May Your Starts Never End
Beginning can be so hard. It can be so overwhelming. It can even be frightening. It’s not hard to…
Tag: Motivation
Giving Up
What do you do when you finally want to give up? When you have exhausted all possibilities? When no…
100 CCs of Obecalp
I was recently listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast in which he interviewed Scott Belsky. Scott’s father was a…
Valuing the Bad Work
In education, in classrooms, in conversations with teachers, I see and hear a lot of thoughts about what good…
Your Routines
You work to build routines and implement easy to follow procedures for students at the beginning of the year.…
Valuable Work
The thing about doing valuable work is that in the beginning it doesn’t look valuable. Often it doesn’t really…
I’m Sorry.
Sometimes the simplest answer is I’m Sorry. When we try to avoid saying these two words and instead dance…
2nd Day & Beyond
The first day of school receives all the fanfare and glory but it’s not where the real work is…
(10 Days of) Kindness
If every individual practiced one act of kindness every single day, then our world would be a much better…
Rewards & Consequences
For the last several years, I haven’t posted rewards or consequences in my classroom. To be honest, I never even really…