I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.
We don't need school to be better, we need schools to be really, really different.
We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.
We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.
School is the path, not the point.
This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners.
Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges. " I can tell you, with all certainty, this is not true. I have accomplished things on skis no one thought were physically possible for females.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.
Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.