Angela Maiers Blog

I’m honored, privileged and quite frankly, ecstatic that Classroom Habitudes is now a manifesto on ChangeThis!

Imaginative reading involves more than just getting lost in the text. As readers step into the roles of the characters and move around in their world, the text literally comes alive in their mind. Here is one of the 45 mini-lessons from Classroom Habitude

Close your eyes for just a few minutes and recall your favorite teacher of all time – anyone from kindergarten to graduate school. Now, consider what brought that individual to mind. What about that person made a difference to you or those around you?

I was just getting ready to publish Part Four of my Passion in Education Series. The final topic: Passion as a Difference Maker.

The ability to adapt and think critically. The desire to ask serious questions about ourselves and the world. The ability to analyze complex issues to find answers to those questions. The drive to take intellectual risks.

The guiding intent for all teaching and learning should be - passionization – educating people to become fully alive and empowered as learners and human beings. Loving that new word!

Worldwide there are countless educationalists writing about educational reform but very few spending their time and energy talking about, working on, or addressing passion. Why is that?

This is an excerpt from my book, Classroom Habitudes. The following presentation and mini-lesson is one I share with students in teaching the Habitude of Perseverance. The italicized text in the mini-lesson (below presentation) is what I say to the class.

This is an excerpt from my book, Classroom Habitudes. The following presentation and mini-lesson is one I share with students in teaching the Habitude of Courage. The italicized text in the mini-lesson (below presentation) is what I say to the class.

Just as I was getting ready to post a Classroom Habitudes conversation that I had the pleasure of having with students this past week, I received this e-mail from a teacher: