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Vicki A. Davis

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Vicki Davis is a teacher, blogger, podcaster, and Mom. With more than 160,000 Twitter followers Vicki was named one of “Twitter’s Top 10 Rockstar teachers” by Mashable and included in Thomas Friedman’s book, the World is Flat.

Vicki’s classroom and blog have won many awards including the ISTE Online Learning Award and more. She is the author of Reinventing Writing and co-author of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds and writes the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, consistently named one of the top 50 blogs in education worldwide.

Vicki hosts the popular podcast "The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast." Vicki teaches full time and is IT director for her school and has keynoted conferences around the world and online. ...more

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When I sat down to record this episode of Cool Cat Teacher Talk, I knew I wanted it to be practical, encouraging, and full of wisdom from some of the best people I know.

We start with Dr. Barbara Blackburn, one of my favorite experts on rigor. She reminds us that rigor isn’t abou

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	Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time by Julie Lindsay, Vicki A. Davis (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Blind Trust (Second Chances, #3)

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Vicki’s Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: love-loss

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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion

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“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity

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