by Jim Knight | Dec 19, 2012 | Improving Instruction, Professional Learning |
Steve has an incredible ability to rally people towards some common cause by painting an incredibly glorious cosmic objective. One of his favorite statements is “Let’s make a dent in the universe. We’ll make it so important that it will make a dent in the universe.”...
by Jim Knight | Nov 27, 2012 | Professional Learning, School Reform |
Over the weekend I listened to Solomon Burke singing Patty Griffin’s magnificent song, “Up To The Mountain”—her tribute to Martin Luther King based on the famous mountain top speech Mr. King gave the night before he was assassinated in Memphis. This song is so...
by Jim Knight | Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill. Its target is the epicenter of our being: our genius, our soul, the unique and priceless gift we were put on earth to give and that no one else has but us. Resistance means business. When we...
by Jim Knight | Nov 29, 2010 | Improving Instruction |
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage Steven Pressfield If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz Each of us, Steven Pressfield tells...
by Jim Knight | Nov 22, 2010 | Improving Instruction |
Look in your own heart. Unless I’m crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has a thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one else has to tell you. And unless I’m crazy, you’re no closer to taking...