Thanksgiving 2020

 

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Stay Healthy and Be Safe.

Reach out to those whom you won't be able to see this year.

Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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November 2016

November is here!!!

The second to last month of the year, and with it:
A change in time (Daylight Savings),
A chance to vote (Election Day),
and various holidays that allow us to:
Honor the dead, those who have served,
and even an opportunity to give thanks.

Some in education may be fortunate enough to also have a Fall break and get to rest before December arrives.

All these breaks and holidays are well deserved and fun for students as they get to miss school to spend time doing "Nothing" as they so often answer when asked what their plans are, or what they ended up doing. However, these breaks can cause a disruption in the continuity of a student's education development.  Without planning and preparation, these breaks can, in some cases, cause a loss of education instruction time and a need to re-learn and re-study that which teachers had covered in class previously.

Educators also deserved to enjoy these breaks, but must keep in mind that a few minutes of extra lesson planning can go a long way to preventing this reoccurring temporary loss of learning that can happen over breaks in education.  Through creative lesson plans, and by encouraging students to pursuit education on their own, teachers can turn these holiday breaks into learning opportunities that can help students avoid lapses in knowledge, making them spring forward in their overall development and growth in school.

Have a wonderful November!


Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Thoughts on Thanksgiving Day

Thoughts on Thanksgiving Day

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

Thanksgiving Day is a day to give thanks for the harvest we have been blessed with this season.

Thanksgiving Day gives us a chance to be thankful for the fruits of our labor, while reminding us that we must be constantly preparing for the possible perils of the winter that is to come.

Thanksgiving Day allows us to fill ourselves with nourishment, so we may replenish the energy we have spent from winter, into spring, and throughout the summer, as we have survived through rebirth and growth for the year.

Thanksgiving Day is the time of the year in which our agriculture comes to its culmination.

Thanksgiving Day demonstrates the spirit of collaboration among neighboring cultures who, while putting aside individual differences, and focusing on collective similarities, from which the strong bonds of friendship, family, and community emerge.

Thanksgiving Day connects places from different times and times from different places: From agricultural staples to industrial production.  From native inhabitants to foreign immigrants.  From humble origin to proud heritage.  From an ancient past to a modern future.

Thanksgiving Day presents to us the opportunity to be generous with our bounty as we share our surpluses with those whose deficits were caused, not for lack of labor, but by labor lost in sacrifice to the world.

Thanksgiving Day is a day to be spent in service to friends and family, not by culminating with a meal, but by commencing with preparations.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all of you.

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Thanksgiving Week

Thanksgiving 2012

Weekly Schedule

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

This week we celebrate Thanksgiving Day here, in the United States.  It falls in November, during fall season, when harvest takes place.  MRCR™ Education joins the celebration of this week by presenting its theme of "Thanksgiving Holiday".  We also thank those of you, who have been reading these posts and visiting these pages, as we continue to share our thoughts and ideas, with you, on education.

On the eve of Thanksgiving Day (Wednesday) we are going to post our thoughts on the many meanings that this holiday holds for us.  From its origin, history, and traditions, this holiday can present to us, as educators, with a series of lessons that we can design, teach, and learn as we share them with our students, colleagues, and families.

We will also be taking a break as we spend time with friends and family to reflect, while also developing STEAM Education presentations to be shared with the public at upcoming events.  December we will look back at the first three months of education, current level assessment, and the - year end / look ahead - as 2012 comes to a close and 2013 begins a new year.

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