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Essential Vitamins - Primer
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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Fostering Genius
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
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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The Wonder of Wonder
“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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Fostering Humanity
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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Defying the Big Box
Way, way back in the Summer of 1979, I was adventuring through Anchorage, Alaska after living for many moons in a tiny Athabaskan village 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It was early in the morning and the city was just waking up. I was trying to catch a ride to the [...]
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We’ve Got the Rhythm
Teachers! Taking five to seven minutes a few times a day to do a little movement, rhythm and song with your students will make a huge difference in the learning atmosphere of your classroom.
Try it! You’ll not only enliven and expand your students’ learning abilities; they will also love you for it!
The best songs [...]
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Song of the Senses
Here is another key to Arts Integrated Education. It is to do with engaging the senses, using more of ourselves to learn with.
First a couple simple and fun workshop questions to do with the five physical senses:
1) Why do we have five senses? Can you think of other senses we need?
2) If you were [...]
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Gardening at root provides wisdoms for living, many of which can be harvested for the purpose of parenting and education.
For starters, it’s all to do with the soil! The best long term sustainable gardens have the richest soil - living self-regenerative soil! Just as Mother Nature intended. It takes artful science to establish such [...]
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Speeds and Timing
Here’s a teaching tool that can not only enhance your effectiveness as an educator, it can change your life! It is all to do with speeds and timing. Being able to adjust your speeds and finesse your timings.
You’ve heard the saying - “Soon ripe, soon rotten.” It is also true to say - [...]
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