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Sometimes, we get so caught up in our stress that we forget to put our anchors down. Taking deep breaths can help us feel anchored and focus on our breathing and begin to focus less on what is making us stressed.

tracy-fountain 9 months ago

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talia-gallagher 9 months ago

When you choose to follow through with your commitments - especially when you don't feel like it- you are developing the extraordinary discipline necessary for creating extraordinary results in your life.

rebeccamc 9 months ago

The idea that habits will make your life dull or take away spontaneity is false. Habits will allow you more freedoms- financial, health, etc.

eileenjroth04 10 months ago

This chapter, “The Power to Connect” is similar to chapter two. It does go a bit more in-depth as to the exact steps that can be used to help students make connections while they are reading. While I feel like I already do this in my classroom, I am beginning to think I need to model it more often than I do. The highlighted section on page 37 hit home for me. So many students make connections but we need to be more conscious of making sure those connections are meaningful. As teachers, we need to model what that looks like. I absolutely love that at the end of the chapter, there is a list of books teachers can use to help model the power to connect while reading. It is a comprehensive list and well thought out. This will be a big time saver for me. Some books are better than others for teaching various strategies and this list will be very beneficial.

katie-jadhon 11 months ago

"...every student needs just a single person to care for him or her in order for his or her life to change forever." pg. 32

rachel-knapp 12 months ago

Discusses the 'rut' one can fall into when teaching a book for years on end. Mostly reinforced my goal to incorporate a contemporary novel

lauren-mccarthy About 1 year ago

Try not to dwell on the negative. Focus on what you do have. It is so easy to get stressed out over the little things, especially for our teens. It is important to take a step back and see everything that is going right in our lives to realize that what's stressing you out may not be as bad as you first thought.

cpiazza About 1 year ago

p. 72 This was thought-provoking, but also common-sense! Kids need regular stress in their lives (like stress wood) to gain resiliency!

christinamalara About 1 year ago

Page 56

Page 56: Pew Research has found that 17% of American parents report they are often distracted by their phone when spending time with their child, with another 52% saying they are sometimes distracted.

When I read this in the book I honestly thought the percentage would be higher. I myself am guilty of this. Checking my phone, scrolling through my phone when I am with my children. 
When your children are asking you if you are listening to them as you are scrolling through your phone, there is an issue.
I have become more aware of this and will leave my phone in a different room from where I am hanging out with my kids so that the temptation to get on my phone and start scrolling is not right there for me.
michelle-hogan About 1 year ago

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carrie-callan About 1 year ago

Snap #4 - Move 3: Teach Decoding Strategies, Not Cueing Strategies

It's widely known now that we need to abandon the three-cueing system. Research tells us that good readers can read words isolation accurately, without needing to rely on context or guessing. Good readers use their knowledge of grapheme-phoneme connections to decode new words. No cues are needed when students are explicitly taught the code of letter-sound relationships and given ample practice their skills. Strategies for successful practice include asking students to identify and blend sounds, discourage guessing, and encourage students to keep their eyes on the words.
carrie-callan About 1 year ago