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		<title>What Are You Resisting</title>
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What are you resisting?  Is it a change in curriculum?  A change in staffing? A new assessment?
Whatever it is, your resistance is you being swept away by your own thinking and fears.  When you look at the formidable wall of resistance it’s easy to rely on your default tactics.  A default tactic is your personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/08/26/school-improvement/</link>
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		<title>What You Tell Yourself</title>
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Michael Phelps now holds the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics with a total of eight.  He said, “ I’ve dreamed a lot of things, and written down a lot of goals, and this one was the biggest one I have ever written down.” 
But not too long ago he could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/08/19/teaching-adhd-students/</link>
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		<title>Shared Goals</title>
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Ornithologists have observed that flocks of birds have no leaders.  The synchronization of bird flocks appears to be a complex interaction of movement and communication.  Within the flock is constant communication between individuals.  The key to this sophisticated system is shared goals.  Each individual must survive, but the group must also prosper if any individual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/08/13/collaborative-school-culture/</link>
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		<title>Value of Play</title>
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Jane Goodall’s animal observations have helped her understand some aspects of human behavior and its place in nature. She recalls a story about a young male elephant who was the lone adolescent in the herd.  Everyday he would station himself on a path that was used by buffalo on their way to drink at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/08/05/play-in-schools/</link>
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		<title>Quality Teacher</title>
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what your said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel.”
Maya Angelou
 
As a child I remember sitting in my desk in my fourth grade classroom trying to make myself smaller.  My thinking was if I was smaller I would become invisible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/07/28/quality-teacher/</link>
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		<title>Can We Cultivate Talent?</title>
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Does artistic talent come naturally?  Are some students born with special innate talents or can talent be cultivated?
In Venezuela the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra believes talent can be cultivated.  This amazing system of education is called “El Sistema.”   This thirty-year-old program has made classical musicians out of a million and a half young Venezuelans, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/07/10/cultivate-talent/</link>
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		<title>Kindness Matters</title>
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Have you ever been surprised with an unexpected kindness?  There was a recent story of an older man who regularly jogged some remote roads in the hills of southern California.   His biggest fear was of an attack by a mountain lion but since he rarely strayed into the denser areas so he was not worried.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/06/30/teaching-kindness-in-school/</link>
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		<title>Can You Become A Creature of New Habits?</title>
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Have you ever dismissed your own shortcomings by saying, “it’s just the way I am,” or “I can’t change that?”
If you have you truly are a creature of your own habits.  Question is do your habits own you or do you own your habits?   Most people are owned by their habits simply because the human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/06/16/creating-change-in-the-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Mystery of Science</title>
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Almost every student will have heard of the character of Indiana Jones. This swashbuckling adventurer is fiction but in real life there is an Indiana Jones of science, his name is Stephen Hawking.  Unfortunately most students have never heard of him.   He wrote a popular science bestseller, “A Brief History of Time” in it he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/06/05/change-your-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Learning From Mistakes</title>
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Perception is everything.  How you see things shapes how you interpret the world.  In the classroom the teacher’s perceptions can mean the difference between success and failure.  The verbal and non-verbal communication of the teacher lets a student know if he or she is capable and smart or inadequate and challenged. 
Consciously or not you tip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2008/05/29/learning-from-mistakes/</link>
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