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Sing With Spirit
It’s always a real eye opener what becomes important to children working together toward a performance.
We recently completed a 12 week program with 2nd and 3rd grade students culminating in a performance entitled Home Planet Earth. The whole project is chock full to the brim with wisdoms and lessons to do with the planet’s [...]
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Rhythm Ball
We grew up playing lots of Basketball. Everybody had a hoop in their driveway or access to one nearby. Soccer hadn’t caught on yet in the USA. So it was Football, Basketball, Baseball and Hockey. Of those four, the only one that had any kind of compelling rhythm was Basketball.
There was school ball and [...]
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Learning to Love the Unknown
If you don’t understand someone, if something’s foreign to you or simply “off your screen”, if you really just don’t get where someone is coming from - rather than walk away with shrugged shoulders, making a judgment of one kind or another which closes doors, try something different. Try to get inside their shoes, [...]
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First Time Every Time
Children learn by catching your sense of discovery, wonder and enthusiasm about a subject, not by having to manage lots of fragments of information. If you don’t want it to go in one ear and out the other, find the way to reconnect yourself (not your students, you) with the joy of discovering that [...]
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Challenge Assumptions!
Galileo’s ideas challenged the assumptions of his time and culture. The mere suggestion that the earth was not the center of all creation with humans being at the center of the center, was ludicrous, even heretical! The proposition that we lived in a helio-centric system and all that it implied, threatened the stronghold (and [...]
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The Future Is Open!
There is so much more that is unknown and undiscovered about nearly everything than is currently known and understood.
The word “science” comes from the root - to know. And school textbooks give the impression that the sciences are based on irrefutable evidence and hard facts.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say “science” means our [...]
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What Is Art For?
Art lives at the heart of what makes us human.
What is art for?
If not to inspire and motivate us to our best, then what?
If not to engender hope, to light a candle in the darkness, then what?
If not to reflect back to us the brilliant human potential, causing uplift and upgrade, then what?
What is [...]
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Not Resources, Resourcefulness!
Whatever your teaching ecology happens to be, wherever you are helping to “grow” young learners, here is an analogy that provides some food for thought…
Agriculture
The further we have moved away from the source of our food, the more disconnected we have become from our bodies, the earth’s natural cycles and systems and the natural [...]
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Patience
Patience is an enduring love for natural process.
It is a “being with”, an abiding with another life without imposition.
Patience is the teacher who has the space and time for every child, fast or slow, red or blue, straight or round… It is a presence, a warmth, an encouragement… kind but firm.
It is fulfilling the [...]
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Is Your Heart In It?
My grandmother was an extraordinary human being. She was a feisty, smart, extremely talented and lovely woman who, as she related to me, grew up with all the disadvantages of privilege. Pretty much everything was provided for her from cradle to grave, she said. But in her twenties, in the nineteen twenties, she [...]
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