Reading On Text Percentage (ROTP) & Writing on Text Percentage (WOTP) are less than 20% during 1-hour lessons in many classes. This means kids are rdg & wtg about 20% of the lesson. My students have kids reading & writing approx. 70% of each lesson. Thus, exponential gains.

Teach reading, writing, and knowledge with the utmost intensity. Our kids’ heads will not explode. I know because I try to make their heads explode and I fail every time. Dr. Alfred W. Tatum

“To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.” — Seneca

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“The poor die defending the rules that keep them poor. Because they mistake obedience for belonging.” — George Orwell

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul? In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable. He calls the result “men without

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Sharpen your critical thinking

I think about this CIA tweet a lot.

"Life and death are in the power of the tongue."

Remember

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