WHAT THE BEST EDUCATION SYSTEMS ARE DOING RIGHT – IDEAS.TED.COM Extracurricular choice, intrinsic motivation. Grit and perseverance. These are ideas that help us build TKG’s emerging curriculum. This curriculum supports the development of a community hub where people (children and adults) can gain knowledge about: themselves, how to grow their physical/social/emotional capacity and how to advance …
Behold The Entrenched — And Reviled — Annual Review By YUKI NOGUCHI/NPR Our progress assessments focus on the individual’s evolution and personal goals. At least three times each year, you hear from your teacher about your student’s discreet skills as well as their whole child well-being. Straight-forward development benchmarks coupled with …
“Children were not born to walk. They were born to run– barefoot, over rocks, through the water, through the mud. We need to give greater recognition to the energy and joy of children.” — Bev Boss Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have been enjoying a relaxing week.Some of our sprouts …
Dr. Daniel Siegel is one of the Experts we reference in strengthening our program. Below is an excerpt from a New York Times article in which he was recently featured: “Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, a neuropsychiatrist and co-author of the parenting guide “The Whole-Brain Child,”…said there were three others R’s …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 18 May 2012 Week 32: Highlights & Information Hellllllooooo Families!While you review our week, please keep our school tenets in mind: CONSTRUCTIVISM(expanding existing knowledge) WHOLE CHILD (emotional/cognitive/social/physical) BRAIN FUNCTION & DEVELOPMENT (readiness and willingness) CAPACITY BUILDING (critical thinking, skills for the global …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 18 March 2012 Week 25: Kitty Kitten Gardeners on the move Dear Families,I’ve recently started reading To Kill a Mockingbird as my non-teaching related book. However, I’m finding myself thinking Scout would love The Knowing Garden. She spends her afternoons climbing trees, …
“Dr. Laura..Since I stopped punishing, things are a lot better at my house. But I want to be sure that I’m teaching my kids the right lessons so they’re responsible…What do I do when they hurt each other, or break things, or lie?” How do we teach the fundamental lessons …
From under our big tree… Sunday 1 January 2012 Week 14: Winter Shadows Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful winter break and warm holiday season to cap off 2011. I don’t know about you, but I love reflecting on the previous year and contemplating …
7 STRATEGIES TO BETTER MODEL YOUR MESSAGE by Zoe Weil, IHE President To create a peaceful world, we must each make our lives mirrors of the world we want. As nineteenth-century social reformer and minister William Ellery Channing stated, “May your life preach more loudly than your lips.” Gandhi also …
