Welcome Back Teachers 1:37 PM We are happy to have the teachers officially back in the district today. We started today together recognizing the fact that our strength is in our people. We welcomed our new colleagues and recognized those who have been here for 25 years or more. Our administrators and teacher leaders were introduced. We also learned strategies for peak performance including the value of healthy eating and smiling. "Our bodies change our minds, our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes." |
“Our bodies change our minds, our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.”--Amy Cuddy http://on.ted.com/dgLc
Now we have another person from the school district who doesn't cite sources. This time, it is the superintendent. Nice.
Shouldn't the standards applied in MtLSD for quotations apply to his own? Source!
ReplyDeleteStandards? You can see them clearly. To be fair, many of us repeat phrases without giving credit. Yet when we give a prepared speech, with or without notes, we should at least acknowledge that the thought or quote did not originate with us. This courtesy should especially be true when modeling behavior in front of educators expected to do the right thing in front our children on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteLet's apply the chain rule:
ReplyDeletehttp://lc.brooklyn.cuny.edu/smarttutor/logic/chain.html
Our bodies [can] change our outcomes.
While it is possible this [can] happen, the causal relationship is not present for each and every case.
Therefore, the Super's plagiarism should be taken with a grain of salt.
A doctorate and he can't come up with his own motivational words of wisdom!
ReplyDeleteEnglish teachers, if this were written by a high school student how would you grade it?
From Timmy's future evaluation for yet another aise:
ReplyDelete"Plagiarism: meets or exceeds standards...signed this date, Jo Posti".