Sua Sponte

It is in Your Hands

    This...is...just...so...weird... and me, who never seems at a loss for words, is stuttering for normality in an unnatural time, but it is in and through words, graced by magnanimous and selfless actions, that we can carve new paths through uncharted woods. No lesson plan, no "Week in Review," no enlightened curriculum, and no "How-to-Video" is readily at hand. Only an indefatigable spirit, suffused with stubborn persistence, and an almost intolerable patience, will keep the axe in our hands and keep our lives flailing forward. In time, the path--our unique paths--will open before us and lead us to where we need to go.

Know Thyself…
Explore, Assess, Reflect & Rethink

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

    If we don’t learn from what we do, we learn little of real value. If we don’t make the time to explore, assess, reflect, and rethink our ways of doing  things, we will never grow, evolve and reach our greatest potential or tap into the possibilities of our lives. Writing metacognition’s is our way to explore our experiences as students and teachers, and then to honestly assess our strengths and weaknesses, to willfully and wisely reflect on what we did—and did not—do, and to rethink how to move forward in a positive and more enlightened way towards a better and more applicable and capable future.

Sound, Sense & Impact

“It goes like this the 4th, the 5th
The minor fall and the major lift...”

~Leonard Cohen,Hallelujah

Discover Your Narrative Voice

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
~Ernest Hemingway

     There is no better way to learn to write well than to practice writing well.  Every time you put pen to paper or words to a screen is an opportunity to become a better writer. Nobody is born the writer they wish to be. You--the inimitable you--must be the force that powers your evolution as a writer. As the old saying goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.” It is up to you then to go to the well and drink deeply.

Finding meaning in the little things...

“Sometimes, little things make a big difference...”

― Nino Varsimashvili

     Through better and worse, happy and sad, hilarious and serious, we are all wrapped up and boxed at Fenn School--so we may as well write about it. Thanks for your first efforts at posting on your blog.  Over the next few days, I will take a little trip of my own down 8th Grade Avenue and reward myself with some good reading. You should do the same! I have yet to meet a person who doesnt like a good and sincere comment left on their blog posts.

The First Step

A journey into the world of blogging...

     So you have written a cool journal entry; you have taken that raw material and formed it into an essay with a unifying theme of some sort, a cool beginning paragraph (set the scene & state the theme), split everything else into paragraphs--and maybe even added a conclusion. Hopefully, you proofread it a zillion times and fixed every error you could find.

Now what?