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The Big Fresh August 22, 2015 Whining and Learning
If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can work out. Randy Pausch...
The Big Fresh August 15, 2015 The View from the Back of the Pack
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement — and we will make the goal. ...
The Big Fresh August 8, 2015 Cold Pool
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. Bruce Lee One of my...
The Big Fresh August 1, 2015 What’s Worth Keeping
The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life. Marie Kondo Buried in the rubble of my many...
The Big Fresh July 25, 2015 The Power of a Read Aloud
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking...
The Big Fresh July 18, 2015 Close Reading a Community
Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody? Richard Simmons It was one of the days in our classroom where we...
The Big Fresh July 11, 2015 Catching Your Breath
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James “You’re so lucky to have your summers off.” That...
The Big Fresh June 27, 2015 Giving Thanks
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. Estonian Proverb This spring I mailed three boxes of professional books I’d accumulated over the past few years...
The Big Fresh June 20, 2015 Turning Children into Scholars
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory. ...
The Big Fresh June 13, 2015 Abandoning Big Things
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. ...
The Big Fresh June 6, 2015 The Wow! Scaffold
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. Mary Oliver Sugatra Mitra, a professor of educational technology in Newcastle, England,...
The Big Fresh May 30, 2015 Borders
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou I was visiting classrooms in the Pacific Northwest this fall when I saw a...
The Big Fresh May 23, 2015 Starting with “Secondly”
Stories are as important as food and love. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In her beautiful TED talk, The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes her childhood perception...
The Big Fresh May 16, 2015 From Obligation to Appreciation
It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment. ...
The Big Fresh May 9, 2015 A Pile of Stories
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. Hubert H. Humphrey Some of the best writing I read every day comes from the...
The Big Fresh May 2, 2015 Navigating Boston
Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau I recently went to a conference at the JFK Library in Boston with my colleague...
The Big Fresh April 25, 2015 What We Crave
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ...
The Big Fresh April 18, 2015 Messy Inventions
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison My nine-year-old sons love to invent contraptions created from Legos. Rarely do they follow instructions...
The Big Fresh April 11, 2015 Perspective
The present moment represents all moments. John Zeisel It was a day my mother’s dementia was weighing heavily on me. Donna, a caregiver, must have seen it in my...
The Big Fresh April 4, 2015 True Horizontal
Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi There is a beautiful scene in Cutting for Stone,...
The Big Fresh March 28, 2015 The Devotion of Reading Teachers
If you plan to build walls around me, know this — I will walk through them. Richelle Goodrich Reading teachers are a devoted, dogged, stubborn type, aren’t they? Last...
