Unlearning to Learn

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

Graham Steer and Lady Blues Cross-Country will be competing in the UIL Regional Meet in Lubbock on Saturday morning.  Safe travels and GOOD LUCK!

RSB3 Qualifies for the Area Marching Competition! Congrats to the Rompin Stompin Big Blue Band.  They earned straight 1’s this past weekend and will be marching in the Area B Marching Contest at 4:30 pm at the Collins Stadium in Denton.

Lady Blues Volleyball- With the victory over Vernon this past Tuesday the Lady Blues clinched a share of the District Champion crown.  They will be in action this afternoon at 4:30 against Burk to determine playoff seeding. The sub-varsity Lady Blues also had an excellent year with the JV finishing as District Champs with an 8-0 record in district and the Freshmen finishing as District Champs with a 7-1 district record. GREAT JOB LADIES!

Good luck and safe travels to the Graham Steers Football Team as they head to Vernon to defeat the Lions.

Veteran's Day Tribute- We are planning a special blog post and video honoring those that are serving or have served in our armed services and have a family member working for Graham ISD.  Please complete this form to have yourself and/or your husband/wife, father/mother or son/daughter honored. You may submit the form more than one time to honor additional people.  Also, please email a photo (preferably in uniform) to me at sonny.cruse@grahamisd.com.  Please submit your form and email me the picture by noon on Friday, November 4th.  If you sent me information and pics for the last years tribute, I still have those, but please complete the form and send me pics of new information. Veteran's Day Form.

Unlearning to Learn

So what is the value of unlearning? The most obvious benefit is recognizing and stopping the stifling mindset that is manifested unintentionally when we feel we know. It’s the ‘this is how I or we’ve always done it’ syndrome. The ability to rid yourself of old ideas that are no longer relevant is valuable as you plow into the future. Unlearning (and then learning something new) helps to keep us innovative, relevant and valuable.

The video titled the The Backwards Brain Bicycle provides insight into the difficulty of unlearning something as simple as riding a bike.

Riding a bicycle is a life skill we learn as kids that sticks with us for a lifetime. Once you learn it, you never forget it. But what if there was a special kind of bike that will make everything you learned useless?

You may think that I am talking nonsense, but there is actually a bike that nobody can ride unless they unlearn riding a bike. Watch the video and you’ll understand.

CORNY JOKE OF THE DAY (COURTESY OF GHS TEACHER, MRS. LOWERY)

WHY DID THE TURTLE CROSS THE ROAD? (SCROLL DOWN FOR THE ANSWER)

TO GET TO THE SHELL STATION!