Friday, April 16, 2010
Welcome!
Welcome to our blog! I am amazed at the awesomeness that is already apparent on our staff. Kudos to Mr. Koltak who helped me to make this vision a reality. It was his idea to start a student blog and after talking decided we could also do a staff blog. What we are embarking upon this year is truly an amazing journey that very few people get to take. So I want to record as much of our journey together as possible so that when others ask how we transformed Bradwell we will have this blog as a reminder of all of the sweat, blood and tears that it took!
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Amazing!
ReplyDeleteThank you Charlie dear! Here are a few of my favorite quotes (in order)
ReplyDelete1. We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. - Lloyd Alexander
2. I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. - Chinese Proverb
3. If you can read this, thank a teacher. - Anonymous
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb
ReplyDelete“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”~Sarah Caldwell
'We can easily forgive a child whom is frightened of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.' Plato
ReplyDelete'The secret of education is respecting the pupil.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
All Students Deserve Excellent Teachers
ReplyDeleteEvery student can learn, just not on the same day , or the same way
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten-B.F. Skinner
The beautiful thing about learning is that on one can take it away from you
The important thing is not to stop questioning-Albert Einstein
I am adding as many as I can to our list. We have apretty big school so we may be able to get them all on. Anybody notice anything about the motto on the newsletter this week?
ReplyDeleteHere are a couple of quotes, although I know I have one or two more that I love and need to find.
ReplyDeleteEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
Striving for success without hardwork is like looking for fruit in places that you didn't plant seeds. Useless. Rev Run
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
ReplyDeleteArthur C. Clarke
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.
Franklin Roosevelt
The quotes that I enjoy reading are those of Henry David Thoreau. Below are some of my favorite.
ReplyDelete"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
Hi everyone! I have a couple of quotes that help keep me focused on my work for students:
ReplyDelete1. “If we are to save our children then we must become the people they will look up to.”
-Geoffrey Canada
2. “Trying to create a safe school climate without teaching students social-emotional skills is like trying to educate our students without teaching them to read.”
-Kevin Dwyer
I liked the motto in this week's bulletin, especially the bit about follow through. This is important for students AND adults to remember.
Great job on creating the blog, Mr. Koltak! I look forward to meeting everyone soon.
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
ReplyDelete-- Malcolm Forbes -
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
-- Source Unknown
Hi everyone! Here is a quote that I have lived by ever since I can remember. This blog is great and I am looking forward to meeting everyone soon!
ReplyDelete"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom begins with wonder. – Socrates
ReplyDeleteYou can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford
You reach a point where you don't work for money. -Walt Disney
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
ReplyDelete- John Dewey
This blog is wonderful! I am so excited to be exposed to such innovative and inspired minds! Here are a few quotes that really hit home for me:
ReplyDelete“A shared vision is not an idea...it is, rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?' Peter Senge
'The price of change is measured by our will, courage, and our persistence in the face of difficulty.' Peter Block, Philosopher
'Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.' Peter Senge
'Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished' Carol Ann Tomlinson
This one is on a staircase at Bethune and it always gives me the chills :)
ReplyDelete"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
- Barack Obama
Linsey's last post reminded me of another favorite of mine:
ReplyDelete"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." by Edmund Burke
I found another.
ReplyDelete"You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are." -Sandra Cisneros
"Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students"
ReplyDelete-Paulo Freire
Hey Everyone! Here are a few of my favorites...
ReplyDelete"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
-- Source Unknown
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein
I prefer this week's motto to last week's. I think "no exceptions, no excuses" really captures the mission of a turnaround school.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norah! Everyone, I chose one quote from each person and added it to our list. I will share the complete list soon.
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone,
ReplyDeleteHere are a few quotes that I love...
"When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life."
Christopher Morley.
“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.”
Marva Collins
“Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.” Marva Collins
“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student”
Marva Collins
I already sent some but never posted any to the blog... Here's my favorite!
ReplyDelete"We know an age more vividly through its music than through its historians."
In some parts of the world, the only history we have is the music that's been past down!
Found a couple more that really spoke to me, wanted to share (sorry if there are any repeats):
ReplyDelete"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it's to imagine what is possible." - Bell Hooks
(I thought how relevant the Bell Hooks quote was to thinking of our profession as an art.)
My best to all.
Hello everyone! I am new to the Bradwell family & just got through reading all the newsletters that I missed. I think this blog is such an amazing idea! I cannot wait to meet you all and begin to get to know everyone. Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow!
ReplyDelete"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”