Posted by admin on January 5, 2011 under Active Organizations, Teaching With Heroes, Web links | 
Can you imagine being a hero?
The Heroic Imagination Project will help you explore that idea. They combine research in the areas of heroism with programs for students, adults, and organizations – all to help us realize that “everyone has the potential to transform the private virtue of compassion into the civic virtue of heroic action.”
In their Leadership Workshop, participants are invited to explore real world situations, reflect on heroic examples, and internalize strategies and plans in our lives.
In their TechHeroes program, students and senior work together with technology, collaboratively, in service to each other.
And with their HIP Schools Toolkit, teachers have a structure and a variety of resources to help them integrate the “lessons” of heroes.
Visit http://heroicimagination.org/ for more information.
Posted by admin on under Books, Web links |
It is great to find others talking about, thinking about, and exploring heroes. Here’s a recently published book that looks very exciting.
“In Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them, Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals offer a stimulating tour of the psychology of heroism, shedding light on what heroism and villainy mean to most people and why heroes — both real people and fictional characters — are so vital to our lives. … Brimming with psychological insight, Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them provides an illuminating look at heroes — and into our own minds as well.”
(The above description is copied from http://blog.richmond.edu/heroes/category/heroes-book/ – please visit that page from much more information and to order the book.)
Posted by admin on January 2, 2011 under Books, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
This little boardbook uses only approximately 200 words to tell about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to explain, in simple terms, how he ended segegation in America.
Posted by admin on under Harriet Tubman Stories, Videos, Web links |
Here is a nice video about Harriet Tubman:
Harriet Tubman’s Legacy 1820-1913 (RIP) **A AMAZING WOMAN OF COURAGE!!**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cUTKTWkbnw&feature=autofb
plus you’ll find other videos there too.
Posted by admin on January 1, 2011 under Active Organizations, Resources, Teaching With Heroes |
We’ve recently found the Role Models program and materials for teaching character education in high (and middle) school.
http://www.characterandleadership.com/
Borrowed from their web site:
“… this character education curriculum provides students with the necessary skills to be successful in all facets of their lives. Students and teachers alike come to rely on the consistent weekly lesson plans of ethical dilemmas, lectures, character movie segments, current events, core readings from The Role Models textbook, basic skills and expository writing assignments.”
Posted by admin on December 30, 2010 under Active Organizations, Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan, Web links |
At a plain, black well-pump in the small southern town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, one of the world’s great miracles took place. It began one bright, spring day in 1887. Puffy white clouds floated overhead on a background of blue, while birds fluttered through oaks and maples and flowers burst forth from the fertile soil in an array of colors—all unheard and unseen by a pretty girl of seven.
Standing at the totally blind and deaf Helen Keller’s side was a young woman, Anne Sullivan. Miss Sullivan was steadily pumping cool water into one of the girl’s hands while repeatedly tapping out an alphabet code of five letters in the other—first slowly, then rapidly. The scene was repeated again and again as young Helen painstakingly struggled to break her world of silence.
Suddenly the signals crossed Helen’s consciousness with a meaning. She knew that “w-a-t-e-r” meant the cool something flowing over her hand. Darkness began to melt from her mind like so much ice left out on the sunny March day. By nightfall, Helen had learned 30 words.
Since 1954 Helen Keller’s birthplace has been a permanent shrine to the “miracle” that occurred in a blind and deaf seven-year old girl’s life. At that time Ivy Green was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org/
Posted by admin on under Active Organizations, Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan Resources, Web links |
Here is a fun web page for kids to explore more about Helen Keller – from the American Foundation for the Blind.
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkmuseum.asp
Posted by admin on under Albert Einstein Quotes, Web links |
1. Devote Your Life to a Cause
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
2. Great People Will Always Encounter Great Opposition
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
3. Make a Decision to See the World as Friendly
“The most important decision we ever make is whether we believe we live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe.”
4. Character Trumps Intellect
“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
5. Never Ever Stop Learning
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
6. Change the Way You Think
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
7. Serve the World
“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
(Extracted from http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/amazing-life-lessons-you-can-learn-from.html – read the original article for insightful comments on each lesson!)
also titled: “Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein: Part Deux”
Posted by admin on under Albert Einstein Quotes, Quotes, Web links |
1. Follow Your Curiosity
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
2. Perseverance is Priceless
“It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
3. Focus on the Present
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
4. The Imagination is Powerful
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
5. Make Mistakes
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
6. Live in the Moment
“I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
7. Create Value
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
8. Don’t Expect Different Results
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
9. Knowledge Comes From Experience
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
10. Learn the Rules and Then Play Better
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
(Extracted from: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/10-amazing-lessons-albert-einstein.html – read the original article for insightful comments on each lesson!)
Posted by admin on under Elizabeth Blackwell Resources, Videos, Web links |
Well this certainly is fun. Hope you enjoy this video tribute to Elizabeth Blackwell and her quest to be a doctor!
“Doctor” by Jonathan Sprout
http://www.youtube.com/jonsprout36#p/u/0/tC0Bv2K9Nto
Oh yeah, be sure to watch more of Mr. Sprout’s work on his YouTube channel.
Or , you can find other videos about Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, including this one!
