teaching

The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can__ wear her smiling face to the platform. You__e got to put that smile on your own face.

Everyday more educators are showing that they value students by involving them in meaningful ways in school. These teachers and administrators say that it is not about __aking students happy_ or allowing students to run the school. Their experience shows that when educators partner with students to improve learning, teaching and leadership in schools, school change is positive and effective.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you__e waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.

Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages--and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback--so must our students spend many hours practicing the basic intellectual skills of our discipline.

It's really seeing student involvement _ as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else__ word for it.

When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you've forgotten.

There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.