Tag Archives: Leadership Education
TJEd Forum: James Ferrell and Helping Things Go Right
How to Influence is a topic that is on the brains of all Leadership Education parents. Especially if you are a parent mentoring young adults. Those teen years are the years when we question who is having the greatest influence and if it is great influence. Continue reading
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Math for Young Scholars
Math has been a thorn in my side since I began this homeschooling adventure. Continue reading
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Playing with matches
Yeah, I know that it is a terrible thing for children to play with matches. But if you let your kids watch The Scarlet Pimpernel too many times…and you don’t light your house with candles…you have to have some sort of flame to seal your secret messages with wax. Continue reading
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Finding Peace
Did you know that the original intent of Mother’s Day was to be a day when mothers all over the world came together and discussed how to promote peace in the world? Julia Ward Howe, author of the Battle Hymn … Continue reading
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Structure Time, not Content
In the Leadership Education model of education, one of the 7 keys to great teaching is Structure Time, not Content. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? Visions of everyone productively working on projects that make their hearts flutter are filling your head right now. Continue reading
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Dumbing it Down Doesn’t Work
I don’t think dumbing the scriptures down is the way to be inspiring around the scriptures. The youth of today are begging us to STOP dumbing things down. They are writing books about it. Continue reading
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Weekly Wrap-Up March 12, 2010
But the BEST. Yes, the very BEST part of the week was Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady. A story about Ellen Toliver, a 10-year old girl, who aides the patriots during the revolutionary war….The loaf made it to General Washington (my 5 year old), who shared the loaf with all his spies while the code cracker figured out the secret message. Continue reading
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The Morning Routine – It’s a Puzzle
We love puzzles. It’s a great feeling to have all those little pieces in their place where you can see clearly the big picture. I don’t like little puzzle pieces all over the floor – scattered – chewed by the … Continue reading
