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We HEART Secondary Teachers!

 Think about how you began the year with your students.  How do you want them to leave you?  Inspired?  Energized?  Confident about next year?

You may want to craft a memorable lesson, speech, or personal note.  Students may not remember all the content you taught them, but they WILL remember how you treated them!
       “I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a
child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of
torture or an instrument of inspiration.  I can
humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.  In all situations, it is
my response that decides whether a crisis will be
escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or
de-humanized.”


Dr. Haim G. Ginott (1995), Teacher and child: A book for parents and teachers, New York, NY: Collier.
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Dr. Haim G. Ginott

How Do You Want Your Students to Remember You?

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  • Questioning to Advance Student Thinking
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