Effort

EP 17 ~ Milk Explosion Explained

EP 16 ~ Milk Color Explosion of the Universe

Milk Color Explosion of the Universe: 1st~4th Grade Science Experiment & Lesson

http://bit.ly/2udipxP

EP 11 ~ Wado

EP 15 ~ Cave and Place Value Pterodactyl

MATH LEARNING ACTIVITY

Place Value Pterodactyls ~ K~3rd Grade Math Problems Involving 3-Digit Numbers

http://bit.ly/2tIKGvF

EP 14 ~ Imagination Writing

Writing Learning Activity

Telling a Stone Age Story ~ Story Map, Questions & Exit Slip for Grades K-5

http://bit.ly/2sP58Lv

EP 13 ~ What Makes a Good Reader & Writier? Happy Habits

Episode Lucky #13 ~ Putting yourself back in history over 2 million years ago and reminding yourself; What makes a good reader and writer?

With help from Happy Habits :-) https://www.positiveimpact50.com/

Turn Your Classroom/Bedroom into a Stone Age Caveroom ~ Summer Reading Lesson Plan & Project http://bit.ly/2s13Lar

EP 12 ~ Turning Your Classroom or Bedroom into a Stone Age Caveroom

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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” -Leo F. Buscaglia

13th warrior - Viking prayer

This is for my aunt Sister Roni Veronica Nowakowski, who told me in a card I just opened how much she likes seeing posts about my classes.*

The Norse tattoo I have on my back is a warrior's journey from Valhalla to Earth back to Valhalla again. I memorized this Viking prayer for a student and when he came in late yesterday I stopped what I was doing and yelled out "Viking!"

~ I raised my arm with the tattoo of the sword and "Everything Forever" written around it looked him in the eyes and said this Viking prayer.

He stopped and looked back at me as if the words were bouncing down into his soul and coming back out in the form of fire through his eyes.

And I knew I had him. 

Now every time he wants to give up or just sit there, try to behave, and make it through the day as if it were any other, all I have to do is tell him:

"Viking! Time to Misbehave! These learning goals are not here to decorate a board or put the letter A on a piece of paper.

"They are bidding you to use them to take your place in the Halls of Valhalla!

"Where the mental skills you bravely develop today will live on forever as unstoppable tools in achieving your dreams tomorrow."

I'll give and bet a year's worth of my life that he actually achieves them in his own life. 

A life for a life. That's exactly what teachers are doing with theirs for others.

*This is also for my father and my mother Peg Stuart and my sisters Audrey Cercelle and Christine Benson and my brother Dustin Stuart (and nephews and niece who will probably like this)

....Who through good times and bad, being understood and loved or misunderstood and not so much, living safely 9-5 or dangerously as if my soul were on fire, have always continued to call me son and brother and uncle

The way I have chosen to live hasn't always made me popular with everyone and I know I'm not easy to understand and support all the time

It's caused others to try and hurt me by saying things that aren't true or want and try to kill me for something I've done they don't like, like having a hit put out on me for something I wrote about Dad called "Be More of a Man" that I refused to take down. 

But look what it was for; the ability and strength to hold on until I've figured out a way to reach someone so deeply and completely that it changes their lives for the better forever. 

A life for a life. 

One Last Dying Whisper; Live and Love Big

One Last Dying Whisper; Live and Love Big

When I die and all is said and done 

And the angels uncover me to look for unused spare parts

I want them upset that I have nothing left to give

That I held back and saved what I had 

for some kind of afterlife value 

I could trade in when I'm dead

No regrets or unused thoughts

No love left in my heart 

because I used it all up 

and gave it all away while I lived

"This guy is worthless."

He has nothing left to give

So that's the pounding we heard down there

It was the beating of his heart

Being pounding out like a drum

This guy is worthless to us

We'll have to give the next one

brand new parts."

And as they do may a last dying whisper 

escape from my lips

to his or her heart

"Live and Love Big"

They can’t see themselves stopping trains until they see the adults around them stopping trains

As adults we have a very important role to play in the lives of our children’s live, what they will believe today and what they will become as a result of those beliefs tomorrow. 

When they see and hear us complain and even cower against the troubles and difficulties of this world, they begin to lose their ability to dream and believe big and begin to dream and believe in themselves less.

When we stand up for what’s right and stop the train of what is in its tracks we teach them to do the same.

I’ve made a deal with my principal (who is just trying to follow the rules given to her). Once I get the students to the curriculum-approved target Level of 3, I can work with them on my School of Athens life-changing levels 4-10.

I’ll tell these new students that I’ll meet in one week that all we have to do is learn and grow to the minimum level of achievement before we can go to the much higher  levels. 

Stand strong and stop the Level 1 train, the Level 2 train, and the Level 3 train.

Now you get to become a superhero and learn to stop the Level 4, 5, 6, etc trains until you become so strong that you’re picking them up and throwing them across the sky.

****They can’t see themselves doing this until they see the adults around them doing it.

Teachers don’t make heroes out of hope. We make them happen out of hard work forged in the fires of pushing ourselves to our limits.

Teachers Don’t Make Heroes out of Hope ~ We Make them Happen out of Hard Work Forged in the Fires of Pushing Ourselves to our Limits

But getting our students to achieve a Level 3 in school is only helping them become successful in school. 

Where the real fun begins, and the test of your heart and that deep body-building type of strength, is at the Level 4 and above:

What wakes me and taps into my hunger to do this is creating levels based on some of the “School of Athens” greatest thinkers and achievers

LEVEL 4 ~ Enheduanna, Sappho, and Hypatia; three women of ancient history  that allows me to give powerful, irrefutable evidence to the girls, and boys in class that women can be just as great as any man and can work just as hard to achieve it.

These three women alone cover almost 3,000 years of history (2300 BCE - 415 CE) and have taught or inspired greatness in others, such as…..

LEVEL 5 ~ The Seven Sages of Delphi, who taught/inspired….

LEVEL 6 ~ Socrates, who taught/inspired…..

LEVEL 7 ~ Plato, who taught/inspired…..

LEVEL 8 ~ Aristotle, who tutored.inspired…..

LEVEL 9 ~ Alexander the Great, who inspired……

LEVEL 10 ~ Hannibal, who teaches and inspires us to either find a way or make one!

This is the level I feel I have to get them to. This is the level that will set them free today, tomorrow, and forever. 

But this is the level that challenges me the most and makes me want to quit the most out of feeling the most exhaustion and frustration, not with them but with me not being smart enough yet to get them here. 

Getting them excited and to want it is easy. Getting them to be able to do it is hard.

And if I’m not hard enough to push myself to a physical, emotional, and mental LEVEL 10 what is the reality of me being able to push them and get them there?

Teachers don’t make heroes out of hope. We make them happen out of hard work forged in the fires of pushing ourselves to our limits.

Having the Strength to Create Life and Light in an Entire Classroom

I have no desire to look like a bodybuilder, not that it’s wrong, it’s just not why I want to push myself so hard physically.

Teaching is tough. We need to be tougher. It’s hard. We need to be harder.

Personally, my body or outer appearance and ability is for my children, my woman, and my tribe of people that exist around me.

My inner body is for making sure all my students grow and achieve the learning targets, or Level 3s throughout the year.

My Inner~Inner body is at the cellular level where my belief and passion become so dense that they collide as hydrogen atoms at the core of the Sun producing light and heat for an entire solar system…………

Just like every teacher can do for their entire classroom, when the core of our being is so hard and dense that dreams and beliefs flow like lava and come alive in the hearts and eyes of our students.

Bodybuilding Motivation - No Shortcut (Muscle Factory)

Your outer muscular strength is not as important as your inner muscular and mental strength.

With your outer strength and stamina you can play with your children, please your woman, and protect your people; especially the children of the world and in your  tribe.

But it cannot help you pursue your dreams and hold onto others until they are strong enough to hold onto their own.

When we concentrate more on our inner strength then the world will become less impressed with our outer strength, and real changes will be made.

Cherokee language lesson: Welcome to America

For all of us former non-native Americans who tell current non-native Americans, "You're in America, speak English":

Let's have a higher sense of humor about us and a higher sense of intelligent thinking within us.

https://youtu.be/2WDTs8xd8BE

Cherokee language lesson: Welcome to America

Cherokee language lesson: Welcome to America



For all of us former non-native Americans who tell current non-native Americans, "You're in America, speak English":



Let's have a higher sense of humor about us and a higher sense of intelligent thinking within us.



https://youtu.be/2WDTs8xd8BE

Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ I'll Be Holding On To You

Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ 
I'll Be Holding On To You

Many of our target learning goals in school are declarative: I know that.......

But to me, that's like asking a baby how to walk without ever asking them to take that knowledge and use it to practice walking.

Knowledge is important but it is still the lowest level of thinking. We were gifted with thought. Creating what only we can with our thoughts and evaluating the results is the highest.

It's time to move our feet to a more introspective beat. 

Test scores will go way up.

Seas of self-doubt will be parted.

And our children will be left standing on a mountaintop with their arms raised and smiles on their faces as the Sun rises to greet them with each new day as they grow into adulthood.

And then lower-level thinking that produces lower-loving living like terrorism and child abuse and maybe even the divorce rate will begin to diminish instead of what we're seeing now as they are increasing.

(@ 3 minutes into this song): 

Lean with it

Rock with it

When we going to stop with it?

Lyrics that mean nothing 

We were gifted with thought

Is it time to move our feet

To an introspective beat?

Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ I'll Be Holding On To You

Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ 
I'll Be Holding On To You

Many of our target learning goals in school are declarative: I know that.......

But to me, that's like asking a baby how to walk without ever asking them to take that knowledge and use it to practice walking.

Knowledge is important but it is still the lowest level of thinking. We were gifted with thought. Creating what only we can with our thoughts and evaluating the results is the highest.

It's time to move our feet to a more introspective beat. 

Test scores will go way up.

Seas of self-doubt will be parted.

And our children will be left standing on a mountaintop with their arms raised and smiles on their faces as the Sun rises to greet them with each new day as they grow into adulthood.

And then lower-level thinking that produces lower-loving living like terrorism and child abuse and maybe even the divorce rate will begin to diminish instead of what we're seeing now as they are increasing.

(@ 3 minutes into this song): 

Lean with it

Rock with it

When we going to stop with it?

Lyrics that mean nothing 

We were gifted with thought

Is it time to move our feet

To an introspective beat?

Twenty One Pilots Dallas Shooting Tribute Speech

Each of us CAN do something to make our world a better 

place; as a singer, writer, teacher, parent, spouse, policeman,

 citizen, etc.

All we have to do is play whatever part we play as big as possible.

No hiding in the dark. Shining in the light that comes from

 within us out to the rest of the world.

Sofia Stuart ‪#‎TwentyOnePilots‬

Spy Game - The Roof Scene

FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

We don't trade job security for treating students like test scores.