Dave Driver
Ten Tips
1. Ignore your students when they come into class. 2. Don't bother learning their names. That way you won't have to risk getting one...
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The "Like" Game
This blog is, like, about kids, ya’ know, who, like, punctuate their stories with hesitators, like like, um, and ya’ know, ya’ know....
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50 Words - Learning Fearlessly
A new idea. Not theirs . . . Yet. We can’t! You can. Figure it out. Can we shake it? Get it wet? Go outside? Can we try this? We can? We...
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Happy 72nd Mother's Day - May your Joy follow you beyond
Today our mother would have celebrated her 72nd Mother's Day, 65th to me. She was quite a lady. Quite an example for all six of us, my...
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3 Basketball Games
Forty-two years ago today my life took a great bounce. At that time I professed my love for Marcie to be the equivalent of playing...
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"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."*
Doing shows what you can do. Being shows who you are. Doing doing first hinders being who you are. Committing to being before doing leads...
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The Short Game versus The Long Game
When making a decision in the moment—and aren’t all decisions initiated in some moment of time—you can make it based on short term...
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When to Love
Love always Love often Love anyway
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Walk This Way
If we see ourselves as the seagull sees its broken reflection, we may walk into a distorted reality. (Photo Courtesy of Judy Wilkison...
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I Have This Hat - Part 2: Attachment
Last week we explored how out memories are attached to things we hold dear. Or perhaps we hold dear to them precisely because of the...
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I Have This Hat - Part 1: Memories
I have this hat. I don't quite know what to do with it. It no longer looks good on me, but that's not the point. (Besides, to be honest,...
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Honesty Without Fear ~ When Do We Lose It?
Have you ever been in Whole Foods where they provide self-serve free samples? Well, as I was making my first trip around the...
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You Got This!
Enjoy life. Inspire yourself. Learn something new. Every day.
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Life is Awesome!
Life is awesome. And we are caretakers of it. And caregivers of it to others. We get to be that because we have been given an incredible...
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NOW!
That's all we have. Now! I have my now and you have your now. How will we use it? To fix yesterday? To solve today? To make a promise to...
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Breathe and Be Still
Breath can be hurried or it can be patient. A hurried breath speeds up everything in and around us but slows down what we anticipate,...
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Breath is Life
Breath is life Life is love Love is peace Peace is calm Calm is breath Breath is life
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Look Ma, No Hands!
“The Bicycle” Fact Based Model Day 1 – Learns the definition of bicycle Day 2 – Learns the history of the bicycle Day 3 – Learns the...
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Like Falling Off a Bike
Let me ask you something. When you were a kid, when you learned things; how to ride a bike, tie your shoes, play catch, bail out of a...
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The Accidental Student
You don’t have to be a teacher to be a teacher. Not a Yogi Berra quote, but it could have been. While practicing the teachers' 3 Rs of...
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