Comments on: Fake It ‘Til You Make It

By: Hit the Pause Button | Teacher Kid

Hit the Pause Button | Teacher Kid — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:31:59 +0000

[…] I’d go in with a good attitude and that the day ‘is gonna be alright.’ I know other teachers can definitely relate to that 1st day after a break. All my Oakland Teaching Fellow colleagues […]

By: Working with a positive attitude : Befuddled

Working with a positive attitude : Befuddled — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:15:23 +0000

[…] Dan Meyer has it figured out what that means in the classroom. Don’t brood on the kid who drives you nuts. Don’t gossip endlessly about the kids who are ADD, or endlessly gloomy, or who sap your energy for a dozen other reasons. Think and act positively. Love them, even if they’re unloveable. Act positively, and soon you will think positively. […]

By: Liza Lee Miller

Liza Lee Miller — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:45:57 +0000

So my strategy of whining louder than they were wasn’t a good one? Hmmmmm. Gonna have to remember that one! :)

By: Smurf

Smurf — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:34:16 +0000

Precious.

By: Christian Long

Christian Long — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:43:18 +0000

Sensing there is a subtext even beyond the wink, wink NftPC delivered.

Forward steps often mean taking stock of what you had way back when…even before they become way back then. Gonna be an interesting next chapter in the dy/dan anthology over the months ahead, framed by both yet-to-be-named professional decisions and anecdotal reflections from the classroom side of things. Both will be worth keeping tabs on.

By: Notes from The Paperless Classroom

Notes from The Paperless Classroom — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:46:55 +0000

I think Benjamin is talking about something entirely different. Wink, wink.

By: Benjamin Baxter

Benjamin Baxter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:36:42 +0000

Your title is good advice to begin with, you know.