http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog Inspired Education Songs In Motion Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:27:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is summertime in the northern hemisphere! We enter now the ease and expansion of the summer months. What better time to reconnect with the beauty and bounty of the earth; to go adventuring and exploring; to romp and play; to smell, touch, taste, hear and see a bit of ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/a-day-outside/ 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 ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/fostering-genius/ 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 ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/facing-future/ Here we are, human beings, one of two genders, genetically loaded, born somewhere on Earth into one of the kaleidoscopic expressions of human culture... its language, history, collective psyche, art... and before we know it, we've been pre-conditioned by all these influences - including of course, one of the ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/begin-as-beginners/ "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 ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/the-wonder-of-wonder/ 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 ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/fostering-humanity/ 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 ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/defying-the-big-box/ In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development defined SUSTAINABILITY as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". If only our grandparents and great grandparents had operated with this definition in their ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/teaching-sustainability-part-three/ Give historical context: For millennia humans lived sustainably - up until the onset of the industrial/technological revolution. For many thousand years We made everything by hand Then came industrialization Marching through the land Now we could make and do things Much easier and faster No one thought this revolution Would lead to such disaster The demand for resources increased With the ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/teaching-sustainability-part-two/ We live in a time now rife with contradictions. Never before have we had the capability of mass self destruction on one hand; and at the same time stand at the threshold of such extraordinary breakthroughs in the human potential. Never before have we faced environmental degradation and biological devastation on ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/teaching-sustainability-i/