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...good design is adaptive...you design for maximum flexibility and adaptability.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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Context drives design.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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One aspect of responsive teaching is providing the same content at different levels of complexity.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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The important thing is to find songs that speak to you.

~ Germaine Yong (Quoted from this link: https://diaryofabipolarsingaporeangirl.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/qa-music-therapy-and-mental-health/)

True...There are times when I am feeling down and songs that I have written suddenly begin to play in my mind, which really help to lift up my mood.

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The past seven months had been a period of rude awakening for me. 

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How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you. 

~ Vicki Yohe (Shared by Joyce Chapman on FB)

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When you are teaching, your personality, your approach, and your values influence the form and outcomes of the process.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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But it's also important to allow space for the learners to influence the shape of their own learning.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

~ Unknown (Shared by Ghostpoet on FB)

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...the reason why this therapy works is because humans are biologically wired for music.

~ http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1915139-music-therapy-more-powerful-than-you-might-expect/ (Shared by Singapore Music Therapy Symposiums on FB)

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When your life is put on hold by some XXX against your will (thereby resulting in a huge financial burden to you), who should you blame? 

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I had a sudden thought this morning. Happy memories will have a positive effect on the health of the cells in our bodies, thereby influencing our overall health. Conversely, unhappy memories will cause our cells to suffer, thereby adversely affecting our health. If my hypothesis is correct, then it is important for us to make a conscious effort to create happy memories by focusing on happy moments.

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Enforcing the same learning on all students, as some have mistakenly advocated on the basis of "standards," slows down the most capable students and leaves behind those already struggling, creates inappropriate limitations on what students can accomplish, and in effect, dumbs down teaching and learning.

~ Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein & Allen Webb (Authors of Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: Literacy Practices Approach for 6 - 12 Classrooms)

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