Quote of the day...

"What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?"

--John Steinbeck

Quote of the day...

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

--Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables

Quote of the day...

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

--Pericles

Quote of the day...

"Be happy for this moment.  This moment is your life."

--Omar Khayyam

Quote of the day...

"Good family is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it."

--James H.S. Bossard

Quote of the day...

"You are not merely here to make a living.  You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.  You are here to enrich the world."

--Woodrow Wilson

Quote of the day...

"If Plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters."

--Claire Cook

Quote of the day...

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness of wisdom."

--Confucius

Quote of the day...

Quote of the day...

"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, 'You owe me.'
Look what happens with love like that.  It lights up the sky."

--Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Persian poet

Quick Read - The Art of Taking Criticism

The Art of Taking Criticism

Quote of the day...

"There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable,
which else would overset the brain,
or break the heart."

--William Wordsworth

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, ALL!

Quote of the day...

"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."

--Nelson Rockefeller

Quote of the day...

Yesterday:
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
--John Lubbock

Today:
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
--Robert Heinlein

Do we allow our students to play Journey?

Take a few minutes to watch this - it's a great piece.  He makes some really great points about where education was, and where it is now as a result of the resources that are at our fingertips - as well as the fingertips of our students.



In Principal J's blog post, Why School?, she discusses the book that Will wrote as well.

His last quote has stuck with me and caused a great deal of reflection: "In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Quote of the day...

"To laugh is to risk being a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
The person who risks nothing,
Does nothing,
Has nothing and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But they simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live.
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Only a person who risks is free."

--Leo Buscaglia

Quote of the day...

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

--Maxim Gorky

Quote of the day...

"Be remembered for never forgetting to care."

--from a greeting card

Drew Johnson Blog: It looks like we will be moving to Infinite Campus...

Drew Johnson Blog: It looks like we will be moving to Infinite Campus...: Excerpt from wispolitics.com: Today, the Department of Administration (DOA) issued a Notice of Intent to Award letter for the Statewide S...

Quote of the day...

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

--Winston Churchill

Quote of the day...

"You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."

--Frederick Buechner