Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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The Big Fresh April 5, 2014 Smart Board
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them....
The Big Fresh March 29, 2014 Favorites
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. John Updike One of my favorite publications every year is the International Reading...
The Big Fresh March 22, 2014 Something Strong, Smart, and Beautiful
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. Terri Guillemets The end of every school year is bittersweet, but for students making the transition from elementary to middle...
The Big Fresh March 15, 2014 Reframing Despair
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. Stephen Covey A budding third-grade scientist was required to record the status of trying to light a light...
The Big Fresh March 8, 2014 Reading Dogs
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, and they pass no criticisms. George Eliot Last summer, a friend told me about a program in which therapy...
The Big Fresh March 1, 2014 Sensing Spring
Each day has a color, a smell. Chita Banerjee Divakarumi The calendar turns to March, and everyone longs for spring. Here in Maine, we expect to be buried in...
The Big Fresh February 22, 2014 Making Opinions Matter
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. Mark Twain On a recent Saturday I spent the afternoon with some elementary...
The Big Fresh February 15, 2014 Fancy Foods
First we eat. Then we do everything else. M. F. K. Fisher When I was a child and went with my family to the grocery store, we generally filled...
The Big Fresh February 8, 2014 Keeping It Short
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. Vince Lombardi Last week I visited a sixth-grade class led by Justin Stygles in Norway,...
The Big Fresh February 1, 2014 Strength and Weakness
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. Susan Gale My father always said, “Everyone’s greatest strength is their greatest...
The Big Fresh January 25, 2014 The Unconference
Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou Last weekend I attended an “unconference” — the Northern New England nErDcamp at the Biddeford, Maine high school. The organizers used...
The Big Fresh January 18, 2014 Reading a Community
The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power. Wael Ghonim A second-grade teacher in my building got a surprise the other day. We’d just...
The Big Fresh January 11, 2014 Pull Over
Lead, follow or get out of the way. Thomas Paine My daughter Ahna and I were driving when I spotted flashing lights in my rearview mirror several blocks behind...
The Big Fresh January 4, 2014 Honor the Time
Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt Last month I visited a school in Massachusetts to film lesson study sessions with first- and third-grade teaching teams. One phrase...
The Big Fresh December 21, 2013 Learning to Love Nonfiction
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. James Russell Lowell Watching my son and his father before bed every night, I have...
The Big Fresh December 14, 2013 If the Shoe Fits
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. Marilyn Monroe For years, I never understood the love some of my friends have for Zappos, an...
The Big Fresh December 7, 2013 Come On, Man
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ...
The Big Fresh November 30, 2013 5-2-1-0
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit. Aristotle I was driving home when I heard the radio spot for 5-2-1-0. Instantly an...
The Big Fresh November 23, 2013 Abandoning Books
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare As a child, I was trained to finish every book I started. The approach of...
The Big Fresh November 16, 2013 First Fruits
Your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages you got. Bruce Springsteen Last month I visited the marvelous Murkland Elementary School in Lowell,...
The Big Fresh November 9, 2013 The Ultimate Desk Challenge
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. John le Carre I have to admit when I was a kid some of the most appealing...
