Many of us will begin the school year with upbeat thoughts
and positive expectations. The challenge is to keep our minds
filled with this optimism. When we consciously fill our minds
with affirming thoughts, we dye our souls with vibrant color.
Everything we do is colored with hope and promise, and that
gives us the grace and the confidence we need when challenges
come our way. William James says that human beings are "bundles
of habits," so start this new school year with a bundle
of habitual optimism and then make it a great school year,
or not, the choice is yours.
With something to think about . . .
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Full of Angels |
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There is
nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It
can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles
and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
— Mark Twain
What a thought! A classroom full of properly trained young
people who have sprouted wings. Not one hint of impish behavior.
It's not going to happen, of course, but we can hold the thought.
We can embrace the ideal by teaching students to understand,
care about, and act upon core ethical values*, which is, by
the way, the most basic of all definitions of character education.
And we can believe that nothing is beyond the reach of a good
education, then celebrate each time one child sprouts a new
pair of wings. It happens, you know. Good training really
can lift a child to angelship.
With something to think about . . .
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What one educator
says about these messages
written Just For You:
"They are reminders that in our struggle to educate, we must
also take care of ourselves to better meet the needs of our children."
Roberta Bell, Counselor,
Harlem Elementary School, Harlem, MT
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