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Rubric: The rubric is an essential tool for maintaining transparency for students at Manor. Teachers carefully design rubrics to define all the desired learning outcomes for a project, including which state standards students are expected to master and how performance will be measured for each outcome. The rubric sets the standard for each project and is presented at the start so that students have clear goals to work toward.

Group contract: Individual accountability is a critical component of successful PBL, and Manor students use group contracts to document expectations for each team member. Each project team writes a contract that clearly defines everyone’s roles, responsibilities, and contributions to the project, and students are held to it. Students can be fired if they do not fulfill their part of the contract and must complete the project on their own, although this rarely happens at Manor.

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You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

Daniel Franzese (via creatingaquietmind)

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Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012.

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You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

Audre Lorde (via transformfeminism)

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world-shaker:

One area where I’m fairly good at keeping students focused on the purpose of an activity is during labs. A trick I use to do this is called a “Hot Report” (a strategy I adapted from this research). At the start of a lab, I distribute a half sheet of paper to each group. After my students have had some time to figure out what they need to do, but not enough time to dig themselves into a huge hole, I ring a bell. The students stop what they’re doing and fill out the report. I modify it based on the lab, but it always includes these three prompts.

(via How to Focus Students on a Lesson’s Purpose)

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Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.

Stefan Sagmeister (via kari-shma)

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May 30

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Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your level of enthusiasm measures up to others. If you like something so much that a casual mention of it makes your whole being light up like a halogen lamp, if hearing a stranger fondly mention your favorite book or game is instant grounds for friendship, if you have ever found yourself bouncing out of your chair because something you learned blew your mind so hard that you physically could not contain yourself — you are a geek

The Mary Sue defines what it means to be a geek — and I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next, don’t be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart… where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again.

Everwood (via julie911)

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