The School of Athens News ~ Earn Your A by Helping Others Earn Theirs

The School of Athens News

and

The International School of Intelligent Students (the MORE POWERFUL ISIS)

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In a world of so much negativity

We want to share so much POSITIVITY!

Building Eiffel Towers of Courage, Confidence, and Capability in our Students.

~ Earn Your A by Helping Others Earn Theirs

This was the scene at the beginning of yesterday.

Okay, here we go. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but the road FROM hell and TO heaven is paved with INTELLIGENT & COMMITTED intentions........Let's see if my intentions this week have been intelligent & committed enough to pave the way for all students to get all A's on all 3 of their tests today.

Almost. We almost did it.

While others (students still choosing to give average effort and be average students) did the average traditional work of;  read story, answer questions, do workbook pages, do traditional centers, etc.)

The School of Athens members were Marzano deep-dived into becoming Einstein Panther Cubs, exploring the who, where, when, what, why, and how (the Doctors of Reading ~ a.k.a Doctor Who)

And then build centers intending to help all others achieve.

And we did it, almost.

On the easiest test, spelling (memorization)...... 11 A's, 1 B+, 1 F

Bit harder, vocabulary (interpretation).......13 A's

Hardest, comprehension (compare and contrast)........13 A's

 1. All A's is the first step to entrance into this school within a school, because if you don't have the knowledge how are you supposed to help others gain it?

So 11 out of 13 met this challenge.

2. Self-control. 

You are not my dog and I am not your master having to control you or tell you what to do. 

You have a mind, use it. 

Most humans are emotional creatures motivated by pride, vanity, jealousy, anger, etc.

You are the most evolved species on this planet.....evolve.

3. AR reading points.

You set a goal and you get that goal.

No excuses.

Find solutions.

You do this now and you'll do it in life.

The most important thing in your life is you.

Throw your entire self at it.

Go Big!

Become Big!

Help others do the same!

This has been a School of Athens Production. Thank you for reading.

The School of Athens News ~ Every Day is a Day Worth Fighting For

The School of Athens News

and 

The International School of Intelligent Students (the MORE POWERFUL ISIS)

presents

In a world of so much negativity
We want to share so much positivity

Building Eiffel Towers of Courage, Confidence, and Capability in our Students.

~ Every Day is a Day Worth Fighting For

Every day is a day worth fighting for; breaking down the barriers that are preventing us from becoming the best possible versions of ourselves.

Every day Xavier wants to quit.

Every day we persist in helping him learn to believe in himself again.

Persisting over and over, using Bruce Lee's wisdom of letting our dreams, beliefs, and actions flow like water, KNOWING our persistence WILL pay off.

Persisting in our belief that THEY CAN do it and giving them UNLIMITED opportunities to prove it and to BECOME UNLIMITED.

Not telling them WHAT to think, but HOW to think.

Over and over until we succeed in wearing away their CURRENT limitations.....

Until JOY is achieved.....

Throughout the ENTIRE classroom!

*On Friday Xavier gave up and walked out of the classroom, twice. Because he chose to give up on himself, he chose to give up his position as my assistant. 

On Monday he came in asking what he had to do to earn his position back. I told him he had to become strong enough not to quit on himself.

He tried. He failed. He quit.

On Tuesday he came in asking what he had to do to earn his position back. I told him he had to be become strong enough not to quit on himself.

He tried. He failed. But he didn't give up.

He tried again. He failed again. But he didn't give up, again.

He tried again. He succeeded......

And my happiness for him flowed out of the tired cells of my body into the tired cells of his.....

And we both became re-energized and overjoyed as he had EARNED his position back As my assistant. 

Today he's going to come in asking what he has to do to keep his position.....

And I will ask him,

What do YOU THINK, Socrates?

And he WILL succeed!

This has been a School of Athens & International School of Intelligent Students production. 

Thank you for reading :-)

Becoming Teachers that Forge Our Students into Steel

The School of Athens News

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Hug the Heaven into them 

& Hammer the Hell out of Them

Not with Hell

                                         But with Hellfire

In an effort to get the best of of its students, the School of Athens went on a quest to find out how to get the best out of itself.

Using one of the greatest minds in human history, Einstein, it asked itself the beginning question, "Was weiß ich?".......What do I know, in order to imagine a solution to its problem.

"I know that the Sun produces amazingly powerful energy in the form of light and heat. How can I produce this in the classroom?"

Waking up and taking daily trips to this star for the past few months, this School o-f At-hens, or School of Fat Hens, as Jordan (daughter of Susan Kocarek) calls it, woke up Leonardo da Vinci on the way, who said, "Sai che ora è?".....Do you know what time it is?

"Never mind that. I need to know how to produce more light and energy in the classroom."

"Just use your senses. The human brain is capable of being aware of 2,000 to 3 million bits of data per second.  Cosa vedi? What do you see, about how the Sun makes light and heat," da Vinci replied.

As the two looked on, they saw the Sun smashing its Hydrogen atoms together so powerfully that their nuclei became fused together, creating entirely new molecules of Helium. 

This nuclear fusion produced photons of light and heat 450 times more powerful than what had existed before.

Placing themselves in Plank scale space-time, 10 to the -45 seconds, or .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds, they observed these photons bounce around for 10,000 years until they reached the surface of the Sun and sped off to Earth in 8 minutes.

"But I don't have 10,000 years to do this. I need to do this today! How?"

"I don't know. Go ask Socrates. I'm going back to bed", yawned Leonardo, and he was gone.

"Soh-crates! Soh-crates! Wake up!"

"It's "Sah-creh-teez'", came the reply. 

"Oh, sorry. Bill and Ted told me it was 'Soh-crates'."

"Just philosophize with him dude," whispered Bill and Ted, who were still up partying.

"Poia eínai i gnómi sas?", questioned Socrates, who never told his students what to think, but taught them how to think.

"What do YOU think is the greatest source of energy you have ever felt or known?" he dug deeper.

"Love, and passion......So.......Maybe, I feel my love for the world so deeply; in my cells, my molecules, my atoms....and smash them together as passionately as I can that their nuclei become fused together and unbreakable.....

 .....Producing so much light and heat coming out of my body that others around me become energized 450 times more powerful than they and I were were just a few seconds ago?"

"Try it. What have you got to lose? You can't take anything with you when you die, so why not try and give everything away while you're here, all the while having more and more to give?", the great lover of wisdom said as he placed his hand on the shoulder of the School of Athens.

"That's exactly what I meant when I said 70 times 7!" Jesus shouted as he roared past on his motorcycle, with The School of Athens quickly jumping on for the 8 minute trip back to Earth. 

"Ok, we'll do it!", the School shouted in the wind. "We'll love so passionately that our love becomes powerful and unbreakable, using nucleosynthesis to hug the Heaven into them.......

....and Hellfire to Hammer the Hell out of them.

And having been enlightened and armed with the lessons and weapons of Einstein, da Vinci, the Sun, Bill and Ted, Socrates, and a passionate man of fire from Nazareth........

...the School of Athens was fused with a vivid imagination of the world that could be

...and determined to do what it does best; 

Love them all...

~ Any student who comes into our classrooms

~ Any student that says "Hi" to us in the hallways

~ Any student who opens his or her eyes at us

We're going to love all of these angels.......and kill all of their demons.

Powerful Video ~ Man on Fire ~ 

*read more at Samurai Teaching ~ Sensational Living