Connie Shoemaker

Art Teacher and Past-President of Missouri Art Education Association

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

So true! 🧡

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

"Is this job tough? You betcha. But it is not impossible. We're educators. We're born to make a difference."

Watch Rita Pierson's full TED Talk here: https://t.co/dyKXHKJv9E #TeacherAppreciationWeek

[AnchoredHope @Anchored2911]

Instead of admin doing walkthroughs, they could do "tag outs."

They take over your class so that you can walkthrough another teacher's class.

Admin learns about your class, how they learn, classroom behavior & relationships.

Teachers learn new ideas for lessons & management.

[Connie Shoemaker @ShoemakerConnie]

Meet Art Educators Wille and Shoemaker » RHS ECHO: Online student news https://t.co/uXsHP2cNET via @rhsechonews

[MOAllianceArtsEd @MOArtsEd]

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#MOArtsEd #GivingTuesday2023

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[Connie Shoemaker @ShoemakerConnie]

@teachergoals Pivot! Pivot!

[edutopia @edutopia]

Want your students to really remember something? Ask them to draw it out! ✍️

[MOAllianceArtsEd @MOArtsEd]

Meet up with TABstl teachers Kari Schepker-Mueller, Elizabeth Williams, Tiffany Marquart, Dawn Lynn, & Abby Birhanu - an informal Q&A about the pedagogical approach known as TAB: Teaching for Artistic Behavior. Oct. 12, 2023, 4pm in-person/FREE. Email [email protected] RSVP

[TCEA @TCEA]

📧📧📧 It's a MUST-TEACH lesson! What kind of emails do you get from your students?

https://t.co/LO1z9n2ZMs
#teachertwitter #edtech #googleteacher

[Rolla Public Schools @R31Official]

#DYK The R31 long-range facility plan addresses safety and security for many years to come. Part of the Proposition N $10M no-tax-rate-increase would be used to replace and reinforce security of the many exterior doors across the district. Read more: https://t.co/HajWZZTYki

[Rolla Public Schools @R31Official]

#DYK The most important factor in student success is good staff.

Prop I would raise starting teacher salaries from $38,500 to $40,086 and allow for a 4% increase across all schedules. All support staff would see a $3/hour increase across all schedules.

[Rolla Public Schools @R31Official]

The National Art Honor Society students at RHS have created unique works of art that will be up for auction beginning tomorrow at the link below. Proceeds from this event will go to the Rolla Mission, providing a service to the community through art.

https://t.co/kWiWVBnobJ

[Connie Shoemaker @ShoemakerConnie]

@teacher2teacher Portfolio Fridays! My favorite day of the week! Using google slides, Ss select a Studio Habit of Mind topic & sentence starter. Write a short paragraph. Include images of work. Submit screenshot in Classroom.

[Connie Shoemaker @ShoemakerConnie]

@teacher2teacher Talk to them

[Luke Hobson @drlukehobson]

I can’t stop laughing and smiling at this. I asked ChatGPT to write the 10 commandments of instructional design.

[Rolla Public Schools @R31Official]

Plenty of progress at the new Rolla High School field house! With the steel beams in place, it's easy to imagine the footprint of the building.

This construction is part of the #R312020 bond issue approved by voters in June 2020. Thank you for your support!

[Connie Shoemaker @ShoemakerConnie]

Missouri S&T library to host art workshop as part of Holocaust exhibition #NewsBreak https://t.co/xHFMySkwBP

[Connie Shoemaker @ShoemakerConnie]

@teacher2teacher Prototyping.