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Congratulations to all of you who have finished the very last sentence. Put those pages in a binder, tie your shoes, and try not to trip over a root as you race past Widener to turn in your thesis. Brendan Fraser would be proud...
...poverty level. And a security guard keeps students inside--and intruders out--once the morning bell rings. But enter El-Roy Estes' fourth-grade classroom and you'll see a model of order. As students wearing crisp blue-and-white uniforms file in, Estes studies a three-ring binder to find out what's on tap for this morning, Day 111 of the school year. He begins the class with grammar exercises and then discusses a short story. All the while, Estes consults his lesson plan, which prods him with very specific instructions, from what to put on the board...
Back in Chicago, Estes carried out Day 111 by the book--but with a few notable exceptions. While his binder called for a bland spelling drill, Estes had the class act out the words. "It does take the first steps for you," he says, "but I still use my creativity to make them want to learn." And, as any good teacher will tell you, there's no script for that...
...does McKinsey & Co. hold its sessions at the posh and staid Loeb House? Why does Proctor and Gamble give every attendee a faux leather binder with calculator inside...
...telling the story. Here is another: One day in November 1994, George Lucas dropped his three adopted kids off at school. He came home, climbed the stairs to his study, got a pad of yellow ruled paper and a box of Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils. And in the same binder in which he wrote the original Star Wars, he got to work on The Phantom Menace...