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Oh, Betsy!

1/16/2018

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Did she or didn't she make the first flag in response to a request by George Washington?  Was she a simple seamstress, or was her life more complex?  Elizabeth "Betsy" Griscom-Ross-Ashburn-Claypoole was widowed twice, a young lady each time.
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(Liberty) Bell Work

How many candles would be
on Betsy's cake, ​this year?

Birthday:  January 1, 1752
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How many words can you make
from the letters in her name?
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B E T S Y   R O S S
Take a moment to view the online virtual tour of the Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia.
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Art Appreciation

Here's the famous painting (right) of Betsy Ross presenting her new flag.

  • What do you notice?
  • What do you wonder?
  • What is happening?
  • Write your thoughts.
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Blindness

Betsy was blind for three years when she died peacefully in her sleep, on January 30, 1836.  She was 84 years old.

Imagine doing everyday tasks without the gift of sight. How would your life be different than it is right now?  Discuss.
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Upholstery "R" Us

Betsy Ross's business was upholstery.  In addition to this, she made and sold curtains, bedcovers, tablecloths, rugs, umbrellas and Venetian blinds.

We will take time to make a Venetian blind art project of our own.

Sewing a Flag?

No one knew of Betsy Ross sewing the first American flag until her grandson told the story in 1870.  Read the account for yourself.

Watch the video below and try your hand at making one of Betsy's one-snip, five-point stars.
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Good Doctor Rush

1/15/2018

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Allow me to introduce you to one of the founding fathers of the United States of America.  Dr. Benjamin Rush was a deeply religious man who contributed to many areas of the early years of our nation.

He criticized General George Washington's leadership skills during the Revolutionary War, and some claim it was Rush's bilious pills that killed George Washington in 1799.

Rush had bold opinions.  Thomas Paine consulted Dr. Rush when writing his persuasive pamphlet Common Sense.

Notable is the fact that Benjamin Rush was a doctor who made aggressive prescriptions for his patients, both for their physical ailments and for their mental/emotional ones.
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(LIBERTY) BELL WORK

How many candles would be
on Benjamin's cake, ​this year?

Birthday:  January 4, 1746
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How many words can you make
from the letters in his name?
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B E N J A M I N   R U S H
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He Signed

There it is:  one of the 56 signatures from the bottom of the Declaration of Independence.  Dr. Benjamin Rush signed that document, identifying himself as one of the traitors to the English crown.  Rush's signature is just one of the bold decisions made by this incredible man.
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BloodLetting

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It seems that the word Benjamin Rush was unafraid and unapologetic in his methods and beliefs.  Dr. Rush was certainly a proponent of bloodletting.

The idea behind bloodletting it that if enough of the diseased blood was removed from the body, the body could better fight the remaining disease.  On the surface, it made sense.  Even the traditional barber pole tells the story of when barbers extracted teeth and performed bloodletting on their customers.

It also played into the thinking of the time that the more products of the body that could be let, the better.  Rush devised pills that forced a body into thunderous bouts of diarrhea.  He wanted a sick body to relieve itself of all the urine, bile, vomit, and sweat as possible.  In this way, all the evil spirits would also leave the body.

Finally, Dr. Rush was a surgeon.  On that note, we have a task ahead of us that also involves surgery.  Get ready to enter the operating room!

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He Taught

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Dr. Rush trained thousands of future physicians, but perhaps his most well-known student was Meriwether Lewis who was soon to lead the first scientific expedition funded by the United States.

Among other medicines, fifty dozen of Dr. Rush's Thunderclappers found their way into Lewis's medical "bag".  These bilious pills had enough mercury in them that archeologists have been able to trace the Corps of Discovery's trail to the west and discovery exact locations for their overnight camps - by finding their latrines along the way.

Some questions:
  • How many is fifty dozen?
  • What is a latrine?
  • Define bilious.
  • Why were Rush's pills known as Thunderclappers and Thunderbolts?
Read more about Medicine and Health on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Discuss

Some people would condemn Dr. Rush for his medical beliefs and subsequent practices.  Are charges like these justified?
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Yellow Fever

Perhaps Dr. Rush's views of expelling disease are most obvious in his treatment during the Yellow Fever epidemic.
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SmallPox

In a time before people were accustomed to getting vaccinations to avoid diseases, Dr. Rush was heralding such actions.  How frightening is it to consider purposely putting a bit of the unwanted disease into the body to force the body to fight it.  Then, the body could forever resist the same disease.  We will talk more about his treatment of smallpox later in the year.
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Father of American Psychiatry

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Rush used what he knew (or thought he knew) about the body and the circulation of blood to focus his attention on the mind.  As an aside, Rush created the primary source (right) to display his beliefs about alcohol's effects on mood and emotion.

Dr. Rush's interests led him to create many methods for treating people who would today be diagnosed with insanity, autism, Down's Syndrome, and other issues. Some of his methods were highly unorthodox; many even seem inhumane.

As unbelievable as these methods are, they were the precursors to the methods used today in clinics, schools, and special facilities.  And today, for his work and research, Dr. Benjamin Rush is known the Father of American Psychiatry.  The Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, is a testament to the work of Dr. Rush and others and their attempts to understanding mental inefficacies.
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Music Appreciation

Enjoy these songs as you try to find their connections to Dr. Benjamin Rush.
Fix You
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Try Everything
Proud
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When We Stand Together
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My Place in the Human Race

1/14/2018

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This has been updated from a previous post.

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​I stood on the spot where former slaves Dred Scott and his wife listened to a judge tell them they were still only the property of an owner.

I visited the birthplace and childhood home of scientist and educator George Washington Carver.
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I stood in a parking lot, looking upward to the hotel balcony where Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and I traced the path of the bullet that killed him.

I drove down Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, site of the 2014 race riots following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for his shooting of an African American.

I walked a street in Baltimore, Maryland, where I was the only white man among hundreds of people of color, only to be told by workers at the local tourism office that I should not be there and that I should return to my hotel room immediately.

I visited the Springfield, Illinois, location of race riots that spawned the development of the NAACP.

I touched the stair rail in Abraham Lincoln's house and wondered of the emotion that compelled him to pen the Emancipation Proclamation.


Still, I find it very hard to wrap my mind around what some people think is fair.  We play with that word in class, as I try to make students understand that Life is not fair, but that we should try to treat other people with fairness.

No, I do not understand the idea of "live and let die", "kill for revenge, or hatred of any kind; instead, I try to understand my own responsibilities. I control my own actions and reactions.

I know that it is acceptable to love myself without selfish pride, but that I must also love and respect my neighbor.  I understand that I can be wrong, but that I can learn from my mistakes and make changes in my life.

I understand that facts, vocabulary, and speech content do matter. I believe that attitudes can be transparent, but that perceptions are not always true.

I know that I must avoid all forms of idolatry, whether in the form of sports, celebrity worship, material pride, or racism. I understand that people are bull-headed and difficult to positively persuade, while at the same time they are soft and easily tempted to engage in destructive activities.  I am under the impression that I can easily to go along with a crowd in order to avoid conflict, but that in doing so I may cause another conflict. I know that I should treat other people the way I want to be treated. I know it is not as much the way I act, but the way I react to the hazards and detours in life that make me the person I am.

I must train my conscience to make the right decisions, train my children to do the same, and respectfully influence neighbors and strangers to adopt mannerly attitudes. I teach. I preach. I write. I speak. I engage the community.

But my struggle remains: that communication gap that I have with people who do not understand me. While I sit with a quizzical expression on my face, not understanding irrational racists, violent religionists, and disrespectful separatists, I must understand communication is a two-lane highway, and people often do not understand me either.

How do we speak each other's language?  How do we bridge the communication gap?

How do we understand driving emotion?  Irrational fear?  Uncontrolled anger?  Raging hatred?

What part do I have to play?  As a parent?  As a husband?  As a teacher?  As a servant?  As a man?  As a Christian?

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I stood at Geronimo's grave.

I visited Crazy Horse's monument.

I walked on the Trail of Tears.

I explored Anasazi ruins.

I climbed a Mississippian mound.


I danced with Sioux Indians in Colorado.

I visited the Cherokee Nation Headquarters.

I have walked with the Chickasaw.


But proximity does not always translate to understanding. All I can do is my best to treat people like people, brothers like brothers, and every human being like a member of the single, human race.  After all, aren't we all just different shades of the same color?

Sometimes I don't know how to address my students around the topics of slavery, Civil War, Civil rights, and modern racial-charged accusations (sometimes as thick  in the air as mosquitos).  We look at history, we learn from the mistakes of others, and we try to understand even the most irrational.  There are antecedents - causes, origins.  And thought they are ugly and sometimes irrational, they are important to understand.  May we not be too shy or too fearful to learn about them, to learn from them, and to physically distance ourselves from them.

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Benjamin Franklin, Jack of All Trades

1/13/2018

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Benjamin Franklin is a unique specimen in the history of the United States.  Always the eccentric, Franklin carved quite a legacy among many strong personalities.  He is a founding father of a different ilk.  Where others were statesmen, Franklin was a charmer.  When others were innovators, He cut new trails.  While others were writers, Franklin had a bold voice that was heard beyond the words in a pamphlet.
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(Liberty) Bell Work

How many candles would be
on Ben's cake, ​this year?

Birthday:  January 17, 1706
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How many words can you make
from the letters in his name?
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B E N J A M I N   F R A N K L I N
Continue your day with this introductory article to the man on our $100 bills.

Analyze the painting, Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.  Notice the details.
​What do you notice about the painting?  What questions come to mind?

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Discussion Quotes

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Liberty's Kids

Franklin's Spark

We will use a portion of the materials at this link to accompany this video:  Franklin's Spark:  Student Educational Materials.  Check out the extensive collection of  Philadelphia materials at History of Philly.

an Electric Personality

It's high time we learned about electricity in our class. What is it?  How does it work?  How is it tamed?  We will use a couple of days in our class to investigate forms of electricity that Benjamin Franklin could only dream of.  Go to our Electrical Circuits page for more.
​In addition, take some time out to answer some lingering questions in this Wonderopolis article:  Who Discovered Electricity?

Go Fly a Kite...

...But do not fly one in a storm!  What do you say, we make our own kites to decorate the classroom?  Let's think about which Franklin Facts we should include on your kite and what "tales" of fiction to place on the tail.

Ink in His Veins

Let's try to partially replicate the printing process that Franklin seemed to enjoy so much.
When I was in high school, I went into the newspaper business, even owning my own community paper for a while - collecting advertising, interviewing eyewitnesses, photographing sporting events, regularly visiting with the chief of police, laying out and pasting up the paper, delivering it to the printer, and distributing it.  It was definitely hard work, and I learned much from my mistakes.  Let me share my crude results with the class.  What do you notice about my papers?  What do you wonder?

Mood Music

Allow the music of Franklin's Armonica to transport you into a scene that has yet to be written.  Draw the scene as you listen.  Then write, using all the visual imagery you can muster.

Music Appreciation

Here are some Music Appreciation videos to help with your reading fluency (and they might even roughly apply to lessons learned from Benjamin Franklin):
Building Better Worlds
​Live Like We're Dying
Song on Fire
When We Stand Together

He Signed 'Em

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Our friend, Franklin, was one of the founders the United States of America.  A key figure in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin also signed the Constitution of the United States, making him one of only six people to sign both documents.

Ben & Me

Here's a different account of this interesting figure.  This cartoon is an example of how our history has been "romanticized" through the years, making it appear that everything happened with positive grandeur and leaving the dirty realities by the wayside.  Still, Ben & Me is a classic that hits many of the highlights of Benjamin Franklin's life.

Inventing the Future

Benjamin Franklin was a man ahead of his time, often inventing items that filled massive needs for the people.  From bifocals to the Franklin Stove, BF was a visionary with a knack for solving problems.  Take a look at our Tomorrow's Technology Today page for some inventions that are arriving on the scene for the 21st Century.  Are they worthy of the same kind of recognition as Franklin's inventions?  Do these inventions fill gaps in our needs, or are they merely luxuries that we could do without?

Fire!

Franklin came up with the Volunteer Fire Department concept as a better response to the fires in Philadelphia. We will work through an active bucket brigade activity in teams to try to put out a fire.

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Can Kids Be Inventors, Too?​
​Can You Make Music with Water Glasses?

​What Are Prosthetics?
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Why Do We Change the Clocks Twice a Year?
Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

Robotic Timeline

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In your group, use markers and a code key to create a timeline about Benjamin Franklin (Make sure you take the time to plan your route first!).  Ask the teacher to place an Ozobot on your timeline.  Use the Seesaw app to record the Ozobot following your line, and narrate what is happening as the robot passes each point on your line.

Your Turn

We will now proceed to "invent" some creations for ourselves, using K'Nex building materials.​
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Motion and Design:  Vvvrooom

1/12/2018

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Teams tried their hands at making a vehicle from a technical drawing.  Each team seemed to misread parts of the drawing and had to adjust the manufacturing process to reflect their closer looks.
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Motion and Design:  Construction Toys

1/11/2018

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We're using K'Nex building toys to begin a unit about motion and design.  This will be about the science of energy, weight, and friction, and their relationships.  Typically this has the potential to be a rather loud and active time in our day, so we've reserved the last part of the day for completing these tasks.  In future lessons, there will be more direction, but for this first day, we just had two instructions:  build something and stay safe.
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Quote:  Curiosity

1/10/2018

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"The world is so big
and I want to have
a good look at it
​before it gets dark."

(John Muir)
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The Spelling Bee is Coming

1/9/2018

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It's time for the annual Spelling Bee - one more opportunity for students to exhibit their great knowledge and abilities.  It's also one more opportunity to feel the butterflies of nervous tension as we put those skills to the test.

Maybe it should be called a Spelling Butterfly.

A number of years ago, one of our Hoggatteers went the distance to earn first place in the areawide Spelling Bee sponsored by the Joplin Globe.  MICHELLE continues to succeed as a college graduate and as an adult (She is the third from the right, on the front row, in the photo above.).

For students who wish to study and practice for the Bee on their own, the official 2018 lists are located on the Joplin Globe's Spelling Bee webpage.

Our class will begin practicing and identifying finalists who will carry our metaphorical banner to compete with other fourth and fifth grade students from our school.  From there, the champion will be eligible to compete in the areawide competition, usually held during Spring Break.

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Valley Forge

1/8/2018

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One of the most interesting figures of the Revolutionary War is not a founding father.  He was not a general, a governor, or a legislator; instead he was a simple soldier in the Continental army.  Joseph Plumb Martin enlisted when he was 15, spent eight years in the military, and published his memoirs when he was seventy.  His recorded memories of the war have been called one of the most interesting primary sources about the Revolution.

(Liberty) Bell Work

How many candles would be
on Joseph's cake, ​this year?

Birthday:  November 21, 1760
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How many words can you make
from the letters in his name?
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J  O  S  E  P  H      P  L  U  M  B
​M  A  R  T  I  N
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During the winter of 1777 to 1778, Washington camped with his troops at Valley Forge, nearly twenty miles north of Philadelphia. Images of bloody footprints in the snow, soldiers huddled around lonely campfires, and Washington on his knees, praying that his army might survive often come to mind when people hear the words "Valley Forge."
Read the whole article
​from Mount Vernon's website.

Valley Forge In4 from Mount Vernon on Vimeo.

Art Appreciation

Here's the famous painting of George Washington at Valley Forge.
  • What do you notice?
  • What do you wonder?
  • What is happening?
  • Write your thoughts.
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Food on the March

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Let It Snow

It might seem like the better-known battles involving George Washington and the Revolutionary War occurred in the winter.  We often imagine of bloody footprints, frostbite, and illness.  Supplies were low and slow to arrive, and baby, it was cold outside, making it even harder for the soldiers under General Washington to be away from home.

​This year, we might long for a Snow Day away from school, but Snow Days in the classroom can be exciting, too.
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Music Appreciation

​I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
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One More

1/7/2018

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BROOKLYN has joined the ranks of our Multiplication Masters for this school year, earning her third 100% score on a timed quiz.  This makes eight students who have achieved mastery status thus far.

Two others are inching their way upward, as well.  Hopefully I will be reporting their names soon. 

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Quote:  Character

1/6/2018

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"The more you hate,
the more you die."

(Harold Somers, artist, Holocaust survivor)
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New Year, New Topics

1/5/2018

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It's a new year - a new semester - and our class has hit the ground running (I'm exhausted after the first day back!).  As Missouri's standards shift, this will be the last year for fourth graders to learn state history; next year, our focus will be on the colonial history of the United States, including discussion of our founding documents.
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That said, this part of Missouri history is also United States history, so it's not a stretch to focus on both for a little while with the intention of going deeper into the Corps of Discovery, otherwise known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition.  I love this era of our past, so hopefully I can bring it to life for my students.

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We'll begin our new science unit, as well, which is full of some interesting engineering and design aspects, while considering physics.
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Innovator's Mindset:  Resiliency and Grit

1/4/2018

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I pulled some thoughts out of the first part of The Innovator's Mindset that seem to provide some important thoughts regarding a relatively new idea in education - or at least an idea that seems to have caught fuel in recent years.

One memorable quote coming out of the Apollo 13 debacle is, "Failure is not an option!"  I had a poster on my classroom wall that expressed that thought; somehow that poster became a casualty of the May 2011 EF5 tornado that carved through Joplin, probably a victim of water damage.

Regardless, when reading more and more about Growth Mindset and books that support the research of Growth Mindset, I came to believe that the idea the Failure Is Not an Option should be restated to indicate that failure should be an option after all.  My thoughts in this area, of course, continue to evolve as I synthesize the things I read and experience.  For example, Author George Couros points out:

A mantra that's often repeated when we talk about innovation in education is that failure is an important part of the process.  In some respects, it's true.  Unfortunately, this line of thinking can place a focus on the wrong aspect of the process.  Those who stress the importance of failure as part of the innovation process tend to focus on failure.  They'll point to stories about inventors like James Dyson, the inventor of the Dyson vacuum...
His idea is that Dyson failed many times, but that he is one of only a few vacuum innovators that can be mentioned by name - only because he succeeded in the end.  That convinces me, once again, to change my thoughts; once again, Failure Is Not an Option.  Couros does not make the same distinction that I do, but I think that's just a matter of semantics.
Having the freedom to fail is important to innovation.  But even more important to the process are the traits of resiliency and grit.  Resiliency is the ability to come back after a defeat or unsuccessful attempt.  Grit is resolve or strength of character.  These two characteristics need to be continuously developed as we look for new and better ways to serve our students...

...Understanding failure happens but also not accepting failure as a result is paramount in serving our students...
I rather like to make the distinction between making mistakes and accepting failure.  We will still identify and own plenty of mistakes in our classroom, but with the idea that we will not give up.  In short, Failure Is Not an Option...but Making Mistakes Is.  The vacuum inventors who gave up when they failed are not known by name.  Dyson is only known by name because he overcame his mistakes and did not accept failure.

The problem is that people - students, parents, and educators alike - do not understand the power of experiencing failure and then blowing it away by overcoming the mistakes that resulted in failure.  Too often, we accept failure as the end-all of our development.  We have to change our grit in order to development more successful innovators.
Aside from concerns expressed by colleagues, you may face pushback on new ideas from your students...School can easily become a checklist for our students (complete homework, tests, rubrics, graduation requirements, etc.).  In contrast to multiple choice tests, learning that focuses on creation and powerful connections to concepts not only takes more effort but also more time.  Yet, if we do not challenge our students in their learning experiences, we aren't truly preparing them for the real world...The school environment is the perfect place to challenge and encourage them to stretch their thinking; and it's a safe place for them to try, fail, and try again.
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Hoggattism:  Failure

1/3/2018

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Failure is not an option.
Making mistakes is an option,
but failure is not.
​(D. Ed. Hoggatt)
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Act with Integrity

1/1/2018

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George Washington's character was to set a good public example for the people in his charge.
Take some time to watch this video:
Now for some questions:
  • ​Why is it important to have good discipline in an organization?
  • What does it mean to lead from the front?  to lead from the rear?
  • Would things be different for the United States if Washington had been king instead of president?
  • Can one person have too much power?  too much influence?
  • Define integrity.
  • Should a leader set a good example for the people s/he leads?  Why might this be important?
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    by D. Ed. Hoggatt

    Crumbling Spirit
    by D. Ed. Hoggatt

    Echo by Pam Nuñoz Ryan

    Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

    Holes by Louis Sachar

    The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

    Loser by Jerry Spinelli

    Love That Dog
    by Sharon Creech

    Mumsket
    by D. Ed. Hoggatt

    Out of the Dust
    by Karen Hesse

    Out of the Wind
    by D. Ed. Hoggatt

    Petey by Ben Mikaelsen

    Ramona the Pest
    by Beverly Cleary

    Stone Fox
    by John Reynolds Gardiner

    There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar

    Touching Spirit Bear
    by Ben Mikaelsen

    Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

    Yankee Girl
    by Mary Ann Rodman
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    Past Experiences

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    December 2012
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    Administrators

    Superintendent
    Dr. Melinda Moss

    Assistant Superintendents
    Dr. Ron Lankford
    ​Dr. Kerry Sachetta
    Mrs. Sarah Mwangi

    Principal

    Mr. Chris Bozarth

    Assistant Principal
    Mr. Nathan Stewart
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    Procedures

    Links to external sites
    on the internet are for convenience only.

    No endorsement or approval of any content, products, or services is intended.

    Opinions on sites are not necessarily shared
    by Mr. Hoggatt
    or Joplin Schools.
    (In fact, sometimes
    Mr. Hoggatt doesn't agree with anyone.)

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