Inspirational Updates

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
- Jim Rohn
inspire daily calendar Thu 27 Sep 2012


All our dreams can come tur - if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
inspire daily calendar Fri 28 Sep 2012


The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have other on your side.
- Margaret Carty
inspire daily calendar Sat/Sun 29/30 Sep 2012


School Satire
Citing the threat posed to their children`s safety, a Grand Rapids-area parents group is calling for the removal of arsenic from the periodic table of elements. "Our schoolchildren, some as young as the fourth grade, are being exposed to this deadly element in their science classes," said Tricia Montcalm, president of the Grand Rapids Parents Association. "We insist that this poison be removed from the periodic table and replaced with a safe, nontoxic element." To date, the group has raised over $4,500 for the development of a replecement element, "Nickelodeum," a springy, child-safe play foam with an atomic number of 33.
- www.theonion.com
Teachers daily calendar Wed 7 Oct 2009


Fun Facts: Sports
Up to twenty thousand pounds of pressure per square inch may be absorbed by a pole vaulter on the joints of his tubular thigh bones when he lands.
In speed skating, competitors wear colored armbands to indicate their starting lanes. White is worn by the skater starting in the inner lane; red by the skater starting in the outer lane. The skaters change lanes after each circuit of the track.
The huddle formation used by football teams originated at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for deaf people in Washington, D.C., to prevent other schools from reading their sign language.
- www.coolquiz.com
Teachers daily calendar Thu 8 Oct 2009


Teaching is not for sensitive souls. While reviewing future, past, and present tenses with my ninth-grade English class, I posed the question, "'I am beautiful' is what tense?"
One student raised her hand. "Past tense."
- Reema Rahatt in Reader's Digest
Teachers daily calendar Fri 9 Oct 2009