I’m watching colonial house on PBS. It’s good. I enjoyed seeing the white colonists have to deal with the implications of their colonization of the Native People’s land.
A few summers ago, I came up with this idea. The idea is that we live in an anti-greatness culture, where feeling good about yourself goes contrary to expectations. With my friend Tom we started the greatness project. The idea is to support greatness in myself and others. It’s not as easy as you might think. I am a teacher too, so I get to think about how to support children’s greatness.
The main ways that I know to support greatness are to be reflective and ask questions you don’t know the answer to. How is your greatness supported and nurtured? Feel free to write your own ideas in the comments section.
I teach an after school guitar class of 3-5th graders and they asked me last week to teach them a white stripes song, so this week I taught them the 7 nation song. How cool do I feel? (cool.) It isn’t real age appropriate, but they learned it in five minutes instead of the hour it took to learn “this old man.”
I am taking kids outside to practice their dances. Kindergarteners are like mercury.
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