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Welcome to the book study blog for Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. Thank you for joining our first ever community-wide professional learning circle, joining students, educators, business leaders, and parents in powerful conversations about learning with a “whole new mind.”
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Shelley Bailey
I have been in education since 1989 as a business teacher, administrator and currently as Coordinator of Career and Technical Education in Elmira. I believe that the key to motivating all students to succeed at higher levels is to help them connect their learning to their lives including their interests, skills and future career plans. “A Whole New Mind” helps us to better understand people, especially students, and what will be needed for their achievement and ultimately, our ability to prosper as a nation. I am excited about the implications that this innovative book study project can have on our students, teachers and community!
Gina Beirne
I am a technology-obsessed Library Media Specialist who went to library school in the "dark ages" before the Internet existed. My love of technology encompasses every aspect of my life. My two most faithful companions are my iPhone and my Kindle. I am married, have two children, and am owned by the world's most beautiful yellow lab.
Heather Lutz
I am a school counselor at SHS. I love my job because it is magical to watch students grow into young adults during the brief four years they spend in high school. I enjoy reading, gardening, and cooking. The youngest of my three children has recently departed for college so I am finding more time for these hobbies and for spending time at the lake with my husband, Bill.
Kathy Pilling-Whitney
I am an art teacher at Southside High School. I teach ceramics, Drawing & Painting, and Studio in Art. I have been in a continual search and study for ideas and inspiration in teaching and learning. I also have a personal interest in right and left brain research.
Maggie Thurber
I am an assistant principal at Southside High School, working in the area of professional and student learning. I am devoted to promoting adolescent literacy and to supporting collaborative professional learning. In fact, this book study & blog would not have happened without the passion and impetus provided by great teacher leaders, and I am humbled and proud to be a part of the endeavor. I am excited about working together with students, parents, educators, and the business community to explore the needs of the 21st century learner. I am – the consensus is – quite right brained myself!
I have been in education since 1989 as a business teacher, administrator and currently as Coordinator of Career and Technical Education in Elmira. I believe that the key to motivating all students to succeed at higher levels is to help them connect their learning to their lives including their interests, skills and future career plans. “A Whole New Mind” helps us to better understand people, especially students, and what will be needed for their achievement and ultimately, our ability to prosper as a nation. I am excited about the implications that this innovative book study project can have on our students, teachers and community!
Gina Beirne
I am a technology-obsessed Library Media Specialist who went to library school in the "dark ages" before the Internet existed. My love of technology encompasses every aspect of my life. My two most faithful companions are my iPhone and my Kindle. I am married, have two children, and am owned by the world's most beautiful yellow lab.
Heather Lutz
I am a school counselor at SHS. I love my job because it is magical to watch students grow into young adults during the brief four years they spend in high school. I enjoy reading, gardening, and cooking. The youngest of my three children has recently departed for college so I am finding more time for these hobbies and for spending time at the lake with my husband, Bill.
Kathy Pilling-Whitney
I am an art teacher at Southside High School. I teach ceramics, Drawing & Painting, and Studio in Art. I have been in a continual search and study for ideas and inspiration in teaching and learning. I also have a personal interest in right and left brain research.
Maggie Thurber
I am an assistant principal at Southside High School, working in the area of professional and student learning. I am devoted to promoting adolescent literacy and to supporting collaborative professional learning. In fact, this book study & blog would not have happened without the passion and impetus provided by great teacher leaders, and I am humbled and proud to be a part of the endeavor. I am excited about working together with students, parents, educators, and the business community to explore the needs of the 21st century learner. I am – the consensus is – quite right brained myself!
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I am truly being inspired by this book!! I never thought about our lives in terms of stories, but it is so true. The things we remember most and that are most meaningful are those that are told in story form. My initial interst in storytelling actually began with my cousin, Diane Wolkstein, who is a well know story teller who lives in Grenwich Village. Then, my daughter took a storytelling class at her high school and began to ask our stories we remembered and she actually interviewed my mother by phone about her story. My daughter then had to write her own story and present it to the class.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of industry now turning to the old art of story telling to improve business.
We use "story" in middle school to introduce many topics from history. The "stories" are the explanations of nursery rhymes. i.e. "all the kings horse and all the kings men"...about a ruler who lost his throne despite the efforts of his soldiers... when we explain what the nursery rhymes mean before launching into a unit of study, the kids go "oh I get it" and, "this will make it so much easier to remember". The kids try to stump me by asking me to explain random nursery rhymes, so we often have to look them up!
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The free downloads are only available at bn.com or its mirror sites. The offer ends at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time on May 16.
if you see this in time, have a few of the shorts stories for your ipod or other device. jill
hmmmm, the librarian in me seems t be obsessed with the topic of STORY, go figure! Check out http://googlelittrips.com/ It is broken down into grade bands. From the webssite:This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
ReplyDeleteI have shared the Google Lit Trips site with the English teachers in my building. I think having students create a "Lit Trip" is a wonderful idea. I'm already laying the groundwork with my peer partner.
ReplyDeleteI was glad that there was as much emphasis in this section on "listening" as there was in "telling". I think, sometimes, that listening is the part that is most neglected. The example about doctors interrupting after twenty-one seconds is not just about doctors. How many of us have started relating an incident, and been "talked over" by someone who didn't have the time or patience to wait his turn? Time is an important factor here, it seems to me. Where time is money, or when time is limited by obligations or schedules, story is often sacrificed for expediency. Waht a shame. What a loss.
ReplyDeleteLoved this chapter!!! (Must be the English teacher in me). We truly do remember stories. I see this in the classroom every day. Try to teach a piece of "boring" curriculum and watch kids become disengaged; tell it to them as a story and every eye is on you waiting for you to weave the tale. No surprise that all kids seem to grab a piece of paper and write "forever" if you tell them to share a story that is inside their head; but ask them to reflect on a piece of nonfiction text and many will shut down and not be able to articulate their thoughts. A good story can truly change a life. I have personally experienced it and I have had students write me thank you notes after reading text in my class that changed them forever (i.e. To Kill a Mockingbird).
ReplyDeleteStudents do seem to understand and relate better to information presented to them when given in the form of a story. Recently, I have begun sharing my personal experiences more with them when teaching and they seem to more readily grasp the concept being addressed in the lesson.
ReplyDeleteStories are also important to me personally and as an art teacher. Humanities and culture are basically stories about people. Relationships are important and I think that we do understand each other and various cultures through the sharing of stories.
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