Today's lesson plan: embrace a little chaos. First up, Evan Porter brings us a teacher whose classroom management strategies sound like grounds for a parent conference, yet somehow work. Then we're exploring a clever trick for slowing down time, and what one former model discovered when the world stopped treating him like a model.
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A young teacher is sharing his most "unhinged" tips for keeping modern high schoolers in line. | ||
High school teacher describes his most ‘unhinged but effective’ classroom management strategies | ||
Gen Alpha freshmen are built different. | ||
By Evan Porter | ||
Gen Alpha and the youngest Gen Zers are not like the generations before them. They were practically born with iPads in their hands and their faces plastered across social media, in a world where streaming and short-form video had almost completely taken over traditional media. | ||
Teachers say they can be difficult to work with, but they’re a product of their environment. The really, really good teachers—often those who grew up facing similar circumstances and challenges—have developed some unique ways to reach them…and keep them in line. | ||
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Angel didn’t have the easiest childhood: his dad was absent, his mom worked two jobs from the time he was a toddler just to keep food on the table and clothes on his back, and he was bullied for his physical disability. But that changed after meeting his Big Brother, Chris.
11 years later, Angel is graduating from college (the first in his family), with an engineering degree to help kids like him.
Through Big Brothers Big Sisters of OC & IE, elementary students gain a trusted friend and role model who helps them grow, while high schoolers build leadership, confidence, and a passion for giving back by making a positive impact on a younger peer.
Normalize guys being THIS HAPPY when they propose to the person they love! 🩷
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Time accelerates as we get older, but there are some interesting ways we can slow it down. | ||
Time seems to speed up as we get older. A 60-second fix can slow it down. | ||
How you perceive time could be connected to your heartbeat. | ||
By Annie Reneau | ||
Imagine this scenario, if you will: You’re scrolling along, minding your own business on the internet, when this little nugget comes across your timeline: “1980 and 2023 are as far apart as 1937 and 1980. Sleep tight, old fogies!” | ||
Wait, what? Your first reaction is, “That can’t be right,” so you pull out the calculator and do the math yourself, several times because you’re sure you must’ve missed a number somewhere each time. You remember how long ago 1937 seemed in 1980, and there’s absolutely no way that much time passed between 1980 and 2023. But you’re wrong. As the warped reality of time washes over you, you sit in stunned silence, contemplating the existential crisis you’ve just been thrown into. | ||
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An Upworthiest Poll
Which moment makes you most aware that time is flying?
Yesterday’s Results
In yesterday's issue, we shared a Gen X mom's hilarious reenactment of coming home from school in the 1980s.
And we asked: Which childhood freedom do you miss the most? 39.9% of you chose riding bikes absolutely everywhere, with disappearing outside until dinner close behind at 32.4%.
Disappearing outside until dinner (32.4%)
Riding bikes absolutely everywhere (39.9%)
Having the house to myself (5.0%)
Being unreachable. Gloriously unreachable. (22.7%)
Upworthiest reader Istrues captured the majority's spirit. “It was wonderful to just explore and have the freedom to be wherever the afternoon could take you”
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Former model who lost his ‘pretty privilege’ reveals how it altered his perspective on life | ||
“The way people started treating me differently was staggering.” | ||
By Tod Perry | ||
One of the most unfair things about life is that some people are born naturally good-looking, while others are not. Those blessed with incredible genetics have an upper hand in life, not because of anything they’ve achieved, but because they won the genetic lottery. | ||
People who are good-looking or have “pretty privilege” benefit from the halo effect: because of their looks, they are seen as morally virtuous and are more likely to get raises and promotions at work. With little social effort, they get to be the center of attention, have everyone dying to do them a favor, and never have a hard time finding a date on Friday night. | ||
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