What is school to a child?
It may be a refuge, a safe place, a warm place.
It may be the one decent meal in a day.
It might very well be the one constant in their life.
It may be a big place, an overwhelming place, a confusing place, where a familiar face makes all the difference.
It [...]
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Here is an exercise to help expand and enhance vocabulary. It is a way to make words come alive! You and your students will enjoy a lifetime of learning from it…
Words, words, words! We use them all the time, thousands and thousands every day.
Do you feel that your words really connect? Does your use [...]
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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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Language is one of the beautiful mysteries at the core of human life. Words not only help us to communicate, they also help us to connect - to connect to the vast reservoir of human ideas, knowledge, feelings, emotions, perceptions etc. It’s huge!
Words are like food, in a way. They contain protein, carbohydrates, sugars, [...]
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Together we make a brighter light
Together we can shine
Together we can find our rhythm and rhyme
Teachers of all walks and ways, as you prepare to enter the classroom for a whole new school year, try on this perception for awhile and see what new perspective it may give you.
Ready? Here it goes…
There is [...]
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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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Paul Andrew Zeir grew up in the adventurous and expansive landscape where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains west of Denver, Colorado in the U.S.A. He learned the basics on the piano from the age of 5 and took up the guitar at age 12, writing songs and composing music since he discovered the gift to be able to do so. Music, the wild and free outdoors, the magic and mystery of being an adopted child, rhythmic sports and glimpses of inspired community were his principle mentors growing up. Paul’s search for vocation and mission began with the Institute of Cultural Affairs where he lived and worked with indigenous people in Alaska, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. It was in these small villages that he discovered the spiritual integrity and kaleidoscopic human theater of indigenous peoples around the world. These were profound and indelible influences. He studied at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and Colorado University in Boulder between his travels. His education continues to this day, expanding and deepening through a variety of researches best characterized as the field of Human Development and Education. Because of the many gifted teachers in his life, including his lifelong love Melanie, he discovered solidarity in kinship endeavour with people from all over the world working to pioneer new pathways in the human potential. The world of child education opened up when he became a father of 2 boys. His primary wish as a parent was to provide a rich & loving multi-layered learning ecology in the home and family life which included natural human theater arts. Thus the adventure into children’s education began! His family has put down roots near Santa Fe, New Mexico where they live in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
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