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Remembrance Day Resources

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Remembering all that they have done during times of war, military conflict and peace helps us to better understand our nation's history and its future.

Loraine Kennedy: Coaching and mentoring skills for ELT

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Whether you are a teacher, a teacher trainer or an ELT manager, this session is relevant to your work. Coaching and mentoring skills are techniques used to help people achieve their goals, whether those are language learning goals, or professional development objectives, or career ambitions.

Four Activities to Jump-Start Teamwork Among Teachers and School Leaders

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The article written by Gayle Allen suggests that school leaders and teachers can overcome the challenges they face with innovation, connections and understanding.

How to Unleash the Genius in Your Students

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Inspired by Google's 20 percent time initiative, teachers are introducing classroom Genius Hour.

Becoming a Better Teacher: Articles For New and Not-So-New Teachers

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The literature on teaching and learning is diverse- one of its finest features. It can do a great job of shaping this broader thinking if it's sampled across disciplines, topics and categories.

Tips on Giving Attention to Individual Students in a Large Class

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How do you teach a large class and still give all students the attention they deserve? It is never easy to do. No matter how old or which level they are in, they deserve as much attention as we can give. Here are the top ten tips to achieve this.

Five Ways to Create More Teacher Rockstars in Your School

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All teachers should feel like rockstars in the classroom and be able to earn that praise. Here are five ways school leaders can create a culture that motivates all teachers in your school to take a risk and try something new.

Making Group Work Manageable

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Teachers are more likely to design and implement meaningful group activities when they have management strategies to do so. Taking proactive steps can enhance engagement while curbing the chaos.

Mastering the Art of Presenting

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Being able to give an effective presentation is essential to your career success. Christine Kelly, provides pointers on how to do so.

The shocking truth about your health | Lissa Rankin | TEDxFiDiWomen

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Lissa Rankin, MD is an OB/GYN physician, author, keynote speaker, consultant to health care visionaries, professional artist, and founder of the women's health and wellness community OwningPink.com. Discouraged by the broken, patriarchal health care system, she left her medical practice in 2007 only to realize that you can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling. This epiphany launched her on a journey of discovery that led her to become a leader in the field of mind/body medicine, which she blogs about at OwningPink.com and is writing about in her third book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013).

Ryan's Recycling | Kid Entrepreneur // 60 Second Docs

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When Ryan Hickman was just 3 years old, he went with his father to recycle for the first time. After sorting his bottles and cans, he became obsessed with recycling, and how it can help save the environment, and decided to start his own business - Ryan's Recycling Company. Now 7, Ryan has disposed of more than 200,000 bottles and cans and earned about $21,000. It's all in a hard day's work.

Las Vegas Magician Mac King Shows Us A Trick

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Vegas prestidigitator Mac King, whose timing and precise slight of hand come together to elevate this classic gag.

GoPro: Julius Yego - The YouTube Man

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Discover the incredible story and journey of Julius Yego as he recounts his humble beginnings being raised in a Cheptonon village in Kenya, training with simple wooden sticks, to becoming the Javelin World Champion in 2015.

Extreme Whipcracker: Adam Winrich

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In this Volume One video, world record holding whipcracker Adam Winrich (of Fall Creek, WI) talks about his whiptastic experiences and does some good ol' whip cracking for the camera.

15-Yr-Old Kelvin Doe Wows M.I.T.

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15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.

A three year old delivers the most intense motivational speech of all-time

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This might have been inspired by Shia LeBeouf's performance of Joshua Parker's script.

8 traits of successful people

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Ten years of research and 500 face-to-face-interviews led Richard St. John to a collection of eight common traits in successful leaders around the world.

Why Does Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg Wear The Same Shirt Everyday?

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Whether you're a fashionista or prefer to dress super laid-back, Mark Zuckerberg's reasoning for his one t-shirt wardrobe is pretty genius. We spend a lot of time on trivial decisions when we could use that energy on something more productive.

Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe

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What makes a great leader? Management theorist Simon Sinek suggests, it's someone who makes their employees feel secure, who draws staffers into a circle of trust. But creating trust and safety - especially in an uneven economy - means taking on big responsibility.

From Homeless To Harvard

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Dawn Loggins, 18, was homeless last year. Yet she worked hard - both as a student and as a janitor. She's now going off to the Ivy League.