Take a close look at the human brain in the this photo. I taught my students: “Your brain is neurologically unique.”
As a teacher it became my life’s work to uncover their unique learning styles and open the doors for their optimal learning.

Nelson Mandela once wrote:
"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we lived...
it is what difference we have made to the lives of others
that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

"Sometimes it is the very people
who no one imagines anything of
who can do the things no one imagined."
--Alan Turing

Framed over the entrance to my classroom:
"Forget the struggling world
and every trembling fear.
Here all are kin...
and here the rule of life is love.”

--Irving Stone, 1947. (If students didn't see it overhead on the way in, they would come to feel it on their way out.)

Saturday, September 30, 2023

What I Learned about teaching from a Bloody Lip

Photo credit: Outdoor Adventure River Specialist
The taste of blood is indelible, metallic, and an important epiphany for a well seasoned teacher.

Virginia Morrell was ramping up to write an article about O.A.R.S. (Outdoor Adventure River Specialists) when she invited the photographer in me to document a white water rafting trip customized by OARS just for her article.

They had quite the reputation, the first rafting company to survive the Indus? river at high water. I was eager to see if they could meet my safety standards for a rafting experience with high school students.
Photo courtesy OARS.
They taught me to hold the oars at very specific angle, blade parallel to the surface. So I knew what to do, but had no experience, no practice. I was about to get a mouthful.








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