This is a picture of my kid with his bike at the age of 3 and 11/12 months: This is a more recent picture of him with his new bike at the age of 4 and 30 seconds: Some pretty major things needed to happen to get from picture #1 to picture #2. For example, [...]
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Milestones
Posted in Assessment, Goals, Kids, Learning, Preschool, tagged Assessment, Goals, kids, Learning, preschool on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What About Jeans On Mondays?
Posted in Adult Learners, Goals, Life, Sleep, Time Management, Work on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why have I not written in PrattleNog lately? Um, work-life balance. (Alas, I’ve written about *that* before.) Why am I posting now? Because TED posted a video with Nigel March about work-life balance that I want to share. Marsh’s main message is comprised of these key points: Achieving work-life balance is up to each of [...]
My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
This Is The Best Road
Posted in Adult Learners, Goals, Higher Education, Learning, Life, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, Learning, Life on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dear Students, Look at this picture. Does this speak to you? If you are like many adult learners in higher education, you may still be trying to figure out what you want to be when you grow up. You may feel that you have traveled many roads already, and you still don’t have a good [...]
This Could Have Been At Marylhurst
Posted in Adult Learners, Goals, Learning, Mentoring & Peer Coaching, Professional Development, tagged adultlearners, coaching, help, highereducation, Learning, Marylhurst, mentor, problemsolving, reflection on March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Remember back a few posts ago when I said that sometimes we need help to learn? And it’s true that most times, as adults, we don’t want to ask for it. Which is silly, right? Right?! RIGHT??!?!?! Well, a student shared this video with our Mentoring and Peer Coaching class last night. She thought it [...]
With Intention
Posted in Adult Learners, Goals, Higher Education, Yoga, tagged adultlearners, Goals, highereducation, intentions, Yoga on March 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As some of you who read this blog know, I practice yoga (and have written about my practice here and here). I emphasize the word practice because it’s ongoing, and I don’t think in yoga you’re actually supposed to get to “perfect” (a concept most yogis I know disregard vehemently, for all sorts of good [...]
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