Sharing Aspirational Quotations by Leo MacDonald https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf Please post a quotation - click on the "plus" at the bottom right to begin (no photo is required, but you can attach one if you wish - click on the three horizontal dots) en-us 2021-08-31 20:23:48 UTC 2026-01-19 00:37:05 UTC hello@padlet.com “What we need to do is to learn to build a bridge over the existing divide between the theoretician who knows the general rule and the person involved in practice who wishes to deal with the unique situation of this patient [student] who is in need of care.” Gadamer, The Enigma of Health, page 94. Chris https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709591409 2021-09-01 10:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709591409 jmitton395 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709793493 The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”
― Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
Judy Connor
]]> 2021-09-01 12:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709793493 jmitton395 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709793998 As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence.... To begin, the professor must genuinely value everyone's presence. There must be an ongoing recognition that everyone influences the classroom dynamic, that everyone contributes. These contributions are resources. Used constructively they enhance the capacity of any class to create an open learning community. (hooks, 1994, pg. 8)
Evan Throop-Robinson 
]]> 2021-09-01 12:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709793998 jmitton395 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709794362 “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do”. (Rumi)
Ellen Carter
]]> 2021-09-01 12:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709794362 "Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois" ~Joseph Joubert. Literally translated: to teach is to learn twice; translated for meaning: to teach, is to learn anew. https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709920325 Lace Marie Brogden]]> 2021-09-01 13:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1709920325 "When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts." - Dalai Lama https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710456284 Allana ]]> 2021-09-01 17:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710456284 Pedagogy is a fascination with the growth of the other. Max van Manen https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710491076 2021-09-01 17:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710491076 “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” Abraham Maslow drobinsdo https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710513836 2021-09-01 17:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710513836 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710792816 “In 1924, parents could choose to have their children begin school in Grade One or in kindergarten. The principal and my parents thought… I should start in Grade One. We stood at the doorway of the Grade One classroom and I saw the children sitting quietly at their desks…Then I saw the kindergarten classroom next door. There were children laughing and playing around a sand table that had a mirror on the bottom! I knew that I wanted to be in THAT classroom… they [mother and principal] listened to me and I joined the children around the sandbox… you could say the allure of the sandbox led me to kindergarten…” Dolores Daudt, 2009)
Lori McKee]]> 2021-09-01 20:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710792816 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710911524 Assessment is today’s means of modifying tomorrow’s instruction. (Carol Ann Tomlinson)]]> 2021-09-01 21:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1710911524 GH https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712488808 “I should ask that a gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength…If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
Carlson, 1998]]> 2021-09-02 11:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712488808 I am not a teacher, https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712762456 but an awakener.
....Robert Frost]]> 2021-09-02 13:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712762456 lisaborden https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712843944 "I'm not prepared to sacrifice another generation of children waiting for the school system to change." - Judy Bernard Julian, personal communication circa 1993.]]> 2021-09-02 14:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712843944 DD https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712924316 If you come at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, then by 3 o'clock I shall begin to be happy. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]> 2021-09-02 14:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1712924316 You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Ehrmann, 1927 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713206236 2021-09-02 16:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713206236 Jen C https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713374006 “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou

]]> 2021-09-02 17:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713374006 “Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”― my grandfather or Franz Kafka? Walter https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713395324 2021-09-02 17:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713395324 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713398662 The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Garnet]]> 2021-09-02 17:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713398662 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713454102 Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind" ~ Dr. Seuss]]> 2021-09-02 18:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713454102 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713457396
Fire

What makes a fire burn
is space between the logs,
a breathing space.
Too much of a good thing,
too many logs
packed in too tight
can douse the flames
almost as surely
as a pail of water would.

So building fires
requires attention
to the spaces in between,
as much as to the wood.

When we are able to build
open spaces
in the same way
we have learned
to pile on the logs,
then we can come to see how
it is fuel, and absence of the fuel
together, that make fire possible.

We only need to lay a log
lightly from time to time.
A fire
grows
simply because the space is there,
with openings
in which the flame
that knows just how it wants to burn
can find its way. 

Judy Sorum Brown (2013)

Jen M]]> 2021-09-02 18:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713457396 "I start from the assumption you are brilliant and we are learning together" reflection on radically welcoming students by Dr. Ron Charles (Mary Ott) https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713766375 2021-09-02 22:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1713766375 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1715286650 Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.]]> 2021-09-03 13:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1715286650 Leadership https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1720145675 2021-09-06 23:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1720145675 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1720391693 So you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.

Thomas King. The Truth About Stories 

AT]]> 2021-09-07 01:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1720391693 Learning leomacdonald14 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721538903 Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
- Vernon Howard
]]> 2021-09-07 10:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721538903 Relationships cbarker38 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721581403
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.—Maya Angelou]]> 2021-09-07 11:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721581403 https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721614388 The dream is a vision of the world I would like to live in, a world based on cooperation, negotiation and universal respect for the innate value of every creature on earth and the Earth herself, a world where no one doubts that to hurt anyone or anything is to hurt yourself and those you love most, a world where everyone works to understand how everything we do will affect future generations. - Anne Bishop]]> 2021-09-07 11:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721614388 We who are teachers would have to accommodate ourselves to lives as ...functionaries if we did not have in mind a quest for a better state of things for those we teach and the world we all share. It is simply not enough for us to reproduce the way things are. -Maxine Greene (LLK) https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721616677 2021-09-07 11:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721616677 If the teacher is not learning from the students, it is highly unlikely that the students are learning from the teacher. (Jim Cummins) https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721677120 2021-09-07 12:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/leomacdonald14/tw3qu1tiejidpyyf/wish/1721677120