Leaning Toward Wisdom
By Randy Cantrell
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Podcast Description
Leaning Toward Wisdom is an enterprise designed to teach, inspire and encourage higher human performance in public education.
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Episode 11 – The Future Will Require This Skill Above All Others | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback The debate will always be about how we prepare our children for an uncertain future. We’ll never have a very clear picture of what the future will look like. The citizens of the future – today’s kids – will not all find success. Some will fail miserably. Others will [...] | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10 – “What’s Your Deal?” My Explanation Of What’s Going On Here | Podcast: Download It’s late June and classrooms – except for summer school – are now empty. The kids are gone off to frolic. Some are working. Same for teachers. During this off-season I thought it might be about time to better explain what’s going on around here. The question has been asked, “What’s your deal?” [...] | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9 – Helping Kids Discover And Soar With Their Strengths | Podcast: Download What if questions are among the most powerful questions asked. Business people ask them. Inventors ask them. Researchers ask. Educators do, too. When I was 23 or 24 I first read some information by Donald O. Clifton about finding what you’re good at and going with it. That was around 1980 – I only [...] | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8 – Good Leaders See The Future First | Podcast: Download Leadership is a precious resource. We don’t have enough of it. Anywhere. A bike race has one leader…at a time. One winner. Most things aren’t so singular. Innovation and positive change require a number of leaders. Case in point? A new country called America. It was not the result of a single person, but [...] | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7 – The Problems In Public Education: How Do You Wrestle A Porcupine? | Podcast: Download How do you wrestle a porcupine? You don’t likely want to wrestle a porcupine. It seems so unpleasant, why would you want to? Those sharp spines present a serious challenge. Why do battle with a 20 pound rodent with protective armor that could draw blood? Public education is like that. The problems seem so vast and they [...] | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6 – 3 Reasons Why People Make Dumb Choices | Podcast: Download Dumb behavior. Stupid actions. Even smart people sometimes make dumb choices. Dumb choices aren’t created equally because consequences vary. Here are 3 common reasons why people sometimes make dumb choices. 1. People forget what matters most. We all serve something. Or somebody. Maybe we serve a code of conduct. Or perhaps we serve our [...] | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 5 – How To Slow Down The Burn Rate On Your Students’ Dreams | Podcast: Download This match represents the small flame burning inside the mind of your students. It’s the flame of dreams, ambitions and hopes. Their aspirations are like this match – short and burning fast. Adults tend to influence the burn rate more than anybody. As an educator, a teacher, that includes YOU. What if you view [...] | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 4 – Do Great Work No Matter What! | Podcast: Download Complain about standardized testing. Blog some more about the pathetic state of professional development. Fill your Twitter feed with all that’s wrong with education. Make sure you include how under-appreciated you are, too. That’s important to the conversation. Contribute your voice to the noise floor. There’s not nearly enough racket without you. Besides, there [...] | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3 – People Who Care Enough To B#@!H…Care! | Right Click Here To Download The Audio (Or To Listen Without Flash) Last week I responded to a Twitter message that said, “People who care enough to bitch…Care! Hire them.” I responded, “People who care contribute. Hire contributors.” It’s a disservice to people and organizations to associate “whining” with caring. It’s also wrong! Over the [...] | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2 – Playing To Win! | Right Click Here To Download The Audio “I can’t win for losing,” says the student. Or the teacher. Or the principal. Adults and children can fall prey to the fear. It’s manifested in feelings of being overwhelmed. It’s fear that compels us to think we can’t do something. Fear spurs on the dread of suffering [...] | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1 – The Backstory Behind This Enterprise (38 Years Of Training And I’m Finally Ready) | Right Click Here To Download The Audio Welcome to the maiden voyage of the Leaning Toward Wisdom podcast and blog. It’s been a long time coming. Bula is a Fiji term I came across about 30 years ago. It’s analogous to “Aloha” in Hawaiian. It means both “hello” and “goodbye.” It also means life, and [...] | 4/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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