Emergency Alert: The U.S. Surgeon General declared an “epidemic of loneliness and isolation.” in 2023. He stated that if we fail to fight back “we will pay an ever-increasing price in the form of our individual and collective health and well-being. And we will continue to splinter and divide until we can no longer stand as a community or a country.”
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“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein
20 years of teaching and coaching taught me how hard-working, talented, creative, and caring the professionals are in our classrooms. These dedicated people understand that they are fighting an uphill battle and are hungry for opportunities to improve this situation for students.
We can make an immediate positive impact by providing tools to help students focus on the “lead” measures instead of the “lag” measures.
What is the difference between the two? The perfect example is…In an academic class, you are trying to earn a good grade, which will not be final for 9 weeks. The most important thing that enables you to achieve a good “lag measure/ grade” are the lead measures.
What are those? Good time management, asking good questions, attention to detail, work ethic, and self-discipline. You might summarize the effort to focus on the lead measures by saying we need to put focus on “strengthening character”.
Why do we need tools to take a systematic approach? Peter Drucker provides the answer in The Effective Executive, “What gets measured gets managed”.
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