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Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “Teachers who have the best managed classrooms are those who spend the first two weeks of class teaching and practicing their procedures and routines.” – Michael Mills, Effective Classroom Management: An Interactive Textbook   “Only praise that places no judgments on a student’s character or personality makes the classroom a safe place […]

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “Good classroom management is the art of dealing with problems positively and looking for solutions together so that everyone is involved and willing to find a remedy.” – Kavita Bhupta Ghosh   “A classroom needs to feel like a safe place for both students and teachers. In order for creativity and

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.” – James E. Faust   “I would prefer even to fail with honour than win by cheating.” – Sophocles   “Do something because you

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus   “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”– Arthur Somers Roche

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.” – Donovan L. Graham   “Good classroom management is the art of dealing with problems positively and looking for

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “I may not be able to give my kids everything they want, but I give them what they need: love, time, and attention. You can’t buy those things.” – Nishan Panwar   “By loving them for more than their abilities, we show our children that they are much more than the

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime’s work to dust.” – Miranda Devine   “If you plagiarize others’ techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”  – Eleanor Roosevelt   “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.”  – Nikki Giovanni   “Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.”  – Lindsay Fox

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.” – Jim Valvano   “I may not be able to give my kids everything they want, but I give them what they need: love, time, and attention. You can’t buy those things.” – Nishan Panwar   “By

Written by Russ Gadzhiev, PhD “Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you’ll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.” – Tony Robbins   “The most effective way