Never Dis-appointed!

1 28 07 Bishop Carelton Leonard preaching at Mountaintop – These few notes are offered in obedience and hope that they will meet you where the need is.
2 Chronicles 20:17 Victory Without Conflict
“Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, [...]

Challenge & Opportunity

The challenge / opportunity is to do effectively more than one thing at a time, consciously. Un or subconsciously, we are multi-tasking all the time, but to multi-task consciously raises the bar quite a bit. I feel stymied when I attempt to tease out of my daily teaching life the several strands of activities, and [...]

Winning the War

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.” Kurt Hahn, Outward Bound
I write that quote with the intention of copying yesterday’s free writing below and uploading it to wordpress. Instead, what happens [...]

Favor!

Hallelujah!
God is to be praised. From the man on the bus who began reading aloud scriptures related to parents and children to the simple searching of my luggage to navigating a new bus connection that dropped me within a parking lot of the hotel to receiving the hotel room at the old price in the [...]

Retention Pre-Assignments

Today’s Field Experience journal entry will be short. I hope to do a few phone interviews today with relevant members of the retention program at CCSN today. Though Dr. C didn’t ask for solutions, in my table (Obstacles and Workarounds for Action Research on Retention) I included a column for ‘workarounds’. When I ask students [...]

Change by Consensus vs. Mandated Change

Okay, while reading the assigned chapter, light dawned on marble head: the change we set out to study should be ‘needed’. Why this only now occurs to me as Ohio State and Florida square off, I know not but it does put a damper on this morning’s revelation. I can’t have students survey peers about [...]

Does objectivity exist?

“Descartes argued, human beings would be able to understand the world in an unbiased way, unaffected by the imperfections of their sensorial organs.”
I disagree w/ Descartes if I understand this as his suggestion that ‘objectivity’ is possible. I believe even math and ‘science’ are coloured by personal experience and expectation and that there is [...]

What is Action Research?

Okay, so I’ve read a bit about, on and around the topic in assigned and surfed resources, but I keep thinking it seems suspiciously close to service learning. I mean, Thomas Deans uses some of the same language: some degree of risk, partnership, collaboration, participatory democracy, critical consciousness, competencies, reflection, learning from each other. About [...]

To Edit or Not to Edit

That is the question. Maybe I’ll wait till a better question comes along. What I wrote last night was so random I didn’t post but that’s how the question arose. Do I sculpt each post or just let the chips fly? Alternately curious minds want to know.

Against Indifference

I’d already turned out the lights on the first day of the new year, knowing I’d have fewer hours to sleep than usual and that I intended to make the best of the day that would begin at 4:20 a.m. when the thought occurred to me: how many people consider something for 20-odd years before [...]