David Perkins
David Perkins
buffer homes property protect values zone
I want to see things such as a buffer zone to protect the property values of the homes around the area.
main pushing road toward
There was one main road ... packed for weeks, bumper-to-bumper... with U.S. convoys ... pushing toward Baghdad,
assist except knowledge whatever
I just want to help. I'm an American and want to do whatever I can to assist these people. There is nothing in it for me except the knowledge that we tried, in our own way, to help.
thinking skills upkeep
Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.
teacher educational teaching
Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.
teacher teaching responsibility
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
teaching learning vocabulary
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
enemy sometimes
Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!
teaching learning heart
In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
thinking consequence
Learning is a consequence of thinking.
smart teaching learning
We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'