TKG LISTEN: You Are the Essence of Learning, Not a School or University

This article was featured in a recent newsletter to support our parent teachers in supporting our teachers in creating context: “There’s this illusion that is created in our classical education system and even at university that someone is teaching it to you. Really they’re creating a context in which you …

WEEK 19 “From Under Our Big Tree” NEWSLETTER: 5 to 7 Class (Spotlight on Supporting Self-Discovery)

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ― May Sarton By now, you’ve heard us talk about growth edges.  In our context, it is the space just outside what a student can do autonomously, with help from a teacher or parent …

TKG LEARN: Six tips to build resilience and prevent brain-damaging stress//SharpMinds

The following information appeared as a Parent Teacher resource in our weekly newsletter.  For more newsletters, click here. Tips for building resilience and preventing brain-damaging stress “…ongo­ing stress can, unless prop­erly man­aged, have a seri­ous neg­a­tive impact on our abil­ity to think clearly and make good deci­sions…” As a PT, you …

TKG KNOW: Kids Get Enough Tech Outside of School—Shouldn’t the Classroom Offer Them Something Different?

Whole Child & Family Resource Each week, in our weekly newsletter to parents, we offer information, resources, thought-provoking articles to help us keep our neurons firing. This article, was selected to focus our attention on how much screen we want in the classroom. At TKG, we understand that technology has a …