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Blog #16: A Healing Story: The Tower of Truth

In my last first grade class I had two girls who were best of friends, but they were always coming to me with grievances about the other. Attempts to mediate...

Blog #15: Out of the Head and Into the Body

In the previous blog we saw that children’s learning experiences can be broadened and deepened to include kinesthetic awareness and the development of the sense of body geography. These can...

Blog #14: Passport To Mathematics and The 48 Club

Nothing lends itself to rhythmical movement activities like the times tables. The times tables, after all, are fundamentally rhythmical and active in nature. Hence, it is beneficial for children to...

Blog #12: Educoercion

In subsequent blogs I hope to focus less on what is wrong with our educational system and more on what can be done to help us move in a more...

Blog #11: A Bunch of Stuff

I’ve asked many high school graduates what their school experience was like. The most common answer was, “I learned a bunch of stuff”. Stuff is an apt word because, aside...

Blog #13: Educulture : Teaching Through Art

There is widespread recognition that art is a wonderful amendment to what schools can offer to children’s learning experience. The arts cultivate. They deepen and broaden. They touch the students...