Educators Among Us

Scott Barron discusses the damage that assumptions can play in relationships and how to avoid the pitfalls.

Quotes:

Alan Alda: "Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

Henry Winkler: "Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

Igor Stravinsky: "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to assume the best of others today?

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Scott Barron discusses the value of personal reinvention that can accompany a new school year.

Quotes:

Maya Angelou: "Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise."

Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

Henry David Thoreau: "I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to start fresh today?

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Scott Barron discusses the "nevers" that we should let go of and the ones we should hang onto.

Quotes:

Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie): "Never is an awfully long time."

Aldous Huxley: "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."

Henri Frederic Amiel: "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to never ever lose heart today?

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Scott Barron opens with this video of Herbie Hancock discussing a time he made music with Miles Davis to show how essential it is to be able to adapt to changing situations and the impact it can have on others.

Quotes:

Soren Kierkegaard: "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

Vivian Greene: "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to adapt for the greater good today?

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Scott Barron delves into the complexities of the human mind and touches on the things that nourish our spirit and make us more inspired educators.

Quote:

John Steinbeck: "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to inspire mind and spirit today?

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Scott Barron discusses the value of being an educator who faces anxiety head on and maintains a healthy perspective about it.

Quotes:

Corrie Ten Boom: "Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength—carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

Henry Ward Beecher: "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to practice healthy thinking today?

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Scott Barron discusses the challenges school environments can present and how to face them with confidence.

Quotes:

John F. Kennedy: "We do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Bible Verse:

Proverbs 29:18: "Where there is no vision, the people perish."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to do the hard things today?

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The role joy plays in our lives and the value of celebrating it in a school setting is the topic of this podcast.

Quotes:

Pearl S. Buck: "To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."

Saint Ignatius: "We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life."

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to love and lead with joy today?

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Scott discusses the ways that pressure can be a positive motivator - for educators and other professionals, as well.

Quotes:

Billie Jean King: Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Andrei Tarkovsky: An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to turn pressure into positive energy?

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Scott discusses the factors that go into being the top pick in on the team - educational and otherwise.

Bible Verse:

I Corinthians 9:25 - Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

Coaching Question:

Did I do my best to grow as a top pick today?

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