3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue #118, 11th October 2022

What are your top 3 priorities? Whatever you are looking for – you will find. Are you out looking for opportunities or obstructions? Problems or solutions? friends or adversaries? Often we have found that when we are looking for a particular thing, the signs become prominent around us. We find people discussing it, we find those news articles popping up, events around that topics happening… how does that happen? Coincidence or that our brain is actively seeking what is top of our mind? how do we tune in to what we are seeking? how can we help our children and students tune in and manage their priorities? how do we help ourselves and our students learn to prioritise what really matters and makes a difference to our lives? here are some thoughts for you to chew on as a parent, teacher and a student.

Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. “

– Stephen Covey

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee

One Video of the Week

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. James Altucher is now considered to be a renowned author and serial entrepreneur, but in this brutally honest talk, injected with outrageous humor, he reveals how at one point failure led him to consider suicide, and how he turned his life around by following five key practices. Improve your physical health (focus on exercise and diet), improve your emotional health (be around people that you love and trust), improve you spiritual health (always expressing gratitude), capture your brilliance (write down ten ideas every day), and finally, give without expectation (give your ideas away). “If you don’t make the choices in your own life, then someone else is going to end up making them for you, and it won’t be good.”

James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, investor and writer. He is the author of the WSJ and Amazon Best-Sellers “Choose Yourself” and “The Power Of No” as well as ten other books. He has started and run more than 20 companies, and sold several of those businesses for large exits and failed miserably at all the rest. His book “Choose Yourself” explains how he rose from repeated failure to find success. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, is an active angel investor, and currently sits on the boards of several companies.

Showcase of the Week

Link for registration: https://m.centa.org/pwa/masterclasses/package/ind/315

To Rubric Or Not To Rubric – a recorded masterclass with CENTA certification.

Key Takeaways:

1. Why do we need a Rubric for an assessment?

2. When does one use a Rubric?

3. How to create a Rubric?

4. Who is the Rubric for – student or teacher?

About the expert:

This masterclass is being facilitated by Ms. Nivedita Mukerjee. Nivedita is an education advisor for schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech companies. Over the last 3 decades, she has taught life sciences and communication in high schools and colleges, co-founded a Post Graduate Institute of Media studies, an IB world school, and, helped set up a private University in Bangalore, India.

The recording will be made available for 3 months from the date of purchase.

Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write.  With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.

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