What Should We Talk About?
My favorite part of teaching was sharing evocative passages, affecting scenes, meaningful lyrics and innovative ideas with my students. We’d read, watch and listen to them, then think, talk and write about them. It kept me from the curriculum. But then I’d think, Why isn’t this the curriculum? This is what kids need to learn!
For example, after watching the scene where Tom Hanks scolds Geena Davis in A League of Their Own,“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great!” I’d share it with students and explain why I showed it to them. And now I’m sharing passages, scenes, lyrics and ideas with you with the goal of getting a thought-provoking, life-enhancing conversations started.
Selena Quintanilla's succinct summary of why we're here
From your pupils you'll be taught - four lessons from Amy
The Mickey scene and what makes an elder worth listening to
Why we still need (and miss) gatekeepers - plus what we need to teach kids about opinions
An econ lesson I never taught
What's the lesson? Your thoughts?
Kyrra's quest to turn lemons into (unsweetened) lemonaid continues with Myabetic Diabetes TV
Free Enlightenment - Literally and Spiritually
It's whom you're with - and an invite to spend time with spirit-magnifying people
Keep watering - proof from a plant that we shouldn't give up
Stevie Wonder's "Loves in Need of Love Today" - more relevant than ever - was almost never written
What makes a person statue-worthy? (and the life-enhancing lessons we can learn while deciding)
Different opinions and behaviors I willingly accept, uncomfortably live with - and can't condone
Sell it! - The sad story of the Taj Mahal
Dear you know who, (lessons from an 8th grader)
Passages that make us think - Joy and Sorrow
Today's students have the chance to do what no generation of kids has ever been able to do
Five thoughts on living in a COVID world
Why unrequited platonic love hurts so bad, what we can learn from it and how I cope with its sadness
