tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314713422024-03-13T00:32:19.670-04:00Samurai Teaching ~ Sensational LivingSamurai: An ancient warrior code of strength, honor, and loyalty. ***
Samurai Teaching: Having the STRENGTH to passionately believe in every student; the HONOR to teach them in the way they best learn; and the LOYALTY to never give up on any of them. ***
Sensational Living: How sensationally we do this for them now determines how well they will be able to sensationally do this for themselves and for others as adults. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14306860262627270422noreply@blogger.comBlogger731125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31471342.post-88539537411116605372017-07-29T06:45:00.002-04:002017-07-29T06:45:33.903-04:00Effort<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hey Mr. Stuart, it’s me, Abder (Abderrahmane Echchalhi) lol. How r u doin? I miss u because u always pushed me to higher limits. Plz write back as soon as u can. Ty, bye.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m really hating the 6th grade right now because all our teachers are getting crazy about the FCAT and their giving us so much homework each nite. I really miss the way that YOU teach!!!!!!!!!!! How’s ur life going on with ur students? I’m sure their growth is powerful!”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Ur a good man Abder. It's not as much fun 4 me this year becuz I don't have just one group of students to work with. It's more like middle school where I only have @hour with each group. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hey Mr. Stuart, don’t think I forgot you! Dream big, be big, do big ~ livin by that motto. Happy bday!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, you told me once , "If someone says you have a lot of potential don't take it as a compliment (because it means you aren’t using your potential)! Haha! 5th grade with you was the memory I get even in high school, and how much you loved Bella which if I do recall correctly is your daughter!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Just to let you know I'm majoring in sports science now, still have that super long name (Abderrahmane Echchalhi), also going to minor in psychology and my brother Mohamed is doing great, got a manager job at Holiday Inn! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To achieve this “real peace” it takes a huge amount of super-human strength and intelligence, things teachers are naturally built for.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And we are perfectly situated to becoming super-smart every day as we become more intelligent about our students and how to teach them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We remember this, and become relentless in the pursuit of this, and we reach real world peace with every student we teach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A beautiful theory that CAN BECOME an unbreakable everyday REALITY when we stop worrying and whining about what’s broken and focus instead on preventing our children from becoming broken by it, relentlessly. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our hearts never stop. </span></div>
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<div class="p1"><span class="s1">KICK START OUR HEARTS ~ STOPPING TERRORISM THOUGHT 1 ~ RISK</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">The heart engines are already revving by teachers all across the world to kick start their students’ hearts and education in the fall. </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">We’re gong to spend the next 2 months kicking our butts and our brains to think of lessons that will kick our students’ hearts forever and help them live safer and higher than ever. </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">And our classrooms is where it all begins for them. It’s their Dream Big, Do Big, Become Big day-and-night club that’s exciting and explosive and where they come out happier and smarter than when they came in.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">From the first beat of the first lesson using life’s greatest thinkers our students will hear these lyrics of higher-level thinking that leads them to higher-level learning and living. </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">They will hear this music in their heads and feel it pound in their hearts this year and forever because it will be played every day until it becomes part of them. Aristotle will smile as he watches them learn to kick their own excuses, or “buts”, and evolve into real-world problem solvers that find long-term solutions to a current world of hate-filled terrorism and child abuse. </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">No whining out of them. No whining out of us. We kick start this “impossible” change in the world by making it probable in our classrooms. We kick our own teacher excuses and “buts” as we hear it pound in our heads and feel it fill our hearts, flow into our spirits and sing out of our souls. </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">We risk believing in this. We risk feeling all this. We risk crashing and hurting as we do this. We risk getting up again and getting knocked down again. </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">We succeed because we risk failing. We risk to make school become this. For our children to become this. For our world to become this.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">#OrlandoUnited #OrlandoStrong #ViveLeFrance #remember911 </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">#TheSchoolofAthensMindAdventures #HigherLevelLearning #ChildEmpowering #DremBigDoBigBeBig #MrStuart #FindtheHeroinYou <a href="http://amzn.to/1TQ81kx"><span class="s2">http://amzn.to/1TQ81kx</span></a> </span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s2"><a href="http://bit.ly/1mwDXk3">http://bit.ly/1mwDXk3</a></span><span class="s3"> </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The world CAN be a BIG, BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL place, but we have to all MAKE IT that way. We have to fight for it, want it, and be willing to love it and love it and love it into existence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">We can CHOOSE to light up the world in our subatomic explosions of confidence, appreciation, gratitude, and unlimited belief in ourselves and each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">I am already exploding at this level and I haven't even hit the gym yet. After 1,000 pushups, pullups, situps and miles of swimming, running, and rowing, I will have become so #SandLakeElementary Stingray Strong and #CypressParkElementary Mustang Hard that I will be able to explode my new subatomic strength and stamina upon all my current and former students over and over UNTIL they begin to subatomically explode at their own levels of greatness.</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Since Paris and now Brussels there have been 13 terrorist attacks and over 450 innocent deaths, for some kids that doesn't include the murders happening on their own streets as these kids had to deal with in December.......... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I'm going to tell my students that I want to erase our learning goals off the board. That can only happen if 100% of us achieve the learning goal, which is only knowledge and ability, not the highest levels of self-evaluation and creativity. What's on the board is the box. We accomplish that and we jump out of the box and off the board and into a world of creativity.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Samurai Teaching ~ Sensational Living</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14306860262627270422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31471342.post-12512959938005984372016-03-04T04:41:00.001-05:002016-03-04T04:41:25.090-05:00Kick Our Students' Limited Worlds Into the Pit<center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w0Pql1sgM04" width="480"></iframe></center><center><br /></center><center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Life as it is now, and for a long time now, has brought with each passing year the heads of severed dreams and hopes to our school's steps, and threatened our students with the slavery of dreaming, doing and becoming small in a go-through-the-motions recreation of the same day over and over in a walking death as adults and generation after generation.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">They were either taught they were dumb by a dumb paper-testing-only system of determining who's intelligent and who is not, and which school gets an A and which does not.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">This has been true for as long as we have been using the factory-producing-model of school-producing workers, and not thinkers, that we needed after we swallowed the fears the World Wars produced.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">The body of a murdered woman was brought to the steps of the street this year across from my students' school. This year my body and brain needs to be bigger than it ever had been. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">I cover my body in muscle to protect my organs and bones from the hits that must be taken, and build my brain with the wisdom of the Seven Sages of Socrates to understand how to teach them. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">And take all the love and belief I've had for all of my former students to fill the hearts and heads of my current ones.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">This year we take back their hopes and dreams and fill them again with all that they can be and become in the world by kicking all the negative realities and future limiting probabilities into a pit from which they will never return. </span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">We do this fearlessly and completely, one student at a time, one street at a time.</span></center></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">Samurai Teaching ~ Sensational Living</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14306860262627270422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31471342.post-82623290760210124412016-03-02T04:40:00.001-05:002016-03-02T04:40:15.883-05:00What We Do in Our Classrooms Echoes in the Hearts and Minds of Our Students Forever<div><br /></div><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BhusCY_vq0Q" width="480"></iframe></center><center><br /></center><center><h2 style="text-align: start;"><center><span style="font-size: large;">What We Do in Our Classrooms Echoes Forever in the Hearts and Minds of Our Students</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">We get them to face their fears and face their realities</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">And make them courageous enough to overcome and improve upon them.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to wear the helmet,</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">earn it.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Do something you've never done before.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Now she can spend the rest of the year and her life becoming a gifted creator.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">She has gone from being shy and insecure to roaring like a lion and being the first to win the Jessica Gaffin award.</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">Now the universe is hers!</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;">The dangers we face in attempting the Great Dream are nothing compared to the changes we can make that will echo loudly in our hearts and minds and last forever in our lives!</span></center><center><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></center></h2></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">Samurai Teaching ~ Sensational Living</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14306860262627270422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31471342.post-30098261358400571622016-02-14T06:46:00.000-05:002016-02-14T07:28:32.887-05:00Valentine's Day ~ How to Save a Life ~ Be a Teacher<center>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am a very unassuming person, which means I don't have an ego thinking I'm great, or worried about others seeing me as great or being better than anybody. I simply see the best in others and in the world and often have no idea of any impact I'm having on others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just like any teacher, I do what I do because I am what I am and because it feels real and it feels true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While moving recently I found a cross a student gave me ten years ago who contacts me now when she feels like cutting herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have worn that cross around my neck every day since finding it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also found a letter from another student who told me he had gone through a period of wanting to kill himself, but each time he tried he heard my voice telling him and his classmates to Dream Big, Do Big, and never give up until they Became Big, and if any of them ever did give up they could always come back to me for hope and passion and the strength to fight again because the world needed them and the gifts only they could develop and give to the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And more and more of use are dropping out of teaching forever, wondering where we went wrong in our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now I was teaching at a new school with even tougher requirements because it was a failing school. I didn't feel strong. I didn't feel confident. And I felt so stressed out in meetings that all I heard in my head was, "<i>You can't do this anymore." </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am a very unassuming person, which means I don't have an ego thinking I'm great, or worried about others seeing me as great or better than anybody. I simply see the best in others and in the world and often have no idea of any impact I'm having on others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">I showed up one day at a time and gave all of me for just one more day at a time. I decided to live and love again for as much as I could again; one day at a time.</span></span></div>
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