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Bird’s Eye View
To have a Bird’s Eye View, requires taking yourself out of the center of the picture! It allows you to see the world with new eyes.
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Re-imagining Dance Education
One of the keys to arts integrated methodology is to create enjoyable and promotive frameworks within which children can run free. An example of this is to do with movement and dance.
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Inner World Citizenship
What’s going on INSIDE is everything. Respectfully entering the inner world of children is key to a natural education. It is a gentle and patient art. It requires, in turn, a deep awareness of one’s own...
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Rhythm Ball
There is as natural rhythm and grace to just about everything. Finding it opens the door to uncommon strength and assistance from the natural worlds.
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Is Your Heart In It?
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” ~ Hebbel
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Choice
Choice is sacred. It is core to what makes us human. We can neither grant it nor take it away. What we perceive our choices to be however, and what we do with them depends on the character and scope of...
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Trust Barometers
Building an unshakeable bond of trust between oneself, as parent, teacher, mentor, counselor or coach and the young lives in our care, grows from an internal wellspring of deep mutual trust.
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Educating The Inner Life
True experiential learning includes what we experience on the inside!
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Counting Counts
Children love to count (and be counted!) right from an early age: How many fingers? How many toes? How many ears, how many nose? How many this? How many thats? How many shoes? How many hats?
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Is That So?
Here’s a wise old Taoist folktale for your toolkit.
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3D Whiteboard
Arts integrated learning is always only an attitude away! It’s true. You don’t need to go back to school. You don’t need to upgrade your education degree.
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Tres Tamboras – We All Need a Center
Perhaps the kitchen table is your family’s center. Perhaps meeting with your whole classroom around a book or a song or a rhythm and coordination exercise is your students’ center. Perhaps your center...
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First Time Every Time
Children learn by catching your sense of discovery, wonder and enthusiasm about a subject, not by having to manage lots of fragments of information.
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Blue Mind Red Brain
“The ‘Blue Mind’ way of education not only trusts in our natural intelligence; it IS our natural intelligence at work...”
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