January 7th, 2016
We met on Thursday, January 7th to begin our Book Study Group. Everyone was asked to bring a word, phrase, and sentence that resonated with them from the first chapter. Here are the results:
Words
- Hope p. 3
- Diversity
- Hope
- Talents: everyone is good at something
- Hope
- Hope
- Greatness
- Greatness
- Past
- Communicate
- Hope
- Greatness
- Hope
- Whole
- Skepticism
- Language
- Hope
- Sameness
- Genius
- Sameness
- Engagement
- Knowledge
Phrases
- Responding to the new reality p. 7
- The leader in me sees all students as having strengths
- Sees potential in all p. 3
- We honor the greatness in you
- A whole school
- Hope informs
- A whole person
- Greatness in every students and staff member p. 13
- World of the past
- Times have changed
- Hope shines light
- Strong character and unique talents
- Everybody is genius. But if you judge a fish by… p. 12
- Skepticism is a critic
- The leader in me is not a program, it is a process
- The cafeteria lady at my elementary school greatly influenced my life p. 11
- Hope shines
- Some schools have become factories
- If you judge a fish by its ability to climb… it will believe it’s stupid p. 12
- Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish… p. 12
- Factories of sameness
- Knowledge worker
Sentences
- It starts with the belief that there is a greatness in every student and every staff member. p. 13
- It starts with the belief that there is greatness in every student and every staff member.
- Hope keeps students and staff members progressing.
- Hope informs us of better ways of doing things.
- There is greatness in every student and every staff member.
- There is greatness in every student and every staff member. Greatness is not seen as attaining a high position or accomplishing a heroic feat, but as having strong character and unique talents which may or may not include the ability to read, write or use a calculator.
- Current formal education still prepares students primarily for the world of the past, rather than for the possible worlds of the future.
- There is an increasingly urgent call for more personal and interpersonal skills to be taught in schools.
- They see hope in the form of students learning skills that will help them throughout life.
- Greatness is not seen as attaining a high position or accomplishing a heroic feat, but as having strong character and unique talents which may or may not include the ability to read, write or use a calculator.
- It starts with the belief that there is greatness in every student and every staff member. p. 13
- They may not know all the facts themselves, but do know how to bring the right people together to assemble the facts and derive solutions.
- Those who are succeeding are those who possess above-average creativity, strong problem-solving skills and a knack for foresight.
- Students must learn how to not just memorize and regurgitate academic facts, but also apply them to authentic situations.
- Hope sees potential in people – all people.
- …they operate like assembly lines for producing experts in two or three subjects.
- Everyone is a genius.
- The leader in me seal all… as leaders. p. 12
- They are able to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one’s self and to elicit it in others.
- Well, that era is over. It has given way to the age of the knowledge worker.