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 Ten years ago, I left the classroom to become a salesperson.  I discovered that the two professions are not as different as you might imagine, with the caveat that not everyone who is a good teacher can be successful in sales.
As a teacher, you must interact with different kinds of people (students, parents, administrators and fellow [...]

This is a different kind of book –  a non-fiction piece that encourages teens not to treat adolescence as a vacation from responsibility but to rebel against the low expectations set upon them by society.
Do Hard Things was written by 19-year old twins Alex and Brett Harris, and is Amazon.com’s top-selling youth ministry title.
Say the authors, ” Most people [...]

“There are neither ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only men who are attempting, together to learn more than they now know.”    – Paulo Freire
 
 
 
The starting point of any educational process lies with the philosophy held by the educator. Perhaps there is no more important aspect to the teacher-learner relationship, because the working philosophy of the teacher [...]

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