cooking Light, or a lecture about calories
when she reaches for a roll. (And if you go clothes shopping together,
do not tell her that something makes her look big.) People gain weight.
People lose weight. Say nothing.<br />
<strong>Don't talk about...Seeing the grandkids. </strong>Sure, you
want to see them. You want to open the door and have them rush into your
arms and cover you with kisses. And maybe you want to take them
somewhere: to the beach, the zoo, a park, on vacation. Maybe you love
playing with them. On the floor when they are little, and board games as
they get bigger. But maybe not. There are two kinds of grandparents:
the get-on-their-level kind and the rise-to-my-level kind. Every
grandparent is as different as every grandchild. And so is every parent.
Some sons and daughters-in-law love for their parents to be around and
involved in their kids lives. But some need space. <br />
Once again, the parents get to make the rules. Are you around too
little or too much? Ask them. What would they like you to do? How can
you help. Wouldn’t you have loved for your in-laws to ask you these
things?<br />
<strong>Don't talk about...Rules for the kids.</strong> If your
daughter-in-law asks you not do something, as in, “Please don’t give the
children chocolate before they go to bed,” “Please don’t bring the kids
another toy,” “Please, please, please don’t tell them stories about
monsters,” listen to her. Respect her wishes just as you wanted your
mother-in-law to respect yours. Grandparents are there for support, not
to blaze the path with the grandkids. We had our chance with our own
kids.<br />
<strong>Don't talk about...Schooling.</strong> She likes Montessori.
You prefer Waldorf. She chooses private. You believe in public. She says
pre-school. You say, “Waste of money.” Don’t. We all got to raise our
kids. We need to let our sons and daughters-in-law raise theirs. Where
and when a child attends school is an important choice. But it’s not
ours to make. <br />
<strong>Don't talk about...How she spends money. </strong>This is a
biggie. We all spend our money on things we think are important. My
oldest daughter likes fancy restaurants and expensive shoes. My youngest
likes concerts. I like all things Halloween. What’s a waste of money to
one person is a necessity to another. So even if your daughter-in-law
decides to get yet another butterfly tattooed on her arm, say nothing.
It’s her money, her life, and her arm. And really, didn’t you want to
make your own decisions when you were her age? And didn’t you want to be
validated?<br />
And while you're at it...<br />
<strong>Don't talk about...Books as gifts.</strong> If you both read
and love to talk about books themselves, fine. What I’m talking about
here are books as gifts. Do not give your daughter-in-law any kind of
etiquette book, a cookbook (unless she’s a good cook who loves to cook),
self-help books or books about how to raise children. It’s
passive-aggressive, and you know it. And, trust me, it will lead to a
blow-up.<br />
<strong>Don't...Putter in the kitchen.</strong> Do not rearrange the
spice cabinet or clean out the silverware drawer or wipe down the
counters no matter how much you want to. It’s criticism. <br />
That’s all getting along is—being who you are and being accepted for it. And that’s all your daughter-in-law wants.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You
know your own child. You know if he is a visual person. If she has to
write instructions down to remember. There is the daughter who is
creative and imaginative. The son who sees the world as black and white
and is analytical to the core. Left brain? Right brain? Structured.
Flexible. The good news is that education is following suit.
Teachers are being taught how to address the variety of learning styles
represented in a classroom. If your child seems to be struggling,
perhaps this learning style is the key to his /success. Chrissie </span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">10 ways to differentiate learning…</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Once upon a time
in the olden days, the teacher stood out front and taught the whole
class the same material in the same way. Everyone was expected to do the
same tasks, some passed and some failed and were labelled ever after.
The focus was on teaching, not on learning. One size was supposed to fit
all and if you learned in a different way, too bad for you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Time passed and
it turned out that everyone didn’t learn in the same way after all. The
teacher realised that learners have different needs, interests and
abilities. Differentiated instruction was invented. The teacher prepared
different tasks for each group in her class and preparation now took a
whole lot longer. The needs of the learner were being better catered
for, but the teacher was up all night.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She needed to think about differentiation in a different way.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10 ways to differentiate learning…</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. <strong>Let go</strong>.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Give the students (at least some) <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/10-ways-to-encourage-students-to-take-responsibility-for-their-own-learning/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to encourage students to take responsibility for their learning">ownership of their learning</a>.
Don’t always be the boss of the class, be part of the community of
learners. Don’t make all the decisions. Allow choice. Encourage students
to think about how they learn best. Have students decide how to
demonstrate their learning.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2. Change your expectations.</strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/one-size-will-never-fit-all/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="One size will never fit all…">One size does not fit all.</a> Not everyone fits the traditional mould of school, but that doesn’t mean they can’t learn. You might need to change what <em>you</em> do. Remember you teach people, not subjects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>3</strong>. <strong>Change the sequence</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Learners don’t
need total mastery of all the skills before they can apply them. Provide
meaningful, authentic learning opportunities for everyone. <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/constructing-meaning/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Constructing meaning…">Turn Bloom’s taxonomy</a> on its head. All students can solve real problems and write for a real audience.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4. Use technology creatively.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blogging, film
making, global interactions, social media, photography, gaming (and much
more!) …all provide naturally differentiated opportunities for learners
with varied levels of ability, different interests and special talents.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5. Care about what matters to them.</strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Encourage learners to follow their interests. <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/whats-your-story/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="What’s your story?">Know their story</a>. Make their learning relevant. Connect with their passions… or help them to discover what they might be.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6. Assess <em>for</em> learning.</strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s not about a
test at the end. Record student thinking and track development over
time. Create meaningful assessment tasks that allow transfer of learning
to other contexts. Think of <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/10-ways-to-assess-learning-without-tests/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to assess learning without tests…">everything as an assessment</a>.
Every piece of work, every blog post, every interaction, every
conversation can tell us where a learner is at and where they need to
go.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7. Embrace inquiry as a stance.</strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong></strong>Create a <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/10-ways-to-create-a-culture-of-thinking/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to create a culture of thinking…">culture of thinking,</a> questioning,
wondering and exploring. Start your questions with ‘What do you think?’
so that all responses are acceptable. Find ways to<a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/today-we-will-be-learning-about/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Today we will be learning about…"> provoke learners’ curiosity</a> and a desire to find out for themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>8. Don’t be the only teacher</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Students can learn from their peers, other teachers, parents, their on-line contacts, the world. Help them build <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/10-ways-to-help-students-develop-a-pln/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to help students develop a PLN…">their own personal learning network </a>with and from whom they can learn.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">9. Focus on learning, not work.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Make sure you
and your students know the reason for every learning experience. Don’t
give ‘busy work’. Don’t start by planning activities, <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/start-with-why/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">start with the ‘why</a>‘ and <em>then</em> develop learning experiences which will support independent learning.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10. Encourage goal setting and reflection.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Help students to define goals for their learning. Provide opportunities for ongoing <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/10-ways-to-encourage-student-reflection-2/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to encourage student reflection…">self-evaluation and reflection</a>.
Provide constructive, specific feedback. Student blogs are great tools
for reflecting on learning and responding to their peers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you’re the
teacher in the story above, take a look at this chart, highlighting the
differences between differentiated instruction and personalised
learning. <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bbray/personalizedlearninchart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization ">Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization </a>by<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bbray/personalizedlearninchart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization "> Barbara Bray</a>.</span></div>
Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-55426255817392962122014-04-23T05:54:00.000-07:002014-04-23T05:54:00.364-07:00Have a Plan(s your teenager driving you crazy? Is all that angst, all those raging
hormones, all that fighting for independence-making your home a
battleground? Do you stare across the dinner table, dreaming of the day
that doors don't slam, rooms stay clean and peace descends on your
family once again? Dreaming of the day-your teen heads to college.<br /><br />I
read something sobering this weekend. In the United States today, over
50% of grown children will return to their childhood home within 5-6
years. And stay for a while.<br /><br />That may leave you wondering, late at night....."Dear Lord, we didn't cover everything. They could be back by Thursday."<br /><br />You
frantically call your college -age children to remind them of the
million things they don't remember you teaching them, Unfortunately,
they are partying the night away, celebrating being liberated from their
parents. <br /><br />Well, all is not lost. Just remember, the time to
start preparing children for adulthood is while they are still young.
The alternative is a thirty-year-old teenager losing the remote control,
leaving their wet towels on the floor and staying out past their
curfew.<br /><br />I happened upon a clever list. It outlines things teens
should know before they leave home. What follows are some of the best
ones.<br /><br /><span style="color: #000099;">1. They should know life is sometimes difficult so they won't get discouraged and move home.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000099;">2.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #000099;"> They should know they now pay the bills.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;"><span style="color: #000099;">3.They should know the lifestyle they enjoyed growing up is not waiting for them, just because they graduated from college.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #000099;">4. They should know that if a friend's possessions make them feel bad about themselves, they should find new friends.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000099;">5. </span><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="color: #000099;">They should know the difference between washing a Lexus or owning one is education.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="color: #000099;">6. They should know to seek the advice of a mentor, not unemployed club friends.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #000099;">7. They should know that if getting a good job was easy, everyone would have one.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000099;">8. They should know that self discipline is the key to solving life's problems.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #000099;">9. They should know victims are never happy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #000099;">10. They should know life's challenges make us stronger, better, healthier, more spiritual and more grateful human beings.<br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Summer's flying by. Enjoy it with those you love. chrissie</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-7559066815545886192014-04-16T05:51:00.000-07:002014-04-16T05:51:21.584-07:00Who am I Now?I have been reading what I call, "a little book." It won't be on the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>
Best Seller List. I probably won't see the author being interviewed by a
talk show host. It has a limited audience but nevertheless speaks to
those of us who pick it up.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />T<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">he gift of an Ordinary Day</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> -</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"> A Mother's Memoir</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">,
is a meditation on midlife. It speaks to those women who have passed
babies and preschool and little league and moved on to curfews, hormones
and children leaving home. It is a book about midlife want and loss.
The author, Katrina Kenison assures us that mothers can reinvent
themselves as their teens grow up. Mother's can truly claim new ground
right along with their teenagers. Her book gives women the tools to
switch gears and to find fulfillment and joy in this next part of our
lives.</span><br /><br />Kenison writes, "At mid-life, I managed to convince
myself that physical movement was a prerequisite for change. Going
somewhere else would satisfy a restlessness of spirit. Now, I recognize
the restlessness for what it was-the first stirrings of fear that my
own life would be over when my children left home. I began to ask the
question, who am I now?"<br /><br />"Once upon a time I took pride in the
predictable patterns of our days; nap times and bath times and bed
times. Later I taught my sons to cook for themselves and I proofread
book reports and chauffeured carloads of boys. Now we're in a different
place and a different time, and I need to become a different kind of
mother. A mother who knows how to back off. A mother who's gaze is not
so focused on her two endlessly absorbing children, but who is engaged
in a rich full life of her own. "<br /><br />"I must be a mother who trusts
in who her children are, even if they aren't exactly who she thinks they
ought to be. Who keeps faith in the future, even when the things her
children do in the present give her pause. A mother who remembers,
above all else, that the greatest gift she can give her nearly grown
sons is the knowledge that, no matter what, she loves them both
absolutely, just exactly as they are."<br />"<br />"What confirmed me as a mother from the first moment of birth to the <span style="font-style: italic;">now</span>
as each prepares to leave , is a heart full of love. That is the
constant, the "never change". Love is the infinite, durable strand
that's woven itself through all the days of a shared past and will wind
it's way through our unknowable futures, no matter how much life
separates us, no matter where my sons journey may ultimately lead them."
<br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Katrina Kenison, in
this small book, teaches the art of letting go and holding on. It is
available at the Muskogee Public Library and on-line at Amazon. Enjoy. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Chrissie</span></span>Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-33025668403728581902014-04-08T06:45:00.000-07:002014-04-08T06:46:26.937-07:00Thirteen Pink Candles<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My granddaughter has a big birthday coming up She hits the double digits. Ten years old. Whoosh. The time goes in the blink of an eye. Turning ten is flirting with that pre-teen </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">part of a young girl's development. Goodbye American Girl dolls. Hello Jonas Brothers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If Annebelle is like her Mother, she'll go kicking and screaming into this next part of growing up.. Being 10 is a golden time and I'm glad she's not in any hurry to totally leave childhood behind. Her interest is peaked but so far, only wardrobe selection and bedroom decor seems to show a new maturity. I hope we get to keep our little girl around a bit longer, but watching her continue to grow toward the woman she will be is a gift I look forward to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Blogger Shelley Emling shares a wonderful letter she wrote to her 13-year-old daughter on her birthday. Her insight and advice is right on. If we could just open their precious, little heads and pour it all in. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Enjoy. chrissie</span><br />
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People always say that my daughter looks just like my husband and
nothing like me, a remark that's a bit disheartening considering that,
in their next breath, they usually note how pretty she is. But it's
true. My daughter looks very little like me and is also a completely
remarkable, mysterious personality, as different from me as chalk is
from cheese. Whereas I was wary and reserved at 12, she is bold and
effusive. <br />
When I was pregnant with my daughter, passers-by would glance at my
two sons, then at my bulging belly, and say, "Oh, I bet I know what
you're hoping for." And they were right. I love my boys like mad but I
always, always wanted a daughter. I imagined the two of us would share
secrets, spill personal stories and watch girly movies all night.<br />
It hasn't quite worked out that way. Like most girls on the cusp of
teenagerhood, she travels as part of a pack and rarely asks for my
opinion about, well, most anything. And that's exactly the way I was
with my own mother at that age, a mother who -- by the time I turned 21
-- was my very best friend.<br />
No, my dear daughter, you have turned out to be nothing like I
thought you'd be. Instead, you've turned out to be so much more. Seeing
the world anew through your eyes is more fabulous than I could have ever
imagined. And I will always be grateful to you for that.<br />
So Happy 13th Birthday! And before you become awash in friends and
presents and giggles and silliness tonight, take a moment to read these
13 things I'd like you to know, but would never force you to sit and
listen to me say. (Or at least save it for when you come up for air in
about, hmmm, six years.) Often, these sorts of lists are regurgitated
pellets mined from other regurgitated pellets. But I assure you, the
following bits and pieces come straight from my heart.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>1. Try to have fun -- and a lot of it.</b></span><br />
I told you this last summer, when you were rolling your eyes at me for
singing along with a piano player in that funky restaurant in Latin
America. But it really is true. Everyone is so darn serious all the
time, especially as they grow older. But even when you're 50, don't be
afraid to dance all night or skip in the rain or belly laugh while
watching cartoons. Accept invitations. See the world. Be spontaneous. As
the former governor of Texas Ann Richards once said, "Whatever the
question is, the answer is always yes -- unless it's illegal."<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>2. Never be afraid to say no to someone.</b></span><br />
Of course, after Richards' quote, I probably shouldn't follow with "just
say no." But this is true as well. If you say "no," and don't hem and
haw, people will appreciate your honesty -- even if they don't like what
they hear -- more than they'll appreciate hearing a "yes" that you have
to renege on. If you can't commit to something -- or to someone --
please say so. It may be an old-fashioned truism, but that doesn't mean
"say what you mean and mean what you say" isn't true.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>3. It is usually not about you.</b></span><br />
As you grow older, don't worry so much about sucking your tummy in, or
making sure there's not a hair out of place. Most of the time, no one is
looking. Really. People like to think everyone is focused on them but,
in actuality, people are usually focused on themselves. And if someone
does something to you that's hurtful, it's almost certainly related to
something going on in their life that has nothing to do with you.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>4. No one will ever love you the way your dad and I love you.</b></span><br />
I know, I know. You may get married. You may have kids. You may have
countless boyfriends. And they will all love you enormously. There's no
doubt in my mind. But when my mother died, I realized that no one in the
world would ever light up the way she used to when I walked into a
room.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;">5. Modesty is very attractive</span>.</b></span><br />
No matter what you call them -- tiger moms or helicopter parents -- a
lot of moms and dads these days walk around telling their offspring how
bright and capable they are, that they can do everything perfectly and
be anything they want. As a result, many kids exude this sort of "I'm
better than everyone else" self-confidence. And no doubt it's nice to be
self-confident. But being humble will draw others to you, and make you
stand out, more than pounding on your chest ever will.<br />
<span style="color: purple;"><b>6. Always stay close to your brothers.</b></span><br />
Yes, I'm talking about the boy who put the cicada down your shirt. While
the three of you might compete for attention in the household now,
there will come a point when you all -- I'm hoping -- will be the best
of friends. Support one another. Talk to one another. Be there when they
need you and they'll be there for you. (I'll talk to them later.)<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>7. Life can turn on a dime.</b></span><br />
My grandparents died instantly in a car accident so I speak from
experience. Nothing in life is guaranteed. Never take anything for
granted. Be grateful and tell your loved ones you love them -- every
chance you get. <br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><b>8. This too shall pass.</b></span><br />
You told me the other day that this was your favorite saying. And I like
it as well. No matter how mad you are, or how sad you feel, it will
pass. Certain losses will impact you for the rest of your life, but time
does heal the pain. I promise.<br />
<span style="color: lime;"><b>9. Try not to hold a grudge.</b></span><br />
Life's way too short to constantly be mad at someone. Everyone makes
mistakes. If you've inadvertently hurt someone, the last thing you want
is for them to hold a grudge against you. Let things go. Be forgiving.<br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>10. Don't build your worth on objects, but on experiences.</b></span><br />
You can look around our house and tell that we've always valued travel a lot more than nice furniture. And I'm so glad we did.<br />
<b><span style="color: #45818e;">11. Come out of your room every once in awhile</span>.</b><br />
We won't bite and you might actually enjoy yourself.<br />
<span style="color: orange;"><b>12. I value your opinion.</b></span><br />
I may not always agree with you, but I want to hear what you have to
say. I'm the first to admit I was a horrible teenager. If there was a
rule to break, I broke it. I'm going to be watching you with an
experienced eye and with your best interests at heart. But I will always
hear you out before coming to any conclusions.<br />
<b><span style="color: #741b47;">13. It's not uncool to have mom and dad in your corner</span>.</b><br />
When I went away to London to do my junior year abroad -- nervous but
trying not to show it -- my mother said to me quietly, "You know, you
are the prettiest girl here," just before I got on the plane. I remember
rolling my eyes and saying, "Yeah, right mom" because clearly there
were much prettier girls in the waiting area. But I knew what she was
trying to do. And what I wouldn't give right now to hear my mom say
those words to me again.<br />
Finally, here's one to grow on -- a nugget from your oldest brother: "Make good choices."<br />
And if you don't, we'll deal with it. So have a fabulous birthday
today. I love you, you smart, gorgeous, unpredictable, hilariously funny
13-year-old girl.Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-75111053901343053672014-04-01T06:33:00.000-07:002014-04-01T06:33:30.439-07:00Show Me the Money<div class="content" id="mainentrycontent" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<i>It's crunch time for graduating seniors and time to get it in gear for juniors. College applications . College choices. Then. The hard part. Finding the money to pay for it. It's tempting to go with so called "scholarship services". Be careful. If it sounds too good to be true- it probably is. Research carefully before paying anything! Below are some easy guidelines for accessing if services and promises are viable. Chrissie</i></div>
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<em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This article was written by teen reporters from <a href="http://www.themash.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">The Mash</a>, a weekly publication distributed to Chicagoland high schools.</em></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Katie Jenkins, Naperville North High School</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scholarship deadlines for the 2014-15 school year are quickly approaching, and college-bound students across the nation are scrambling to finish their applications.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While receiving free money is an exciting proposition, students should know that some offers are just too good to be true. The federal government has won $22 million in judgments against scholarship scam artists, according to a 2012 Federal Trade Commission report. Finaid.org estimates that victims are cheated out of as much as $100 million each year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, Charles Mayfield, associate director of financial aid at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and Carol Krashen, College & Career Center assistant at Naperville North, have advice on how to protect yourself from scholarship swindlers.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Application fees</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A scholarship provider should only request your time, not your money. If you’re ever required to send in an application fee, you’re most likely stepping into a scam. Even if the offer guarantees a refund, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever see the money you paid up front again. Krashen and Mayfield consider an application fee to be one of the most glaring red flags you’ll encounter.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Limited contact information</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You should always look for the sponsor’s contact information—that’s a strong indicator of whether or not a scholarship is legitimate. If you can’t find a phone number on the site’s “Contact Us” page, you may have uncovered a crucial red flag. However, a listed phone number doesn’t guarantee a valid scholarship. “If there is a phone number listed, I would Google it,” Krashen said. “If it were a scam, you are likely to find complaints and warnings from others.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, be wary of scholarship foundations that list California or Florida addresses. According to FinAid, many scholarship scams are based in these two states.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Paying for advice on how to pay for college</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You should never pay for financial aid advice. “While I wouldn’t necessarily call this a scam, we do see instances of students paying for financial aid and college financing advice,” Mayfield said. “The same information is available for free through a variety of resources—a college’s financial aid office being one or a high school counselor being another.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The list of free resources doesn’t end there. You can search scholarships through the U.S. Department of Labor’s online search tool, careerinfonet.org/scholarshipsearch. Foundations, libraries and community organizations also provide books and information.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Privacy policy tricks</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When a scholarship offer seems to good to be true, you should always examine its privacy policy. Here, you can discover whether or not the sponsor plans to sell your personal information to a third party. If they do, refuse the offer and continue your search.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Likewise, you should never have to give your information to a third party as part of your application. “If you have to apply for something else in order to be considered for a scholarship—for example, if you have to apply for a credit card or apply for a loan—we usually find those to be scams,” Mayfield warned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Neither Krashen nor Mayfield discourage online research, but they do advise you to be especially cautious. If you’re looking for a safe scholarship search engine, Mayfield recommends fastweb.com. “When you complete all the information for Fastweb, you’re not releasing your information for scholarships yet,” he said. “You are going to be presented with a list of scholarships, and then it is up to you to apply for each of the scholarships individually.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Krashen agrees that national search engines have merit, but she suggests students create a separate email account if they plan to sign up for these scholarship-matching sites.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Students have to realize that the only way that colleges are going to communicate with them is through their email,” Krashen said. “I’ve heard horror stories of students not responding to a college’s email due to the plethora of spam mail that they are getting (from such sites).”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://themash.com/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Read more teen-written articles on TheMash.com</a></em></strong></div>
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<footer style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><section class="contribute group" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"></section></span></footer>Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-87737529949918016102014-03-26T19:51:00.001-07:002014-03-26T19:51:15.393-07:00Take a Cleansing Breath<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.drtimjordan.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Jim Jordan, MD</a> is a leading expert on parenting girls from 2 - 20 years of age. He is a Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician, international speaker, author, media and school consultant. Dr. Jordan's expertise focuses on teen girls. In this discussion, he offers practical </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and simple</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> exercises</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> to offset busy and stressful lives. It teaches young women to look inward and find themselves. That core place where each one mediates on who they are and what they really want. </span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kids and teens today are moving too fast, and their busy-ness and constant distractions with technologies leaves them feeling disconnected, restless, and stressed. I coach girls in my retreats, camps, and school programs to learn how to slow down, get quiet, and go inward. This is crucial in order for girls to figure out who they are and what they really need.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The following are ways that girls can get calm and work on their 'inner resumes'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Breath work: </strong>When you can focus all of your attention on your breathing, everything else gets pushed aside and <a href="http://www.galtime.com/story/21954973/3-important-ways-to-build-your-daughter039s-self-esteem#axzz2pkpzprjH" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">you are in your body and in this moment</a>. I have girls count to five as they breathe in, hold the breath a few seconds, and then slowly breathe out as they count backwards to zero.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Focus on your senses:</strong> On my retreats, I'll have the girls go outside, close their eyes, and then sit quietly for 10 minutes and just take in all the sounds around them. Or I'll have them stare for minutes at a time at some aspect of nature: laying down and looking up at clouds, tree branches against the sky, flowers, or stars at night. Focusing on one sense like this is a powerful way of being mindful and in the moment, which is very calming.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Writing:</strong> This is one of my favorite habits for girls to adopt. This can look like journaling your feelings and thoughts, writing short stories or poetry, or writing songs. It's a great way to quiet yourself and check in with your emotions and thinking, as well as a healthy way to express your innermost feelings and desires.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Art</strong>: Some girls sketch, paint, doodle, or sculpt in order to slow themselves down. We have often done mandalas at camp, which is drawing inside a circle as a way to tap into your self-conscious. I know girls who make friendship bracelets, knit, and jewelry for friends with rubber bands. Again, it's a valuable way to shut out the world and go inward.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Music:</strong> Listening to music or playing an instrument is quieting. Writing songs and singing also fit under this category. Nature sound tapes are also meditative for many kids.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Physical activities</strong>: <a href="http://knowmore.tv/articles/just-1-in-4-u-s-teens-gets-enough-exercise-report/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Practices like yoga and tai chi</a> have been used to self-quiet and relax for thousands of years. Having girls do progressive muscle relaxation exercises works as well. Many runners describe getting into a trance or zone when they run distances.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Guided imagery:</strong> Doing visualization is also a great de-stressor and a means to get focused and calm. At our camps, we will take a long hike through the woods, down to a lake or creek, and stop along the way to quietly observe some aspect of nature. Once back, we will guide the girls to recall the trip, remembering what they saw and heard all along the way. This then becomes a memory they can go back to whenever they want to relax their minds and focus on something positive and calming during the school year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Pets:</strong> Sitting down and talking with their pets, real and stuffed, quickly calms many kids and teens. Their dog listens without interrupting them, and their love is unconditional.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Nature</strong>: Research has shown that time in nature is very grounding, and a good place to get quiet. I encourage girls to find safe spots outdoors where they can go to decompress. This can look like climbing trees, sitting beside a creek or lake or ocean, or walking through the woods. Quiet moments at our camps where we pause to watch a sunset over the lake, or stargaze in a field at night have become popular rituals that our campers love and look forward to each summer they return.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Mindfulness</strong>: I encourage girls to become more mindful, as in doing one thing at a time with your full, one-pointed attention. Multi-tasking is stressful, but mindfulness is relaxing and centering.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We need to guide kids to balance out the relentless noise and distractions of their everyday lives with times of quiet solitude where they can reflect, soul-search, daydream, and gather themselves. Learning to connect with your inner voice, wisdom, and knowing can only come during periods of peace and quiet.</span></div>
Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-66159114747656899832014-03-20T09:46:00.001-07:002014-03-20T09:46:14.335-07:00This so Called Life<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1265647979_17" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Here's an oldie but goody. I posted this 4 years ago and it is still relevant. This <b>me</b> generation needs to be taught how to be responsible. If not, they are going to have a big dose of reality after college. Plucky. Creative. Hard working. Realistic. Happy Spring Break Everyone. Enjoy the time off. chrissie</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1265647979_17" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;"> Bill Gates</span> recently gave a speech at a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1265647979_18" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">High School</span>
about 11 things teens did not and will not learn in school. He talks
about how feel--good, politically correct teachings created a generation
of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for
failure in the real world.</span></span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">This
is a subject both Mel and I have discussed over and over. We are doing
this next generation no favors by enabling and excusing them. It is
daunting to think about turning the wheels of the world over to young
men and women who don't have a clue about hard work, responsibility and
commitment.</span><br /><br />Rule 1</span></span></span>: Life is not fair - get used to it!<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 2</span></span>:
The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect
you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 3</span></span>:
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be
a vice-president with an expense account until you earn both.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 4</span></span>: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 5</span></span>:
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 6</span></span>: If you mess up,<span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><b style="font-weight: bold;"><u><span>it's not your parents' fault</span></u></b>, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 7</span></span>:
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and
listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you
save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation,
try delousing the closet in your own room.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 8</span></span>:
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS
NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll
give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't
bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Rule 9</span></span>:
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very
few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on
your own time.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />10</span></span>: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /><span style="color: #000066;">And finally, the best of all- Rule #11.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one</span>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span> Have a great week. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Chrissie</span></span>Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-80119093575973381202014-03-10T06:22:00.004-07:002014-03-10T06:26:09.521-07:00Up or Back?<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Contributor to the <i>Indy Star</i>, Shari Rudavsky weighed in on Daylight Savings Time. No matter your opinion, we awoke in the dark, but enjoyed the light at dinner time. If Daylight Savings Time is here, can Spring be far behind? Chrissie</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Americans, it seems, can be divided into two types of people: Those who hate Daylight Saving Time and those who love it. This weekend, the lovers get their way when the clock springs forward at 2 a.m. Sunday, where it will stay until Nov. 2 at 2 a.m. when the haters can start smiling again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With three days of Daylight Saving Time under our belts – or pillows -- here are five things we love about it and five things we hate. Not surprisingly, some of them overlap.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daylight Savings Time allows people to exercise outdoors later in the day.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Submitted photo)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Opportunity to go for a bike ride/walk/run/swim outdoors after work.</span> Most of us work day shifts. If you leave work at 5 p.m., you still have four-plus hours to enjoy outdoor activities in daylight. It's almost like having another half day of the weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Manhattan skyline<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Spencer Platt Getty Images)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Being in sync with the East Coast.</span> Business associates, friends and family don't get completely flummoxed about what time it is in your life, because it's always the same time as it is in their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As storms roll through, a blazing sunset pokes through the clouds on the near north side.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Michelle Pemberton/The Indianapolis Star)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Late-night sunsets.</span> By June 23, thanks to the fact Indiana sits on the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone, the sun does not set until 9:17 p.m. It's almost like living in Scandinavia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The number of car crashes goes down during Daylight Savings Time, one study found.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Doug McSchooler/The Indianapolis Star)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Safer roads? </span>Daylight Saving Time may make the roads safer for drivers. A 2010 study by University of Minnesota researchers found the number of crashes during the DST declines. They hypothesize that DST reduces the number of crashes by improving overall visibility for drivers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">A rite of spring.</span> Switching the clock is a clear sign that spring has arrived – even if the weather is not cooperating. So even if it snows again, we can do something to mark the arrival of a new season. Besides, how else would remember it's time to check our smoke alarm batteries?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spring forward, fall back didn't used to mean much to the average Hoosier.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: File photo)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Lack of consistency throughout the year.</span> We had it pretty good before Daylight Saving Time entered the picture. Unlike the rest of the country, we realized there's something nice about not hassling over a small but nagging shift in time twice a year. Besides, gaining an hour of sleep never feels good enough to compensate for how rotten losing that hour feels.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Phil Eichacker reads a bedtime story to son Ben Eichacker at about 9:20 p.m. in this 2006 file photo.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Kelly Wilkinson Indianapolis Star)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Putting kids to bed when it's light out.</span> Try convincing your toddler that it's bedtime, when he or she can see the evening sun streaming through the window. Turning out the light is a key part of going to sleep, as any bedtime book will tell you. Pulling down the blackout shades just isn't the same thing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Changing the clock can throw off sleep habits.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Alex Leary KRT)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sunrise happens later towards the end of Daylight Saving Time.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Charlie Nye)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Dark mornings.</span> Early risers miss the sun when it comes up an hour later and would gladly sacrifice the evening light for illumination as the day begins. By the end of October, right before we fall back, sunrise will not occur until 8:14 a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Actor Martin Sheen in a scene from the "The West Wing" in this undated handout photo. The Emmy favorite took 21 nominations including a dramatic actor nod for Sheen as nominations for the 54th annual PrimeTime Emmy Awards were announced in Los Angeles Thursday, July 18, 2002. The awards show is scheduled to air Sept. 22. (AP Photo/Warner Brothers)<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Associated Press)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">We were quirky and now we're...</span> Indiana's refusal to adopt Daylight Saving Time set us apart. It even had a cameo role in an episode of the "West Wing." But we haven't completely shaken our reputation. People on the East Coast still frequently ask, "Wait, what time is it there?" or "Are you on Central?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But whether we should be on Eastern or Central time is a whole other debate. </span></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Call Star reporter Shari Rudavsky at <a href="tel:(317) 444-6354" style="text-decoration: none;">(317) 444-6354</a>. Follow her on Twitter @srudavsky.</i></div>
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Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-73819462445568012992014-03-04T06:01:00.001-08:002014-03-04T06:01:54.619-08:00It's A Whole New WorldHappy March. Hope the old adage-"in like a lion and out like a lamb" shows itself to be true. I think everyone is ready for a little spring! <br />
So, if spring is coming, testing can't be too far behind. Schools are gearing up all over America to evaluate our kids and, in the eyes of the government, evaluate themselves. Whatever your position regarding testing, improving our schools is always a good thing. <br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ingvi Hrannar Ómarsson offers insight and common sense to education in the 21st century. Chrissie</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Saying that it has always been this way, doesn’t count as a legitimate justification to why it should stay that way. Teacher and administrators all over the world are doing amazing things, but some of the things we are still doing, despite all the new solutions, research and ideas out there is, to put it mildly, incredible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’m not saying we should just make the current system better… we should change it into something else.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I have compiled a list of 14 things that are obsolete in 21st century schools and it is my hope that this will inspire lively discussions about the future of education.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The idea of taking a whole class to a computer room with outdated equipment, once a week to practice their typewriting skills and sending them back to the classroom 40 minutes later, is obsolete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Computers or technology shouldn’t just be a specific subject, that’s not sufficient anymore but rather it should be an integral part of all the subjects and built into the curriculum.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Classrooms can be isolated in two ways. One where parents, teachers or guests are not welcome because the door and drapes are always shut… which has the words “Don’t come in here” written all over it. The other way is is being isolated to all the knowledge outside the 4 walls. For example from the internet, videos, blogs, websites and visits from authors or scientists through Skype, to name a few.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tony Wagner, the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Global-Achievement-Gap-Need/dp/0465002307" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the Global Achievement Gap</a> says: “Isolation is the enemy of improvement”. The classroom should be open, teachers should be able to walk in and learn from each other, parents should visit often, f.x. with so called Extra Open Schooldays (where all parents are encouraged to visit classrooms anytime during the day). Isolated classrooms are therefore obsolete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Schools that don’t have a robust WiFi network for staff and students are not only missing a big change for teaching and learning but robbing the students of access to knowledge and also limiting their chances to learn about the internet and using technology in a safe way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">21st century schools make it possible for students and staff to learn anywhere, anytime and schools that don’t allow that are obsolete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taking phones and tablets from students instead of using them to enhance learning is obsolete. We should celebrate the technology students bring and use them as learning tools.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Phones are no longer just devices to text and make phone calls… when they were, then banning them was OK. Today there is more processing power in the average cellular telephone than NASA had access to when they sent a man to the moon in 1969. Yet most students only know how to use these devices for social media and playing games.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today you can edit a movie, make a radio show, take pictures, make posters, websites, blog, tweet as a character from a book, have class conversations over TodaysMeet and Google most answers on a test with the device in your pocket. We should show our students the learning possibilities & turn these distractions into learning opportunities that will reach far outside the classroom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Having one person responsible for the computer system, working from a windowless office in the school basement, surrounded by old computers, updates the programs and tells the staff what tech tools they can and cannot use… is obsolete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today we need technology co-ordinators that know what teachers and students need to be successful and solves problems instead of creating barriers. Someone who helps people to help themselves by giving them responsibility and finds better and cheaper ways to do things.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Teachers who work silently, don’t tweet, blog and discuss ideas with people around the world are obsolete. Teachers are no longer working locally but globally and it’s our job to share what we do and see what others are doing. If a teacher is no longer learning then he shouldn’t be teaching other people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We should all be tweeting, blogging and sharing what works and doesn’t work, get and give advice to and from co-workers around the world. We should constantly be improving our craft because professional development isn’t a 3 hour workshop once a month but a lifelong process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.” </em></span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-John Dewey</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Schools that think putting a news article on the school website every other week and publish a monthly newsletter is enough to keep parents informed are obsolete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The school should have a Facebook page, share news and information with parents, have a Twitter account and their own hashtag, run their own online TV channel where students film, edit and publish things about school events.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you don’t tell your story, someone else will.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few schools in Iceland and Sweden have turned almost completely to organic foods and given thought into the long term benefit of healthy food rather than the short term savings of the unhealthy. For example at <a href="http://ingvihrannar.com/stora-hammar/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Stora Hammar</a> school in Sweden 90% of the food served is organic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Children should put the food on their own plate, clean up after themselves and even do the dishes. Not because it saves the school money on workforce but because it is a part of growing up and learning about responsibility. What 21st century schools should be doing as well is growing their own fruits and vegetables where students water them and learn about nature. Every school should as well have a <a href="http://www.good.is/posts/every-school-should-have-a-farm-to-feed-its-students" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">farm to feed its students</a>, but if that is not an option (for example in big city schools) then they can at last set up a <a href="https://www.windowfarms.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">windowfarm</a> in some of the school windows.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://ingvihrannar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/4-column_1.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="4-column_1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1436" height="300" src="http://ingvihrannar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/4-column_1-300x300.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" width="300" /></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The goal with providing students a healthy meal is not only to give them enough nutrition to last the school day but to make healthy food a normal part of their daily life and get them to think about nutrition which is something that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Research has shown over and over again that teenagers do better and feel better in schools that start later. Often parents or administrators needs get in the way of that change. Research (f.x. from the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics</em>) show that delaying school start as little as 50 minutes and making it longer by 30 minutes instead has a positive effect both on learning and activities after school. Schools that don’t do this are obsolete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Starting later is easy and teacher could use the extra time in the morning to prepare class… it’s a win-win situation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When your school needs a poster, pamphlet or a new website they shouldn’t buy the service from somewhere else (although that can sometimes be the case) and have students do it instead. In the best schools of the future, they will be the ones doing it as a real project that has meaning and as a collaborative project in language, technology and art.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Libraries that only contain books and chess tables are obsolete.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A 21st century library should be at the heart of the school and a place where both students and staff can come in to relax, read, get advice, access powerful devices, edit videos, music, print in 3D and learn how to code to name a few. This 21st century learning space should give people an equal chance to use these devices and access information. Otherwise these libraries will turn into museums where people go to look at all the things we used to use.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Putting kids in the same class because they are born in the same year is obsolete. School systems were originally set up to meet the needs of industrialism. Back then we needed people to work in factories, conformity was good and nobody was meant to excel or be different in that environment. That doesn’t fit our needs today, let alone the future but many schools are still set up like the factories they were meant to serve a 100 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We should increase choice, give children support to flourish in what interests them and not only give them extra attention in the things they’re bad at. In most schools, if you are good in art but bad in german you get german lessons to get to par with the other students instead of excelling at art… All even, all the same!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Education should be individualised, students should work in groups regardless of age and their education should be built around their needs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A school that just sends the entire staff to a workshop once a month where everyone get the same are obsolete. Professional development is usually top down instead of the ground up where everyone get what they want and need. This is because giving everyone (including students) what they need and want takes time & money.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With things like Twitter, Pinterest, articles online, books, videos, co-operation & conversations employees can personalize their professional development. (Read<a href="http://ingvihrannar.com/einstaklingsmidud-endurmenntun/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a> about my article on Personalized Professional Development)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Looking at standardized tests to evaluate whether or not children are educated or not is the dumbest thing we can do and gives us a shallow view of learning. The outcomes, although moderately important, measure only a small part of what we want our kids to learn and by focusing on these exams we are narrowing the curriculum. Alfie Kohn even pointed out a statistically significant correlation between high grades on standardized tests and a shallow approach to learning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://ingvihrannar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1491662_602591093110147_1045515624_n.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="1491662_602591093110147_1045515624_n" height="479" src="http://ingvihrannar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1491662_602591093110147_1045515624_n.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" width="599" /></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The world today and the needs of the society are completely different to what they used to be. We are not only training people to work locally but globally. With standardized test, like PISA, we are narrowing the curriculum, and all the OECD countries are teaching the same thing. Because of that we all produce the same kind of workers, outdated workers, to work in factories. People who can comply, behave and be like everybody else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the global world today it is easy to outsource jobs to someone who is willing to do the same job, just as fast for less money. Therefore we need creative people that can do something else and think differently.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Andrea Schleicher (2010) said: <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Schools have to prepare students for jobs that have not yet been created, technologies that have not yet been invented and problems that we don’t know will arise.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Standardized education might have been the answer once but saying that it’s obsolete is putting it mildly and is only a way to try to repair the broken system. Results of those tests are, according to Daniel Pink (2005) in direct contradiction to the skills we need today. Those skills are for example design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We should be solving real problems, asking questions that matter instead of remembering and repeating facts. Adults’ accomplishments are linked far more strongly to their creativity than IQ (<a href="http://ingvihrannar.com/14-things-that-are-obsolete-in-21st-century-schools/adults%E2%80%99%20accomplishments%20are%20linked%20far%20more%20strongly%20to%20their%20creativity%20than%20their%20IQ" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">source</a>) and we should be celebrating diverse knowledge and interest instead of trying to standardise knowledge and skills.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wonder if schools would finally change their direction if we designed a new standardize test that wouldn’t measure numeracy, science and literacy but empathy, creative thinking and communication skills… Maybe that is all we need.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All the education systems on the planet are being reformed, but I don’t think reform is what we need. We need a revolution and change the education system into something else. It isn’t an easy task, but as S.E. Phillips once said:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Doing something new and getting poor results on the old test shouldn’t surprise anyone. What is the point of doing something new and different if we get the same results on standardized tests… then we might as well just do factory schooling, conform and comply.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If I had asked the people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” – Henry Ford</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That is exactly what we are doing today. We are asking our students to remember more, write better and repeat faster then before… just like we wanted the faster horse, when really we should be asking for the car. Sure the car wasn’t better than the horse in the beginning and our education system won’t be better or perfect either. It will never be perfect, it should be constantly evolving.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I don’t know what a perfect education system looks like, and don’t think it even exist. But I believe that if we talk, try something different, fail forward, investigate and share what we do we can get a lot closer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to see change in education, you should start in your own classroom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Education can be encouraged from the top-down but can only be improved from the ground up”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Sir Ken Robinson</span></div>
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Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-2169785665871154822014-02-26T06:01:00.000-08:002014-02-26T06:06:02.033-08:00Blood Sweat and Success<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In case you're in need of a little more evidence that the American Dream is alive and well, here's this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-inside-story-how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new-19-billion-baby/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">An immigrant from the Ukraine</a> just sold his company a couple of days ago to Facebook for $19 billion. You've probably heard all about it for a couple of reasons It involves a tech company that more than a billion people use, it involves billions of dollars and it's got a pretty rich back-story too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jan Koum immigrated in the early 1990s to the United States with his mom and grandmother. They lived in Northern California in a two-bedroom apartment where babysitting, cleaning, food stamps and welfare helped them survive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His interest in computer programming eventually led him to a job at Yahoo! where his future business partner Brian Acton also worked. They worked there for nine years, and then took a year off to travel and play Ultimate Frisbee. When Koum returned to the United States, he applied for jobs at Facebook and Twitter and was turned down by both companies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2009, he got an iPhone and started to develop an idea for an app that would send text messages internationally for free. He trademarked WhatsApp several months later, and now the company has more than 450 million users and is growing its user base by one million people per day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is a pretty simplified version of what really happened. What's missing are the months and years of blood, sweat and tears that went into building a multibillion dollar company. But the basic foundation is here. It's the will-do, can-do, never-give-up-attitude that's needed to achieve the American Dream.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And although Jan Koum's dream has turned into a very wealthy reality, it's not all about the money. Living the American Dream is about achieving your own happiness, your own fulfillment -- your own personal success story.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The American Dream dates back to the Declaration of Independence that proclaimed people are endowed with certain inalienable rights like "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." And in 1931, historian James Truslow Adams, <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078384/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">the person credited with popularizing the term "American Dream,"</a> described it as "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nobody is more familiar with this ideal better than entrepreneurs. They're on a mission to be happy with their earned success and they're not going to let anything stop them. Research shows that the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-kernen/american-entrepreneurs_b_3566540.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">average entrepreneur makes just under $45,000 per year</a> and fails an average of 3.8 times before succeeding.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But recently, the quest for the American Dream has come under question. A <a href="http://business.time.com/2014/02/06/millennials-put-their-surprising-stamp-on-the-american-dream/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">study on the 2013 State of the American Family </a>suggests that for my generation, the millennials, the dream is really more about day-to day control of your life. High unemployment and worries about the economy are making the American Dream seem like more of a pipe dream for some people. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Don't tell this to Jan Koum who handled more than a few potholes on his path to success. His determination and brilliant ideas led him right back to where he started... sort of. He signed his multibillion-dollar deal at the former North County Social Services Office where he once lined up for food stamps.</span><br />
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Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-63625660960427023212014-02-18T07:34:00.001-08:002014-02-18T07:34:31.140-08:00Don't Worry Be HappyMy four children are out of college and joyfully on their way to the rest of their lives. It hasn't been without some false starts but all seems well as I write this morning, today.....this week. Let's just say, with grown children, you hold your breath every time the phone rings.<br />
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Expectations for our children as they go through high school and college is part of the process. Having a goal and a plan is a good thing.. Our teens should be given all the tools to succeed in life. On the other hand, the insight that follows is something to add to the formula. Success can be measured in many different ways. Thanks to Garrett DeGraffanreid, teen blogger for his words of wisdom. <br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When I was 5 years-old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">― John Lennon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In today's society we're pushed to be successful, to be better than the person standing next to us. We're taught in school almost completely for the purpose of standardized testing to see what we can retain in a short period of time, only to lose it in the process of making more room to retain more knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We're forced into planning our entire life freshman year of high school. Where we'll go to college, what we'll major in and what we'll do afterwards are questions that batter us from school administrators and family members. I personally don't know what I'm doing this weekend, much less four, eight and 10 years from now. My career choice changes from month to month. I want to be a politician, a teacher, maybe a musician and some months when I feel like I'm going nowhere I settle for the neighborhood bum. I have no clue what I want to do with my life, and I know I'm not the only one who feels like this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The problem is we teach kids to be someone, when we should be teaching them to be something. Instead of teaching that we should strive for success, usually identified as wealth and power, and settle for nothing less, we should teach our youth to be happy. Teach them to do something that they love to do. Something they'll be happy doing day after day after day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the eighth grade I had a teacher who changed my life by teaching me useful things. In addition to the classroom lessons he was required to teach by the state of Texas, he'd teach us life lessons. He taught us tips on job interviews, how to get out of our comfort zones and how to know when a date isn't going well. On one particular day he said he wanted to talk about our futures. He told us that when we were older, we should do what we loved, and that it was a waste of our time to do something that we weren't passionate about and that wasn't fulfilling to us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After thinking about this I walked out of his classroom with a different perspective on my future. I realized it's not the physical appearance of my future, but the emotional appearance that should matter most. The way I feel about what I'm doing should be the driving force of my work. We have the freedom to choose what we do with our life. We should do what we love, love what we do, and strive for personal happiness and success according to our own definition.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Well said Garrett. Best of luck and God speed. </b></span></div>
Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-6376933499348484592014-02-11T05:46:00.001-08:002014-02-11T05:50:52.655-08:00Baby Can I Drive Your Car?<br />
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Driving. In Oklahoma, 87% of 16 year olds get their license. They are driving, even though studies have shown that it is a dangerous activity. Our state has recently added restrictions, which is a good step. 16 year old friend's can't just pile in and blast down the highway. A young contributor in the Chicago area shares excellent insight about teens behind the wheel. It's an interesting look at teens and driving in other parts of the country.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For decades, getting a driver’s license has been considered a rite of passage for teens everywhere. Driving a car—and ditching the parental chauffeurs — equals freedom to some. But for many of today’s teens, wheels can wait.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to several recent studies, many teens are pumping the brakes on getting their driver’s licenses. In one study, AAA found that just 54 percent of teens are licensed before they turn 18. Forty-four percent got their licenses within a year of turning 16 (or the minimum driving age for their state).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When unlicensed teens were asked why they were delaying the process in the same study, 44 percent said they didn’t have a car. Thirty-six percent cited expensive gas prices, and 35 percent said they “just didn’t get around to it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For teens in Chicago, those answers may vary depending on location. Teens who live in or near the city often point to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) when asked about not having their driver’s licenses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I would like to learn how to drive. I think it’s a valuable skill, but I don’t have a strong need to right now due to the availability of (the) CTA as a mode of transportation,” said Walter Payton junior Anthony Charletta, who takes public transportation to and from school and on the weekends.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of course, public transportation isn’t always as accessible in the suburbs. “I think it’s easier for city kids to hold off on getting their licenses because they have public transportation, but in the suburbs, you have to ask a friend or parent (for a ride),” said Suek, the student from Hinsdale Central.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For some suburban students, having a license — and a car of their own — comes with a higher social status. The pressure to have these things could drive some teens to get their licenses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Socially, there is a feeling of like, ‘Why don’t you have your license, man?’ And people who can’t afford a car kind of get shunned away,” said New Trier senior and licensed driver Karl Neumann.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On a national level, some experts blame the high costs associated with driving for teens’ reluctance to get a license. Driver’s education fees, insurance, gas and car repairs all add up to major expenses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kathy Bernstein, the regional coalition manager for the National Safety Council, said she sees major differences between her generation and today’s teens.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“When I was growing up, everyone got their license when they turned 16,” said Bernstein, who got her license the day she turned 16. “Very few people waited, and those who did did so because they didn’t have the confidence to get behind the wheel.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Confidence doesn’t seem to be the major problem today, she explained.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A survey by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute found that about 30 percent of 18- to 19-year-olds identify cost as being a top reason for not getting a driver’s license.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I don’t have my license because I prefer biking and public transit, and a car would cost too much,” said Nicholas Klise, a senior at Notre Dame Academy who plans to get his license before he goes away to college this fall.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Besides the cost of a car, insurance may be the next biggest expense teen drivers face. And because they’re new to the road, their rates are high. Beth Mosher, director of public affairs at AAA Chicago, explained why.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Because the risk of a crash is significantly higher for young drivers, particularly during the first year of driving, teens’ insurance rates are often higher than that of their parents,” Mosher said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There’s another interesting factor that could be discouraging young drivers: social media. Researchers at the transportation institute have learned that teens who use social media are less likely to own or drive a car.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Virtual contact, through electronic means, reduces the need for actual contact,” said Michael Sivak, a research professor in the institute’s human factors group. In other words, social media could be replacing the need to hang out with friends in person.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">AAA’s Mosher said she’s also noticed the trend: “We think teens have numerous ways to stay connected to their social network now that we’ve never seen in the past, and their need for a car to stay connected to friends has changed.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whitney Young senior Jeremy White said he’s seen his friends’ and classmates’ behavior change with social networks and texting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Today, more and more kids use their phones to communicate rather than actually hanging out,” he said. “A lot of relationships are held over texts (rather) than face-to-face, and more and more I see kids not being able to stand up for themselves or function without a phone in front of them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Does it specifically affect driving? I honestly have no clue, but I could see how it would,” White said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Klise, the Notre Dame senior, said he’s not so sure about the theory — especially when it comes to his social circle. “I disagree with it because social media does not replace face-to-face (contact) for me and my friends,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There’s also the long process of getting a driver’s license, and it’s jam-packed with rules. Illinois’ graduated driver licensing program — sometimes referred to as “GDL” — dictates the laws for young drivers. If you’re under 18, there are detailed rules about what times you can be on the road, how many passengers you can have in the car and dozens of other safety precautions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The overall mission of the program is to give new drivers the tools and time they need to become responsible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bernstein pointed out that there are many benefits to learning how to drive with mom and dad around.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I can’t say whether or not it’s a good or bad thing that teens are delaying licensing. If they are doing so to avoid GDL, which ends at age 18, then they certainly open themselves to increased risk,” she said. “When a teen learns to drive and has strong parental support, risk is greatly reduced.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bernstein added that car crashes are the No. 1 cause of death for teens in the U.S., and they can happen as a result of driver inexperience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mosher agreed: “The GDL process and driver education are so critical in gaining necessary experience and preparing teens to be good, safe drivers, so we urge teens to go through this process.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although there are many logical reasons teens are waiting on their driver’s licenses, the practice and mentoring that comes along with old-fashioned driver’s education could be worth the investment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When unlicensed teens were asked why they were delaying the process here’s how they responded:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />44% didn’t have a car<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />39% could get around without driving<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />36% said gas was too expensive<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />36% said driving was too expensive<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />35% said they just didn’t get around to it<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Source: AA</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">A</span></div>
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Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-7766508598423630682014-02-04T07:26:00.001-08:002014-02-04T07:26:28.460-08:00Reach Out and a Touch Someone<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Teen blogger, Tess Harkin offers the following rebuttal to a popular parenting opinion- teens are too dependent on technology and electronic devices. " These youngsters have no idea how to research information. In my day a card catalog and index cards got me where I needed to be." Hmm. Maybe the good old days weren't so great after all.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Technology is something that has become fully integrated in society with great speed. However, the use of it is still met with petty qualms on the daily. People argue that technology is ruining communication, that it's undermining the art of an in person conversation, and I'm sure we've all heard an adult say something along the lines of "Back in my day..." followed by a negative statement about how technology is ruining America. It certainly doesn't help that obesity rates seem to have increased alongside the use of technology, and that Internet addiction is now a real thing. It's almost too easy to agree with the majority and think, "People are right, technology is destroying the human connection." But I think just the opposite.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Technology brings people together. Shocking, I know? It sounds like some crazy marketing ploy, and many commercials support that. But the fact is, it's the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I can talk to one of my friends in California, Canada or Taiwan with the touch of a button. Technology has helped me forge lifelong connection with people I would have lost touch with ordinarily. I can say I talk to more people now, whether it be through Facebook, texting or tweeting, than I did three years ago. And for the argument that nothing compares to face-to-face conversation? I'd love to engage and be a part of that, but the fact of the matter is, without Skype or Google Hangouts, I wouldn't be able talk to a large portion of my friends. I'm not trying to advocate for technology to replace all forms of in person conversation, I'm just trying to suggest the stigma attached to it isn't necessarily just.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of the greatest arguments I have in favor of disproving stereotypes attached to technology is in my school, and within one class specifically. Having a jock, a punk rocker, a straight A student and a dancer all together in one room laughing, collaborating and creating sounds strangely similar to the plot of <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Breakfast Club</em>. But it's just my video production class. There's 12 other extremely different and diverse students in there with me, and to be honest, we don't have very much in common. But that hasn't stopped us from practically becoming a family. What is the common thread, uniting us? Funny you should ask. Technology. Working together with cameras and computers and all other sorts of gizmos and gadgets has linked us together in the best (and sometimes weirdest) way. Technology didn't push apart, it brought us closer together.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I mentioned before, I'm not trying to suggest technology as a means to replace all personal communication. I'm merely proposing the idea that there's more value to digital connections than most people think there is. So next time you're on your phone and your parents roll their eyes and open their mouths, try to convince them of the benefit of that piece of plastic in your hands. And then make a date to see a friend in person.</span><br />
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Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-73411663208726294182014-01-28T07:27:00.000-08:002014-01-28T07:27:09.488-08:00If Only....<div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I happened on some excellent insight from a young Huffington Post contributor. Danielle Woo offers five straight-forward and dead on tips from her very own very recent high school experience. Share with your own pre -teen or middle schooler. Maybe, just maybe, they'll listen</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As a teenager, you get a lot of things shouted at you from all different directions and it's often overwhelming. I've learned a lot over the last few years of high school and often find myself wishing so badly to be able to go back in time and talk to 14-year-old me. Here are some things I wish someone would have informed me in my naive, dreamer girl days.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While we may already know this, it's hard not to map out your last four years of education as something based straight out of a Disney flick. Having a Troy Bolton of my own probably crossed my imagination when I was younger. As a freshman, everything is so new and you're dealing with the constant feeling of apathy all while caring way too much. It's a delicate balance that I think only teenagers alone ever understand fully. To put things in more cynical terms: lower your expectations. Don't expect your knight in shining armor to pick you up for a magical time at the school dance. Don't map out a crazy romance soiree that belongs in a Nicholas Sparks novel. Expect change, but don't try so hard to fantasize it. Romanticizing things will only lead you on a deluded pathway to empty cartons of ice cream.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I regret any major attitude I had in the beginning of high school because it definitely tampers with the relationships you have with your teachers. Not all of them will be fair, or even tolerable, and while that may inspire you to want to take your first dignified stand against today's education system, it won't prevent you from failing. At certain times it is going to matter whether you get that extra two percent, and if you're not on good terms with your instructor, that number probably won't budge. Respect your teachers and pay attention in class because no, you're not "too cool for school." Personally, that kid who drags everyone down with their reluctance isn't someone I'm going to remember fondly after I graduate. In fact, I probably won't remember him or her at all. Don't waste your energy on trying to seem above your assignments because it'll just come back to bite you. Plus, who do you think is in charge of writing your recommendation letters for college? Exactly. In general, you want to be nice to all of your peers as well. Trust me, there will be times when it'll seem impossible but think of a few years when you graduate; do you really want to leave knowing you're entitled to more apologies than goodbyes?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. Be the kind of friend you would want.</strong><br style="border: 0px; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />You're going to meet people who are dealing with all kinds of problems. Things like eating disorders and mental illnesses are rampant in today's youth and while you may not want to believe it, chances are you'll get to know someone who suffers from one. In times like this, you have to be that friend that's going to pick up the phone at 3 a.m. when someone needs to talk. Maybe you'll be the one experiencing these things, and in that case, what would you want your friend to do for you? Sometimes you won't feel like being there, maybe you'll be too tired to listen, but it'll be worth it in the end if you really just make yourself reliable. These people you call your friends are going to be the very ones who are going to get you through your toughest times in high school.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As humans, we're naturally self-centered creatures. We want to focus on all that we've done right, and, unfortunately, all that we've done wrong. Of course, feeling sorry for yourself is okay, it's even healthy! But when you're the person who's always complaining about yourself and your life and questioning all the bad things that happen to you, no one is going to want to talk to you. Nobody is going to feel sorry for you. Wallowing in self-pity is gross and only makes you feel worse in the long run. You are amazing and talented and have all the right to own those moments that make you smile, so focus on that. No one is going to feel like running to dry you with a towel when you're the one pouring water on yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's cliche, it's all over inspirational magazines and, when overused, it's even cringe worthy. But it's true! Most teenagers experience a very common thing called low self-esteem. You're surrounded by hundreds of other people who are even better at the things you thought you were best at. While it took you forty minutes to do your hair this morning, she just rolled out of bed looking like the cover of <em style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vogue</em>. This afternoon you just hit your personal best in sports and you feel great, that is, until that guy over there zips past you on his first try doubling your standards. Stop comparing yourself. You're not stupid because you failed a history test. Memorizing dates isn't my forte either. Don't beat yourself up because you don't look like someone because, in reality, you never will. You are yourself and that's all you ever will be. It's both mentally and physically exhausting to hate yourself and stand in the mirror picking out everything you want to change. Think of yourself at your proudest moments and then pat yourself on the shoulder because that is exactly who you are. If you have countless problems with yourself, do something about it. You're the only one who picks yourself up after a long day to keep going, even when you simply feel like sleeping through it all. That's a pretty impressive feat, and don't let yourself be convinced otherwise.</span></div>
Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-23013575977666374172014-01-22T18:26:00.001-08:002014-01-22T18:26:32.142-08:00Authority Figure . Not. <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1904988343824240647" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 568px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do you sometimes feel your teen shows you a lack of respect? Do your expectations not result in desired results? Does it it feel like you have lost control over your child and your home? Are your threats and cajoling falling on deaf ears? I promise, you are not alone. It is normal for tweens and teens to test their boundaries and question your authority. Normal, yes. Acceptable. No.<br /><br />OK. Problem addressed. Now, how about a solution for getting your parent role back? Dr. Kevin Leman, contributor to Dr. James Dobson's magazine, <span style="font-style: italic;">Focus on the Family</span>, offers the following insight.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It all comes down to who is really in charge in your family. Today's parents don't often act like parents. They are so concerned about being their child's friend, making sure their child is happy and successful, they fail in their most important role- to parent.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">They snowplow their child's road in life, clearing the path so the child never has to be uncomfortable or go out of her way. Mom and Dad become servants rather that parents who are preparing their children to be responsible and contributing citizens.<br /><br />As a result, today's kids are becoming more powerful. They're all about <span style="font-weight: bold;">me, me, m</span>e and<span style="font-weight: bold;">gimmee.</span> They are held less accountable for their actions and have less responsibilities in the family. Family becomes not what you give, but what you get. They rarely consider others besides themselves because they have never been taught to think that way.<br /><br />Every child has a predictable strategy. He plays a trial and error game that is designed to get the best of you. He wins when he gets what he wants. If slamming the door has you trotting after your daughter with the car keys, she'll be more dramatic the next time. Children are masters at manipulation.</span><br />Leman offers the following strategy to regain your authority and insure your child is respectful and obedient.<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let Reality be the Teacher</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Let nature take it's course. Don't rescue your kids from the consequences of failed responsibility.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Learn to Respond Rather than Reac</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">t</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Often, parents react rather than respond. Our emotions get the better of us and we speak without thinking first. If the doctor says, " You responded to your medication," that's a good thing. If the doctor says, "you reacted to your medication," that's bad. Think about the difference when sweet thing asks (Insert anything here)....</span>#1-I'm thinking of getting a tattoo...#2-There is a co-ed slumber party this weekend after the game...#3. I just don't think college is for me...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />B Doesn't Happen Until A is Completed</span><br />You never have to change this strategy. It works every time with every age. If you've asked your child to do something, and it's not done, you don't go on until the next event-no matter what the event is. The secret here is consistency. Attitudes and behaviors may get worse for a time. Don't panic, it means you're on the right track. There is no threatening, no harassing, no warning. There are no put-downs. What is, is.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />As you work together on attitude, behavior and character, you'll be building a relationship that is mutually satisfying. It's worth the effort<span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span>chrissie<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="clear: both;">
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Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-72969140063006497062014-01-15T06:15:00.003-08:002014-01-15T06:15:53.572-08:00How Do You Spell Success?<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right" style="max-width: 372px !important;">
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">How can we model success for our family? How can we stress it takes hard work and pluck and drive? Confidence and courage needs to be added to the formula. Empathy and sympathy thrown in too. Successful lives include sacrifice and long range planning. What follows is a short list to success. By Dan </i><b><i>Waldschmidt </i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>You have to do the hard things.</strong> </span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to make the call you’re afraid to make.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to get up earlier than you want to get up.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to give more than get in return right away.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to care more about others than they care about you.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to fight when you are already injured, bloody, and sore.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to feel unsure and insecure when playing if safe seems smarter.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to lead when no one else is following you yet.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to invest in yourself even though no one else is.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to look like a fool while you’re looking for answers you don’t have.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to grind out the details when it’s easier to shrug them off.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to deliver results when making excuses is an option.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to search for your own explanations even when you’re told to accept the “facts.”</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to make mistakes and look like an idiot.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to try and fail and try again.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to run faster even though you’re out of breath.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to be kind to people who have been cruel to you.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to meet deadlines that are unreasonable and deliver results that are unparalleled.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to be accountable for your actions even when things go wrong.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to keep moving towards where you want to be no matter what’s in front of you.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have to do the hard things. The things that no one else is doing. The things that scare you. The things that make you wonder how much longer you can hold on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those are the things that define you. Those are the things that make the difference between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The hard things are the easiest things to avoid. To excuse away. To pretend like they don’t apply to you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The simple truth about how ordinary people accomplish outrageous feats of success is that they do the hard things that smarter, wealthier, more qualified people don’t have the courage — or desperation — to do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do the hard things. You might be surprised at how amazing you really are.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This post originally appeared at <a href="http://danwaldschmidt.com/blog" sl-processed="1" style="text-decoration: none;">Edgy Conversations</a>. Copyright 2014.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>Melony Carey and Chrissie Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00505515212161691872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450909802831271727.post-18968349207371992592014-01-08T06:34:00.001-08:002014-01-08T06:34:31.136-08:00It Takes All Kinds<div class="pad" id="content" style="float: left; padding: 20px 20px 20px 0px; width: 600px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You know your own child. You know if he is a visual person. If she has to write instructions down to remember. There is the daughter who is creative and imaginative. The son who sees the world as black and white and is analytical to the core. Left brain? Right brain? Structured. Flexible. The good news is that education is following suit. Teachers are being taught how to address the variety of learning styles represented in a classroom. If your child seems to be struggling, perhaps this learning style is the key to his /success. Chrissie </span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Once upon a time in the olden days, the teacher stood out front and taught the whole class the same material in the same way. Everyone was expected to do the same tasks, some passed and some failed and were labelled ever after. The focus was on teaching, not on learning. One size was supposed to fit all and if you learned in a different way, too bad for you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Time passed and it turned out that everyone didn’t learn in the same way after all. The teacher realised that learners have different needs, interests and abilities. Differentiated instruction was invented. The teacher prepared different tasks for each group in her class and preparation now took a whole lot longer. The needs of the learner were being better catered for, but the teacher was up all night.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. <strong>Let go</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Give the students (at least some) <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/10-ways-to-encourage-students-to-take-responsibility-for-their-own-learning/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to encourage students to take responsibility for their learning">ownership of their learning</a>. Don’t always be the boss of the class, be part of the community of learners. Don’t make all the decisions. Allow choice. Encourage students to think about how they learn best. Have students decide how to demonstrate their learning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/one-size-will-never-fit-all/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="One size will never fit all…">One size does not fit all.</a> Not everyone fits the traditional mould of school, but that doesn’t mean they can’t learn. You might need to change what <em>you</em> do. Remember you teach people, not subjects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Learners don’t need total mastery of all the skills before they can apply them. Provide meaningful, authentic learning opportunities for everyone. <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/constructing-meaning/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Constructing meaning…">Turn Bloom’s taxonomy</a> on its head. All students can solve real problems and write for a real audience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blogging, film making, global interactions, social media, photography, gaming (and much more!) …all provide naturally differentiated opportunities for learners with varied levels of ability, different interests and special talents.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Encourage learners to follow their interests. <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/whats-your-story/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="What’s your story?">Know their story</a>. Make their learning relevant. Connect with their passions… or help them to discover what they might be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s not about a test at the end. Record student thinking and track development over time. Create meaningful assessment tasks that allow transfer of learning to other contexts. Think of <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/10-ways-to-assess-learning-without-tests/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to assess learning without tests…">everything as an assessment</a>. Every piece of work, every blog post, every interaction, every conversation can tell us where a learner is at and where they need to go.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7. Embrace inquiry as a stance.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong></strong>Create a <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/10-ways-to-create-a-culture-of-thinking/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to create a culture of thinking…">culture of thinking,</a> questioning, wondering and exploring. Start your questions with ‘What do you think?’ so that all responses are acceptable. Find ways to<a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/today-we-will-be-learning-about/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Today we will be learning about…"> provoke learners’ curiosity</a> and a desire to find out for themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Students can learn from their peers, other teachers, parents, their on-line contacts, the world. Help them build <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/10-ways-to-help-students-develop-a-pln/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to help students develop a PLN…">their own personal learning network </a>with and from whom they can learn.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Make sure you and your students know the reason for every learning experience. Don’t give ‘busy work’. Don’t start by planning activities, <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/start-with-why/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">start with the ‘why</a>‘ and <em>then</em> develop learning experiences which will support independent learning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Help students to define goals for their learning. Provide opportunities for ongoing <a href="http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/10-ways-to-encourage-student-reflection-2/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 ways to encourage student reflection…">self-evaluation and reflection</a>. Provide constructive, specific feedback. Student blogs are great tools for reflecting on learning and responding to their peers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you’re the teacher in the story above, take a look at this chart, highlighting the differences between differentiated instruction and personalised learning. <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bbray/personalizedlearninchart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization ">Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization </a>by<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bbray/personalizedlearninchart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization "> Barbara Bray</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">March 31, 2012 9:07 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for sharing your 10 ideas! They provide a nice framework for why we should differentiate instruction. In my work with teachers I find they need some modeling or coaching on how to do this well. How to deconstruct and thenredesign a lesson to be more differentiated for the diverse group of learners. I have seen Carol Ann Tomlinson on this topic a number of times and she provides the tools and framework for how to do it. Your 10 tips give the push. Diffentiating the assessment is equally as important as differentiating the instruction. Thanks!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 4, 2012 1:30 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or rather… not de-constructing the lesson, but constructing one to begin with that doesn’t have the teacher in control so much, that allows differentiated learning to occur naturally…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Differentiation is so critical. In the right environment, students can be self-motivated – especially if they are working on projects they enjoy. I especially like what you said about projects, technology, and reflection. I can’t imagine teaching without those!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Great practical reminders! I really liked that slide by Barbara Bray. I didn’t realize I was moving more towards personalization than differentiation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also love #7, embracing inquiry as a stance, not just a lesson plan.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 4, 2012 1:25 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love that it’s about differentiation and different points resonate for different people <img alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" scale="0" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 2, 2012 10:18 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Would differentiation be needed if kids got to pursue those interests that are uppermost in their minds? If school was a place where kids got to pursue their passions, would you need to focus on manipulating them to learn stuff they don’t care about? What if the choices adults gave kids in the class were real choices? What if kids had real power and control over their learning? Would you need to differentiate?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yep. That’s my point… slowly, slowly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 3, 2012 7:54 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ed, I enjoyed this article so much I sent to my immediate supervisor. She is going to share with our school based technology contacts. As always, Bravo!<br />Here is her blog:<br /><a href="http://etechplace.org/technologycontacts/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none;">http://etechplace.org/technologycontacts/</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 4, 2012 1:26 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 3, 2012 8:14 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love reading your posts. I’ve shifted grades from Kindergarten to Year 6 this year and have been challenged in so many ways. I am researching more than ever to be ‘up to speed’ with my class. I’ve really enjoyed learning from the students and benefited from peer to peer coaching. I read a paper by John Hattie today. He talked about a study led by Ian Wilkinson and says they are ‘surprised by the under utilisation of peers as co-teachers in classrooms, and the dominance of the adult in the room to the diminution of the power of the peer.’ I feel encouraged that it is a good thing to use students to take leadership over the learning at times. We have just completed a study on Australian Government and after dividing the students into research groups they came back to the class to present their findings in “expert sessions.” The students reflected that these session were most helpful to their projects and it was a great opportunity for them to isten to another voice other than mine.<br />The Hattie paper was found here:<a href="http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/RC2003_Hattie_TeachersMakeADifference.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/RC2003_Hattie_TeachersMakeADifference.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 4, 2012 1:28 pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wow, Clare K to 6 is a huge shift in thinking and practice!<br />So many teachers can’t shake the idea that all learning has to go through them.<br />Thanks for the Hattie paper, I’ll take a look.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for the insightful and helpful post, Edna. I was going to say which point was my favourite but realised they all are.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 14, 2012 1:14 am</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe these are excellent guidelines to increase long term learning retention and higher order thinking skills necessary for our students to be successful in their future. The more opportunites that children have to be creative and take ownership of their learning makes that learning long lasting. I have seen my own children successful when they have opportunities to make power points, glosters and other technology based learning. I really love the piece on “everything as an assessment”. I believe when children can reproduce their learning in a venue they enjoy they can show you what they truely know.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 15, 2012 1:14 am</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Very well-said. I’m forwarding this to some of my colleagues who are always asking for ideas of how to differentiate for their kiddos and of course, taking some ideas to use in my class!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love the 10 ways to differentiate learning post!! Inviting you to check out a tool that I created for the teacher toolbox. <a href="http://www.bubbabrain.com/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.bubbabrain.com</a> – play the demo game on the homepage to better understand how the game works. My students like using it to review past material. This is a FREE resource for teachers and students!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms. Sackson, I am a student in an education class, EDM 310, at the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, Alabama, USA.<br />Several weeks ago, I was assigned to read and comment on a couple of the posts on your blog and really enjoyed reading them. To my surprise, I have been assigned the “WhatEdSaid” blog again. Thank you Dr. Strange!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I absolutely love this post! It should be a mandatory read for all new, or aspiring, teachers. I will definitely be bookmarking it for future re-reads.<br />I especially liked #6. “Assess for learning. It’s not about a test at the end.” This is so true. I think, at least here in America, the education system is way to “test centered”. The way the tests are handled is ridiculous. It is just cram, cram, regurgitate, and repeat.<br />“Create meaningful assessment tasks that allow transfer of learning to other contexts.”<br />I don’t think it could be stated any better.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love your ideas, love your blog, and look forward to the next post.<br />Thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 25, 2012 4:24 am</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for the great list. It strikes me that some of the points really speak to differentiation and some speak to just good teaching for all students. Points 8,9 and 10, for example are hopefully techniques that would apply to all students regardless of whether they were a highly homogenous or heterogenous group. I have tried to demonstrate in my teaching and book (The Falconer) that, as you say, by turning Bloom upside down and expecting all students to be able to increase their skills by those measures, all students to increase their skills!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for sharing! For me number two is the most important point and the biggest hurdle to get over personally. Without this understanding of the need to change expectations frustration can be directed at the student when often it’s really the teacher that needs to improve their practice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am a PGCE student and my reams of ‘handouts’, printed powerpoint presentations and text books could be substituted by this one website. THANK YOU!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh and if you could write a 10 ways to pass your PGCE blog that would be fantastic!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">May 31, 2013 12:13 am</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Great post! Very helpful. I find that the first on is the most difficult for some teachers and the most important for students. Thanks for sharing your thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi there! Thank you for this great list of ways to differentiate the learning of our future generations! I have shared this great post and its valuable content on my Kids are Leaders Facebook page. With gratitude, Diane Uzunovska <img alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" scale="0" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Great material in differentiated learning.In incorporating these ,teachers can make children learn effectively.</span></div>
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