Gaining Confidence After a Setback by Emily Graham

May 16th, 2023

Confidence
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Gaining Confidence After a Setback

offers great advice for everyone who has experienced a setback of any kind. Even if you don’t feel like you have been setback by things like the pandemic, this also for you. Thanks, Emily.

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Social Emotional Book Club / Boost Math Skills / Grapes & Brain Health

May 15th, 2023

Book Club
Start with how you can make a book club a social emotional experience for students. Then it’s a way to boost math skills and what grapes do to your brain. On to how Twitter might change with its new CEO, did humans evolve to eat only plants, busting special education myths, a what you know image, and getting inside Handel’s “Zadok the Priest.”

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Curiosity and Problem Solving / Help With Motivation / 16 Eurovision Finalists

May 12th, 2023

Curiosity
So how does curiosity aid problem solving? Then it’s Daniel Pink on motivation and the 16 Eurovision finalists. On to deleting your data from ChatGPT, the disappearing computer, powerful principal practices, a do more image, and turning MC Hammer’s ‘U Can’t Touch This’ into a folk song.

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Malcolm Gladwell’s Four Best Sellers Summarized by Dr. Doug Green

May 11th, 2023

David and Goliath
Since I started this blog in 2009, I have summarized over 150 books that offer great advice to the parents and educators who represent my audience. My goal is to promote sales of these fine books and help people who have read the books review the key concepts. Today I offer links to the four books by Malcolm Gladwell that I summarized. If you haven’t read them yet you are in for a treat. If you have, it’s time to review the main points. Have fun.

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How to Buy a TV / Stone Skipping Science / Raven Solves 7-Step Puzzle

May 10th, 2023

Tvs
Start with how to buy a TV. Then it’s the science of stone skipping and how a raven solves a seven-step puzzle. On to AI and dementia, bass instrument sound, backward planning for students, an innovative image, and a Police song done Rammstein style.

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