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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated The Leader in Me: How Schools Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time in Books

Jan 15, 2018  
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The Leader in Me: How Schools Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time
Stephen R. Covey | 2008
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
To be honest I knew nothing about TILM until I accepted a new teaching position for next year. The principal is fantastic about including new staff in end of the year communication about prep for next year. One of the things she mentioned is looking for a pilot group to read The Leader in Me & try it out in their rooms. I was skeptical about "adding one more thing"...after 11 years of teaching I've seen more grand ideas & guaranteed fixes come & go. But after reading this I can say this feels different. This isn't a new fad, it's basic skills we should all have &, much like cursive writing, are being pushed aside in our testing culture. The ideas are easy to incorporate & the authors stress easing into it.
But the authors say it best, "In today's global economy, we simply cannot afford to continue waiting until young people receive their first promotion into corporate leadership before we teach them how to get along with others, to set goals, to think ahead. We cannot idly wait for them to become school-teachers, doctors, firefighters, engineers, or parents before we teach them how to organize their lives, to take initiative, or to work in teams. We cannot afford to relax and hope they detect their own worth and potential on their own. They deserve better. They deserve hope. "
  
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Saerie_Faerie (18 KP) rated Black Panther (2018) in Movies

Feb 24, 2018  
Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
2018 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
10
8.3 (283 Ratings)
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African culture (3 more)
Feminist
Story/plot
Actors
Everything I wanted
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This movie is so important, in the nerd culture community and in the societal human community at large especially for America. An entire movie about African life and culture, celebrating and showing and teaching those things unapologetically. An entire movie that is not specifically for teaching anecdotally about African culture but was a movie for something else that saw that there was the opportunity to take it and force it to also be so importantly about the culture behind the superhero.

On top of the wonderful culture, we get amazingly Badass feminist Black women. They take care of themselves, they fight, they run the science department for the entire country, they save themselves, they go out and save the world, they stand up against stupid decisions. Just absolutely amazing.


You also, of course, get all of the amazing superhero moments. Action-packed for the right amount, the plot makes sense and is followable. A twist that is amazing and once you see it you see all of the lead up to it, which is so absolutely wonderful, it doesn't just appear out of nowhere.


I walked out wanting to immediately buy the dvd and watch it again and that was over a week ago. Absolutely stunning and everyone should go see it and fully absorb it and the message it gives.
  
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MaryAnn (14 KP) rated Fruit Flies in Our Faith: Nurturing and Sharing the Fruit of the Spirit in Books

Nov 4, 2019  
Fruit Flies in Our Faith: Nurturing and Sharing the Fruit of the Spirit
Fruit Flies in Our Faith: Nurturing and Sharing the Fruit of the Spirit
Annie Paden | 2018
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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What happens when we let a bowl of pears sit on the counter a bit too long? Mushy fruit and fruit flies!

What happens when we let the Fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23) sit unused? Spiritual Fruit Flies! The Fruit of the Spirit never goes bad but spiritual fruit flies, like worry, temptations, impatience, bad habits, etc. distract us from living out the Spirit’s fruit in our lives.

In Fruit Flies in Our Faith you will learn to:




Listen to the Spirit and begin to recognize the spiritual fruit flies buzzing around you.

Rely on the Spirit to begin to make realistic changes to exterminate those pesky fruit flies.

Experience the wonder of the Spirit’s fruit growing and ripening in your life.

Share the Spirit’s delicious fruit with the world around you.

Focus on what the Spirit is teaching you through your own experiences and stories.


My Thoughts: We certainly know what happens when we don't use fruit, it rots! God has given us fruit to use and use it we must. In this book, the reader will learn to recognize their fruit and to learn to use it before it stagnates.



With lots of good teaching and encouragement, the reader will learn to grow and develop their fruits.



Truly encouraging and inspiring!



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