What are you counting?

Looking at what is quantifiable.  We live in a culture that wants to manage what we can qualify with data.  So the choice is easy.  Change what you do? Or find ways to count the uncountable.  Get the data you need to do what you want to do?  Who are you accountable?

3 triangles: parents, students, teachers, maybe 4 board? or is that parents.  Get the real data!

Driving test scores and high stakes provides nothing.  Just more of the same the hamster wheel.  I f you are not watching the bottom, the minimum then you will be stuck with out it.  It is forgotten.  The wisdom of starting each meeting with safety concerns, I get it.

Next

Next post.  Gabriel book puts thoughts into my head, power of intention. Peace, rest, v. stress.  But back to the pyramid.  Basic levels stuff.  1st level must be set the SAFETY.  Got to have it to move.  Then the ego might be free to work, but better is up to know and understand,  Cortisol down..

This is crossing over all over the place.  How to make it mine...

Meeting needs...

Got to get back

I was slowly building some momentum and the start of school snapped it.  Oh well, no worries.  But I need to get the percolator back on the stove.  Get the book ideas flowing.  I might need to seek some higher sources, seems odd to want to get a book about getting a book out there.  But that is where it is going.  I have many ideas and can use my class as the spring board.  Cultural relfection.

language and voices, even diet and morphology?  we''ll ride out that hypothesis.

Triangle and peaks.

Just give!

On a personal note frustration is high.  I decide to take a month off of CF to work this issue out in my hip.  Two PT treatments later my lower back is in chaos.  Not happy, feel like I have regressed 2 years.  Wish me luck pulling out of this one.

Just Give!  Better than just do it.  To Give...  where does it fit in the triangle?  Esteem needs-yes, belonging-yes, to know and understand is even better.  It may go higher.  To function as a human with a higher aim in mind, that is the goal.  The proverbial kill two birds.

To create real change...  emotions move people.  

Internal and external

Internal and external motivation lie at the cusp of the line between ego needs and the need to know and understand.  The way to rise above ego and the new set of bigger, shinier rims is to change motivation from external to internal.  Rather than competing with the Jones next door, look to you internal guidance to help lead you.  I know I know the ego is loud and we want to have the nicer car than the Jones, but it will provide a clearer path to work on the internal dialog.
This step is HUGE and really is the major hurdle to change education.  If students, teachers, and administrators keep playing the game and handing out pellets for grades, etc, then the shift will not happen.  The change in education will come when students are brought into the circle to lead their paths, not follow the path that has been laid out.  That is ownership, leadership, and character.

BIG

Get Big.  Simple enough. 
There is this zen thing, "Want more, need less."  I get it intellectually, I do.  but it doesn't work for me.  I want a new car.  My 88 Jeep isn't cutting it.  I could go on, but it doesn't really matter.  The balance between greed and need is a tough one.  GREED AND NEED, good chapter title for esteem needs...
Wanting to lead a bigger life has many facets.  And cash is one of them. Being broke half way through the month is not the game I want to play.

Got to get going

Finish Chip's book Peak.  Good stuff.  I agree with it in a huge way.  I think Maslow provides a script for even more than he has alluded to.  Base layer.

Transcendance
Self-actualization
Aestetic Beauty
Need to know and understand
Esteem Needs
Need for belonging and love
Safety needs
Physical needs- food, water, air, & sleep

Schools needs to start at the bottom to assess their viability.  I would argue that schools that are working exist at the need to know and understand and above.  If a students is hungry they will not be able to work at their highest ability.  Don't get me started on sleep, a large number of middle and high schoolers exist right below zombie status.  We are a nation of under slept masses and we are reinforcing this lesson into our teenagers at their expense.