Here is the password for upper level classes for the week of April 10, 2017. This is high stakes testing week and students are under stress. They are made to feel that their entire futures are riding on their performance on these exams. When they get their results some [...]
Password for upper level classes this week: ♦ "Allí donde fueres, haz lo que vieres." ♦ Word-for-word translation: "There where you may go [at sometime in the future], do that which you may see [at some time in the future]." Smoother translation: "Wherever you go, do what you see." A saying with [...]
This saying occurs at the intersection of Chris Biffle's Whole Brain Teaching, Carol Dweck's Mindset, and Alina Filipescu's password idea. This was the password for last week in all class levels as I get kids accustomed to saying this to one another when they make a mistake. Here it [...]