by Angela Maiers | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog
“If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak.” ~ Umair Haque Passion matters. It is the differentiator and the difference maker. In our quest to be passion driven leaders, we are often advised to “follow our hearts” as the way leads us to our true...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog
I taught kindergarten for one year of my career, and it was an extraordinary year. It was an experience I wish every teacher and leader could have at least a small taste of. There’s something about being around young children; beyond their energy, freshness, and...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog
This post was co-authored by Nora Moran, a student at Northern Highlands High School in New Jersey. April 14th is Leaders for Literacy day, a movement started by the International Literacy Association in 2015 to bring attention to the plight of almost 800 million...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 8, 2021 | Blog
As parents, teachers, students, companies, and society, we emphasize competition. We tell our athletes to “win at all costs.” In business, employees hear “there is no room for failure.” We evaluate our students, and their teachers, primarily on their ability to pass...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 6, 2021 | Blog
I’m honored, privileged and quite frankly, ecstatic(!) that Classroom Habitudes is now a manifesto on ChangeThis! ChangeThis is a site birthed from an idea by Seth Godin and operated by the folks at 1-800-CEO-READ ( click through to download the manfiesto) Among some...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 6, 2021 | Blog
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 Habitudes. Classroom...
