Top of Your Game

Let's hear from the best about what it takes to be the best:

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/shanna-peeples-honored-as-2015-national-teacher-of-the-year/

You have to go the extra mile in order to get many of our students to go even a few feet.  Are you going the extra mile?

Remember what we talked about at the beginning of the year?  What would you like your four words to describe your year?  What are doing to make those four words positive?

The Moral Bucket List

Do you have a bucket list?  Have you crossed things off of that bucket list?  The items on our list are often big things:  to see the Eiffel Tower...to skydive...to run a marathon.  They are things that YOU will remember, but are those the only things you want others to remember about you?

Davis Brooks poses the idea of a much more important bucket list...a moral bucket list.  These are the virtues and character traits that people remember about you.  What does it take to build character?  What are we doing in schools to not only make students career and college ready, but also character ready?

Check out his essay here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html

The following is a video of Brook's interview with CBS This Morning on Monday.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-times-op-ed-columnist-david-brooks-the-road-to-character/

Good stuff...