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Here follows a true tale which further opens up the question of leadership for our time. It takes place in a very unique circumstance. But the dynamics are universal. It could be a classroom, a school, a family, a tribe, a nation…any community. This story offers a helpful magnifying glass on a subject that [...]

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To engender respect in young people is to grow respect in the world. All relationships can only benefit by the mindful presence of respect. It begins, as is true of so many things, with you! Respect in oneself to oneself.
Respect is to love something for what it is!

It is allowing someone or something [...]

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Telling your story is more valuable than you may realize. The students in your care, your family, YOU - need to hear your stories. NOT as you were then, but as you are now! That is important. Why? Well, telling the stories that make up the tapestry of your life from where you are [...]

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Sometimes you’ve just got to get on with your deeper life endeavor in defiance to all that comes to distract or detract from it!
One of the expressions of that deeper motivation is the fact that you have chosen to help the human race on by becoming an exceptional educator.
Honoring that choice sometimes brings you [...]

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Stories of Geronimo and the Apache resistance all carry and convey similar vital and haunting threads…
Viewed from outside, the Apache resistance appeared to be all about preservation. Preservation of a peoples, preservation of a way of life, preservation of honor and dignity. And yes, their struggle was indeed about these things - but not [...]

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What are some of the essential vitamins for children of the 21st century?
Here are a few primers, starters, food for thought - in response to this question. What are your ideas, contemplations, perceptions on the subject? You are welcome to share them with us…

Educators of every kind have an extraordinary privilege and opportunity [...]

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Every single human being, every one of six and a half billion people living now on Earth, each one who has been and each one yet to be - every single one is a unique, first time, original  opportunity and genius potentiality!
No matter how we think of our human origins, there is no [...]

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Facing Future
Now, as many teachers end their school years, casting up the successes, sending their students on to new adventures, tidying up the class room, completing the admin… having given of yourself for nearly nine months with regularity and dedication… it is now time for something completely different.
It is now time to give something [...]

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“How can I help my kids ‘switch on’ to learning?”
“How does one promote creative, enthusiastic, inquisitive learners in a public school setting?”
“Most of us see our students for one school year and that’s it, they move on. How can we expect to make a lasting difference in their lives within such an artificial and [...]

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There is a quality, a presence, an attitude; it engenders a kind of magnified understanding and sensitivity; it is a rare quality in our world by and large and yet it speaks to the heart of nearly every human being; it has inspired great acts and great art throughout history; it is the mother [...]

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