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May 19, 2010, notes form //Intellectual Character//, by Ron Ritchhart

"You'll regret the things you don't do in life more than the things that you've done wrong." ~ Anonymous

Cover the walls with Math: Math time line around ceiling, vocab with definitions or images in large print and view, different mathematical feats or quandaries

delve into big subject matter: Milo's method of solving 4+9-2*16+1/3*6-67+8*2-3+26-1/34+3/7+2-5=17 to introduce order of operations. assign exploration of PEMDAS, such as why not DEPASM?

Next day: for students who do not finish the assignment, explain no late work will be accepted, and calculate what sort of grades students will need for the rest of the time in order to pass.

Safe classroom: no should feel bad about asking questions, but we should be able to laugh at ourselves No education will happen if the classroom is not safe.

Pictures that indicate who I am.

"A ship in the port is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for."

" The words we have available to us influence the way we think about the world, including the inner world of our own mental life." Shari Tishman and David Perkins (1997, p.37)