"GET YOUR GENIUS ON" --may seem like an over ambitious goal for 850 middle school students but when you begin to really study and understand the geniuses of the world, your eyes are open to the fact that anyone can become a genius with deliberate practice and determination. I believe that educating our students is not just a push to reach the basic standards, we need to push our students to excel and motivate them to become "Exceptional" in all that they do.

Our school recently participated in a school-wide reading of the text "How to Think like a Genius", this text is linked below.  Each class read this text in their ACE/ Homeroom class and then held discussions about why they believed that every person on this world had the capacity to "Think Like a Genius" or not. Next, students made goals to try out one of the ideas about becoming a genius in their own lives through using one of  the strategies listed in this article.

School-wide we are moving into teaching reading through the use of expository text and focusing on Annotation as we read. This text was a great example of how to ease into this type of thinking and created many interesting conversations in our classrooms.  We ended our activity with the YouTube video linked below just to exemplify that not every brilliant person was genius on their first try.

So, GET YOUR GENIUS ON TODAY!  Show every person on your campus that brilliance is a habit that can be learned and mastered with deliberate practice and determination!


 http://www.wikihow.com/Think-Like-a-Genius


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yetHqWODp0