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From Financial Learning to Life Long Learning

For the longest time I’ve struggled with managing my personal finances and have searched for different ways to balance between earning, spending and saving. I was on facebook a few months ago reading through posts from groups I’m in and one of the group members mentioned the Financial Peace university and that she’s enrolled in a class and learning how to manage her personal finances. I didn’t…

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Learning from Experiences

(Originally Written June, 2020)

We go through life learning from experiences we encounter and making small, sometimes large and visible changes to our personalities and behavior. These learnings are worth sharing with each other so we can all benefit and become the leaders to whom we look up.

We're not the people we were born, nor are we the people we were a few or even a year ago. Our thought processes change, and so does how we react to things and how we conduct ourselves.

The interactions we have throughout our lives whether with another human being, a situation, a problem, or a decision bring us to a halt and hopefully we rethink how we do things and make improvements. Change in this example is good and needed so we can continue evolving into more intelligent, more reasonable human beings who care about each other before we start thinking about ourselves and our things.

We have to learn from experiences and if we don't, what is the point of going through a struggle if we don't come out with a new finding that will help us become better people?

There are always second and third and fourth chances so let's take advantage of what life has to offer and see it as a privilege and not another problem!

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Classroom Expecrulation: What Exactly are they?

We hear many teachers and schools talk about classroom rules. Teachers demand that students follow the rules they have set in their classroom. How many of us have heard a teacher or a principal ask students questions like “are you following the rules?,” “how many times have we gone over the classroom rules?,” or “how many times have I told you to follow the rules?.”

The answer to the question is too many times. The fact of the matter is, adults break rules daily knowing fully they have broken the rules. You want examples?

Speeding, sharing a Netflix account, not washing hands after using the restroom, cutting in line, to name a few.

We expect children ages 4-18 to remember a set of rules we set up in the classroom and follow them everyday of the year. The better question is what are we the adults doing to help these children remember and follow the rules?

If it takes us an amount of time to practice, remember and follow a set of rules I think we should give children a break. As they’re growing, there is so much they’re exposed to and are constantly in the process of learning about their world. How do they learn you might ask? By observing everything around them, INCLUDING WHAT WE DO.

So let’s ask again, what are the adults doing to help these children remember and follow the rules? ~ Here is my answer to the question:

Change the name to expectations – rules are meant to be broken and have a negative connotation

Build the expectations together as ONE learning community instead of imposing your expectations on to them

Keep them simple and easy to remember – there is so much they have to remember already. Plus it is easier for you to remember and implement

Model, rehears, practice, repeat – for how long? As long as it takes. It is a process not a one time thing and done.

Praise the positive – It will take everyone’s attention and focus it on the positive that’s going on instead of singling out the unwanted behavior. Children copy what they see, remember? Let them see something positive. From you and from the students who are doing the positive

Finally, have fun learning with your students!

Oh, what are expecrulations? It’s just a word I made up to catch your attention and get you thinking. And it’s obviously a mix between rules and expectations. There is no magic powder. There is only magic US.