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This is one of the "lazy" Saturday. The eight-hour sleep last night was not enough. I had a thirty-minute powernap after breakfast just before the morning workout and swim. Plus, in the afternoon, another two-hour powernap! Wow! What is in swimming that makes me sleep nice?
Now...move on to what this blog is about....
I downloaded couple of old songs from Julie Andrews from the the old and from one of the most favorite movies of old times "The Sound Of Music." Part of my day today is about "gone are those days...memories" and one of those moments is this old movie, which I remember watching many times in an old "big fat" picture tube black and white television. It's funny I like her songs "Do-Re-Mi" and "Confidence In Me," two of the soundtracks in the movie. While listening two lines from the song stand out in my thoughts and I begun thinking about it - "...do better than your best..." and "...firm but kind..." I found these two lines from the song "Confidence In Me" powerful and very true. What about it? There is no single day at work, specially during individual activities, that I tell my students "Do your best!" and I always get a "smile" from them. It is always a none-verbal "silent" encouragement written on a small piece of paper that is always in my pocket and I just pull it out, if needed. I always get a non-verbal reply from a student --- a nice, humble, "smile" and sometimes a humble "head" nod. It is always a feeling of positivism each time this happen. I like it! I live with it! I like it!
Gone are those days..but the memories will live on. In few days, students are promoting to high school. They all pass the class and I am very grateful and thankful to see that they, specially those who have been "challenged" academically and behaviorally, have improved to a certain degree after "doing their best" and after many "gentle, firm and kind" interventions and consequences they've earned as part of the "pyramid of intervention." I believe that "doing the best" and making it better than the previous best we have done is a sign of improvement and a road to success. Yea mon!
Make it a great day.
iSwim
Photo taken in Nam Song River, Vang Vieng, Laos June 2012
This is one of the "lazy" Saturday. The eight-hour sleep last night was not enough. I had a thirty-minute powernap after breakfast just before the morning workout and swim. Plus, in the afternoon, another two-hour powernap! Wow! What is in swimming that makes me sleep nice?
Now...move on to what this blog is about....
I downloaded couple of old songs from Julie Andrews from the the old and from one of the most favorite movies of old times "The Sound Of Music." Part of my day today is about "gone are those days...memories" and one of those moments is this old movie, which I remember watching many times in an old "big fat" picture tube black and white television. It's funny I like her songs "Do-Re-Mi" and "Confidence In Me," two of the soundtracks in the movie. While listening two lines from the song stand out in my thoughts and I begun thinking about it - "...do better than your best..." and "...firm but kind..." I found these two lines from the song "Confidence In Me" powerful and very true. What about it? There is no single day at work, specially during individual activities, that I tell my students "Do your best!" and I always get a "smile" from them. It is always a none-verbal "silent" encouragement written on a small piece of paper that is always in my pocket and I just pull it out, if needed. I always get a non-verbal reply from a student --- a nice, humble, "smile" and sometimes a humble "head" nod. It is always a feeling of positivism each time this happen. I like it! I live with it! I like it!
Gone are those days..but the memories will live on. In few days, students are promoting to high school. They all pass the class and I am very grateful and thankful to see that they, specially those who have been "challenged" academically and behaviorally, have improved to a certain degree after "doing their best" and after many "gentle, firm and kind" interventions and consequences they've earned as part of the "pyramid of intervention." I believe that "doing the best" and making it better than the previous best we have done is a sign of improvement and a road to success. Yea mon!
Make it a great day.
iSwim
Photo taken in Nam Song River, Vang Vieng, Laos June 2012
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