Teachers...still getting ready for summer session? Keep it fun and effective by planning lessons in short segments and including interaction. Get people on their feet when they start to fade.

• Easy, Effective Lesson Plan Design
• 10 Warm Ups for Lesson Plans
• Customize Lesson Plans with TED
• 5 Crucial Skills for the Teacher of Adults
• What's Your Learning Style?

Have you ever looked at the world through rose-colored glasses? I'm not talking about being Pollyanna for a day. We all know what the idiom means: to see something as better than it really is.

I wondered where this idiom originated. It's difficult to pin down. And then I put on a pair of rose-colored glasses. I was stunned.

I added my experience to our Today I Learned... collection: Today I Learned...About Rose-Colored Glasses.

What did you learn today? Share it with us: A Place to Share Your Lifelong Learnings

Curious about our series? Read all of the entries: Today I Learned...Random Acts of Learning

Do you have a goal for the summer? Something you want to learn? We're here to say, "You can do it."

And here's some help:

• Make your goals SMAART
• Remember that are what you think
• Know that you can create the life you want

Have fun out there!

Sometimes it's easier to express ourselves using someone else's language. That's why quotations are so popular. Include one in your graduation or thank you card this spring. We have a few collections that will get your wheels turning. Just what is it you want to say?

• Inspirational Quotations for the Teacher of Adults
• Inspirational Quotations for Adult Students, No. 1
• Inspirational Quotations for Adult Students, No. 2
• 5 Quotations on Writing
• Quotations on Literacy
• Quotations from Herbert Spencer