“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to
Every student I meet seems to have a label: gifted, good, bad, a problem, smart, shy, an “ADD kid, “on the spectrum.” Labels, like a diagnosis, help us understand, treat and organize how we help students. Unfortunately, these labels are often thrown around in front of the students, as if they can’t be heard. Remember Jane Elliot’s brown eye, blue eye experiment? Children look to their teachers and parents to help them understand their place in the world.
