Behavior
Passion or Pity?
From the time I was a youth, I believed that there was a special approach, or prescriptive formula, or only one way to do things. I believed that the right way was always going to be more difficult because it…
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Learner’s Mindset
Image Source: www.lynnecazaly.com Defining your Passion “People don’t buy what you do; they buy WHY you do it.” – Simon Sinek (2009) Why should anyone ask “why?” Let’s start by telling a story about a company D (which…
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Focus on the behavior now and the outcome will follow.
Grenny, Patterson, Maxfield, McMillan, and Switzler (2013) advocate to focus on changing goals, behaviors, or processes; do not focus on the results. You might be asking yourself….what does this mean? Well, let me share an example. When I was in high…
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The Golden Circle “Why”
The Power of WHY Let me tell you my story. In January 2015, I had my second child, Micah. I had gained almost 50lbs. I decided that it was time to start running to lose some weight. After many…
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Why Tech Literacy Can’t Wait!
Is data in the cloud protected? It sits on a physical server somewhere. Every password is breakable! The best way to combat ignorance is through curiosity! If we don’t understand where we are, we limit where we can go. Technical literacy allows…
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3 Rules to Spark Learning
“Curiosity comes first, not the other way around.” Cultivate curiosity Questions and curiosity are like magnets that draw us to our teachers. If we place technologies before inquiry, we could be robbing ourselves of our greatest tools as teachers- our…
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