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Re-humanize Education!
Teachers and Parents! Find the courage to defy the absurd pressures of the achievement culture. What are we pushing our children into? Seriously!
Do we realize the stress associated with education is now systemic?
Do we then realize that stress shuts down higher learning capacity, reducing our attention and awareness to a narrow biological focus?
What’s the [...]
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Heart of the Matter
These songs are seeds. The hope is that they may fall on fertile ground. “Keep your head in the heart of the matter” is written especially for 4th, 5th and 6th grade girls and boys (‘tweens), to encourage the self-trust, inner strength and self-respect to NOT get caught up in the endless empty distractions [...]
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Tomorrow is NOT Written!
A new song arose from the Kaleidoscope Summer Camp. It came in response to a need that appeared in the young teen participants as the week unfolded.
The need is a deep cry from the lives of young people to have real hope for the future.
When you ask young lives: What do you think about [...]
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Not Yours
We are often asked about our children, our boys, who are now young men emerging into the world. We are asked how it is they are such extraordinary human beings? How is it so? What did we do as parents?
If you met them you might ask the same. And yes! There is a response [...]
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Career Human
Our oldest son is a couple years from going to college. So every other day there’s a marketing brochure from one college or another aiming to appeal to a bright young candidate such as our boy. Consequently, the question of majors and careers comes up a lot with he and his peers and it’s [...]
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Footsteps Into The Future
In the Kaleidoscope Summer Camp this last week one of the creative crafts projects was called “Footsteps into the Future” which totally caught the imaginations of the participants. You may find it valuable.
The activity is to trace both feet (one slightly ahead of the other) on a half sheet of poster board. (First in [...]
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Animal Pow Wow Power
Children powerfully identify with animals. No matter where you are in the world, young human beings feel strongly about animals. It is a deep primordial sympathy.
Children folk tales around the world abound with animal characters as vehicles of proverbial wisdom, caution and counsel. The courageous leadership of the lion; the work ethic beaver; the [...]
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Green
Green is the color of new birth, new beginnings. Like the young shoots and leaves of spring, it is a vibrant yellow green which signifies emergence and regeneration.
Green is the color of beginners! It contains all the virtuosity and enthusiasm of “firsts”; first timers and first time events.
Green is the engine of innovation and [...]
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Brain Hemisphere Integration
Arts Integrated Education involves both hemispheres of the head brain working in alternation and firing simultaneously!
Here is a good example of how it works:
If you have ever learned and become fluent in a foreign language, you have probably experienced the following.
Language is ultimately learned by assimilation and immersion. That’s when it truly switches on [...]
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Teach Tolerance Through A Song
The song Home Planet Earth is a beautiful teaching tool. Essential human values can be explored and expressed using this simple, profound song and its video.
The song travels from A to Z through fifty six countries around the world. The video highlights folk dances from each country in sync with the verses. These are [...]
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