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Leadership Literature (Brief Discoveries: How were you stretched to think…

- - - - I thought a lot about accessibility throughout this text. Language is power, and we can make the classroom environment feel inaccessible through word choice. It may be easy to refer to Trump as any number of names , ut doing so distances him from ourselves so we cannot learn as much, or understand his "why." We need to understand the "why" to write society past it. And students who are working through these issues may fee they "aren't allowed" to think or discuss certain things, which can be harmful. If I describe everyone who opposes DACA as "horrible, ugly racists," then how is a child, who is trying to understand, going to feel comfortable bringing up the subject without fear? Accessibility also has to do with the writing itself. Pipher suggests writing only a bit ahead of the reader, so they feel as if they were on the cusp of the same thoughts. Too far ahead, and a writer may never see the benefits in their lifetime; but hold the reader's hand a little too tightly, and they may fee insulted. The Way a writer's work is received and accessibility has a to to do with the language we use. -LiHand
      - I think about the tension I feel at times with my temperament and the demands of being social in the school environment. Quiet by Susan Cain helped me to see that in the name of passion projects, some limitations can be surpassed. I can indeed be satisfied in this work and acknowledge my nature at the same time. And in doing so, I can aid in supporting other introverts in the classroom, and help subvert the Extrovert Ideal that pushes a lot of people away. -Logann
- - - - Throughout our time in the program, we've spent a great deal of time talking about what we should really be trying to help our students accomplish as the final result of our teaching. If you had asked me as a student what I thought I was supposed to get out of my final paper or project for an English class, I honestly probably would have said being better at reading books and writing papers. And truth be told, neither of those are exactly incorrect answers. But at the same time, our goals as educators go beyond just those two things. Those are merely the starting points. As English educators, we find ourselves with the heavy and marvelous job of helping our students learn to think critically, using mentor texts as a means to jump right in. Pink's Drive couldn't have come at a better time for me, explaining why our current model of motivation is deeply flawed, than now, when we have begun our practicum experiences. I have already begun to notice efforts by our cooperating teacher to dispel the myth that English class is only about the final product, and instead aims for our students to learn from the process by which they reach their final papers that they turn in. These combined experiences really give me a lot to think about how I'm going to handle grading in the future, and make me stop and think long and hard about "what do I hope my students get from this experience?" - Brandon Schuman
      - The Gifts of Imperfection focuses mainly on improving your own lifestyle through living wholeheartedly. While the book didn’t focus directly on teaching, it can be so beneficial for educators. Education is a profession with one of the highest burn out rates. If we can’t take care of ourselves mentally and emotionally, we will not be able to be our best selves for our students. By not overworking ourselves we can give more energy and attention to our students. Furthermore, when we accept ourselves we can better accept others. This applies to our students as well. We will have students with many different backgrounds, personalities, and abilities. While we may connect more with some students than others, this self acceptance and wholeheartedness Brown discusses helps us foster more acceptance and compassion for all our students.
        -Sara
      - I feel like I've always been sensitive to the needs of introverted students- as I myself was (and still am, to an extent) fairly shy in a classroom setting. However, reading Quiet really taught me off all the boons of introversion. I always viewed introversion -my own included- to be an inherently negative trait. Quiet has opened my eyes to how capable and beneficial being introversion can be; rather than viewing it as something to work past, I view it now as something to work with. It's also opened my eyes to how much damage teachers can unintentionally cause their own quieter students by heavily structuring curriculum and classroom activities to favor extroversion. As future teachers, hopefully we can make our classroom a safe haven for introverts and extroverts alike.
        -Donald
- - - - "Comparison is the thief of happiness." (Brown, 95)
        -Sara
- - - - "We need to understand these trends and influences, but I find it far more helpful, and even transformative in many instances, to look at the patterns of behaviors through the lens of vulnerability.
        "For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose. Sometimes the simple act of humanizing problems sheds an important light on them, a light that often goes out the minute a stigmatizing label is applied" (Brown 23).
        
        "We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education/ The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind you've been granted. Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to wonderland- but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own."
        -Quiet by Susan Cain (pg.266) Abby M
        
        "Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart" (Brown, pg. 20)
        
        "The Wholehearted journey is not the path of least resistance It's a path of consciousness and choice" (Brown, pg 21)
        
        "If we want to live and love with our whole herts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way--especially shame, fear, and vulnerability." (Brown, pg. 36-
        
        "The silence thing can be effective. It's a pain in the ass, but nonetheless effective" (Brown, pg. 106)
        
        "In addition to practicing self-compassion, and trust me like gratitude and everything else worth while, it's a practice, we must also remember that our worthiness, that core belief that we are enough comes only when we life inside our story. We either own our stories, even the messy ones, or we stand outside of them denying our vulnerabilities and imperfections, orphaning the parts of us that don't fit in or who/what we think were suppose to be and hustling for other peoples' approval of our worthiness. Perfectionism is exhausting because hustling is exhausting. It's a never-ending performance." - Brene Brown (chapter 6) Alison
        
        " So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way."
        
        Quiet by Susan Cain (173)
    - - "All our lives and futures depend on people mastering a vast range of practical abilities and skills." (Creative Schools Robinson, 2015, pg. 77)
        "there's a difference between the formal curriculum and the informal curriculum-- (pg 131)
        "There are those who move: the change agents who can see the shape of a different future and are determined to bring it about through their own actions and by working with others. They know that they don't always need permission." (pg. 251)
        -Allycia
    - - Susan Cain's Quiet
        
        "Little believes that fixed traits and free traits coexist. According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits--introversion for example--but we can and do act out of character in the service of 'core personal projects'." (Cain 209) Logann
        
        "I don't believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee.... Work alone. You're going to be best able to design revolutonary products and features if you're working on your own." -Steve Wosniak (Cain, 74) Logann
        
        "The conformists showed less activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem." (Cain, 89-90) Logann