Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful! “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” – Ferdinand Foch Goal: Introduce a project or event you created based on your passion and vision. Accomplish this goal: Create a short video or graphic introducing us to a project you are passionate […]
Category: 30 Goals
In this series, you will find 30 goals to accomplish for the year and news related to the book, The 30 Goals for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Teaching, by Shelly Sanchez Terrell.
Goal: Give Peace a Chance
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful! “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T.S. Eliot Goal: Give peace a chance. This goal was inspired by recent tragedies around the world, meeting the inspirational Mallory Fundora, and a project by Georgia Psarra. […]
Goal: Engage with Poetry by Georgia Psarra
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful! Goal: Engage with Poetry. This goal is by Georgia Psarra. In this video, Georgia (@JoPsarra1) shares her inspiration and describes a poetry project with her students in Greece. Accomplish this goal: Have your students create a multimedia presentation, digital story, poetry book, Voicethread, comic […]
Goal: Share Your Best/Worst Lesson by Terry Freedman
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful! Goal: Share your best and/or worst lesson. This goal was inspired by Terry Freedman’s Best/Worst Lessons series. In this video, Terry (@TerryFreedman) shares his inspiration behind the series and how reflecting on our best and worst lessons helps enhance our teaching. Accomplish this goal: […]
Schools as Learning Playgrounds! 20 Ideas & Resources
“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” – Diane Ackerman In Chapter 26, Goal: Encourage Play, of The 30 Goals for Teachers, I talk about the importance of play for our learning, development, creativity, and mental wellness. With so much standardized testing and stress on data, play is being taken away. Children are being tested as […]
The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Cycle 7: Make it Meaningful
Help us inspire teachers worldwide for 2016 by suggesting one of the 30 Goals for Cycle 7! We have a grand mission to transform the world and that is overwhelming. We need the support of a community of compassionate and empathetic educators to help drive us. The 30 Goals Challenge began in 2010 to meet […]
The Power of a Goal-Minded Teacher
There are moments, days, and even years when teaching overwhelms us. We have a grand mission to transform the world even if currently society, nor policy takes great care of its teachers. At the beginning of civilization, teachers were revered. Cicero once said, “What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and […]
40 Ways to Engage Them in the First 5 Minutes
If you like these ideas, take one of my courses or check out my books. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com! One of the best ways I engaged my students were with prompts written on the board. Each day, my students would walk in the door and see the area with the prompt, challenge, or mission and knew they […]
Goal: Rethink Classroom Management
Part of Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward and Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful “I am the decisive element in the classroom … In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized. – Dr. Haim Ginott Goal: Rethink […]
Goal: From the Heart to the Mind
Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward! “Emotion helps us screen, organize and prioritize the information that bombards us. It influences what information we find salient, relevant, convincing or memorable.” – Bandes & Salerno Our newest goal for 2015 is from Larissa Albano from Italy! Goal: From the heart to the mind: Teach […]