KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought 7 on Ending Terrorism ~ Love Them All

KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought 7 on Ending Terrorism ~ Love Them All

“Killing them all” throughout history has worked in the short-term for one side but not long term for either, hence Orlando. 

What if we tried killing all the desire to kill, hurt and hate out of the minds of our children? What if we brought in the weapons of some of the greatest thinkers in the world into the minds of our students and into their world of education? 

How do you account for a 2nd-grader starting the year working at the 1st-grade level in math and finishing at the 8th, or a class with all but 3 starting below grade level and all finishing above?

I know it wasn’t because of me because I'm not smart enough to pull that off. I may have the  passion but I know I didn’t have the knowledge to do this at the beginning of the year.

But I was smart enough to listen to those who were smarter: "I never teach my pupils, I only provide the conditions in which they can learn." ~ Albert Einstein

So I brought in Pythagoras, the world's first pure mathematician who learned how to think from Thales who taught Socrates how to think who taught Plato how to think who taught Aristotle how to think who taught Alexander the Great how to think.

Somewhere in there is a teacher who can help the children of today how to think, and how to Think Big! 

All of these people were philosophers, lovers of wisdom. If we're going to love all of our children into higher levels of thinking and creating maybe we need to become lovers of wisdom  ourselves and use it more than we do now. 

Love them all. That's what we teachers do best. Love them all and teach them all. Not how to hate, but how to think.

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The Powerful Cycle of Real Love that All Started with Grandma Bette

Oh! Ohhhhhhhh! One of the last times I saw Grandma Bette.......

One of the last times I got to hug her and let her feel how much I loved her....

One of the last times my children got to see the woman who filled their father with love every day by telling him, "I love you, Adam. Thanks for calling", every night around 7.

Now when they can't find me they know I'm up in Heaven visiting her, talking and laughing together as we work on the daily crossword puzzle and drink our tea.

And if I take too long to come home they know that their GREAT-Grandma Bette is busy sneaking bits of Heaven into the crossword for her grandson to take back and finish on Earth.

Puzzles like "This stopped terrorism, stopped crime and child abuse, stopped poor education from causing poor thinking and doing."

And if Dad comes home with his pockets full that means there's lots to do; that there's lots of Heaven to get into the places filled with lots of Hell.

They forgive him for being late. They hug him and tell them they love him too.

And the powerful cycle of real love that Grandma Bette started continues on today.

KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought 4 ~ Relentlessly Overcoming Reckless Terrorism

KICK STARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought 4 ~ Relentlessly Overcoming Reckless Terrorism

Knowledge isn’t power. The relentless pursuit and correct use of it is.

We “know” something has to be done. And we “know” it has to be done now.

We also know that from 10,000 years of civilized history we can kill the killers without stopping the desire to kill.

And we know we have proven answers from some very powerful people like Gandhi.

To achieve this “real peace” it takes a huge amount of super-human strength and intelligence, things teachers are naturally built for.

We couldn’t be teachers if we didn’t love who and why we teach with super-human love.  

And we are perfectly situated to becoming super-smart every day as we become more intelligent about our students and how to teach them.

We are in a perpetual state of education.

We remember this, and become relentless in the pursuit of this, and we reach real world peace with every student we teach.

A beautiful theory that CAN BECOME an unbreakable everyday REALITY when we stop worrying and whining about what’s broken and focus instead on preventing our children from becoming broken by it, relentlessly.

Our hearts never stop.

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Kick Starting Our Hearts ~ Thought 3 ~ Singing Together Loudly in Love

"If I shall speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging symbol." ~ New American Standard

We can teach perfectly according to all of the current and ancient checklists of master teaching, and sing what can be done as loudly as we want, but if we don't get the world's students to sing with us then we're not much more effective than a noisy gong.

They have to feel it. They have to believe it. They have to sing it!

FRENCH: Allons-y! (ah-lawn-ZEE!)

CHEROKEE: I-na-ni-gi ( ee-NAH-knee-gee!)

KOREAN: 가자! gaja! (cop-she-DAH!)

LET'S GO!

Be special! Sing together! Make your life spectacular today!

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KICK START OUR HEARTS ~ STOPPING TERRORISM THOUGHT 1 ~ RISK

The heart engines are already revving by teachers all across the world to kick start their students’ hearts and education in the fall. 

We’re gong to spend the next 2 months kicking our butts and our brains to think of lessons that will kick our students’ hearts forever and help them live safer and higher than ever. 

And our classrooms is where it all begins for them. It’s their Dream Big, Do Big, Become Big day-and-night club that’s exciting and explosive and where they come out happier and smarter than when they came in.

From the first beat of the first lesson using life’s greatest thinkers our students will hear these lyrics of higher-level thinking that leads them to higher-level learning and living.  

They will hear this music in their heads and feel it pound in their hearts this year and forever because it will be played every day until it becomes part of them. Aristotle will smile as he watches them learn to kick their own excuses, or “buts”, and evolve into real-world problem solvers that find long-term solutions to a current world of hate-filled terrorism and child abuse. 

No whining out of them. No whining out of us. We kick start this “impossible” change in the world by making it probable in our classrooms. We kick our own teacher excuses and “buts” as we hear it pound in our heads and feel it fill our hearts, flow into our spirits and sing out of our souls.  

We risk believing in this. We risk feeling all this. We risk crashing and hurting as we do this. We risk getting up again and getting knocked down again.  

We succeed because we risk failing. We risk to make school become this. For our children to become this. For our world to become this.

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Shooting in Orlando

I'm safe. and i'm upset. and i'm on fire. and i'm going to wipe terrorism and other acts of hate off the face of this planet. and if it's not gone by the time i die, then i will have died trying to do it. and i can do it  by loving it out of existence in every student i have ever taught and every student i will ever teach with higher-level thinking and higher-loving living.  if i can type with one hand then i can wipe terrorism out with two. i wasn't meant to live forever. i was meant to live now. together we can do it. together we will! #theschoolofathenslearning #higherlevelthinking #outlawteaching #wildchildliving #childempowerment #theshootinginorlando #Amazon 

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Indians walk off on Hafner's grand slam

Congratulations to all teachers who brought home one or more students in a way that will affect their lives forever in a powerfully positive way. And a special thanks to all teachers, administrators, paras, janitors and parents who helped us bring our entire classes across this home plate. It definitely wasn't easy. But it was definitely worth it. And we couldn't have done it without you.