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I'd probably fail school exams if I took them today. Remembering loads of facts and figures, and getting them on paper quickly has always been a nightmare for me. But exams don't measure skills like reasoning, exploring, communicating and positively influencing - essential skills that the world needs.
I’m blessed to have had parents that encouraged me to follow my passion and talents. They allowed me to leave school at 16 years old to start my own business, because they recognized that I was at my best when I could do things my way.I’m not suggesting students should drop out of school; I’m advocating for all people – not just dyslexics – to find their passions, and then work hard to become really good at it.
Whether you got the grades you wanted or not, if you do what you love and what you are naturally good at, it will take you far in life. It certainly has for me.
Sr. Richard Branson
I’m blessed to have had parents that encouraged me to follow my passion and talents. They allowed me to leave school at 16 years old to start my own business, because they recognized that I was at my best when I could do things my way.I’m not suggesting students should drop out of school; I’m advocating for all people – not just dyslexics – to find their passions, and then work hard to become really good at it.
Whether you got the grades you wanted or not, if you do what you love and what you are naturally good at, it will take you far in life. It certainly has for me.
Sr. Richard Branson
Teacher Resources
"My Teacher Resources"
by Bert McCoy
Subject areas I have taught in high school are: American & English Literature (9-12th grade), Poetry, Film Studies, Empathy, Presence, 3D Design, and Sustainability.
mccoyb@centinela.k12.ca.us
This website is my file cabinet of materials and ideas I use to best meet my teaching goals for my students which are to...
Students:
*Be present and in the moment
*Be an active listener and participate
*Be a part of all discussions
I do realize there are many videos that are no longer accessible...My sincere apologies!
- Be Good Human Beings
- Have Confidence in Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Thinking
- Be Happy in Life
Students:
*Be present and in the moment
*Be an active listener and participate
*Be a part of all discussions
I do realize there are many videos that are no longer accessible...My sincere apologies!
Interesting website...Reference 1984...Brave New World.
http://crisiscast.com/
http://crisiscast.com/
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Welcome to English 12...I’m glad you’re here!
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to some of the major British and American authors, to help discover a rich cultural heritage, and to develop a genuine appreciation for some of the most time-tested works of art in the English language. I’m hoping we can have some fun. The more deeply you understand yourself, the more deeply you will understand great poetry and great Literature. Exploring a great piece of poetry/Literature is really exploring a great part of your Self. That being said, Let's begin our Self-realization journey.
~Bert McCoy
Our class theme for the 2017-18 year will be "presence."
Which means...Being Present...Awake...Here and Now!
We've all had a cup of coffee after a nap. But maybe we've been doing it all wrong. Maybe we should put the cup of coffee before the nap. It sounds counterintuitive. But apparently the coffee nap--a cup of joe followed immediately by a quick nap--has some scientific merits and unexpected health benefits.
Over at Vox, they've summarized the findings of researchers at Loughborough University in the UK, who found that "when tired participants took a 15-minute coffee nap, they went on to commit fewer errors in a driving simulator than when they were given only coffee, or only took a nap."
Or "a Japanese study found that people who took a caffeine nap before taking a series of memory tests performed significantly better on them compared with people who solely took a nap, or took a nap and then washed their faces or had a bright light shone in their eyes."
The accompanying Vox video above explains how the coffee nap works its magic. The biology and chemistry all get discussed in a quick two-minute clip.
Over at Vox, they've summarized the findings of researchers at Loughborough University in the UK, who found that "when tired participants took a 15-minute coffee nap, they went on to commit fewer errors in a driving simulator than when they were given only coffee, or only took a nap."
Or "a Japanese study found that people who took a caffeine nap before taking a series of memory tests performed significantly better on them compared with people who solely took a nap, or took a nap and then washed their faces or had a bright light shone in their eyes."
The accompanying Vox video above explains how the coffee nap works its magic. The biology and chemistry all get discussed in a quick two-minute clip.
Illustrator Steve Cutts sets his latest animation, "Happiness," in a teeming urban environment, with hundreds of near identical cartoon rats standing in for human drudges in an unfulfilling, and not unfamiliar race.
Packed subway cars, a bombardment of advertising, soul-deadening office jobs, and Black Friday sales are just a few of the indignities Cutts’ rodents are subjected to, to the tune of Bizet’s "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle."
Rampant over-consumption—a major preoccupation for this artist—offers illusory relief, and a great deal of fun for viewers with the time to hit pause, to better savor the grim details.
The maximalist frames read like a gratifying perversion of Richard Scarry’s relentlessly sunny Busytown. As with Cutts' 80s-throwback Simpson’s couch gag: pop-culture references and visual input whip by at subliminal warp speed.
They may also serve as an antidote to the sort of messaging we’re constantly on the receiving end of, whether we live in city, country or somewhere in-between. Check out the scene as Cutts pans up from the subway platform, 52 seconds in:
The panty-clad female model for Blah cologne’s fashionably black and white ad is emaciated nearly to the point of death.
“You’re better than laces” flatters the latest (laceless) shoe from a swoosh-bedecked footwear manufacturer, while a radiator-colored beverage floats above the motto “Just drink it, morons.”
Krispo Flakes fight depression with “the bits other cereals don’t want.”
Heaven help us all, there’s even a poster for TRUMP The Musical.
This freeze-frame scrutiny could make an excellent activity for any class where middle and high schoolers are encouraged to think critically about their role as consumers.
As Cutts, a one-time employee of the digital marketing agency, Isobar, who contributed to campaigns for such global giants as Coca-Cola, Google, Reebok, and Toyota, told Reverb Press in 2015:
These are things that affect us all on a fundamental level so naturally they’re a main focus for a lot of my work. Humanity has the power to be great in so many ways and yet at the same time we are fundamentally flawed. I think it’s the conflict between these two that fascinates me the most. As a race of beings we’ve made incredible achievements in such a short space, but at the same time we seem so overwhelmingly intent on destroying ourselves and everything around us. It would be very interesting to see where we’ll be in a hundred years. The term insanity is intriguing – it’s almost like we’re encouraged to act in a way that seems genuinely insane when you look at it objectively, but it’s often accepted as normal right now. I think we will have to evolve beyond our current thinking and way of doing things if we want to survive.
See more of Cutts’ animated work here. And while he doesn’t go out of his way to hype his online store, a gallery quality print of The Rat Trap would make a fantastic gift from your cubicle mate’s Secret Santa. (HURRY! TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!)
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The Boiling Frog Theory
- Put a frog in a vessel of water and start heating the water...- As the temperature of the water rises, the frog is able to adjust its body temperature accordingly...- The frog keeps on adjusting with increase in temperature...- Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog is not able to adjust anymore...- At that point the frog decides to jump out...- The frog tries to jump but is unable to do so, because it lost all its strength in adjusting with the water temperature...- Very soon the frog dies. What killed the frog?
Many of us would say the boiling water...But the truth is what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when it had to jump out...
We all need to adjust with people and situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust and when we need to confront / face or even consciously move out/ on...
There are times when we need to face the situation and take the appropriate action...Fight it & do it with all your honestly, sincerity and full force.
On the other side, if you are 110% sure that environment is beyond control or the objective is not providing adequate incentive…leave your ego, quit and move on to more productive cause in life.
Not only this will avoid your unnecessary suffering, this make you a better and balanced leader of your life and task in hand.
So, decide when to jump or adjust...
- Put a frog in a vessel of water and start heating the water...- As the temperature of the water rises, the frog is able to adjust its body temperature accordingly...- The frog keeps on adjusting with increase in temperature...- Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog is not able to adjust anymore...- At that point the frog decides to jump out...- The frog tries to jump but is unable to do so, because it lost all its strength in adjusting with the water temperature...- Very soon the frog dies. What killed the frog?
Many of us would say the boiling water...But the truth is what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when it had to jump out...
We all need to adjust with people and situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust and when we need to confront / face or even consciously move out/ on...
There are times when we need to face the situation and take the appropriate action...Fight it & do it with all your honestly, sincerity and full force.
On the other side, if you are 110% sure that environment is beyond control or the objective is not providing adequate incentive…leave your ego, quit and move on to more productive cause in life.
Not only this will avoid your unnecessary suffering, this make you a better and balanced leader of your life and task in hand.
So, decide when to jump or adjust...
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/11-12/
Now and then!
Time sure does fly while you're living the dream!
Time sure does fly while you're living the dream!
Mooji Below...start at 1:18...Stay focused on the road!
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When you
Concentrate on the mistakes of others
Concentrate on what you don’t have
Concentrate on why you can’t be happy
Concentrate on the past
Concentrate on the future
Concentrate on what’s wrong with this very moment
How can you be happy?
~B McCoy
Here is a link to SOME of my quotes:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13581047.Bert_McCoy
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13581047.Bert_McCoy
If--
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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