Year: 1994 - 95 AGM December 1, 1994 - SSAAM

- 95% of the message Is emotion - we either control the emotion or we don't control the message.
- Tell me what meaning your mind makes out of what you've read or seen.
- Teach from the Inside out (metacognltion) - heart teaching as well as head teaching.
- Honor Imaginative (right brain) minds as well as memory minds.
- Your school Is like a flshbowl - If the fish get sick don't blame the fish - maybe the water needs changing - treat
the whole flshbowl, not the fish that Is sick.
- Change a kid's behaviour by changing his/her Internal Image - If you feel stupid you act stupid.
- Rearrange classrooms so there Is less teaching and more learning - the less-is-more approach.
- Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be.
- Most people will choose the certainty of misery rather than the uncertainty of pleasure.
- If I realty want to change I need to be In contact with people that are ttke I want to be - positive addictions
- Ho healing will ever occur for people who are In the BLAME - FRAME - the frame has to change.
- Before you try to make anything better take an Intense look at what would make It worse.
- Anatyze and celebrate your successes or you're doomed to repeat failure.
- Redirect energy to do with not to kids - ask them for help - more respectful.
- Treat students not as they are but as If they are the way you want them to be.
- Get kids to teach you what Its like for them - validate their life experiences.
- Rituals create addictions - positive or negative.
- Transformation Involves someone becoming the "lead dog" and setting It up.
- It's easier to predict and prevent than react and repair - have a predict and prevent plan for every week.
If experience Is the best teacher, what did I learn today as a teacher (or administrator)?
Actions are driven by the missing emotions In our lives - to transform we need to fill the "hole In the sour.
Teachers need to be "getters of gifts" (honour the gifts In students) and dreammakers (If they don't get It from you,
they may not get It).
True leadership - good for me, good for you.
Don't try to transform a person alone • work with a support group.
Find people doing something right and compliment them - the when/then approach.
Kids will treat each other the way the adults (In the system) treat each other.
Use loving confrontations - "I don't know what your Intent was, but It made me feel...."
School reform begins with people, not with programs.
Don't evaluate anybody unless you're looking for Improvement.
People who feel special act special.
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