I intend to live life, not just exist. George Takei

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The Elevator Pitch Getting Students to Own Their Learning

Students learn more when they explain ideas out loud.

Try this:

1️⃣ Prompt: explain it simply
2️⃣ Give 3–4 minutes to draft
3️⃣ Students practice their “elevator pitch”

Speaking clarifies thinking.

Works in any subject.

More strategies ↓
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It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content. Maria Sharapova

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Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. Conan O'Brien

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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. Thornton Wilder

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. Corrie Ten Boom

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold J. Toynbee

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller

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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. Alexis Carrel

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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. Bil Keane

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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. George Burns

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You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people. Vivienne Westwood

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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. Billie Holiday

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You can plant a dream. Anne Campbell

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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else. Bette Davis

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou

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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. Marlon Brando

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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Make no judgements where you have no compassion. Anne McCaffrey

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling

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No one can figure out your worth but you. Pearl Bailey

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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire

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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

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The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. Howard Cosell

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We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. David Suzuki

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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. Mary Astell

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Nice is different than good. Stephen Sondheim

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