I cannot believe what I just read.

A parent, concerned about her seventh grade daughter’s fluctuating (dropping) grades asked the question of the school’s guidance counselor only to receive this answer:

“There are a number of reasons for this pattern. First of all, 7th grade is when instruction becomes highly differentiated between skill levels and bright students are much more challenged in class.”

WHAAAT?? This answer is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen published. I cannot believe that someone in education in this day and age would basically tell a mother, “Your daughter is falling behind because she is not one of the bright ones in the class.” WHAT A JOKE!

Parents. Why do you put up with these kind of answers? Do you believe this is true of this particular girl, that she mustn’t be one of the smart ones because her grades are low?

There are so many reasons as to why grades are slipping. Perhaps she has a terrible teacher, that has no idea how to make the subject matter come alive for students. Perhaps the daughter is tired and needs to change her diet in order to have better concentration in class. Perhaps what is considered “bright” is skewed by what tradition tells us bright is.

Or, you know what? Maybe she’s just not that bright.

But I doubt it. In fact I can prove the opposite.

True Potential Found HERE!

I’ve become kind of bored with reading article after article to get at what I want to know.  Yes, I am a little bit of a geeky scholar, so reading is my thing…but, what if I created a new way of representing my work, my ideas in an appealing way?

Would you like it?  I’ll give it a go.

This is a Wordle.  It’s a visual representation of information.  The larger the word is represented, the more important it is as the subject.  I’ll explain.

Here you can see that the words CONFIDENCE & SELF-ESTEEM are the largest, that is because they are the subject of my “article” this week, (as you can see above in the title of my post).  The second set of words, that are all second largest are the important points that lead to confidence and self-esteem.  Those are the words that get explanations in writing, they are the “how to” or the “steps to take” in order to instill confidence in a student/child.  The smallest set of words, are the results of taking these steps.  They are the “what you see” if you have a confident student/child.

To summarize:

Largest words: Topic of this week’s article

Second largest words: The steps you should take to “grow” a confident student/child

Third largest words: The benefits of following the “steps” above

Two parents left my home office this week in tears.  Thank goodness they were tears of gratitude!  We are in the business of changing lives, kid’s lives, for the better.  What a privilege it is for me to meet these awesome children and their parents!

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I cannot believe that these ideas are finally on record as research..  It is so inspiring…

Hard YES.

Awesome FOR SURE!

Enjoy.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

It is really becoming apparent that there are some very harmful trends out there affecting our youth.  Here, author and speaker Michelle Borba speaks to some of these troubling trends.  When will we as a society step in, help parents, coach our youth and expect more from everyone to prevent tragedy…?

http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/01/02/seven-troubling-kid-teens-trends-of-2010/

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Are there other non-academic roadblocks in the way of your child’s progress at school?

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